⚡️ The Russian Ministry of Defence continues to analyse the military and biological activities of the US and its allies in Ukraine and elsewhere in the world in the light of new information obtained in the liberated territories.

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☣️ Work continues on the study of biological samples from Ukrainian soldiers who have voluntarily laid down their arms.

Particular attention should be paid to the discovery of narcotic drugs, including opioids such as methadone, codepsin, codeterp, as well as ephedrine-type substances: t-phedrine and tri-phedrine, at positions abandoned by Ukrainian military personnel.

A side effect of such addictive drugs is primarily excessive aggression, which explains the extreme cruelty towards civilians displayed by some Ukrainian servicemen, as well as the shelling of towns in Donbass.

☣️ A few weeks ago, during the special military operation, Rubezhnoye in Lugansk People's Republic was liberated. Documents have been found in the laboratory of the Pharmbiotest medical centre, confirming that research had been carried out in Ukraine for several years on behalf of the so-called Big Pharma.

☣️ We are considering the possibility that the US Agency for International Development (USAID) was involved in the emergence of the new coronavirus. Since 2009, the agency has funded the Predict programme, which has investigated new species of coronaviruses by capturing bats that carry the viruses. One of the contractors for the project was Metabiota, a company known for its military-biological activities in Ukraine.

❗️ We see a clear trend: infectious disease agents that reach the Pentagon's zone of interest are subsequently pandemic, with US pharmaceutical companies and their patrons, the leaders of the US Democratic Party, as the beneficiaries.

☣️ US impunity has contributed to the continued use of bioweapons technology by Washington in Latin America, including the assassination of undesirable politicians.

On July 18, 2022, the President of the Republic of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, publicly declared the involvement of the United States in the assassination of former head of state Hugo Chávez.

According to information available to Venezuela, U.S. security services have been working since 2002 on possible ways to eliminate the Venezuelan leader, who has pursued an active anti-American policy. Numerous assassination attempts involving members of the US embassy in Caracas were uncovered and thwarted.

A causal link between the Venezuelan leader's death and the development of biological weapons is confirmed by forensic evidence and the testimony of Cuban doctors who treated Chavez about the atypical course of the disease and its resistance to the use of medicines.


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🎙 FM Sergey Lavrov’s remarks at the #RussiaASEAN Post Ministerial Conference

💬 I am pleased to state that despite the current international turbulence, we are expanding the range of our dialogue, enhancing the level of our industry-specific platforms, and deepening trade, economic and humanitarian ties.

I would like to mention separately the implementation of the joint initiatives in science and technology during the current Russia-ASEAN Year of Scientific and Technical Cooperation.

We believe that our entire system of cooperation, including our multilateral and bilateral ties, objectively facilitates the consolidation of the regional architecture for security and sustainable development.

🇷🇺 Russia consistently supports many integration platforms and projects and the pooling of their efforts to promote a unifying, future-oriented agenda.

📜 Foreign Ministry statement on the results of the #RussiaASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting

✅ The Russia - ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting co-chaired by the Russian Federation and the Kingdom of Cambodia showed that the Russia - ASEAN strategic partnership is unaffected by the geopolitical environment.

✅ The ASEAN countries welcomed Russia’s firm support for the Association’s central role in the regional architecture and unity of its states, and the active role of our country in ASEAN-centric mechanisms, including the East Asian Summit, the ASEAN Regional Forum on security and the meeting of the ASEAN Defence Ministers and Dialogue Partners.

✅ The participants reaffirmed their plans to hold a second round of Russia-ASEAN consultations of senior security officials and the second dialogue on cybersecurity in the latter half of 2022.

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#RussiaASEAN Ministerial in Phnom Penh.

🤝 Foreign Ministers of 11 nations, including Sergey Lavrov are participating.

⚡️On August 5, 2022, between 16.20 and 17.24, Ukrainian armed formations carried out three artillery strikes on the territory of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant and Energidar city. A total of twenty 152-mm shells were fired.

▫️The shelling was carried out by one of the units of the 45th AFU Artillery Brigade from firing positions near Marganets, on the opposite bank of the Kremenchuk reservoir controlled by the Ukrainian army.

▫️As a result of the shelling, Energodar city is partially without electricity and water supply, part of the equipment of power unit No. 3 is de-energized at the NPP, and the generating capacity of power unit No. 4 is reduced. In addition, hydrogen pipeline was damaged, resulting in a hydrogen flare ignition at the hydrogen plant. The fire was quickly extinguished by the emergency services.

