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⚡️ Ambassador at Large of the Russian Foreign Ministry Rodion Miroshnik:
💬 In the very first minutes of the New Year, the Kiev regime stained it with blood, leaving dozens of civilians killed and wounded in Russia’s Kherson Region.
The New Year address of the Ukrainian dictator was broadcast at the very moment when dozens of peaceful residents were dying as a result of a strike carried out on his direct orders.
A drone attack targeting a location crowded with civilians in the Kherson Region amounts to a deliberate act of terrorism, which continues the ongoing pattern of inhumane killings by Ukrainian neo-Nazis.
The massive drone strike carried out by Ukrainian militants on New Year’s night against a purely civilian site, crowded with peaceful residents, clearly demonstrates their irreconcilable hostility to any prospect of ending the bloodshed through political and diplomatic means.
The deaths of civilians and the continuing bloodshed are a price the Zelensky regime pays without hesitation to cling to power, shield its corrupt inner circle, and meet the demands of its European patrons – for whom even the prospect of ending the bloodshed in Ukraine is unacceptable.
This barbaric act must receive the harshest legal and political assessment from all countries for which the very notion of international humanitarian law is not an empty phrase. Russian diplomats will raise this issue at all key international platforms.
The killing of dozens of civilians by Ukrainian militants cannot and must not go unpunished.
As of now, 24 civilians have been killed and 50 wounded. Among the injured are six children aged 6 to 17.
#KievRegimeCrimes
💬 In the very first minutes of the New Year, the Kiev regime stained it with blood, leaving dozens of civilians killed and wounded in Russia’s Kherson Region.
The New Year address of the Ukrainian dictator was broadcast at the very moment when dozens of peaceful residents were dying as a result of a strike carried out on his direct orders.
A drone attack targeting a location crowded with civilians in the Kherson Region amounts to a deliberate act of terrorism, which continues the ongoing pattern of inhumane killings by Ukrainian neo-Nazis.
The massive drone strike carried out by Ukrainian militants on New Year’s night against a purely civilian site, crowded with peaceful residents, clearly demonstrates their irreconcilable hostility to any prospect of ending the bloodshed through political and diplomatic means.
The deaths of civilians and the continuing bloodshed are a price the Zelensky regime pays without hesitation to cling to power, shield its corrupt inner circle, and meet the demands of its European patrons – for whom even the prospect of ending the bloodshed in Ukraine is unacceptable.
This barbaric act must receive the harshest legal and political assessment from all countries for which the very notion of international humanitarian law is not an empty phrase. Russian diplomats will raise this issue at all key international platforms.
The killing of dozens of civilians by Ukrainian militants cannot and must not go unpunished.
As of now, 24 civilians have been killed and 50 wounded. Among the injured are six children aged 6 to 17.
#KievRegimeCrimes
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⚡️ Russia's Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova:
Bankovaya Street threw "a New Year party" last night: the Armed Forces of Ukraine attacked a cafe in the Kherson Region killing 24 people and injuring more than 50; five children were hospitalised.
This is similar to how collaborators from Western Ukraine burned people in the village of Khatyn, Belarus. They drove people into barns and set them on fire. And those who tried to escape were shot. The difference is that back then, more than 82 years ago, the Nazis did not use protection of children and devotion to democracy as a cover. They simply burned people and finished them off with gun-butts, buried them alive and bayoneted those who did not suffocate.
Today we see this beastly pattern copycatted by the Kiev regime: the same neo-Nazi hatred, the same dehumanisation at an exponential rate, the same desecration of the sacrosanct.
Today, presidents and prime ministers of the countries of the collective West should be served for breakfast, along with croissants and poached eggs, reports on how billions of dollars and euros of their taxpayers were spent, how many New Year’s gifts were bought with these funds to kill civilians, how they participated in the murder of children.
We blame this on everyone who sponsors terrorist bastards in Ukraine! We blame them for killing children and destroying civilians! We blame them for corrupting the Ukrainian statehood, which turned into a killing machine!
We accuse!
👉 Details of the terrorist attack
⚡️ Russia's Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova:
Bankovaya Street threw "a New Year party" last night: the Armed Forces of Ukraine attacked a cafe in the Kherson Region killing 24 people and injuring more than 50; five children were hospitalised.
