According to @mod_russia_en on July 14 Kalibr high-precision missiles struck house of officers in #Vinnitsa that hosted meeting btw UAF command & foreign arms suppliers.

🇷🇺 doesn't target civilians. Unlike 🇺🇦 nationalists shelling residential areas of Donetsk & Lugansk republics with Western weapons.

⚡️Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova’s answer to a media question on UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’ statement on the situation in Ukraine

❓What can you tell us about UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres saying on July 14 that he was shocked by a rocket fired into the city of Vinnitsa, central Ukraine?

💬Maria Zakharova: Indeed, this statement by Antonio Guterres has come to our attention. Here’s what I would like to say.

What we are seeing now is something that goes back in time. Contrary to the requirements in the UN Charter, the Secretariat is not taking an equidistant position, as one would expect from a Secretariat of the most authoritative international organisation that is designed, among other things, to promote the settlement of disputes.
Now with regard to this particular case. According to the Russian Defence Ministry, high-precision Kalibr missiles were used in Vinnitsa targeting a garrison house of officers which at that moment was housing a meeting of the Ukrainian Air Force command with representatives of foreign arms suppliers. The UN is probably aware of that. If not, then we suggest that Mr Guterres ask Ukraine why the Kiev regime is placing military facilities in close proximity to civilian buildings.

At the same time, for some reason, like many other UN representatives, the Secretary-General does not see the Armed Forces of Ukraine fire direct missile strikes against civilian targets and residential urban areas. I will give examples. Regarding the shelling of Kursk and Belgorod on July 3, as well as the shelling of Novaya Kakhovka on July 12, when warehouses with saltpeter exploded and residential buildings, a church and other buildings were damaged, the force of the detonation was similar to the explosion in the port of Beirut, and according to the regional Interior Ministry, approximately 190 people asked for medical help. Neither Mr Guterres, nor his official representative, nor anyone else from the UN Secretariat condemned the attack on civilians and civilian infrastructure as in the case of Vinnitsa. In response to a specific request to comment on the incident in Novaya Kakhovka, Deputy Spokesman for the Secretary General, Farhan Haq, said there were no comments on that matter. On earlier occasions, the UN has repeatedly ignored reports of civilian deaths, including children, caused by Ukrainian troop fire. Also, UN Secretary-General Spokesperson Stephane Dujarric had no information about Ukraine using civilians as a human shield (March 3 briefing https://www.un.org/press/en/2022/db220303.doc.htm).

I would like to remind our esteemed colleagues from the UN Secretariat that their job is not to take sides in disputable situations, but to help maintain peace and stability. This is what they are paid for and this is their mandate.

⚡️Réponse de Maria Zakharova, porte-parole du ministère des Affaires étrangères de la Fédération de Russie à une question des médias concernant la déclaration du Secrétaire général de l'ONU, Antonio Guterres, sur la situation en Ukraine

❓Comment pouvez-vous commenter la déclaration du Secrétaire général de l'ONU Antonio Guterres du 14 juillet qu'il a été "choqué par les tirs de roquettes sur la ville de Vinnitsa dans la partie centrale de l'Ukraine".

💬Réponse: En effet, nous avons remarqué cette déclaration d’Antonio Guterres. Je voudrais noter ce qui suit.
Ce que nous voyons maintenant est une longue histoire. Le Secrétariat, contrairement aux exigences que lui impose la Charte des Nations unies, n'adopte pas une position symétrique, comme on pourrait l'attendre du Secrétariat de l'organisation internationale la plus respectée, fondée, entre autres, pour favoriser le règlement des différends.
Rappelons les faits. Selon le ministère russe de la Défense, à Vinnitsa, des missiles de haute précision Kalibr ont touché la garnison des officiers, qui accueillait à ce moment-là une réunion du commandement de l'armée de l'air ukrainienne avec des représentants de fournisseurs d'armes étrangers. Et cela est probablement connu de l'ONU. Si ce n'est pas le cas, nous recommandons à Antonio Guterres de demander à l'Ukraine de répondre à cette question: pourquoi le régime de Kiev déploie-t-il des sites militaires à proximité des sites civiles?