▫️Fortunately, the Ukrainian shells did not hit the oil and fuel facility and the oxygen plant nearby, thus avoiding a larger fire and a possible radiation accident at Europe's largest nuclear power plant.

▫️What makes this provocation by the Kiev regime especially cynical is that it took place at the time of the United Nations-sponsored international conference in New York on the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.

❗️We call on international organizations to condemn the criminal acts of the Zelensky regime in carrying out acts of nuclear terrorism.

▫️In the event of further provocations at the nuclear power plant, all responsibility for the disruption of its operation will lie squarely with the Kiev regime.

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⚡️🇨🇦 Russian Foreign Ministry Statement on imposing personal sanctions on certain Canadian nationals

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In response to the most recent expansion of personal sanctions by Canada on June 27 and July 7, 2022, which this time targeted the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia in addition to officials, journalists and experts deemed undesirable by Ottawa, a ban on entry to the Russian Federation is imposed on 62 Canadian citizens.

In view of the particularly hostile actions by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s regime, intended to insult not only the multiethnic and multifaith people of Russia but also Orthodox Christian believers across the world, including Canada, the malicious activities targeting the Russian world and our traditional values by those banned from entry were taken into account as the stop list was being compiled.

The list of the names of Canadian citizens included in the permanent stop list

📄 ASEAN REGIONAL FORUM STATEMENT TO PROMOTE PEACE, STABILITY, AND PROSPERITY THROUGH CONFIDENCE BUILDING MEASURES AND PREVENTIVE DIPLOMACY

✍️ Adopted on the Fifth of August in the Year Two Thousand and Twenty-Two (2022) at the 29th ASEAN Regional Forum in Phnom Penh, Kingdom of Cambodia.

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☝️ RECOGNISING the impacts and uncertainties posed by the growing complexities of regional and global security challenges, including traditional and non-traditional security issues, and ACKNOWLEDGING that such challenges require a holistic and comprehensive approach to address these challenges;

☝️ RECOGNISING the continued relevance of the ARF and the commitment of its members in promoting and maintaining peace, security and stability in the region and its vital role in building confidence and trust amongst its participants;

☝️ REAFFIRMING the role of #ASEAN as the primary driving force of the ARF and emphasizing that the active, and equal participation and cooperation of all ARF participants is critical for the success of the ARF;

DO HEREBY ENDEAVOUR TO:

✅ Commit to maintain and promote peace, stability and prosperity through confidence building measures and preventive diplomacy in the spirit of upholding the fundamental principles of international law as reflected in the UN Charter and ASEAN basic principles, and shared values and norms;

✅ Support ASEAN Centrality as driving force in upholding an open, transparent and inclusive regional architecture based on the principles of international law;

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📄 ASEAN REGIONAL FORUM STATEMENT ON REITERATING COMMITMENT TO PRESERVE SOUTHEAST ASIA AS A NUCLEAR WEAPON-FREEZONE

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☝️ Noting that the Treaty on the Southeast Asia Nuclear Weapon-Free Zone (SEANWFZ Treaty) entered into force on 27 March 1997 and 2022 marks the 25th anniversary of the entry into force of the Treaty;

☝️ Noting that the current security context requires more efforts to strengthen the indispensable role of the IAEA in nuclear non-proliferation verification through safeguards implementation and efforts to strengthen the effectiveness and efficiency of safeguards regime including through universalization of the Additional Protocol;

☝️ Recalling the UN Security Council (UNSC) Resolution 1540 (2004) and the Comprehensive Reviews on the status of its implementation, whose aim is to prevent non-state actors from getting access to nuclear, chemical or biological weapons, their means of delivery and related materials;

HEREBY DECIDES TO:

✅ Reaffirm the efforts of ARF Participants at the national, regional and international levels to promote nuclear disarmament, nuclear non-proliferation and the use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes, strengthen nuclear safety and security, and combat nuclear terrorism;

✅ Reiterate support to the efforts of preserving Southeast Asia as a Nuclear Weapon-Free Zone and free of all other weapons of mass destruction consistent with the SEANWFZ Treaty and the ASEAN Charter;

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⚠️ Provocations by the criminal Kiev regime against Ukraine's nuclear energy facilities, threatening their safety, have already become systemic.

▫️Thus, August 5, 2022, Ukrainian nationalists launched an artillery strike on the territory of the Zaporozhye NPP during a routine shift of employees. Two high-voltage power lines and a water pipeline were damaged as a result of the shelling.

