✍ 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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Vladimir Putin answered questions from Pavel Zarubin, a journalist with Rossiya 1 TV channel

The key issues included the situation in the global energy, fertilizer and food markets.

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#Opinion by Maria Zakharova:

💬 Another political scandal has flared up in London.

Correspondence by ex-chief of the MI6 Richard Dearlove with high-ranking officials in the power block of the British government and civil activists has come to light.

Background: the UK is leaving the EU in 2018-2019, and long and very tough talks with Brussels are underway about the “divorce” parameters. Some hardliner politicians headed by Richard Dearlove believe that Theresa May is too slow, her plan is too “soft,” and the prime minister needs to be replaced.

For instance, an advisor to the UK Ministry of Defence Gwythian Prins writes, “At the moment I am heavily involved in trying to kill off the Prime Minister’s awful Withdrawal Agreement…If Henry [Kissinger] is game to help with this, then I can provide him the background material…”

Here is another excerpt from the correspondence, “The goals are to block any deal to leave the EU arising from the disastrous and craven Checkers White Paper, […] remove this Prime Minister and replace with one fit for purpose.” And here’s more, just a few months later: “Now kill her and it.” To be honest, this doesn’t really fit with the ideals of the British parliamentary monarchy.

The entire operation to replace the prime minister was sponsored by the “old money” of Timothy and Mary Clode, a pair of aristocrats who in the past decades set roots in Jersey’s tax haven. Journalists acknowledge that it is hard to find such low-profile wealthy people as they deliberately avoid any publicity in social networks and online. The correspondence notes that they are “quite good at consciously discreet conversations, if required.” Thus, they were ideal for the role of money bags and supplied the funds monthly to prepare “the products,” meaning compromising materials and defamation.

The selective strikes result in Theresa May’s failing with her Brexit plan in parliament and in talks with the EU. The forces that brought her down don’t conceal their satisfaction at the outcome of the EU-UK Summit in Salzburg, which they refer to as “May’s fiasco.”

Now resolute Boris Johnson comes in to replace her and finishes what had been started the way the power establishment wanted it done. “Immediately on taking power, Boris needs to summon all Conservative MPs, ask for firm (preferably written) undertaking to support the strategy of clean exit.” Actually, in the last letters there is talk of replacing Johnson with another puppet: “I’m coming to believe that I cannot see how the PM will not flounder one way or another; he has so lost control of his mind and willpower that maybe this will be for the best?” I wouldn’t argue with the latter point, by the way.

The candidates proposed for the Prime Minister’s position are Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak, and, my God, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss. “Plainly the Foreign Secretary with Frost’s backing, has and is showing determination” to finish Brexit. “Before the holiday closure I happened to be seated at a dinner next to one of BoJo’s long-time funders who told me that he had dumped him and shifted his money to Truss.”

Now it is clear why only her erudition comes second to her manageability. In all probability, Liz has been selected back in the 1990s and is being guided through life changing her views and rhetoric as needed and contrary to her earlier principles. So there are no more questions as to why she talks about matters she has no idea about. This is the reason for her notorious embarrassments.

Sure enough, Richard Dearlove and the “experts” on his feeding list promptly attributed the leaks to the Russians. Do I understand it right that the British can only find out the truth about their democracy from the Russians? Is that the reason why London banned RT broadcasts?

Do you think this sort of change of power is a coup or an intrigue? I think it is neither. It is a very English tradition. As much as poisonings.

⚡️ Statement of the Joint Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response

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⚠️Russian Federation's Joint Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response continues to carefully record the facts of the inhumane treatment of civilians and use of residential buildings, schools, kindergartens and other social infrastructure facilities for military purposes by Ukrainian armed groups:

🔹in Kharkov, the nationalists have deployed firing positions and artillery guns in the yards of the apartment blocks located at Astronomicheskaya street. Residents are prohibited to abandon their apartments under the pretext of security.