This is similar to how collaborators from Western Ukraine burned people in the village of Khatyn, Belarus. They drove people into barns and set them on fire. And those who tried to escape were shot. The difference is that back then, more than 82 years ago, the Nazis did not use protection of children and devotion to democracy as a cover. They simply burned people and finished them off with gun-butts, buried them alive and bayoneted those who did not suffocate.
Today we see this beastly pattern copycatted by the Kiev regime: the same neo-Nazi hatred, the same dehumanisation at an exponential rate, the same desecration of the sacrosanct.
Today, presidents and prime ministers of the countries of the collective West should be served for breakfast, along with croissants and poached eggs, reports on how billions of dollars and euros of their taxpayers were spent, how many New Year’s gifts were bought with these funds to kill civilians, how they participated in the murder of children.
We blame this on everyone who sponsors terrorist bastards in Ukraine! We blame them for killing children and destroying civilians! We blame them for corrupting the Ukrainian statehood, which turned into a killing machine!
We accuse!
👉 Details of the terrorist attack
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⚡️ Foreign Ministry statement on the terrorist attack by the Kiev regime targeting civilians in the Kherson Region of the Russian Federation
In the early hours of January 1, 2026, the criminal neo-Nazi Kiev regime carried out a targeted attack using armed UAVs which took aim at a café and a hotel in Khorly, Kherson Region. Local residents were celebrating the New Year’s Eve there with their families. While the exact number of those who were killed and injured in these strikes and during the fire that they caused has yet to be established, it is already clear that several dozen civilians suffered in this attack, of whom 24 people died, including one minor.
Russia’s Investigative Committee has opened a criminal file on terrorist charges. Everyone who took part in this monstrous and bloody crime will be identified and would not be able to evade justice.
By perpetrating this barbarous atrocity, the Kiev regime has once again demonstrated its human-hating neo-Nazi nature. The Ukrainian Armed Forces attacked civilians with their drones hot on the heels of Zelensky perorations, as repeated during his New Year speech, on Kiev’s commitment to peace. We have long grown accustomed to this cynical posture, which transcends all possible boundaries and demonstrates that he has totally lost his moral bearings.
The Kiev usurper decided to target helpless civilians in his impotent range, against the backdrop of the successful advancement of the Russian Armed Forces and the losses suffered by the Ukrainian Armed Forces, as well as the failed attempt by the Ukrainian terrorists to carry out a strike against the President of the Russian Federation’s state residence in the Novgorod Region in the early hours of December 29, 2025. He is ready to kill women and children and to perpetrate crimes similar to what happened at the Trade Union House in Odessa for the sake of holding on to power and in an effort to intimidate people from the regions which have recently reunified with Russia by linking their destinies to it forever by holding referendums.
As for the attempts by the Kiev regime to target the Presidential residence in the Novgorod Region, these was a special technical review of a block from the navigation system of one of the Ukrainian drones which were downed in the Novgorod Region’s air space in the early hours of December 29, 2025. Members of the Russian special services have succeeded in extracting the file with the mission description, and these materials will be forwarded to the United States using the appropriate channels.
Every day, the Russian Defence Ministry’s air defence systems deflect drone attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces against the regions of Russia, including its capital – there were about 10 attacks of this kind today.
❗️These attempts are designed to distract people in order to leave the frontline failures of the Ukrainian Armed Forces unnoticed. The Kiev regime has been trying, in vain, to prove its viability using terrorist attacks.
It is just as obvious that Office of the President of Ukraine on Bankovaya Street has been intentionally seeking to derail any attempts to find peaceful solutions.
This latest criminal strike against civilians in Khorly is a bloody atrocity by the Kiev clique. Western leaders who continue sponsoring the bankrupt regime with money and weapons bear full responsibility for this crime.
The Foreign Ministry firmly condemns all the terrorist attacks by the Kiev regime.
◼️ We express our sincere condolences to the families and friends on the victims and wish the injured speedy recovery.
The Foreign Ministry calls on the governments of the responsible sovereign countries and the relevant international structures to publicly express their resolute condemnation of the bloody terrorist attack by the Kiev regime in the Kherson Region.
☝️ Ignoring this tragedy would amount to only one thing – openly encouraging neo-Banderite terrorist crimes and acting as accomplices, which will be interpreted in legal terms with the corresponding legal consequences.