Dans le même temps, le Secrétaire général de l'ONU, pour une raison qu’on ignore, comme de nombreux autres représentants de l'organisation mondiale, ne remarque pas lorsque les forces armées ukrainiennes effectuent des frappes de missiles dirigés contre des sites civils et des zones résidentielles dans les villes. Je vais citer des exemples. En ce qui concerne le bombardement de Koursk et de Belgorod le 3 juillet, ainsi que de Novaïa Kakhovka le 12 juillet, lorsque des entrepôts de salpêtre ont explosé et des bâtiments résidentiels, une église et d'autres bâtiments ont été endommagés. La force de détonation était comparable à l'explosion dans le port de Beyrouth, et selon le ministère régional de l'Intérieur, environ 190 personnes ont demandé une assistance médicale. Ni Antonio Guterres, ni son représentant officiel, ni personne d'autre du Secrétariat de l'ONU n'ont condamné "l'attaque contre la population civile et les infrastructures civiles", comme dans le cas de Vinnitsa. Et en réponse à une demande de commenter l'incident à Novaïa Kakhovka, le porte-parole adjoint du secrétaire général de l'ONU Farhan Haq a déclaré qu'"il n'y avait pas de commentaires sur cette question". Et plus tôt, l'ONU a ignoré à plusieurs reprises les informations faisant état de la mort de civils, y compris d'enfants, suite aux frappes des troupes ukrainiennes. Aussi, le porte-parole du secrétaire général de l'ONU Stéphane Dujarric n'avait aucune information selon laquelle l'Ukraine utiliserait la population civile comme bouclier humain (briefing du 3 mars https://www.un.org/press/en /2022/db220303.doc.htm).

Je voudrais rappeler aux collègues du Secrétariat de l'ONU que leur tâche n'est pas de prendre parti de quelqu’un dans des situations litigieuses, mais de contribuer au maintien de la paix et de la stabilité. C'est pour cela qu'ils reçoivent un salaire et sont habilités à le faire.

⚔️ On July 15, 1240 – 782 years ago – the Novgorod and Swedish armies fought a battle at the mouth of the Neva River. The Swedish invaders were going to build a fortress there and convert the locals to Catholicism, but they were met with fierce resistance from the young Prince Alexander of Novgorod.

Outnumbered by the enemy, the prince decided to attack at an unexpected time and from an unexpected side. The Swedes, who set up camp on the left bank of the Neva River, did not anticipate an attack from land. Prince Alexander’s foot-borne troops cut them off from their ships, and the cavalry cornered them between the banks of the Izhora and Neva rivers. The Novgorodian army won a crushing victory, having lost only 20 men.

☝️ The event made it into Russian history as the Battle of the Neva. The victory prevented Novgorod from losing the Gulf of Finland shores and preserved Rus’s trade with the West.

⚡️Statement of the Joint Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response

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⚠️It has been confirmed that in Slaviansk, Donetsk People's Republic, units of Ukrainian armed groups launch attacks at residential areas for promoting anti-Russian opinion with support of the military-civilian administration.

🔹On July 14, 2022, AFU artillery deployed at Slavyansk railway station launched attacks at central market.

❗️Just in some minutes after the shelling, reporters from Ukrainian mass media commenced their work at the incident location, started taking photo- and videographic data about the consequences of allegedly indiscriminate attacks launched by Russian Armed Forces at civilian population.

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⚠️In addition, Ukrainian armed groups continue using residential buildings, educational entities and social facilities with military purposes:

🔹in Kramatorsk, Donetsk People's Republic, in the kindergarten (Nadi Kurchenko st.), AFU units have deployed their manpower, armoured equipment, long-range artillery and MRLS, the approaches to the kindergarten have been mined, but local population has been intentionally left uninformed about it;

🔹in Nikolayev, nationalists have deployed their strongpoints in residential buildings (Admiralskaya st.), residents have not been evacuated;

🔹in Toretsk, Donetsk People's Republic, in the school 9 (Tereshkovoy at.), Ukrainian armed groups have deployed their manpower, munitions depots and armoured vehicles, while residents of local buildings are retained in sports hall.

