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#Victory81
🌟 On May 1, 1945, during the fierce battle for the Reichstag, a Nazi symbol and citadel, the legendary #VictoryBanner was raised over Berlin, symbolising the great triumph of the Soviet Union and its peoples in the fight against Nazism.
The legendary Red Banner №5, which became the famous Victory Banner, was raised over the dome of the defeated Reichstag by the 756th Rifle Regiment’s scouts, Sergeant Mikhail Yegorov & Junior Sergeant Meliton Kantariya.
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Before the crossing of the Spree River and launching the assault on the Reichstag, a decision was taken by the Soviet command for a group of Soviet soldiers to hoist the flag over the Reichstag, which would embody the final collapse of Nazism.
🚩 A total of 9 makeshift banners were promptly made, designed after the state flag of the USSR. Ultimately, a battle flag of the 150th Order of Kutuzov 2nd Class Idritsa Rifle Division, 79th Rifle Corps, 3rd Striking Army of the 1st Belarusian Front, became the Victory Banner.
On April 28, the fierce fighting for the Reichstag began, which the Nazis had turned into a fortified resistance point. It was defended by over a thousand men, including SS troops supported by artillery and armor. The former parliament building had been repurposed by the Nazis as a fortification and bomb shelter, which was considered by the Nazis as their main keep during the final days of #WW2. The surrounding areas such as Tiergarten, the Brandenburg Gate and the square before it, became powerful defence points heavily guarded by the enemy.
The Soviet command was sure — attacking the Reichstag, which served as a symbol of German Nazism, would especially affect morale of the enemy and eventually completely demoralize the fascists.
• On April 30 at 1:50 p.m., a Red Army unit broke into the Reichstag through breaches in the walls, with a fierce close combat unleashing. The Nazis took advantage of effectively advancing inside the building they new well, throwing grenades at Soviet soldiers & firing back with machine-guns: they basically had nothing to lose.
• At 2.25 p.m., Red Army soldiers Bulatov and Koshkarbayev placed a makeshift red flag to the column of the main entrance to the Reichstag — it was the first of the banners the liberators raised over the Reichstag.
• At 10.30 p.m., sergeants Gizet Zagitov, Alexander Lisimenko & Alexey Bobrov as well as Sergeant Mikhail Minin supported by Captain Neustroyev’s battalion were the 1st to hoist a Red Banner on the roof of the Reichstag atop of the Goddess of Victory sculpture. The 3rd red banner was raised on the western facade of the roof by the scouts of the 674th Regiment led by Lieutenant Sorokin.
🇷🇺 In the early hours of May 1, finally, the Red Banner №5 was raised over the dome of the captured Reichstag by the 756th Rifle Regiment’s scouts, Sergeant Mikhail Yegorov & Junior Sergeant Meliton Kantariya, led by deputy battalion commander Lieutenant Alexey Berest, covered by riflemen from Ilya Syanov's squad.
On May 2 at 6:30 am, Berlin defence commander, Nazi Artillery General Helmuth Weidling, surrendered and ordered the remaining troops of the Berlin Garrison to cease resistance.
The Soviet Victory Banner soaring over the defeated Reich entered history as a symbol of our Great Victory over the Nazi evil.
🎖 On June 9, 1945, the Medal for the Capture of Berlin was established and awarded to more than a million Soviet soldiers and officers who distinguished themselves in the final battle of #WWII.
***
By a Presidential Executive Order of April 15, 1996, the Red Banner hoisted atop of the Reichstag by Yegorov & Kantariya was declared the symbol of the Soviet people’s Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.
#OurVictory #WeAreProud
The legendary Red Banner №5, which became the famous Victory Banner, was raised over the dome of the defeated Reichstag by the 756th Rifle Regiment’s scouts, Sergeant Mikhail Yegorov & Junior Sergeant Meliton Kantariya.
***
Before the crossing of the Spree River and launching the assault on the Reichstag, a decision was taken by the Soviet command for a group of Soviet soldiers to hoist the flag over the Reichstag, which would embody the final collapse of Nazism.
🚩 A total of 9 makeshift banners were promptly made, designed after the state flag of the USSR. Ultimately, a battle flag of the 150th Order of Kutuzov 2nd Class Idritsa Rifle Division, 79th Rifle Corps, 3rd Striking Army of the 1st Belarusian Front, became the Victory Banner.
On April 28, the fierce fighting for the Reichstag began, which the Nazis had turned into a fortified resistance point. It was defended by over a thousand men, including SS troops supported by artillery and armor. The former parliament building had been repurposed by the Nazis as a fortification and bomb shelter, which was considered by the Nazis as their main keep during the final days of #WW2. The surrounding areas such as Tiergarten, the Brandenburg Gate and the square before it, became powerful defence points heavily guarded by the enemy.