🔹in Slavyansk, Donetsk People's Republic, the militants of Ukrainian nationalist groups have been deployed in the schools №5 and №6, in a music school, in a railroad specialised school, in a chemical-mechanical technical school and in a boarding school, as well as the heavy armament and armoured equipment have been deployed at a compound feed plant;

🔹in Druzhkovka, Donetsk People's Republic, the servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) have deployed a command post in the school №1 (Olesya Gonchara st.), as well as multiple rocket launchers in the apartment blocks located at Sobornaya street, while its residents had been intentionally left without evacuation.

▫️Despite the fact that this criminal action can result in causing victims among civilians, the militants of the Ukrainian armed groups launch deliberate attacks from residential areas at the positions of the Russian Armed Forces in order to provoke their counter-attack and to accuse Russian servicemen of the consequences from allegedly indiscriminate attacks.

❗️We reiterate that the units of the Russian Armed Forces treat the civilian population with an exclusive humanity and do not launch attacks at civilian infrastructure facilities during the special military operation.

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⚠️Ukrainian Armed Force' units are retreating towards Lisichansk after suffering critical losses (up to 90% in various units) during the combats for Severodonetsk.

❗️Realising the impossibility to continue resisting and holding the industrial area in Severodonetsk, the authorities in Kiev have ordered the combined tactical group to plant saltpetre and nitric acid tanks of a volume above 100 tonnes at Azot entity located in Severodonetsk.

▫️According to the plan of the Kiev regime, the explosion of these toxic chemical reservoirs is to delay the offensive of the Russian Armed Forces units by creating a chemically contaminated area.

▫️Ukrainian nationalists are not deterred by the fact that this terrorist act with the involvement toxic chemicals can result in causing victims among innocent civilians as it already happened to the residents of Kremennaya and Rubezhnoye after the nationalists exploded a nitric acid reservoir at the same plant on May 31, 2022.

▫️At the same time, in case of implementing this inhumane provocation, the Kiev authorities plan to accuse the Russian Armed Forces of commiting a technogenic ecological disaster and to widely spread this information in Ukrainian and Western mass media in accordance with the practiced scenario.

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Retreating 79th Airborne Assault Brigade of the UAF and Ukrainian nationalists set fire to the Svyatogorsk Lavra. Witnesses: the militants fired at the building with incendiary rounds from a machine gun mounted on a 🇺🇦Kozak APC and hastily drove off.

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🕯This is the martyrology of the Donetsk and Lugansk children slain by the Kiev junta.

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✉️ Vladimir Putin sent greetings to participants, organizers and guests of the 25th St Petersburg International Economic Forum:

🔷 The Forum’s anniversary is taking place at a difficult time for the entire international community. The mistakes of Western countries in economic policy over many years and illegitimate sanctions have led to a wave of global inflation, the disruption of usual supply chains, and a sharp increase in poverty and food shortages.

🔷 I am confident that for Russia the 2020s will become a period when the country strengthens its economic sovereignty, which involves the accelerated development of its infrastructure and technological base, qualitative upgrades in the level of training for specialists, as well as the establishment of an independent and efficient financial system. In addition, the Russian economy will increasingly rely on private initiatives and, of course, will remain committed to transparency and broad international cooperation.

Watch the consequences of recent Ukrainian army shelling of densely populated area in #Donetsk.

❗️ 5 civilians killed, 20 injured, numerous residential buildings destroyed.

🎞 Video by @Izvestia

🎙 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with the Bosnian Serbian TV and radio company Radio Televizija Republike Srpske

📍 Moscow, June 4, 2022

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Key points:

🔹 The standard of living in Europe is declining, inflation is on the rise and economic growth is waning. The new poor have become a fact of life. People are impacted by multiple problems, including higher prices. Many are in danger of becoming destitute. Despite this, tens of billions of dollars and euros are being used to arm Ukraine.

🔹 Ukraine is a bargaining chip and a tool that is manipulated primarily by the United States and Great Britain - an Anglo-Saxon team now heading the West.