In the early hours of January 1, 2026, the criminal neo-Nazi Kiev regime carried out a targeted attack using armed UAVs which took aim at a café and a hotel in Khorly, Kherson Region. Local residents were celebrating the New Year’s Eve there with their families. While the exact number of those who were killed and injured in these strikes and during the fire that they caused has yet to be established, it is already clear that several dozen civilians suffered in this attack, of whom 24 people died, including one minor.
Russia’s Investigative Committee has opened a criminal file on terrorist charges. Everyone who took part in this monstrous and bloody crime will be identified and would not be able to evade justice.
By perpetrating this barbarous atrocity, the Kiev regime has once again demonstrated its human-hating neo-Nazi nature. The Ukrainian Armed Forces attacked civilians with their drones hot on the heels of Zelensky perorations, as repeated during his New Year speech, on Kiev’s commitment to peace. We have long grown accustomed to this cynical posture, which transcends all possible boundaries and demonstrates that he has totally lost his moral bearings.
The Kiev usurper decided to target helpless civilians in his impotent range, against the backdrop of the successful advancement of the Russian Armed Forces and the losses suffered by the Ukrainian Armed Forces, as well as the failed attempt by the Ukrainian terrorists to carry out a strike against the President of the Russian Federation’s state residence in the Novgorod Region in the early hours of December 29, 2025. He is ready to kill women and children and to perpetrate crimes similar to what happened at the Trade Union House in Odessa for the sake of holding on to power and in an effort to intimidate people from the regions which have recently reunified with Russia by linking their destinies to it forever by holding referendums.
As for the attempts by the Kiev regime to target the Presidential residence in the Novgorod Region, these was a special technical review of a block from the navigation system of one of the Ukrainian drones which were downed in the Novgorod Region’s air space in the early hours of December 29, 2025. Members of the Russian special services have succeeded in extracting the file with the mission description, and these materials will be forwarded to the United States using the appropriate channels.
Every day, the Russian Defence Ministry’s air defence systems deflect drone attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces against the regions of Russia, including its capital – there were about 10 attacks of this kind today.
❗️These attempts are designed to distract people in order to leave the frontline failures of the Ukrainian Armed Forces unnoticed. The Kiev regime has been trying, in vain, to prove its viability using terrorist attacks.
It is just as obvious that Office of the President of Ukraine on Bankovaya Street has been intentionally seeking to derail any attempts to find peaceful solutions.
This latest criminal strike against civilians in Khorly is a bloody atrocity by the Kiev clique. Western leaders who continue sponsoring the bankrupt regime with money and weapons bear full responsibility for this crime.
The Foreign Ministry firmly condemns all the terrorist attacks by the Kiev regime.
◼️ We express our sincere condolences to the families and friends on the victims and wish the injured speedy recovery.
The Foreign Ministry calls on the governments of the responsible sovereign countries and the relevant international structures to publicly express their resolute condemnation of the bloody terrorist attack by the Kiev regime in the Kherson Region.
☝️ Ignoring this tragedy would amount to only one thing – openly encouraging neo-Banderite terrorist crimes and acting as accomplices, which will be interpreted in legal terms with the corresponding legal consequences.
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⚡️ Ambassador at Large of the Russian Foreign Ministry Rodion Miroshnik:
PHOTO EVIDENCE of crimes committed by Ukrainian armed forces over the week of December 29 – January 4:
▪️December 30 – a kamikaze drone attacked a civilian passenger car in Novaya Kakhovka, Kherson Region.
▪️December 31 – a fixed-wing UAV Chaklun-V struck a privately owned residential house in Donetsk, DPR.
▪️December 31 – shelling of a residential area in Maslova Pristan, Belgorod Region. Three civilians were injured, 23 private homes were damaged.
▪️January 1, at midnight – three Ukrainian UAVs attacked a café and a hotel complex in Khorly, Kherson Region. 29 people were killed, at least 31 were injured.
▪️January 1 – a kamikaze drone strike on a grocery store in Razumnoye, Belgorod Region. Three civilians were injured.
▪️Night of January 2 – UAVs attacked a power substation in Rubezhnoye, LPR. More than 85,000 household consumers in eight localities were left without electricity.
▪️ January 2 – a missile strike hit a commercial facility in central Belgorod. Two women were injured.