The Soviet command was sure — attacking the Reichstag, which served as a symbol of German Nazism, would especially affect morale of the enemy and eventually completely demoralize the fascists.
• On April 30 at 1:50 p.m., a Red Army unit broke into the Reichstag through breaches in the walls, with a fierce close combat unleashing. The Nazis took advantage of effectively advancing inside the building they new well, throwing grenades at Soviet soldiers & firing back with machine-guns: they basically had nothing to lose.
• At 2.25 p.m., Red Army soldiers Bulatov and Koshkarbayev placed a makeshift red flag to the column of the main entrance to the Reichstag — it was the first of the banners the liberators raised over the Reichstag.
• At 10.30 p.m., sergeants Gizet Zagitov, Alexander Lisimenko & Alexey Bobrov as well as Sergeant Mikhail Minin supported by Captain Neustroyev’s battalion were the 1st to hoist a Red Banner on the roof of the Reichstag atop of the Goddess of Victory sculpture. The 3rd red banner was raised on the western facade of the roof by the scouts of the 674th Regiment led by Lieutenant Sorokin.
On May 2 at 6:30 am, Berlin defence commander, Nazi Artillery General Helmuth Weidling, surrendered and ordered the remaining troops of the Berlin Garrison to cease resistance.
The Soviet Victory Banner soaring over the defeated Reich entered history as a symbol of our Great Victory over the Nazi evil.
🎖 On June 9, 1945, the Medal for the Capture of Berlin was established and awarded to more than a million Soviet soldiers and officers who distinguished themselves in the final battle of #WWII.
***
By a Presidential Executive Order of April 15, 1996, the Red Banner hoisted atop of the Reichstag by Yegorov & Kantariya was declared the symbol of the Soviet people’s Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.
#OurVictory #WeAreProud
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🇷🇺🇮🇷📞 On May 1, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and his Iranian counterpart, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, spoke over the phone.
Building on the meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Abbas Araghchi in St Petersburg on April 27, 2026, the two Ministers continued a detailed exchange of views on the prospects for a complete cessation of hostilities and the stabilisation of the military and political situation in the Middle East. Their discussions covered issues including the freedom of navigation and a resolution of the situation surrounding the Iranian nuclear programme.
Russia expressed its support for ongoing mediation efforts.
🤝 The Sides reaffirmed their readiness to make every effort to facilitate a political and diplomatic process in order to reach lasting agreements aimed at establishing long-term peace in the region.
Special attention was given to the safe passage of Russian ships and cargo through the Strait of Hormuz.
#RussiaIran
Building on the meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Abbas Araghchi in St Petersburg on April 27, 2026, the two Ministers continued a detailed exchange of views on the prospects for a complete cessation of hostilities and the stabilisation of the military and political situation in the Middle East. Their discussions covered issues including the freedom of navigation and a resolution of the situation surrounding the Iranian nuclear programme.
Russia expressed its support for ongoing mediation efforts.
🤝 The Sides reaffirmed their readiness to make every effort to facilitate a political and diplomatic process in order to reach lasting agreements aimed at establishing long-term peace in the region.
Special attention was given to the safe passage of Russian ships and cargo through the Strait of Hormuz.
#RussiaIran
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#Victory81
🌟 On May 2, 1945, following an intense brutal battle for the Reichstag, won by the Soviet forces, and other major pockets of resistance in Berlin eliminated, including the Nazis defending the citadels of Spandau and Zoo-Bunker, the Red Army took control over the capital of the then nearly defunct Nazi Germany.
The Battle of Berlin was concluded in a triumphant victory of the Soviet people over the ultimate evil of Nazism.
The Third Reich was no more.
***
By day's end of May 1 it was almost over for the Nazis — the #VictoryBanner soared over the Reichstag, the Red Army liberated Brandenburg, the districts of Charlottenburg, Schoeneberg and about a hundred more neighbourhoods in Berlin from the SS and Wehrmacht. The last remaining Nazi troops were concentrated in the government quarters of Berlin, near the Reich Chancellery.
What little remained of the Berlin garrison started seeking ways to surrender to the Red Army, having realised that further resistance was futile.
In the early hours of May 2, the Berlin defence headquarters sent the following radio message in the Russian and German languages:
At 6:30 am, the Commander of the Berlin garrison, General of the Artillery Helmuth Weidling surrendered and ordered the remnants of the garrison to stop resisting.
