❗️ Today 80 civilians, including women and children, forcibly detained by Ukrainian nationalists, were rescued from Azovstal in Mariupol.

▪️ Units of the Russian Armed Forces and the people's militia of the Donetsk People's Republic opened a humanitarian corridor for the safe evacuation of civilians and ensured ceasefire.

▪️ All released civilians were evacuated to Bezymyannoe settlement in the Donetsk People's Republic, where they were provided with overnight accommodation, food and medical care.

▪️ Civilians evacuated by Russian servicemen from Azovstal who wished to go to areas controlled by the Kiev regime were handed over to representatives of the UN and the International Committee of the Red Cross.

📹 @mod_russia_en

On May 2️⃣, 1945, the First Belorussian Front, under the command of Marshal Georgy Zhukov together with the First Ukrainian Front under the command of Marshal Ivan Konev, seized the Nazi German capital of Berlin. Most of Berlin’s garrison troops understood that any resistance was futile and laid down their arms and surrendered. Artillery General Weidling, along with three German generals, crossed the front line at 6 am on May 2 and also surrendered. Shortly thereafter, the General signed an order for the surrender of Berlin. By evening, the forces of the 8th Guards Army troops had cleared the central part of the city.

❗️With the Berlin operation concluded, the Nazi Germany's days were literally numbered. The Victory was ever so close.

🔗 https://www.facebook.com/MIDRussia/posts/301336812189386

◼️ May 2 marks eight years since the tragedy in Odessa. On this day in 2014, Ukraine’s Nazi thugs massacred those who had stood up against the Maidan coup d'etat, Kiev’s new policies, and unhinged nationalistic aggression. People were corralled into Odessa's House of Trade Unions and burned alive. Others were finished off as they tried to escape.

🕯 Forty-eight people were burned alive, died from carbon monoxide poisoning, or fell to their death from the upper floors of the House of Trade Unions, which was set on fire by the nationalists.

🔹 This barbaric act of egregious cynicism and brutality sent shockwaves around the world. Yet the “civilised” West kept silent in an uncivilised manner. Perpetrators roam freely. Moreover, Ukraine’s law enforcement persecuted those who managed to survive (!) what the fascist thugs had done.

❗️ We will never forget this heinous crime and will work to identify and bring to justice those responsible.

👉 https://vk.cc/cddDho

#NoStatuteOfLimitation

❗️The Russian Federation's Joint Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response continues to record numerous cases of nationalists using civilian infrastructure for military purposes, as well as using civilians as "human shield":

🔹in Barvenkovo, Kharkov Region, nationalists have equipped a stronghold in the building of the Regional Psychiatric Hospital No 2 and forcibly detain civilians in the basement;

🔹in Dnepr (schools No. 2 and 28 and boarding school No. 2), Nikolaev (boarding school for deaf children), Kramatorsk (schools No. 9 and 6) and Slavyansk (school No. 14), the Ukrainian Armed Forces and fighters of the territorial defence battalions have equipped firing positions and deployed armoured vehicles, artillery and MLRS.

▫️This fact is clear evidence of the continuing inhumane attitude of the Kiev authorities towards their own people.

📄Full text of the Statement of the Joint Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response

#MoD #Russia #Ukraine #HumanitarianResponse #HumanitarianAid
@mod_russia_en

Eight years ago Kiev regime committed one of its ugliest and most heinous crimes - Odessa massacre. One of the goals of Russia’s special military operation is ensuring accountability for the culprits of this crime as well as other atrocities of post-Maidan Ukraine.

A year ago Russian Mission to the UN organized a Security Council Arria-Formula meeting with participation of those who can share their personal experience on what happened on 2 May 2014 in Odessa. I encourage all those interested to watch it today!

⚡️Дорогие друзья,

ℹ️ Информируем Вас, что на телеканале «Россия-24» в рамках проекта «БЕЗ СРОКА ДАВНОСТИ» стартует телемарафон новых фильмов-расследований о нацистских преступлениях против нашего народа, снятых специально ко Дню Победы.

📺 КОГДА? Шесть дней подряд, с 3 по 8 мая, каждый день после 23:00.

🎥 КТО? Фильмы сняты фондом национального кино «Патриот» (художественный руководитель А.Звягинцев; авторы сценариев: А.Звягинцев, А.Павлова, О.Булле; режиссёр М.Елкин).

