During the Great Patriotic War parts of Soviet Ukraine were occupied by the Nazis & their cronies in 1941-1944. Over 180 concentration camps and 400 ghettos were established on the occupied territory. In Baby Yar alone over 150'000 civilians were killed by the fascists and collaborators. The liberation of the Soviet Ukraine was a massive effort of the entire nation - over 3 mln Red Army soldiers and officers gave their lives to free their brethren.

Today in Ukraine the Nazis and their fascist nationalist minions are hailed as "heroes". Torch marches mirroring those under the Third Reich are a common occurrence, that receives state support. The cult of Bandera, Shukhevych and other war criminals is an integral part of modern Ukrainian education system. Neo-Nazism has been on the rise for a long time now, to which some of our partners from the “collective West” turn a blind eye, and thus actually encourage their activities. At the same time, the use of Russian language is all but forbidden.

#WeRemember

🎙 Minister of Economic Development of Russia Maxim Reshetnikov during the #APEC Ministers Responsible for Trade Meeting (Bangkok, May 22):

#GreenEnergy

Russia is a responsible partner of APEC and fulfils all its obligations and consistently implements reached agreements, including those related to energy transition.

Russia continues to honour its key international agreements on an entire range of green agenda issues.

#DoingBusiness

The situation on financial markets has stabilised. The inflation rate is slowing down, while our national currency is strengthening. In May, the rouble showed the best dynamics among all world currencies.

Unprecedented sanctions have been met with the provision of support to business and increased freedoms to enterprises inside the country.

#RussiaEEC

Import duty rates for almost 15 percent of our imports have been reduced to zero. Certification procedures have been significantly simplified and customs procedures have been sped up.

#ThisDay

🗓 May 23, 1992

🇷🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇰🇿🇧🇾 30 years ago, the Russian Federation, United States of America, Ukraine, Republic of Kazakhstan and Republic of Belarus signed the Lisbon Protocol (a supplement to the START I Treaty), under which the republics pledged to eliminate or transfer to Russia all nuclear weapons remaining on their territories after the collapse of the USSR, and to accede to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons as non-nuclear weapon states.

📑 The Protocol entered into force on December 5, 1994.

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📹Footage of the aftermath of the Ukrainian nationalists shelling with cluster munitions of Belozerk in Kherson region.

◽️ More than ten civilian houses were damaged as a result of the shelling. Two people were killed, including a 14-year-old child. About ten people were injured with varying degrees of severity.

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🇷🇺🇧🇾 President of Russia Vladimir Putin met with President of the Republic of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko at the Bocharov Ruchei residence in Sochi.

💬 Vladimir Putin: Despite all the difficulties, I would like to note that the Russian economy is withstanding the sanctions blow quite well, as evidenced by all the key macroeconomic indicators. I will not list them now, but I will tell you what is going on during our conversation.

Yes, of course, things are not so easy, and everything that is happening requires special attention and special efforts from the Government’s economic bloc. On the whole, I would like to note that these efforts are having a positive impact. This is reflected in trade volumes between our countries. Last year, we hit an all-time high – almost US$38.5 billion. Incidentally, the conversion to national currency / ruble payments in trade with our partners is also making itself felt. You have repeatedly noted the need to do this in the past.

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⚡️ Statement of the Joint Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response

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⚠️Nationalist battalion fighters and AFU units, using civilians as human shields, continue to use civilian infrastructure to equip strongholds and deploy heavy weaponry:

🔹in Odessa, firing positions have been equipped in the buildings of schools No. 14 and No. 71, and armoured vehicles, artillery and MLRS have been placed in the surrounding area;

🔹in Kostantinovka, Donetsk People's Republic, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have equipped strongholds, deployed artillery and MLRS weapons in School No. 1 and the administrative building and dormitory of Vocational School No. 39 and are holding residents of nearby houses in the premises of educational institutions under the pretext of ensuring security;

🔹in Gorskoe, Lugansk People's Republic Ukrainian nationalists have equipped firing positions and ammunition depots on the lower and upper floors of apartment buildings on Gagarin Street.