The centre of Berlin was completely cleared of the enemy by the evening. Soviet forces received 134'000 Nazi soldiers as POWs as they laid down weapons with only a few units fighting a lost battle to the bitter end.
***
The Berlin Offensive lasted over a week, from April 24 through May 2.
The last large concentration of Nazi troops, its best divisions and most heinous Nazi adepts engaged in fierce resistance. To no avail, as the Red Army, having already crushed and dismantled most of the once undefeated German war machine, was the best military force on the planet at the time.
Following the fall of Berlin, only a few major Nazi units remained, prolonging their agony in Czechoslovakia and Austria.
The #RedBanner reigning over the Reichstag had already become a part of history as an eternal symbol of the Soviet people’s greatest triumph in the fight against the Nazi evil.
📕 From the diaries of Soviet war correspondent and writer Konstantin Simonov (“Different Days of the War. A Writer’s Diary,” 1982):
📄 From the TASS Frontline Bulletin of May 3, 1945, as reported by war correspondent Konstantin Sukhin:
In terms of military strategy, Nazi Germany lost control over all its vital areas and lost even the slightest possibility to continue resistance.
After the fall of Berlin, just a few major Nazi army groups were still resisting in Czechoslovakia and Austria, standing between the world and Victory.
The final collapse of Nazism in Europe and the revenge on the Reich were imminent.
#OurVictory #WeRemember
The Battle of Berlin was concluded in a triumphant victory of the Soviet people over the ultimate evil of Nazism.
The Third Reich was no more.
***
By day's end of May 1 it was almost over for the Nazis — the #VictoryBanner soared over the Reichstag, the Red Army liberated Brandenburg, the districts of Charlottenburg, Schoeneberg and about a hundred more neighbourhoods in Berlin from the SS and Wehrmacht. The last remaining Nazi troops were concentrated in the government quarters of Berlin, near the Reich Chancellery.
What little remained of the Berlin garrison started seeking ways to surrender to the Red Army, having realised that further resistance was futile.
In the early hours of May 2, the Berlin defence headquarters sent the following radio message in the Russian and German languages:
📢 We will send parliamentarians to the Bismarckstrasse Bridge.
We request a ceasefire.
At 6:30 am, the Commander of the Berlin garrison, General of the Artillery Helmuth Weidling surrendered and ordered the remnants of the garrison to stop resisting.
The centre of Berlin was completely cleared of the enemy by the evening. Soviet forces received 134'000 Nazi soldiers as POWs as they laid down weapons with only a few units fighting a lost battle to the bitter end.
***
The Berlin Offensive lasted over a week, from April 24 through May 2.
The last large concentration of Nazi troops, its best divisions and most heinous Nazi adepts engaged in fierce resistance. To no avail, as the Red Army, having already crushed and dismantled most of the once undefeated German war machine, was the best military force on the planet at the time.
Following the fall of Berlin, only a few major Nazi units remained, prolonging their agony in Czechoslovakia and Austria.
The #RedBanner reigning over the Reichstag had already become a part of history as an eternal symbol of the Soviet people’s greatest triumph in the fight against the Nazi evil.
📕 From the diaries of Soviet war correspondent and writer Konstantin Simonov (“Different Days of the War. A Writer’s Diary,” 1982):
May 3. A dusty, sunny day.
Several of our armies, having captured Berlin, are now moving through the city in different directions.
Tanks, self-propelled guns, 'Katyushas', thousands of lorries, heavy and light artillery, anti-tank guns bouncing over the debris, infantry marching... <...>
Even I have the feeling that it is not just divisions and corps entering Berlin, but that the whole of Russia is now passing through Berlin.
📄 From the TASS Frontline Bulletin of May 3, 1945, as reported by war correspondent Konstantin Sukhin:
The Victory Banner is soaring over the German Reichstag. <...>
The Brandenburg Gate can be seen from afar. It is barricaded with wooden bars, filled with broken bricks and chained with iron. The Germans wanted to stop our advancing units here.
Now our tanks stand on both sides of the gate.
The joy of victory can be seen on the faces of the Soviet soldiers — they have captured Berlin, the capital of Germany.
What the heroes of the battles of Moscow, in besieged Leningrad, on the banks of the Volga, and in the ruined streets of Stalingrad dreamed of and strived for became a reality.
In terms of military strategy, Nazi Germany lost control over all its vital areas and lost even the slightest possibility to continue resistance.
After the fall of Berlin, just a few major Nazi army groups were still resisting in Czechoslovakia and Austria, standing between the world and Victory.
