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🎙 Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova's statement regarding attacks by Ukrainian militants targeting the infrastructure of the TurkStream and Blue Stream gas pipelines (March 20, 2026)
💬 Between March 17-19, Ukrainian militants once again targeted critical international energy infrastructure facilitating gas exports via the TurkStream and Blue Stream pipelines.
According to Gazprom, attempted UAV strikes were recorded against three compressor stations. The largest number of drones – 22 units – targeted the Russkaya station, while three and one UAVs were used against the Kazachya and Beregovaya stations respectively.
Thanks to coordinated and effective actions by the Russian Ministry of Defence and mobile response units, all attacks were repelled, and no damage was sustained.
These reckless actions by Kiev are in line with its previous terrorist attacks on Russian and foreign tankers in the Mediterranean and Black Seas, as well as on the infrastructure of the Caspian Pipeline Consortium – a company with significant foreign investment.
Through such methods, the Zelensky regime seeks not only to undermine Russia’s position as a reliable supplier and transit country of energy resources, but also to keep the Ukrainian crisis in the international spotlight, particularly amid the rapidly evolving geopolitical landscape shaped by developments in the Middle East.
Such terrorist activity by Kiev may directly result in serious damage to regional energy security, potentially leading to further destabilisation of the global energy market.
At a time when leading Western countries acknowledge that stabilising the market without Russian energy resources is problematic, the Zelensky regime is openly acting against their interests, while attempting to influence the domestic political processes of its sponsors.
The fact that the attacks coincided with Zelensky’s meetings in London on March 17 with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte and UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer raises questions about their true beneficiaries, whose key objective appears to be obstructing a sustainable settlement of the Ukrainian crisis based on addressing its root causes, in line with the understandings reached during the Russia-US Summit in Alaska on August 15, 2025.
As President Vladimir Putin noted at a meeting of the board of the Federal Security Service of Russian on 24 February, the adversary is resorting to such terrorist attacks in conditions where it is unable to achieve its primary objective – to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia on the battlefield. The aim is evident – to derail the diplomatic settlement process, to “dismantle everything that has already been achieved on the negotiation track.”
☝️ For our part, we continue to work jointly with partners interested in the safe and reliable operation of international energy and logistics infrastructure ensuring supplies of Russian hydrocarbons.
It is essential to increase collective pressure on the Kiev regime to compel it to cease these reckless strikes that pose a threat to international energy routes.
💬 Between March 17-19, Ukrainian militants once again targeted critical international energy infrastructure facilitating gas exports via the TurkStream and Blue Stream pipelines.
According to Gazprom, attempted UAV strikes were recorded against three compressor stations. The largest number of drones – 22 units – targeted the Russkaya station, while three and one UAVs were used against the Kazachya and Beregovaya stations respectively.
Thanks to coordinated and effective actions by the Russian Ministry of Defence and mobile response units, all attacks were repelled, and no damage was sustained.
These reckless actions by Kiev are in line with its previous terrorist attacks on Russian and foreign tankers in the Mediterranean and Black Seas, as well as on the infrastructure of the Caspian Pipeline Consortium – a company with significant foreign investment.
Through such methods, the Zelensky regime seeks not only to undermine Russia’s position as a reliable supplier and transit country of energy resources, but also to keep the Ukrainian crisis in the international spotlight, particularly amid the rapidly evolving geopolitical landscape shaped by developments in the Middle East.
Such terrorist activity by Kiev may directly result in serious damage to regional energy security, potentially leading to further destabilisation of the global energy market.
At a time when leading Western countries acknowledge that stabilising the market without Russian energy resources is problematic, the Zelensky regime is openly acting against their interests, while attempting to influence the domestic political processes of its sponsors.
The fact that the attacks coincided with Zelensky’s meetings in London on March 17 with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte and UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer raises questions about their true beneficiaries, whose key objective appears to be obstructing a sustainable settlement of the Ukrainian crisis based on addressing its root causes, in line with the understandings reached during the Russia-US Summit in Alaska on August 15, 2025.