❗️Local residents are forbidden to leave their flats, and all attempts by citizens to evacuate to safe areas are severely curtailed.

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⚠️In Lisichansk, Lugansk People's Republic, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have placed artillery and MLRS in the building and hangars of the rare gases plant, mined tanks with hazardous chemicals, and forcibly detained employees and local residents in the underground facilities.

▫️At the same time, the nationalists are systematically shelling positions of the Russian Armed Forces and Lugansk People's Republic formations with MLRS, thus provoking them to retaliate in order to further accuse them of killing civilians and creating a man-made disaster in the city.

▫️In Putivl, Sumy Region, Ukrainian neo-Nazis have mined bridges across the Seim and Lyubka rivers, which they plan to blow up and accuse the Russian Armed Forces of allegedly indiscriminate strikes on vital civilian infrastructure in a well-known scenario.

▫️These facts once again demonstrate the Ukrainian authorities' complete disregard for the norms of morality and the provisions of international humanitarian law. All this is happening with the tacit consent of the "Russophobe-influenced" countries of the so-called collective West, which continue to turn a blind eye to the numerous war crimes of the Kiev regime.

❗️We emphasize once again that in carrying out the tasks of the special military operation, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation treat the local population extremely humanely and do not strike at civilian infrastructure facilities, unlike the Ukrainian armed formations.

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🎙 Statement by Permanent Representative Vassily Nebenzia at UNSC briefing on technology and security in the context of maintaining international peace and security (May 23, 2022)

💬 The work of collective Western "Ministry of Truth" has reached its climax in recent months. It started an unprecedented campaign of disinformation and manipulation of public opinion, aimed against Russia. Western media, objectiveness not among their strong sides, now have completely turned into state propaganda and a "fake factory".

IT corporations who monopolized the area of social networks and video hostings are no better.

States that call themselves a "community of democracies" in fact are building a cyber-totalitarianism. They want a world where they and only they will control all information flows and define what is or is not true, and what the audience should see and read. They label any alternative viewpoint as "disinformation and propaganda", disregarding all inconvenient facts.

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❗️ Testimonies of the civilians from Mariupol will hardly ever be published in Western mainstream media, or shown on Western TV.

Yet, the world must know the truth.

👉 Residents of Mariupol speak up - tell about the inhumane tactics of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, the atrocities of the #Azov neo-Nazis & their attitude towards the civilian population.

#See4Yourself & #Think4Yourself

Witnesses interviewed by Maxim Grigoriev.

#Eurasia4You

On May 26, Bishkek will host the Eurasian Economic Forum. Its topic will be ‘Eurasian economic integration at the time of global change. New investment opportunities.’

The forum’s main program includes six panel discussions:

🔹 Eurasian Integration Strategic Development Prospects in the Time of Global Changes
🔹 Financial Markets and Development Institutions (Development Banks): Opportunities for Macroeconomic Stability and Growth Points of the EAEU Countries’ Economies
🔹 Manufacturing Industry and Agriculture as Drivers of the Union’s Economic Growth and Ensuring Economic Security
🔹 Energy and Transport Infrastructure to Promote Economic Development and Integration
🔹 Digital agenda EAEU 2.0
🔹 New Areas of Interaction in the EAEU

President of Russia Vladimir Putin will take part in the Forum via videoconferencе.

You can register for the forum and explore its program on its website. You can also follow its online stream.

💬 FM Sergey Lavrov’s remarks and answers to questions as part of the "100 Questions for the Leader" project at the Yevgeny Primakov School

🔹 Now the West is raging as Russia defends its absolutely legitimate and fundamental interests. Russia made it clear that its security interests were being affected each time when, contrary to its promises, NATO expanded eastward on five occasions, coming closer to our borders.