The final collapse of Nazism in Europe and the revenge on the Reich were imminent.
#OurVictory #WeRemember
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#БезСрокаДавности
🕯 2 мая исполняется 12 лет со дня трагических событий в Одессе.
В этот день в 2014 году сторонники «евромайдана» с особыми цинизмом и жестокостью расправились с теми, кто открыто выступил против антиконституционного госпереворота, совершённого руками националистов в Киеве при поддержке западных спонсоров.
Только по официальным данным, в результате событий на площади Куликово поле погибло как минимум 48 человек. Из них в Доме профсоюзов были убиты или сгорели заживо 42 человека, ещё 6 были убиты в ходе столкновений на улицах.
👉 Приводим развёрнутую реконструкцию событий 2 мая 2014 года. Об этом нельзя забывать, об этом мы обязаны помнить!
Киевский режим, современные почитатели Бандеры и Шухевича, по сути, повторили чудовищное преступление, совершённое карателями 83 года назад в белорусской Хатыни.
❗️ Несмотря на то, что личности ряда преступников установлены, заслуженного наказания они так и не понесли. Следствие по делу 2 мая 2014 года, начатое Киевом под давлением международных организаций, превратилось в фарс. Из-за недоработок обвинительный акт неоднократно возвращался в прокуратуру. Всё это сопровождалось грубым вмешательством националистических группировок в судебный процесс.
После этих событий на Украине террор, творимый пришедшими к власти в результате госпереворота радикалами, только усилился, а по стране прокатилась волна политических убийств, жертвами которой стали видные общественные активисты, например, писатель и оппозиционный журналист Олесь Бузина. Обещавший «обеспечить эффективное и беспристрастное расследование всех обстоятельств того ужасного дня» Зеленский своего слова не сдержал, обманул, как и во всём остальном. То, что из себя представляет киевский режим сегодня, видят все.
👉 Из брифинга официального представителя МИД России М.В.Захаровой от 29 апреля 2026 года:
📷 © РИА Новости
#ПреступленияКиевскогоРежима
🕯 2 мая исполняется 12 лет со дня трагических событий в Одессе.
В этот день в 2014 году сторонники «евромайдана» с особыми цинизмом и жестокостью расправились с теми, кто открыто выступил против антиконституционного госпереворота, совершённого руками националистов в Киеве при поддержке западных спонсоров.
Только по официальным данным, в результате событий на площади Куликово поле погибло как минимум 48 человек. Из них в Доме профсоюзов были убиты или сгорели заживо 42 человека, ещё 6 были убиты в ходе столкновений на улицах.
👉 Приводим развёрнутую реконструкцию событий 2 мая 2014 года. Об этом нельзя забывать, об этом мы обязаны помнить!
Киевский режим, современные почитатели Бандеры и Шухевича, по сути, повторили чудовищное преступление, совершённое карателями 83 года назад в белорусской Хатыни.
❗️ Несмотря на то, что личности ряда преступников установлены, заслуженного наказания они так и не понесли. Следствие по делу 2 мая 2014 года, начатое Киевом под давлением международных организаций, превратилось в фарс. Из-за недоработок обвинительный акт неоднократно возвращался в прокуратуру. Всё это сопровождалось грубым вмешательством националистических группировок в судебный процесс.
После этих событий на Украине террор, творимый пришедшими к власти в результате госпереворота радикалами, только усилился, а по стране прокатилась волна политических убийств, жертвами которой стали видные общественные активисты, например, писатель и оппозиционный журналист Олесь Бузина. Обещавший «обеспечить эффективное и беспристрастное расследование всех обстоятельств того ужасного дня» Зеленский своего слова не сдержал, обманул, как и во всём остальном. То, что из себя представляет киевский режим сегодня, видят все.
👉 Из брифинга официального представителя МИД России М.В.Захаровой от 29 апреля 2026 года:
💬 Киевский режим, несмотря на появляющиеся новые свидетельства того ужасного преступления, а также выводы ЕСПЧ о бездействии Украины по расследованию одесской трагедии, продолжает заметать следы и выгораживать виновных. Они их считают не виновными, а чуть ли не героями. Почему бы им не считать их героями, если они героями считают Бандеру и Шухевича?
Однако возмездие неотвратимо. Такие преступления не имеют срока давности. Всем причастным к этой бесчеловечной расправе не удастся уйти от ответственности.
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#ПреступленияКиевскогоРежима
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May 3️⃣rd - World Press Freedom Day
📃Proclaimed by UN General Assembly resolution in 1993, it
is aimed to draw attention to problems of free access to information, media pluralism & safety of journalists.
