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Liberal cabinet continues formalistically printing empty anti-Russian sanctions. Boring. 🥱 💤

🇷🇺🇦🇪 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey #Lavrov holds a meeting with Foreign Minister of UAE Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan

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🇷🇺🇰🇼 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey #Lavrov holds a meeting with Foreign Minister of Kuwait Ahmad Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah

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🇷🇺🇦🇲📞 Russian President Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan.

The President of Russia extended warm birthday greetings to the Prime Minister of Armenia.

While discussing the implementation of the fundamental trilateral agreements between the leaders of Russia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, it was noted that it was important to step up joint work to ensure regional stability as well as the development of transport and logistics infrastructure in the South Caucasus.

Nikol Pashinyan talked about his contacts with President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev and President of the European Council Charles Michel held in Brussels on May 22.

In light of the outcome of the Prime Minister’s official visit to Russia in April, certain topical issues on the bilateral agenda were also discussed.

Earlier, Vladimir Putin sent birthday greetings to Nikol Pashinyan.

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⚡️ Statement of the Joint Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response

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⚠️ Ukrainian armed forces and fighters of Ukrainian nationalist formations continue to use social infrastructure facilities for military purposes:

🔹in Odessa, territorial defence units equipped weapons and ammunition depot in the lyceum building (Yelisavetinskaya Street) and trenches and a stronghold near the dormitory and school No. 56 (Tenistaya Street), without evacuating residents from nearby houses;

🔹in Nikolaev, fighters of Ukrainian armed formations equipped barracks in schools No. 1 (Aivazovskogo Street) and No. 7 (Potemkinskaya Street), and in kindergarten No. 70 (Faleevskaya Street) and school No. 24 (Lesnaya Street) - warehouses with rockets for MLRS;

🔹in Kramatorsk, Donetsk People's Republic, militants of the Ukrainian armed forces equipped strongholds on the territory of the Machine-Building College (Bolshaya Sadovaya Street) and general education schools No. 10 (Khabarovskaya Street) and No. 16 (Leonid Bykov Street), with armoured vehicles and large-calibre artillery placed in the adjoining territory;

🔹in Slavyansk, Donetsk People's Republic, nationalists have equipped firing positions in the building of the vocational engineering lyceum (Koltsevaya Street) and placed artillery and MLRS in the courtyard.

▫️The militants, knowing that civilians would be victims of such criminal actions, deliberately target Russian Armed Forces positions from residential areas, provoking them to return fire in order to subsequently place responsibility for possible civilian casualties on Russian servicemen.

🔹Kiev regime is planning to carry out another inhuman provocation in Shostka city, Sumy Region.

▫️Long-range missile systems are expected to be delivered to Shostka from the USA in the near future, with which militants of the Ukrainian armed formations are planning to strike at the Russian Federation border territory directly from residential areas of the town on the orders of the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU).

▫️The Ukrainian neo-Nazis hope to provoke the Russian Armed Forces into returning fire and then accuse them of indiscriminate strikes on civilian infrastructure and the killing of Ukrainian civilians.

❗️This provocation will involve Ukrainian and foreign journalists at the instructions of the Kiev authorities to prepare fake photos and videos of the alleged "killing of civilians by Russians", which will be widely spread by Western news agencies.

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⚠️ On May 31, 2022, around 7:00 pm (Moscow time), retreating units of the 79th Airborne Assault Brigade of the AFU detonated a tanker containing a toxic chemical substance (nitric acid) at Severodonetsk Azot enterprise in order to stop advancing units of the Russian Armed Forces and formations of the Donetsk People's Republic by creating a chemical contamination zone.

▫️After the explosion, an orange-coloured toxic cloud rose (to an altitude of about one kilometre) and moved towards Kremennaya and Rubezhnoe.

▫️The Ukrainian neo-Nazis were not deterred by the fact that innocent civilians had suffered as a result of this terrorist act involving a toxic chemical substance.

▫️The Kiev authorities have once again shown their criminal and cynical nature. Terror and genocide against its own people have become the norm in Ukraine.

❗️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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📌Read opinion of Ambassador Oleg Stepanov

👉https://telegra.ph/AMBASSADORS-OPINION-06-02

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🇷🇺🇸🇳 President Vladimir Putin held talks with Chairperson of the African Union, President of Senegal Macky Sall with the participation of Chairperson of the African Union Commission Moussa Faki Mahamat.

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💬 Vladimir Putin: I would like to note that our country has always been on Africa’s side and has always supported Africa in its fight against colonialism.

I am glad to note that the Russia-Africa summit was held here in Sochi in 2019. We have entered a new stage of development and we place a great emphasis on our relations with African countries. This has had a certain positive result.

Africa’s role on the international stage and in the political area in general is growing. We believe that Africa as a whole and its countries, with which we traditionally share friendly relations, have huge potential, and we are going to continue to develop our relations with Africa in general and with its states.

🎙 On EU myths of food and energy security

🇪🇺 Due to the EU’s ongoing insinuations that blame Russia for provoking a global food and energy crisis, we consider it necessary to provide detailed explanations on the state of affairs in this area.

👉 The presented materials show that these rabid Russophobic accusations are groundless. They directly point to the EU’s own responsibility for promoting attitudes of panic in world markets, for the growing prices of energy and agricultural products and for the deliberate and massive export of Ukrainian grain reserves for its own purposes.

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✍ Article "Sanctions as a boomerang" by Russia's Deputy Chief of Mission to Canada Vladimir Proskuryakov

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⚡️ Statement of the Joint Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response

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⚠️ We continue to carefully record the continuing egregious facts of the inhumane treatment of civilians by the authorities in Kiev, and use of social infrastructure for military purposes by Ukrainian armed formations:

🔹in Zolotoe, Lugansk People's Republic, the Ukrainian armed forces have equipped firing positions and sniper points in apartment buildings (Tsentralnaya Street). Local residents are forbidden to leave their flats, and all attempts by citizens to evacuate to safe areas are severely curtailed;

🔹in Marchikhina Buda, Sumy Region, AFU units have equipped firing points and a warehouse with rockets for MLRS in a local school building;

🔹in Kramatorsk, Donetsk People's Republic, neo-Nazis have equipped a stronghold in the building of Vocational Engineering Lyceum No. 65, and armoured vehicles and large-calibre artillery have been placed on the premises.

🔹in Nikolaevka, Donetsk People's Republic, AFU servicemen and territorial defence units have equipped strongholds and ammunition depots in the buildings of School No. 3 and Boarding School for Orphans No. 7, while locals are kept in basements under the pretext of ensuring their safety.

▫️Such actions by Kiev once again demonstrate an inhuman attitude towards the fate of its own citizens and show a complete disregard for all norms of morality and 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, shifting the blame onto the Russian Federation without evidence.

❗️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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