График показа:

— 3️⃣ мая. «Без срока давности. Карелия. Жизнь за колючей проволокой»

— 4️⃣ мая. «Без срока давности. Рабы с востока»

— 5️⃣ мая. «Без срока давности. Жертвоприношение. Дети»

— 6️⃣ мая. «Без срока давности. Адский колодец»

— 7️⃣ мая. «Без срока давности. Брянский Бухенвальд»

— 8️⃣ мая. «Без срока давности. Уцелевшие».

🎞🎞🎞

Подключайтесь!

🇷🇺🇫🇷📞 President Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with President of the French Republic Emmanuel Macron.

The Russian President informed his French counterpart about the progress of the special military operation to protect the Donbass republics, including the liberation of Mariupol and the evacuation of the civilians retained by nationalists at the Azovstal plant, with the evacuation proceeding as agreed during the April 26 meeting between Vladimir Putin and #UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.

During the conversation, it was noted that the #EU member countries ignore the crimes committed by the Ukrainian forces, and massive shelling of cities and communities in the Donbass region resulting in civilian casualties. The West could help stop these atrocities by influencing the Kiev government, as well as stopping arms deliveries to Ukraine, Vladimir Putin pointed out.

The two Presidents agreed to maintain contacts at various levels.

🇷🇺🇧🇾 Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with President of the Republic of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko

🔹The two leaders discussed some bilateral issues and the further strengthening of the Union State in follow-up to the Russian-Belarusian talks held at the highest level on April 12.

🔹They considered some aspects of bilateral cooperation within the framework of Eurasian integration associations, including in the context of preparations for the upcoming meeting of the leaders of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation member states.

🔹The presidents also discussed the situation in the context of the ongoing special military operation in Donbass.

🔹They reaffirmed their mutual resolve to further strengthen Russian-Belarusian relations of partnership and alliance.

⚡️Statement of the Joint Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response

▫️Following the decision of the leadership of the Russian Federation and based on humane principles, from 08:00 to 18:00 (Moscow time) on May 5, 6 and 7, 2022, the Russian Armed Forces will open a humanitarian corridor from the territory of Azovstal Iron and Steel Works to evacuate civilians (workers, women and children), about whose presence in the underground structures of the Works the Kiev authorities have once again claimed.

▫️During this period, the Russian Armed Forces and formations of the Donetsk People's Republic unilaterally cease any hostilities, units are withdrawn to a safe distance and ensure the withdrawal of civilians in any direction they choose, both to Russian Federation territory and to areas under the control of the Kiev authorities.

#MoD #Russia #Ukraine #HumanitarianResponse
@mod_russia_en

⭐️ #OTD in 1923, Hero of the Soviet Union Mikhail #Yegorov was born.

Together with Meliton #Kantaria and Alexei #Berest, he hoisted the Victory Banner on the Reichstag’s roof. This was a symbol of triumph over Nazism & the end of the Great Patriotic War.

#FacesOfVictory

⚡Ukrainian Armed Forces units continue to use medical facilities for military purposes, as well as use civilians as "human shield":

🔹in Kharkov, artillery and ammunition storage facilities have been located on the territory of city hospital No 8, and the hospital staff and all civilians, including the seriously ill, have been forced to leave the medical facility under threat of reprisals;

🔹in Slavyansk, heavy military equipment has been placed on the territory of the railway hospital on Malogorodetskaya Street and a stronghold with an ammunition depot has been equipped in the building;

🔹in Odessa, AFU command post has been set up in the building of the regional clinical hospital on Akademika Zabolotnyi Street, while armoured vehicles, artillery and MLRS are located in the adjoining territory;

🔹in Lisichansk, a stronghold of nationalist battalion fighters has been deployed on the territory of a child health centre.

▫️These and other similar facts, despite our repeated statements, have to date been ignored by the World Health Organisation.

❗Once again, we call on all international organisations, especially the World Health Organisation, to influence official Kiev and take effective measures to prevent the use of medical infrastructure for military purposes.

#MoD #Russia #Ukraine #HumanitarianResponse #HumanitarianAid
@mod_russia_en

On May 4 🇺🇸NASA astronaut Tom Marshburn handed over International Space Station command to 🇷🇺Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev.

🔴 Russia's FM Sergey #Lavrov takes part in solemn ceremony held in commemoration of employees of the Soviet Foreign Ministry, who perished during the Great Patriotic War, lays flowers at their memorial plaques.

Watch (dubbed in English):
https://www.ruptly.tv/en/events/202205060733-LIVE10765-REFEED-Lavrov-lays-flowers-at-memorial-plaques-commemorating-employees-of-Soviet-Ministry