As President Vladimir Putin noted at a meeting of the board of the Federal Security Service of Russian on 24 February, the adversary is resorting to such terrorist attacks in conditions where it is unable to achieve its primary objective – to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia on the battlefield. The aim is evident – to derail the diplomatic settlement process, to “dismantle everything that has already been achieved on the negotiation track.”
☝️ For our part, we continue to work jointly with partners interested in the safe and reliable operation of international energy and logistics infrastructure ensuring supplies of Russian hydrocarbons.
It is essential to increase collective pressure on the Kiev regime to compel it to cease these reckless strikes that pose a threat to international energy routes.
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🎙 Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova's comment regarding the missile strike on the port of Bandar-e Anzali (March 20, 2026)
💬 We are observing with growing concern the expanding geography of the missile and bomb strikes by Israel and the US in Iran.
The US-Israeli coalition continues to fan the flames of war in the Middle East that it has itself ignited, driving further escalation.
On March 18, a bomb attack was carried out against the Iranian port of Bandar Anzali on the Caspian Sea. That major Caspian port is an important trade and logistics hub that is actively used in Russian-Iranian trade, including for food deliveries.
❗️ The strike has affected the economic interests of Russia and the other Caspian states that maintain transport communications with Iran via that port.
The regional countries and the international community have always regarded the Caspian Sea as a safe zone of peace and cooperation. The aggressors’ reckless and irresponsible actions pose a threat of dragging Caspian states into an armed conflict.
☝️ We once again firmly call for the immediate cessation of hostilities and resuming efforts to achieve a political settlement of the situation in the Middle East, which is increasingly affecting neighbouring regions.
💬 We are observing with growing concern the expanding geography of the missile and bomb strikes by Israel and the US in Iran.
The US-Israeli coalition continues to fan the flames of war in the Middle East that it has itself ignited, driving further escalation.
On March 18, a bomb attack was carried out against the Iranian port of Bandar Anzali on the Caspian Sea. That major Caspian port is an important trade and logistics hub that is actively used in Russian-Iranian trade, including for food deliveries.
❗️ The strike has affected the economic interests of Russia and the other Caspian states that maintain transport communications with Iran via that port.
The regional countries and the international community have always regarded the Caspian Sea as a safe zone of peace and cooperation. The aggressors’ reckless and irresponsible actions pose a threat of dragging Caspian states into an armed conflict.
☝️ We once again firmly call for the immediate cessation of hostilities and resuming efforts to achieve a political settlement of the situation in the Middle East, which is increasingly affecting neighbouring regions.
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🎙 Comment by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova on India’s National Investigation Agency detaining Ukrainian and US citizens on charges of being implicated in terrorist activities (March 20, 2026)
💬 The Indian media report that six Ukrainian citizens and one US citizen were detained and taken into custody at international airports in New Delhi, Lucknow, and Kolkata by India’s National Investigation Agency on March 13.
Allegedly, these individuals have illegally crossed the border from the Indian state of Mizoram into Myanmar and established contacts with the local armed ethnic groups with the aim of supplying them with EU-manufactured drones, and training them in drone assembly and repair, and in conducting electronic warfare. The publications quoted the NIA as saying that these armed groups maintain ties with insurgents in northeastern India.
The reaction of the Ukrainian embassy in New Delhi was quite revealing as it sought to conceal the incident and to keep its citizens’ questionable activities, which were clearly designed to destabilise the situation in the region, under wraps.
The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry chose to remain silent on its citizens’ violation of India’s counter-terrorism legislation and wasted no time baselessly accusing “certain Indian and Russian news agencies” of deliberately falsifying the facts.
The incident clearly shows that Zelensky’s neo-Nazi regime has a core exporter of instability worldwide.
Russia has repeatedly issued warnings about the risks associated with the large-scale militarisation of Ukraine by NATO and the EU. Weapons supplied to it are inadequately accounted for and may surface anywhere.
Today, Kiev is a major supplier of weaponry and military technologies to the global black market, including military product supplies to Latin American drug cartels and training terrorists in Africa. As we can see, the Western-created Ukrainian tentacled network is reaching as far as regional conflicts in the Middle East, South Asia, and Southeast Asia.