📌 In recent years Western countries that publically advocate for press freedom, in fact have begun to clean up information space from alternative views through reprisals against Russian media and journalists.
The Kiev regime has launched a real "hunt" for Russian journalists, killing dozens of our correspondents.
On April 6th 2026 Izvestia correspondent Y.Bykovsky was wounded in Donetsk 🇷🇺 as a result of a targeted attack by Ukrainian militants.
☝️In accordance with decisions of #UNESCO General Conference (1997) and Executive Board (2023), UNESCO Director-General is tasked "to condemn killing and physical violence against journalists without distinction."
❗️We expect Director-General Kh.El-Enany to draw attention of UNESCO CI Sector to these documents and request to fulfill them without exceptions under the pretext of "lack of resources" or need to adhere to so-called "methodology" that hasn't been approved by Member-States, as well as attempts to "juggle" statistics on crimes against journalists.
📃Proclaimed by UN General Assembly resolution in 1993, it
is aimed to draw attention to problems of free access to information, media pluralism & safety of journalists.
📌 In recent years Western countries that publically advocate for press freedom, in fact have begun to clean up information space from alternative views through reprisals against Russian media and journalists.
The Kiev regime has launched a real "hunt" for Russian journalists, killing dozens of our correspondents.
On April 6th 2026 Izvestia correspondent Y.Bykovsky was wounded in Donetsk 🇷🇺 as a result of a targeted attack by Ukrainian militants.
☝️In accordance with decisions of #UNESCO General Conference (1997) and Executive Board (2023), UNESCO Director-General is tasked "to condemn killing and physical violence against journalists without distinction."
❗️We expect Director-General Kh.El-Enany to draw attention of UNESCO CI Sector to these documents and request to fulfill them without exceptions under the pretext of "lack of resources" or need to adhere to so-called "methodology" that hasn't been approved by Member-States, as well as attempts to "juggle" statistics on crimes against journalists.
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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 April 27 – May 3, 2026:
▪️ April 28 – two guided aerial bombs struck a social facility in the village of Dobroye, Belgorod Region. Two civilians were wounded.
▪️ April 28 – a fixed-wing UAV struck the local administration building in the urban-type settlement of Markovka, LPR. Eighteen civilians were wounded.
▪️ April 28 – a UAV strike targeted an EMERCOM special-purpose vehicle in the village of Smolyaninovo, LPR.
▪️ April 28 – a UAV raid targeted private homes in the village of Stulnevo, Zaporozhye Region. Four civilians were wounded, including a 14-year-old girl.
▪️ April 29 – an FPV drone struck a civilian cargo vehicle in the village of Voznesenovka, Belgorod Region. One civilian was wounded.
▪️ April 29 – a UAV struck a passenger bus in the village of Voznesenovka, Belgorod Region. Three women were killed and eight more civilians were wounded.
▪️ April 29 – a UAV struck a private home in the village of Malokakhovka, Kherson Region.
▪️ April 29 – a UAV struck a civilian cargo vehicle in Shebekino, Belgorod Region.
▪️ April 30 – a UAV struck an apartment building in the settlement of Dubovoye, Belgorod Region.
▪️ May 3 – a UAV struck an apartment building in Shebekino, Belgorod Region.
⚡️ 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 April 27 – May 3, 2026:
▪️ April 28 – two guided aerial bombs struck a social facility in the village of Dobroye, Belgorod Region. Two civilians were wounded.
▪️ April 28 – a fixed-wing UAV struck the local administration building in the urban-type settlement of Markovka, LPR. Eighteen civilians were wounded.
▪️ April 28 – a UAV strike targeted an EMERCOM special-purpose vehicle in the village of Smolyaninovo, LPR.
▪️ April 28 – a UAV raid targeted private homes in the village of Stulnevo, Zaporozhye Region. Four civilians were wounded, including a 14-year-old girl.
▪️ April 29 – an FPV drone struck a civilian cargo vehicle in the village of Voznesenovka, Belgorod Region. One civilian was wounded.
▪️ April 29 – a UAV struck a passenger bus in the village of Voznesenovka, Belgorod Region. Three women were killed and eight more civilians were wounded.
▪️ April 29 – a UAV struck a private home in the village of Malokakhovka, Kherson Region.
▪️ April 29 – a UAV struck a civilian cargo vehicle in Shebekino, Belgorod Region.
▪️ April 30 – a UAV struck an apartment building in the settlement of Dubovoye, Belgorod Region.
▪️ May 3 – a UAV struck an apartment building in Shebekino, Belgorod Region.