▪️ January 2 – an FPV-drone strike on a civilian passenger car in Belyanka village, Belgorod Region. Two civilians were injured.
▪️Night of January 4 – UAVs attacked Gubkin, Belgorod Region. A civilian woman was injured, several commercial facilities were damaged.
▪️ January 4 – a kamikaze drone struck civilian passenger cars in a car park in Razumnoye, Belgorod Region. Three civilians were injured.
⚡️ Ambassador at Large of the Russian Foreign Ministry Rodion Miroshnik:
PHOTO EVIDENCE of crimes committed by Ukrainian armed forces over the week of December 29 – January 4:
▪️December 30 – a kamikaze drone attacked a civilian passenger car in Novaya Kakhovka, Kherson Region.
▪️December 31 – a fixed-wing UAV Chaklun-V struck a privately owned residential house in Donetsk, DPR.
▪️December 31 – shelling of a residential area in Maslova Pristan, Belgorod Region. Three civilians were injured, 23 private homes were damaged.
▪️January 1, at midnight – three Ukrainian UAVs attacked a café and a hotel complex in Khorly, Kherson Region. 29 people were killed, at least 31 were injured.
▪️January 1 – a kamikaze drone strike on a grocery store in Razumnoye, Belgorod Region. Three civilians were injured.
▪️Night of January 2 – UAVs attacked a power substation in Rubezhnoye, LPR. More than 85,000 household consumers in eight localities were left without electricity.
▪️ January 2 – a missile strike hit a commercial facility in central Belgorod. Two women were injured.
▪️ January 2 – an FPV-drone strike on a civilian passenger car in Belyanka village, Belgorod Region. Two civilians were injured.
▪️Night of January 4 – UAVs attacked Gubkin, Belgorod Region. A civilian woman was injured, several commercial facilities were damaged.
▪️ January 4 – a kamikaze drone struck civilian passenger cars in a car park in Razumnoye, Belgorod Region. Three civilians were injured.
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⚡️ Comment by Foreign Ministry Official Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova on certain Western countries’ plans to continue the militarisation of Ukraine (January 8, 2026)
💬 Maria Zakharova: On January 6 in Paris, participants of the so-called Coalition of the Willing, led by the UK and France, signed a declaration titled Robust Security Guarantees for a Solid and Lasting Peace in Ukraine.
The document turned out to be extremely far from a peace settlement. The declaration is not aimed at achieving a lasting peace and security but rather at continuing the militarisation, escalation and further conflict aggravation.
Its core element is the deployment of “a multinational force” on Ukrainian territory that the coalition will have to form to contribute to the “rebuilding” of the Ukrainian armed forces and “support deterrence” [against Russia] following the cessation of the hostilities.
The document also includes clauses on further consolidation of Ukraine’s and NATO’s military industrial sectors.
As clarified by British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron, who signed the corresponding trilateral statement along with Zelensky, London and Paris plan to establish their own military bases in Ukraine post-ceasefire and build weapon and military equipment storage facilities.
⚠️ The Russian Foreign Ministry warns that the deployment of military units and the setting-up of military facilities, storages and other Western infrastructure on Ukrainian territory will be qualified as foreign intervention that directly threatens the security of Russia and other European countries.
All such units and facilities will be considered as legitimate military targets for the Russian Armed Forces.
Warnings to this effect have been repeatedly made at the highest level and remain relevant.
❗️ We also reaffirm that a peaceful resolution of the conflict is solely possible through the elimination of its root causes, the re-establishment of Ukraine’s neutral non-aligned status, its demilitarisation and denazification, and Kiev’s observance of the language, cultural and religious rights and freedoms, including those of ethnic Russians, Russian-speaking people, and members of ethnic minorities, and through the recognition of the current territorial realities that emerged as a result of the peoples’ exercised right to self-determination.
All these goals will, undoubtedly, be achieved either by political and diplomatic means or in the course of the special military operation, in which the Russian Armed Forces are maintaining full initiative on the battlefield.
The new militarist declarations of the so-called Coalition of the Willing and the Kiev regime are forming a true Axis of war.
Its participants’ plans are becoming increasingly more dangerous and destructive for the future of the European continent and its residents, who are also forced by Western politicians to pay for such ambitions out of their own pockets.