⚠️Despite the repeated statements by the Joint Coordination Headquarters of the Russian Federation for Humanitarian Response, this kind of facts of inhumane treatment to the civilian population remains neglected by the international community and organisations.

▫️According to reliable information, in Odessa region; employees of state and municipal establishments are forced to fill in reports about relatives in Russia, describing relations with them, as well as about neighbours who do not support the policies of Ukrainian leadership.

❗️All the people suspected of pro-Russian opinion are retained and transported to an unknown destination.

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#DebunkingMyths

❌ Myth: Possible mis- interpretation of sanctions could lead to over-compliance or market avoidance. The EU is ready to further clarify to economic operators what is and what is not targeted in our sanctions. Not the whole financial system of Russia is de-SWIFTed and if some financial institutions decide voluntarily not to participate in this trade the cause is over-compliance.

✅ Fact: It is the EU countries that have been delegated the right to impose a system of fines and penalties for violation of restrictions and it have been constituted to the national level. This could result in 27 interpretations of the same action.

Since February 2022, the EU has introduced six packages of illegitimate anti-Russia sanctions. The European Commission has issued over 200 pages of “explanations” for these restrictions but it says on the first page of this document that they are not legally binding. In this case, Brussels is not entitled to make any decisions for the EU states.

#Think4Yourself

#DebunkingMyths

❌ Myth: The Russian operation in Ukraine has led to a significant drop in food, animal feed and fertiliser availability, price increases for food, energy and fertilisers, and has aggravated global food insecurity.

✅ Fact: Russia is not at fault for the current food security crisis. A sharp increase in prices on the commodities and raw materials markets began as early as 2020, causing concern in the EU even then, – long before current events. The reason lies in the EU’s own errors in of its macroeconomic, energy, climate and food policies in recent years.

In trying to rebuild the world system of economic relations to its own advantage and impose its own rules, the EU fell into a trap created by its own ambitions. Under the circumstances, the West used Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine and Donbas as an excuse to conceal its own mistakes from the world public and its own citizens. In reality, a bad situation was made worse by the reckless anti-Russia sanctions.

#Think4Yourself

✍️ Russian FM Sergey Lavrov’s article «Staged incidents as the Western approach to doing politics», published in Izvestia newspaper

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🔹 All the good relations talk, the West’s proclaimed readiness to take into account the rights and interests of Russians who ended up in independent Ukraine or other post-Soviet countries after the collapse of the USSR turned out to be mere pretence.

🔹 Ukraine, Moldova and other countries being courted by the EU today are destined to be extras in the games of the West.

🔹 The collective West should come back to Earth from the world of illusions. The staged incidents, no matter how long they go on, will not work. It is time for fair play based on the international law rather than cheating.

🔹 The sooner everyone realises that there are no alternatives to objective historical processes where a multipolar world is formed based on respect for the principle of sovereign equality of states, fundamental for the UN Charter and the entire world order, the better.

​✍️ Points clés de l’article du ministre russe des Affaires étrangères Sergueï Lavrov publié dans le journal russe «Izvestiya»

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🔹 La politique occidentale consiste à fabriquer une infox, à attiser son ampleur jusqu'à une catastrophe planétaire pendant deux ou trois jours tout en bloquant l'accès de la population aux informations et avis alternatifs. Quand des faits font surface, ils sont complètement ignorés ou, dans le meilleur des cas, sont mentionnés en petits caractères;

🔹 L'Occident collectif aurait dû revenir sur Terre depuis un monde d'illusions. Les mises en scène, même si elles se poursuivent, ne fonctionneront pas. Il est temps de jouer franc jeu, de ne pas tricher et de respecter finalement le droit international.

#DebunkingMyths

❌ Myth: President Putin is deliberately blocking the wheat supply of the world.