▫️More than 10,000 residents of Zaporozhye Region have been left without electricity and water supply. Only thanks to the skilled, competent and effective actions of the units of the Russian Armed Forces in covering the nuclear power facility, the critical infrastructure of the nuclear power plant was not affected.

▫️In accordance with the International Convention adopted by the UN General Assembly on April 13, 2005, we consider these criminal actions of the Ukrainian authorities to be nuclear terrorism.

▫️At the same time, United Nations officials continue to obstruct objective international monitoring of Zaporozhye NPP by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

▫️We emphasise that this is not the first such provocation by the Kiev regime at radiation-hazardous sites. The shelling of Zaporozhye NPP territory by Ukrainian armed formations is deliberate and regular, creating a real threat to nuclear safety not only in Ukraine, but also in Europe.

❗️Once again, we call on the United Nations, the International Atomic Energy Agency and other international organizations to influence official Kiev and take effective measures to prevent provocations at Ukraine's radiation-hazardous facilities.

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When a civilian object is used for military purposes, it turns into a legitimate target for a possible precision strike.

Ukraine continues its malicious practice of establishing command centers, firing positions, shelters or ammunition storages inside (or in close proximity to) schools, hospitals, maternity wards and other civilian infrastructure.

Therefore, Ukraine deliberately continues to endanger civilians and use them as “human shields”.

This unacceptable behavior is a gross violation of the international humanitarian law, and even “Amnesty International” couldn’t keep turning a blind eye on it.

So, whenever MSM shows you photos of a destroyed 🇺🇦 school or hospital - always ask: “What or who was inside?”

Spoiler: not civilians.

🎉 On August 8, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) marks its 55th anniversary. Today ASEAN is a successful and reputable regional intergovernmental organisation that has become a significant element of the emerging multipolar world order.

The development of ties with ASEAN is among the priorities of Russia’s foreign policy on the Asian track. In 2017, the Russian Permanent Mission to ASEAN opened in Jakarta, and in 2018, Russia-ASEAN relations reached the level of strategic partnership.

On August 4-5, Sergey Lavrov took part in Russia-ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ meeting, the East Asia Summit and the ASEAN Regional Forum on security in Phnom Penh.

💬 Sergey Lavrov: Despite the current international turbulence, the range of mechanisms for our dialogue is expanding, the level of industry platforms is rising; trade, and economic and humanitarian ties are deepening.

Key takeaways from the statement of Deputy Permanent Representative of the Russian Mission the UN Office and other International Organizations in Geneva Andrey Belousov at the Tenth Review Conference of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons

1️⃣ So far, the most recent statements made by US President Joe Biden on strategic stability dialogue, nuclear arms control and reduction are merely declarations that have not been supported with concrete proposals;

2️⃣ Russia does not accept preconditions for the resumption of New START negotiations;

3️⃣ Russia doubts that the US is ready for a constructive, open and respectful dialogue on strategic offensive arms, which would be mutually beneficial for each other’s interests;

4️⃣ Washington, which unilaterally severed strategic stability dialogue with Russia, must itself take tangible steps to resume the New START dialogue with Moscow.

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🕯 Today marks the 14th anniversary since the beginning of the military aggression launched by Mikhail Saakashvili’s regime against the people of South Ossetia.

On the night of 7 to 8 August, 2008, Georgia's armed forces commenced the so-called operation to restore constitutional order in South Ossetia, which led to numerous casualties.

❗️ That operation was a blatant violation of international agreements on the peaceful settlement of the Georgian-South Ossetian conflict, and Mikhail Saakashvili’s deliberate actions were later recorded in the 2009 report of the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Conflict in Georgia, created under the auspices of the EU.

☝️ Further escalation was avoided thanks to the direct involvement of Russia, which stopped the Georgian invasion by conducting a peace enforcement operation, and then ensured safety of the people in South Ossetia and Abkhazia by recognising the two republics as sovereign and independent states.

🛑 The Ukrainian nationalists have recently intensified the shelling of residential areas in Donbass, now use even anti-personnel the so-called butterfly mines.

The use of butterfly mines goes against the Additional Protocol to the Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War of August 12, 1949.

The fact that the Ukrainian nationalists even possess butterfly mines speaks volumes. By signing the 1997 Ottawa Convention, Ukraine made a commitment not to use anti-personnel mines under any circumstances, not even on the battlefield, and to destroy all stocks of such mines held in arsenals.

Apparently, Kiev has not done any of that.