🔹 The West prohibits Ukraine to negotiate.

🔹 As a reminder, there was no referendum in Kosovo, but there was one in Crimea, which was attended by multiple foreign observers, albeit representing not nation states, but reputable civil bodies, honest people who wanted to see everything with their own eyes.

⚠️Russian Joint Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response continues to carefully record the continuing egregious facts of the inhumane treatment of civilians by the authorities in Kiev, and use of medical infrastructure for military purposes by Ukrainian armed formations:

🔹in Kharkov, the buildings of the Road Clinical Hospital (Igor Muratov Street), City Hospital No. 25 (Aleksandrovskyi Avenue), the Endocrinology Clinic of the Institute of Endocrine Pathology (Gurevicha Street) and Children's Polyclinic No. 23 (Metrostroiteleyi Street) are equipped with fire points and ammunition depots by the AFU and territorial defence units, while staff and patients of medical facilities are forcibly detained under the pretext of ensuring their safety;

🔹in Nikolaev, fighters of the territorial defence battalions have equipped firing positions in the buildings of the medical centre (Pogranichnaya Street) and the hospital (Flotskaya Street), and artillery and MLRS have been placed in the surrounding territory;

🔹in Kramatorsk, Donetsk People's Republic, militants of the Ukrainian armed forces have equipped a stronghold and ammunition depot in hospital No 2 (Dniprovskaya Street), and the approaches to the medical facility have been mined;

🔹in Ugroedy, Donetsk People''s Republic, Ukrainian armed formations have equipped a stronghold in the building of a local hospital, and MLRS and artillery guns have been placed on the territory of the medical facility.

▫️These and other similar facts of gross violations of international humanitarian law by the Kiev regime, despite repeated statements by the Russian Federation's Joint Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response, have so far remained unnoticed by the World Health Organization.

❗️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.

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🎙 Russia’s President Vladimir Putin in an interview with Rossyia 1 TV channel:

💬 We are seeing attempts to place the responsibility on Russia for developments in the global food market and the growing problems there. I must say that this is another attempt to pin the blame on someone else.

First, the situation with the global food market did not become worse yesterday or even with the launch of Russia’s special military operation. The situation took a downturn in February 2020 during the efforts to counter the pandemic when the global economy was down and had to be revived.

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The second reason was European countries’ short-sighted policies, and above all, the European Commission’s policy in regard to energy.

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🎙️Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s news conference on current international issues

Moscow, June 6, 2022

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⚠️ It has been reliably established that fighters of the nationalist battalions, leaving the captured territories and refusing to leave supplies of grain to Mariupol residents, deliberately set fire to a large grain storage facility in the seaport.

▫️As a result, more than 50,000 tonnes of grain have been burnt.

▫️This inhumane crime shows the world community the "true face" of the Kiev regime, which, in fact, uses methods of food terrorism against its own people.

▫️All this is taking place in the context of the full support of the countries of the so-called civilised West and the ongoing hysteria around the false accusations of the Russian Federation in creating a food crisis in the world.

❗️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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🎖Today is the 102nd birthday of Ivan Kozhedub (1920-1991), the highest scoring Allied fighter pilot of WWII and a three-time Hero of the Soviet Union.

⚔️ Kozhedub scored his first victory on July 6, 1943, during the Battle of Kursk. Between October 1 and 12, 1943, he downed 14 German planes near the Dnieper River, achieving an unprecedented feat in the history of Soviet aviation.

During the Great Patriotic War, he flew 330 sorties, engaged in 120 aerial battles, and shot down 62 enemy planes.

Kozhedub finished the war as a 25-year-old Guards Major with three Golden Star medals. He continued serving in the air force after Victory. During the Korean War, he commanded a fighter division. On the 40th anniversary of Victory, Kozhedub received the Marshal of Aviation title.

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🇷🇺🇹🇷 In Ankara, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey #Lavrov and Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu hold bilateral talks.

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