Just days ago, Zelensky brazenly boasted that several hundred Ukrainian fighters had been “deployed” to the Persian Gulf area to take part in the ongoing conflict as “instructors” and specialised “experts” in using unmanned aerial vehicles. Sure enough, enforcing international oversight over Ukraine’s military technology exports is out of the question.
All of that is the result of lax policies pursued by Western sponsors of Zelensky’s regime.
❗️ Today’s Ukraine is undermining regional and global security and stability and is an extremely destructive factor in international politics.
Once again, we urge the World Majority to take a good look at destabilising activities of the agonising Kiev regime which Western countries use as leverage against Russia and other countries around the world.
💬 The Indian media report that six Ukrainian citizens and one US citizen were detained and taken into custody at international airports in New Delhi, Lucknow, and Kolkata by India’s National Investigation Agency on March 13.
Allegedly, these individuals have illegally crossed the border from the Indian state of Mizoram into Myanmar and established contacts with the local armed ethnic groups with the aim of supplying them with EU-manufactured drones, and training them in drone assembly and repair, and in conducting electronic warfare. The publications quoted the NIA as saying that these armed groups maintain ties with insurgents in northeastern India.
The reaction of the Ukrainian embassy in New Delhi was quite revealing as it sought to conceal the incident and to keep its citizens’ questionable activities, which were clearly designed to destabilise the situation in the region, under wraps.
The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry chose to remain silent on its citizens’ violation of India’s counter-terrorism legislation and wasted no time baselessly accusing “certain Indian and Russian news agencies” of deliberately falsifying the facts.
The incident clearly shows that Zelensky’s neo-Nazi regime has a core exporter of instability worldwide.
Russia has repeatedly issued warnings about the risks associated with the large-scale militarisation of Ukraine by NATO and the EU. Weapons supplied to it are inadequately accounted for and may surface anywhere.
Today, Kiev is a major supplier of weaponry and military technologies to the global black market, including military product supplies to Latin American drug cartels and training terrorists in Africa. As we can see, the Western-created Ukrainian tentacled network is reaching as far as regional conflicts in the Middle East, South Asia, and Southeast Asia.
Just days ago, Zelensky brazenly boasted that several hundred Ukrainian fighters had been “deployed” to the Persian Gulf area to take part in the ongoing conflict as “instructors” and specialised “experts” in using unmanned aerial vehicles. Sure enough, enforcing international oversight over Ukraine’s military technology exports is out of the question.
All of that is the result of lax policies pursued by Western sponsors of Zelensky’s regime.
❗️ Today’s Ukraine is undermining regional and global security and stability and is an extremely destructive factor in international politics.
Once again, we urge the World Majority to take a good look at destabilising activities of the agonising Kiev regime which Western countries use as leverage against Russia and other countries around the world.
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🇷🇺 Moscow awakens after winter! Enjoy the beauty of Russia's capital city.
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🗓 On March 20, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov held a traditional meeting with the ambassadors of #ASEAN member states accredited in Moscow.
In the context of the 35th anniversary of Russia-ASEAN relations that this year marks, the sides engaged in a substantive discussion on advancing #RussiaASEAN strategic partnership across a wide range of areas, including countering common challenges and threats, trade and investment, high-tech and knowledge-intensive industries, digitalisation, energy, and the expansion of business and youth contacts.
The main focus was on putting together anniversary events and agreeing upon a new medium-term policy document.
A thorough exchange of views on international and regional priorities reinforced the importance of Russia-ASEAN dialogue for building stable security and cooperation architecture in the Asia-Pacific region based on respect for international law, equality, and openness.
Prospects for aligning integration processes in Eurasia, strengthening ASEAN-EAEU and ASEAN-SCO cooperation, as well as establishing contacts on the ASEAN-BRICS track, were highlighted.
🤝 The meeting was held in a traditionally friendly atmosphere.
In the context of the 35th anniversary of Russia-ASEAN relations that this year marks, the sides engaged in a substantive discussion on advancing #RussiaASEAN strategic partnership across a wide range of areas, including countering common challenges and threats, trade and investment, high-tech and knowledge-intensive industries, digitalisation, energy, and the expansion of business and youth contacts.
The main focus was on putting together anniversary events and agreeing upon a new medium-term policy document.