💬 Maria Zakharova: On January 6 in Paris, participants of the so-called Coalition of the Willing, led by the UK and France, signed a declaration titled Robust Security Guarantees for a Solid and Lasting Peace in Ukraine.
The document turned out to be extremely far from a peace settlement. The declaration is not aimed at achieving a lasting peace and security but rather at continuing the militarisation, escalation and further conflict aggravation.
Its core element is the deployment of “a multinational force” on Ukrainian territory that the coalition will have to form to contribute to the “rebuilding” of the Ukrainian armed forces and “support deterrence” [against Russia] following the cessation of the hostilities.
The document also includes clauses on further consolidation of Ukraine’s and NATO’s military industrial sectors.
As clarified by British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron, who signed the corresponding trilateral statement along with Zelensky, London and Paris plan to establish their own military bases in Ukraine post-ceasefire and build weapon and military equipment storage facilities.
⚠️ The Russian Foreign Ministry warns that the deployment of military units and the setting-up of military facilities, storages and other Western infrastructure on Ukrainian territory will be qualified as foreign intervention that directly threatens the security of Russia and other European countries.
All such units and facilities will be considered as legitimate military targets for the Russian Armed Forces.
Warnings to this effect have been repeatedly made at the highest level and remain relevant.
❗️ We also reaffirm that a peaceful resolution of the conflict is solely possible through the elimination of its root causes, the re-establishment of Ukraine’s neutral non-aligned status, its demilitarisation and denazification, and Kiev’s observance of the language, cultural and religious rights and freedoms, including those of ethnic Russians, Russian-speaking people, and members of ethnic minorities, and through the recognition of the current territorial realities that emerged as a result of the peoples’ exercised right to self-determination.
All these goals will, undoubtedly, be achieved either by political and diplomatic means or in the course of the special military operation, in which the Russian Armed Forces are maintaining full initiative on the battlefield.
The new militarist declarations of the so-called Coalition of the Willing and the Kiev regime are forming a true Axis of war.
Its participants’ plans are becoming increasingly more dangerous and destructive for the future of the European continent and its residents, who are also forced by Western politicians to pay for such ambitions out of their own pockets.
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🎙 Comment by Russia's Foreign Ministry Official Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova on the Kiev regime’s terrorist attack on civilians in Russian regions (January 11, 2026)
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The Kiev regime has once again demonstrated its inhumane Nazi nature with another brutal crime.
On January 10, the Voronezh, Kursk, Bryansk, and Belgorod regions were subjected to a mass attack using fixed-wing drones. According to the Russia's Ministry of Defence, a total of 33 hostile drones were launched.
The principal target was the residential areas of Voronezh. One young woman has been confirmed dead, having succumbed to her injuries in intensive care overnight. At least three further civilians were wounded.
The Foreign Ministry strongly condemns these acts of terrorism. They are characterised by the extremely cynical targeting of a wide range of civilian infrastructure. This includes over ten blocks of flats and an equal number of private homes. A secondary school and several administrative buildings were also struck and damaged.
Such deliberate killings of civilians attest to the desperation of the Kiev regime, which – in the face of its obvious failures on the battlefield – now seeks to vent its frustration on innocent populations of Russia’s regions. All masterminds and perpetrators of this and other crimes will be inevitably held to account.
It is our hope that the relevant international bodies will provide an impartial assessment of these criminal acts committed by Ukrainian neo-Nazis. Continued silence in the face of the Kiev regime’s unbridled barbarity renders those bodies complicit in its heinous consequences.
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The Kiev regime has once again demonstrated its inhumane Nazi nature with another brutal crime.
On January 10, the Voronezh, Kursk, Bryansk, and Belgorod regions were subjected to a mass attack using fixed-wing drones. According to the Russia's Ministry of Defence, a total of 33 hostile drones were launched.
The principal target was the residential areas of Voronezh. One young woman has been confirmed dead, having succumbed to her injuries in intensive care overnight. At least three further civilians were wounded.
The Foreign Ministry strongly condemns these acts of terrorism. They are characterised by the extremely cynical targeting of a wide range of civilian infrastructure. This includes over ten blocks of flats and an equal number of private homes. A secondary school and several administrative buildings were also struck and damaged.