✅ Fact: According to UN statistics, 800 million tonnes of grain is produced annually around the world. Thus, the estimated 20 million tonnes of Ukrainian grain cannot radically resolve the problem by definition.

Also the EU is still dependent on forage crop imports, mostly corn, that is why while shouting from the rooftops about the urgent need to save Ukrainian cereals, the EU is primarily concerned with its own food security.

Russia has never blocked grain exports from Ukraine’s Black Sea ports. On the contrary, we are doing our best to provide two humanitarian maritime corridors in the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov. The problem is the high mine hazard and Kiev’s threats to fire at ships. This makes safe navigation in its territorial waters impossible.

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#DebunkingMyths

❌ Myth: Russia has put a tax on exports making the prices go up.

✅ Fact: Introducing export duties or export quotas on some commodities is a forced measure designed to protect the domestic market from price fluctuations and to stabilise prices. The food and energy crisis caused by the West’s selfish policies has forced many countries to take this path.

The Russian Government introduced export duties on cereals in early 2021 and allocated quotas for grain exports as early as 2020. This has nothing to do with the Ukrainian crisis.

The Russian Government uses the revenues yielded by export duties to expand production infrastructure. This helps boost agricultural exports and stabilise the international food market, which has been shattered by the West’s policies.

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🇷🇺🇮🇷 President Vladimir Putin and President of Iran Sayyid Ebrahim Raisi held talks in Tehran.

💬 Vladimir Putin: I am very pleased to be here today with our friends on hospitable Iranian land.

Our relations have been developing at a good pace, indeed. We boast record figures in trade growth. We are strengthening our cooperation on international security and making a tangible contribution to settling the Syrian conflict.

🇷🇺🇹🇷 President Vladimir Putin met with President of the Republic of Turkiye Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the sidelines of the Astana troika summit.

💬 Vladimir Putin: I would like to thank you for your mediation efforts, for granting a Turkish platform for talks on food problems, on the export of grain via the Black Sea. We made progress with your mediation. True, not all problems have yet been resolved, but there is progress and that is good enough.

Of course, we have many issues on the Syrian settlement. But promising, large-scale bilateral projects are also making headway. Of course, another big issue – settlement of the Karabakh problem – is at the centre of our attention. Recently, I met with the President of Azerbaijan at the Caspian summit. He sent his best wishes to you.

🇷🇺🇮🇷🇹🇷 Joint Statement by the Presidents of Russia, Iran and Türkiye:

🔹 Emphasized the leading role of the Astana Process in peaceful and sustainable settlement of the Syrian crisis.

🔹 Emphasized their unwavering commitment to the sovereignty, independence, unity and territorial integrity of Syria.

🔹Expressed their opposition to the illegal seizure and transfer of oil revenues that should belong to Syria.

🔹 Expressed grave concern at the humanitarian situation in Syria and rejected all unilateral sanctions which are in contravention of international law, international humanitarian law and the UN Charter.

🔹 Reaffirmed their conviction that there could be no military solution to the Syrian conflict and that it could only be resolved through the Syrian-led and Syrian-owned, UN-facilitated political process in line with the UN Security Council Resolution 2254.

🔹 Decided to hold the next Tripartite Summit in Russia.

🎙 Speech by President of Russia Vladimir Putin at the summit of the guarantor states of the #AstanaProcess

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🔹 Owing to the assistance and support of our countries, the level of violence in #Syria has decreased significantly; peaceful life is returning and the country is gradually rebuilding its economy and social sphere.

🔹 Our task for the near future is to agree on specific steps to promote the intra-Syrian inclusive political dialogue, that is, to implement our agreement on creating conditions that will allow the Syrians to determine their future themselves, without outside interference.

🔹 The Western states led by the US are strongly encouraging separatist sentiment in some areas of the country and plundering its natural resources with a view to ultimately pulling the Syrian state apart.

☝️ So, it would be best to take extra steps in our trilateral format aimed at stabilising the situation in those areas and at returning control to the legitimate government of Syria.