A thorough exchange of views on international and regional priorities reinforced the importance of Russia-ASEAN dialogue for building stable security and cooperation architecture in the Asia-Pacific region based on respect for international law, equality, and openness.
Prospects for aligning integration processes in Eurasia, strengthening ASEAN-EAEU and ASEAN-SCO cooperation, as well as establishing contacts on the ASEAN-BRICS track, were highlighted.
🤝 The meeting was held in a traditionally friendly atmosphere.
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Khatyn Massacre
8️⃣ 3️⃣ years ago, in Nazi-occupied Belarus, an entire village was wiped out.
149 people were burned alive. 75 of them were children.
This atrocity was carried out by Ukrainian collaborators under German command (the 118th Schutzmannschaft Battalion and the SS-Sturmbrigade Dirlewanger).
🇨🇦Canada gave asylum to two Nazi butchers of Khatyn: Joseph Vinnitskii and Vladimir Katriuk.
❗️They were never held accountable for their crimes and died in peace.
Memory cannot be selective.
No one is forgotten! Nothing is forgotten!
#Victory81 #WeRemember
149 people were burned alive. 75 of them were children.
This atrocity was carried out by Ukrainian collaborators under German command (the 118th Schutzmannschaft Battalion and the SS-Sturmbrigade Dirlewanger).
🇨🇦Canada gave asylum to two Nazi butchers of Khatyn: Joseph Vinnitskii and Vladimir Katriuk.
❗️They were never held accountable for their crimes and died in peace.
Memory cannot be selective.
No one is forgotten! Nothing is forgotten!
#Victory81 #WeRemember
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🗓 March 22, 2024…
Exactly two years have passed since the horrific terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall, which claimed 149 lives and shattered hundreds of others.
As last year, today, people keep coming to the memorial to honour the victims. They bring flowers, candles, toys – anything that can express grief, pain and remembrance, a sign that the memory of those lost is being carefully preserved. Students, volunteers, rescuers, residents of Moscow, as well as those who personally lived through that nightmare or lost loved ones there, came to the “White Cranes” statue.
🕯 We deeply mourn together with the families and loved ones of the victims. On that terrible night, we lost our colleague – Tatiana Repina, a junior specialist of the Department of Linguistic Support.
***
Recently, the court has found the evidence collected by the Main Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of Russia sufficient to deliver a verdict against 19 defendants in the criminal case.
Russia's Investigative Committee statement of March 12, 2026:
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#NoStatuteOfLimitations
Exactly two years have passed since the horrific terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall, which claimed 149 lives and shattered hundreds of others.
As last year, today, people keep coming to the memorial to honour the victims. They bring flowers, candles, toys – anything that can express grief, pain and remembrance, a sign that the memory of those lost is being carefully preserved. Students, volunteers, rescuers, residents of Moscow, as well as those who personally lived through that nightmare or lost loved ones there, came to the “White Cranes” statue.
🕯 We deeply mourn together with the families and loved ones of the victims. On that terrible night, we lost our colleague – Tatiana Repina, a junior specialist of the Department of Linguistic Support.
***
Recently, the court has found the evidence collected by the Main Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of Russia sufficient to deliver a verdict against 19 defendants in the criminal case.
Russia's Investigative Committee statement of March 12, 2026:
It has been reliably established that this inhumane crime was planned and carried out in the interests of the current leadership of Ukraine with the aim of destabilising the political situation in our country.
By the court’s verdict, 19 defendants were sentenced – depending on their roles – to terms of imprisonment ranging from 19 years and 11 months to life, as well as fines of up to 2.7 million rubles.
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#NoStatuteOfLimitations
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🇷🇺History made! 🚨
Alex Ovechkin scores his 1️⃣0️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ career goal (regular season + playoffs), becoming only the second player in #NHL history to reach this milestone.
🎉👑Congratulations, legend!
Alex Ovechkin scores his 1️⃣0️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ career goal (regular season + playoffs), becoming only the second player in #NHL history to reach this milestone.
🎉👑Congratulations, legend!
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🇷🇺 Russia's Olympic Committee:
ALEX OVECHKIN –1️⃣ 0️⃣ 0️⃣ 0️⃣ !