On August 1, Russia’s Permanent Mission to the UN sent the information about the use of butterfly mines by Ukraine to UNSG Antonio Guterres and the head of the Security Council. The letter with attached photographic evidence will be distributed as an official document of the UNSC & UNGA.

❗️ Comment by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova on Ukraine’s continued shelling of the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant

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💬 Russia has long been calling on the international community, in various contexts and at various levels, to strongly condemn the Kiev regime’s incessant military strikes against the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP), while using increasingly destructive weapons systems.

☝️ It is impossible to ignore the obvious: the situation is growing more dangerous by the hour.

We note the IAEA Director General’s intention to go through with the planned visit to the plant.

❗️ We consider it necessary to remind you again that just a few weeks ago, Russia did everything necessary for a successful visit. There can be no complaints against us in this regard. The fact that this international mission was never accomplished is entirely on Kiev, as Kiev is the only player that has a reason to keep the IAEA away from Zaporozhye.

🕯 On August 9, 1945 at precisely 11:02 A.M. − 7️⃣7️⃣ years ago − the world became witness to the most horrific atrocity − the A-bombings of Nagasaki. It was an act of utter cruelty & barbarism. The city, full of civilians, was obliterated, some 70'000 people perished instantaneously.

❗️ It is our duty to remember & ensure that history never repeats itself.

💬 FM Sergey Lavrov: To this day, the terrible death of innocent civilians strikes a chord with millions of people on our planet.

We must join our efforts to ensure that the terror and pain of Hiroshima and Nagasaki will never repeat.

⚡️Russian Defence Ministry continues to monitor foreign mercenaries who have arrived in Ukraine to take part in combat operations.

▫️Over almost four weeks (from July 8 to August 5) the number of mercenaries in Ukraine decreased from 2,741 to 2,192 as a result of the offensive actions of the Russian Armed Forces and the units of the people's militias of Donetsk and Lugansk people's republics.

▫️Meanwhile, 175 more "soldiers of fortune" have arrived in Ukraine in recent weeks, including 81 fighters from Georgia.

▫️At the same time, the number of mercenaries arriving in Ukraine does not outweigh the losses in their ranks. 335 foreign fighters have been reliably confirmed eliminated during this period. Another 389 fighters left Ukrainian territory on their own.

▫️Poland still leads in the rate of reduction of mercenaries in Ukraine. 99 have been eliminated and 146 fighters have fled.

▫️In addition, in the past four weeks, 36 mercenaries from Canada, 33 from Romania and 21 from the United States have been eliminated.

📊 Updated data has now been published on the Russian Defence Ministry's information resources.

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#OTD 77 years ago the US atrocious decision to test for the 2nd time nuclear weapons on Japanese civilians in #Nagasaki is a reminder to the whole world – it’s imperative that those horrors never repeat. Inconvenient truth for those holding responsibility, but lessons of the history should not be forgotten #NeverForget

🗓 Since 1994, the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples is celebrated on August 9.

🌐 Today, according to UN estimates, there are from 370 to 500 million representatives of indigenous peoples in the world who live in 90 countries, accounting for 5-6% of the world's inhabitants.

🇷🇺 Home to 47 indigenous minorities, the Russian Federation pays much attention to their support, guarantees, according to Article 69 of the Constitution, the rights of this population group in accordance with generally recognized principles and norms of the international law and international treaties.

📺: Meet Anna Sinkevich, a member of Evenki people from Siberia, fellow of the World Intellectual Property Organization since 2020.

⚠️ Nationalist battalion fighters have deployed artillery and MLRS in Zaliznoye, Donetsk People's Republic, on the territory of inpatient clinic of the city hospital (Pioneer Avenue), from which they are systematically shelling nearby populated areas.

▫️Under the pretext of alleged security, the nationalists have forbidden residents of nearby houses to leave their flats, all their attempts to evacuate to safe areas on their own are harshly suppressed.

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⚔️ On August 9, 1944, the Red Army won the Battle of Leningrad, putting an end to the longest confrontation during the Great Patriotic War.

For over three years, Soviet soldiers waged a fierce battle in the northwest, while the people of Leningrad endured the horrors of a besieged city.

This event had a major bearing on developments in other sections of the Soviet-German front, drawing in major German forces and the entire Finnish army. The German command could not transfer troops deployed near Leningrad to fight other decisive battles.

☝️ The heroic defence of Leningrad became a symbol of the Soviet people’s courage. Soldiers and Leningrad residents suffered deprivation beyond all reason, demonstrating heroism and self-sacrifice while defending the city.