Such deliberate killings of civilians attest to the desperation of the Kiev regime, which – in the face of its obvious failures on the battlefield – now seeks to vent its frustration on innocent populations of Russia’s regions. All masterminds and perpetrators of this and other crimes will be inevitably held to account.
It is our hope that the relevant international bodies will provide an impartial assessment of these criminal acts committed by Ukrainian neo-Nazis. Continued silence in the face of the Kiev regime’s unbridled barbarity renders those bodies complicit in its heinous consequences.
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#Victory81
🌟 On January 12, 1945, the Red Army launched one of its decisive and most important operations at the final stage of #WW2 — the Vistula–Oder offensive, eventually followed by the Battle of Berlin.
The Soviet forces rapidly advanced from the Vistula to the Oder river in just 23 days, having penetrated into the depth of up to 500 kilometres of the Nazi defence. During that operation, our soldiers heroically drove the German occupants from most of Poland’s territory, expelled the enemy from Warsaw, saved Kraków from destruction by the Nazis and liberated the POWs and the survived victims of most terrible German “death factory” — #AuschwitzBirkenau (Oświęcim).
The advance to the Oder let the Red Army gain a strategically important bridgehead: the forces of the 1st Byelorussian and the 1st Ukrainian fronts took hold of the positions in less than 90 kilometres away from Berlin. The final defeat of the Hitler’s Germany was just a matter of time.
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By the start of 1945, the Soviet forces in the east and the anti-Hitler allies' armies, marching from the Western front, were coming closer to Nazi Germany for delivering the final attack on the enemy. As before, the Red Army faced the enemy’s major force: 185 divisions, including 33 armor and motorised divisions, and 21 brigades.
#WeWereAllies: The Soviet offensive was scheduled for January 20. However, on January 6, Stalin received an urgent message from Churchill, in which the UK Premier asked the Soviet leadership to launch the offensive toward Germany as soon as possible because of the difficult situation of the US-British units on the Western Front after their allies’ major defeat in the Ardennes👇
The breakthrough of Nazi 'panzer-army' and the infantry in Belgium forced the US-British forces to retreat to almost 100 kilomentres. Commander of the Allied troops Dwight D. Eisenhower reported to Washington: if the Soviet forces do not start another major offensive in the East, then US-British armies in the West will find themselves in a gravest situation. The Allied command had to turn to Moscow for help.
In January-February of 1945, as a result of the coordinated and successful operations of the 1st Ukrainian and 1st Byelorussian fronts, 35 enemy divisions were defeated, and another 25 lost from 50 to 70% of their strength, weapons and military equipment. The forces of the two Red Army's fronts took prisoner 147'400 soldiers and officers, captured about 14'000 guns and mortars, tied down up to 1'400 tanks.
📕 From the memoirs of Marshal of the Soviet Union Vasily Chuikov "The End of the Third Reich":
The Nazi’s defeat on the Vistula-Oder bridgehead allowed the Red Army to breach the last major defence line of the Wehrmacht on the Eastern Front. The German troops began to retreat, sustaining huge losses.
🖋 From the memoirs of Marshal of the Armor Mikhail Katukov "At the Forefront of the Main Attack":
By early February of 1945, the forces of the 1st Byelorussian Front led by Marshal Georgy Zhukov reached the Oder river and began fighting for bridgeheads on its western bank. There were just about 60 kilometres away from Berlin.
#OurVictory #WeRemember
The Soviet forces rapidly advanced from the Vistula to the Oder river in just 23 days, having penetrated into the depth of up to 500 kilometres of the Nazi defence. During that operation, our soldiers heroically drove the German occupants from most of Poland’s territory, expelled the enemy from Warsaw, saved Kraków from destruction by the Nazis and liberated the POWs and the survived victims of most terrible German “death factory” — #AuschwitzBirkenau (Oświęcim).
The advance to the Oder let the Red Army gain a strategically important bridgehead: the forces of the 1st Byelorussian and the 1st Ukrainian fronts took hold of the positions in less than 90 kilometres away from Berlin. The final defeat of the Hitler’s Germany was just a matter of time.
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By the start of 1945, the Soviet forces in the east and the anti-Hitler allies' armies, marching from the Western front, were coming closer to Nazi Germany for delivering the final attack on the enemy. As before, the Red Army faced the enemy’s major force: 185 divisions, including 33 armor and motorised divisions, and 21 brigades.