Captain of the Washington Capitals Alexander Ovechkin has reached the milestone of 1,000 career goals in the NHL, combining regular seasons and playoff games.
In a home game against the Colorado Avalanche, the Russian forward “capitalised” on the power play in the 55th minute. After a slick passing play involving rookie Cole Hutson and Dylan Strome, Ovechkin took aim and buried a precise one-timer. The goal sent the game into overtime, where the visitors ultimately came out on top.
🏒 It marked Ovi's 26th goal of the season and his 923rd in NHL regular-season play – extending his record as the league’s all-time leader in that category. With playoffs combined, Alex now has 1,000 career goals.
Alexander Ovechkin is just 17 goals shy of Wayne Gretzky.
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ALEX OVECHKIN –
Captain of the Washington Capitals Alexander Ovechkin has reached the milestone of 1,000 career goals in the NHL, combining regular seasons and playoff games.
In a home game against the Colorado Avalanche, the Russian forward “capitalised” on the power play in the 55th minute. After a slick passing play involving rookie Cole Hutson and Dylan Strome, Ovechkin took aim and buried a precise one-timer. The goal sent the game into overtime, where the visitors ultimately came out on top.
🏒 It marked Ovi's 26th goal of the season and his 923rd in NHL regular-season play – extending his record as the league’s all-time leader in that category. With playoffs combined, Alex now has 1,000 career goals.
Alexander Ovechkin is just 17 goals shy of Wayne Gretzky.
#TheGR8
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#KievRegimeCrimes
⚡️ Ambassador-at-Large of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Rodion Miroshnik:
PHOTO FACTS & EVIDENCE of crimes committed by Ukrainian armed forces over the week of March 16-22, 2026:
▪️ March 16 – a massive drone attack on a hospital in Vasilyevka, Zaporozhye Region.
▪️ March 16 – a strike by two fixed-wing UAVs on a Donbass Post office in Mangush (DPR).
▪️ March 16 – a UAV strike on a private residential house in Otradnoye, Belgorod Region.
▪️ March 17 – a UAV strike on an ambulance in Novaya Kakhovka, Kherson Region. Three medical workers and a female patient were injured.
▪️ March 17 – a UAV strike on a civilian passenger car in Novaya Tavolzhanka, Belgorod Region.
▪️ March 18 – a UAV strike on a civilian passenger car in Grayvoron, Belgorod Region.
▪️ March 18 – a massive raid of fixed-wing UAVs on Krasnodar. One civilian was killed.
▪️ March 21– a strike by two guided aerial bombs on a post office in Smorodino, Belgorod Region. Four women were killed, one more was injured.
▪️ March 22 – a HIMARS MLRS strike on a medical facility in Bytsenkov, Belgorod Region.
▪️ March 22 – a UAV strike on a civilian passenger car in Grayvoron, Belgorod Region. One civilian was injured.
⚡️ Ambassador-at-Large of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Rodion Miroshnik:
PHOTO FACTS & EVIDENCE of crimes committed by Ukrainian armed forces over the week of March 16-22, 2026:
▪️ March 16 – a massive drone attack on a hospital in Vasilyevka, Zaporozhye Region.
▪️ March 16 – a strike by two fixed-wing UAVs on a Donbass Post office in Mangush (DPR).
▪️ March 16 – a UAV strike on a private residential house in Otradnoye, Belgorod Region.
▪️ March 17 – a UAV strike on an ambulance in Novaya Kakhovka, Kherson Region. Three medical workers and a female patient were injured.
▪️ March 17 – a UAV strike on a civilian passenger car in Novaya Tavolzhanka, Belgorod Region.
▪️ March 18 – a UAV strike on a civilian passenger car in Grayvoron, Belgorod Region.
▪️ March 18 – a massive raid of fixed-wing UAVs on Krasnodar. One civilian was killed.
▪️ March 21– a strike by two guided aerial bombs on a post office in Smorodino, Belgorod Region. Four women were killed, one more was injured.
▪️ March 22 – a HIMARS MLRS strike on a medical facility in Bytsenkov, Belgorod Region.
▪️ March 22 – a UAV strike on a civilian passenger car in Grayvoron, Belgorod Region. One civilian was injured.