🔹 Since 2009, we have repeatedly proposed concluding a special treaty that would guarantee the security of all countries, including Ukraine, without the expansion of NATO or other military-political alliances.

🔹 We have quit the Council of Europe of our own accord. From an organisation concerned with unity of the European legal space, the CE has degenerated into a tool of US interests (even though the United States is just an observer and not a member of the Council of Europe).

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Minister of Defence of the Russian Federation, General of the Army Sergei Shoigu took part in a meeting of the Council of Defense Ministers of the Collective Security Treaty Organization.

▫️The meeting was held via teleconference.

During the meeting participants:

☑️ discussed the military-political situation in the CSTO area of responsibility, the situation in Ukraine;

☑️ developed proposals to jointly counter challenges and threats to collective security;

☑️ considered how to improve the crisis response system following the January (in 2022) CSTO peacekeeping operation in the Republic of Kazakhstan;

☑️ approved a number of documents to develop the organisation's military component.

➡️ Speech by Russian Defence Minister General of the Army Sergei Shoigu to the Council of Defence Ministers of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation

#CSTO
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⚡️ Statement of the Joint Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response

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⚠️The humanitarian situation in regions under the control of the Kiev authorities is rapidly deteriorating and approaching a critical level.

❗️According to the UN Children's Fund, there are 8.7 million hungry people in Ukraine, with 22.8 per cent of children under the age of five suffering from malnutrition.

▫️At the same time, the Kiev regime, despite acute food shortages and the threat of a food crisis, neglecting the welfare of its own people, is "ready for anything" to please countries of the collective West, which, hypocritically claiming humanitarian support, seek to export grain from Ukraine as quickly as possible through the so-called "solidarity corridors" engaged by the European Union, with absolutely no concern about what will happen in the country after the emptying of Ukrainian grain storage facilities.

▫️All this is happening against the background of the unceasing hysteria of the "civilised West" and their false accusations against the Russian Federation of artificially creating a food crisis in the world.

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⚠️According to information received from captured Ukrainian servicemen, SSU officers, at the instigation of Western handlers, prepared another provocations at grain storage facilities, following a previously practiced scenario in Rubizhnoe in Lugansk People's Republic and Orekhovoe in the Zaporozhye region, in order to accuse Russian servicemen of allegedly indiscriminate strikes against civilian infrastructure:

🔹in Prosyanaya, Dnepropetrovsk region, nationalist militants have booby-trapped the Prosyanaya grain elevator, which they plan to blow up in the near future;

🔹in Vrubovka, Lugansk People's Republic, the Ukrainian Armed Forces deployed MLRS systems on the territory of a grain-processing plant.

▫️At the same time, the nationalists have been systematically shelling Russian Armed Forces positions, provoking them to return fire.

▫️Such actions by Ukrainian nationalists imitate the tactics of the "scorched-earth" by the Nazis during the Great Patriotic War and contravene all generally accepted moral norms and principles of international humanitarian law.

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🇷🇺 Russia 🤝 Africa 🌍

Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov with Ambassadors of the African nations at a reception hosted by the Russian Foreign Ministry on the occasion of #AfricaDay

🇷🇺🌍✉️ Russian President Vladimir Putin sent #AfricaDay greetings to Heads of State and Government of the countries on the continent.

🖊 Vladimir Putin: My warmest wishes on Africa Day, a holiday symbolising the aspirations of the countries on the continent for freedom, independence, peace and prosperity.

African states have achieved a great deal together over the past two decades. They have developed mechanisms for a collective response to local conflicts and crises, and are consistently promoting regional integration processes in various formats.

Africa enjoys growing prestige on the global stage and plays an increasingly important role in resolving important issues on the international agenda.

Our country has always placed particular emphasis on expanding friendly relations with our African partners.

👆 I am confident that by rallying together, we will be able to ensure the development and implementation of many innovative projects in various fields for the benefit of our states and peoples.