#WeWereAllies: The Soviet offensive was scheduled for January 20. However, on January 6, Stalin received an urgent message from Churchill, in which the UK Premier asked the Soviet leadership to launch the offensive toward Germany as soon as possible because of the difficult situation of the US-British units on the Western Front after their allies’ major defeat in the Ardennes👇
The breakthrough of Nazi 'panzer-army' and the infantry in Belgium forced the US-British forces to retreat to almost 100 kilomentres. Commander of the Allied troops Dwight D. Eisenhower reported to Washington: if the Soviet forces do not start another major offensive in the East, then US-British armies in the West will find themselves in a gravest situation. The Allied command had to turn to Moscow for help.
In January-February of 1945, as a result of the coordinated and successful operations of the 1st Ukrainian and 1st Byelorussian fronts, 35 enemy divisions were defeated, and another 25 lost from 50 to 70% of their strength, weapons and military equipment. The forces of the two Red Army's fronts took prisoner 147'400 soldiers and officers, captured about 14'000 guns and mortars, tied down up to 1'400 tanks.
📕 From the memoirs of Marshal of the Soviet Union Vasily Chuikov "The End of the Third Reich":
Our forces covered over 500 kiliometres from the Vistula to the Oder river in a single march. <...> Our advance, started from the Magnuszew bridgehead on the Vistula, did not stop even for a minute.
The Nazi’s defeat on the Vistula-Oder bridgehead allowed the Red Army to breach the last major defence line of the Wehrmacht on the Eastern Front. The German troops began to retreat, sustaining huge losses.
🖋 From the memoirs of Marshal of the Armor Mikhail Katukov "At the Forefront of the Main Attack":
<...> As a result of the rapid advance of the Soviet forces, a breach appeared in the strategic front of Nazi Germany in the east. Our forces gained several important bridgeheads on the western bank of the Oder river.
It seemed that the way to Berlin was open. One more strike and the eradication of Nazism will be completed, with the countries of Europe finally gaining the long-awaited peace <...>
By early February of 1945, the forces of the 1st Byelorussian Front led by Marshal Georgy Zhukov reached the Oder river and began fighting for bridgeheads on its western bank. There were just about 60 kilometres away from Berlin.
#OurVictory #WeRemember
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🗓 12 января в МИД России был вызван Посол Польши в Российской Федерации К.Краевский, которому выражен решительный протест в связи с задержанием в декабре 2025 года в Варшаве известного российского археолога А.М.Бутягина по запросу Киева.
К.Краевскому указано, что обвинения киевского режима носят абсурдный характер и связаны с научной деятельностью А.М.Бутягина в рамках Мирмекийской археологической экспедиции в неотъемлемой части Российской Федерации – Республике Крым.
Откровенно политизированный и спекулятивный характер преследования российского учёного со стороны Украины подчёркивает и то, что украинский запрос по линии Интерпола реализован не был, а А.М.Бутягин непосредственно перед арестом в Польше беспрепятственно посетил ряд европейских государств.
Польскому послу изложены факты, свидетельствующие о том, что российский археолог с мировым именем, сотрудник Государственного Эрмитажа занимается исследованиями на Керченском полуострове уже несколько десятилетий.
В ходе своей работы А.М.Бутягин получал все необходимые разрешения от соответствующих компетентных органов, в том числе в период до 2014 года – от властей Украины. Все обнаруженные нашим специалистом находки передавались в Восточно-Крымский музей-заповедник, приумножая культурное достояние народов Крыма.
❗️ Подчёркнуто, что Российская Федерация требует немедленного освобождения российского гражданина и отказа от его передачи в руки не имеющей ничего общего с правосудием карательной машины киевского режима.
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К.Краевскому указано, что обвинения киевского режима носят абсурдный характер и связаны с научной деятельностью А.М.Бутягина в рамках Мирмекийской археологической экспедиции в неотъемлемой части Российской Федерации – Республике Крым.
Откровенно политизированный и спекулятивный характер преследования российского учёного со стороны Украины подчёркивает и то, что украинский запрос по линии Интерпола реализован не был, а А.М.Бутягин непосредственно перед арестом в Польше беспрепятственно посетил ряд европейских государств.
Польскому послу изложены факты, свидетельствующие о том, что российский археолог с мировым именем, сотрудник Государственного Эрмитажа занимается исследованиями на Керченском полуострове уже несколько десятилетий.
В ходе своей работы А.М.Бутягин получал все необходимые разрешения от соответствующих компетентных органов, в том числе в период до 2014 года – от властей Украины. Все обнаруженные нашим специалистом находки передавались в Восточно-Крымский музей-заповедник, приумножая культурное достояние народов Крыма.
❗️ Подчёркнуто, что Российская Федерация требует немедленного освобождения российского гражданина и отказа от его передачи в руки не имеющей ничего общего с правосудием карательной машины киевского режима.
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🗓 Komunikat MSZ Rosji w sprawie sytuacji z zatrzymanym w Polsce obywatelem Rosji Aleksandrem Butiaginem,
13 stycznia 2026 r.
KOMUNIKAT DLA MEDIÓW
12 stycznia do MSZ Rosji został wezwany Ambasador Polski w Federacji Rosyjskiej Pan Krzysztof Krajewski, któremu wyrażono stanowczy protest w związku z zatrzymaniem w grudniu 2025 roku w Warszawie znanego rosyjskiego archeologa Aleksandra Butiagina na wniosek Kijowa.
Krzysztofowi Krajewskiemu wskazano, że zarzuty reżimu kijowskiego mają absurdalny charakter i są związane z działalnością naukową Aleksandra Butiagina w ramach Mirmeckiej Ekspedycji Archeologicznej na integralnej części Federacji Rosyjskiej – w Republice Krymu. O otwarcie upolitycznionym i spekulacyjnym charakterze prześladowania rosyjskiego naukowca przez Ukrainę świadczy również to, że ukraiński wniosek za pośrednictwem Interpolu nie został zrealizowany, a Aleksandr Butiagin bezpośrednio przed aresztowaniem w Polsce bez przeszkód odwiedził szereg państw europejskich.
Polskiemu ambasadorowi przedstawiono fakty świadczące o tym, że rosyjski archeolog o światowej renomie, pracownik Państwowego Ermitażu, prowadzi badania na Półwyspie Kerczeńskim już od kilkudziesięciu lat. W trakcie swojej pracy Aleksandr Butiagin uzyskiwał wszystkie niezbędne zezwolenia od odpowiednich organów właściwych, w tym w okresie przed 2014 rokiem – od władz Ukrainy. Wszystkie odkryte przez naszego specjalistę znaleziska były przekazywane do Wschodniokrymskiego Muzeum Historyczno-Kulturowego i Rezerwatu Przyrody, pomnażając dziedzictwo kulturowe narodów Krymu.
❗️Podkreślono, że Federacja Rosyjska domaga się natychmiastowego uwolnienia rosyjskiego obywatela oraz odmowy jego przekazania w ręce represyjnej machiny reżimu kijowskiego, nie mającej nic wspólnego z wymiarem sprawiedliwości.
13 stycznia 2026 r.
KOMUNIKAT DLA MEDIÓW
12 stycznia do MSZ Rosji został wezwany Ambasador Polski w Federacji Rosyjskiej Pan Krzysztof Krajewski, któremu wyrażono stanowczy protest w związku z zatrzymaniem w grudniu 2025 roku w Warszawie znanego rosyjskiego archeologa Aleksandra Butiagina na wniosek Kijowa.
Krzysztofowi Krajewskiemu wskazano, że zarzuty reżimu kijowskiego mają absurdalny charakter i są związane z działalnością naukową Aleksandra Butiagina w ramach Mirmeckiej Ekspedycji Archeologicznej na integralnej części Federacji Rosyjskiej – w Republice Krymu. O otwarcie upolitycznionym i spekulacyjnym charakterze prześladowania rosyjskiego naukowca przez Ukrainę świadczy również to, że ukraiński wniosek za pośrednictwem Interpolu nie został zrealizowany, a Aleksandr Butiagin bezpośrednio przed aresztowaniem w Polsce bez przeszkód odwiedził szereg państw europejskich.
Polskiemu ambasadorowi przedstawiono fakty świadczące o tym, że rosyjski archeolog o światowej renomie, pracownik Państwowego Ermitażu, prowadzi badania na Półwyspie Kerczeńskim już od kilkudziesięciu lat. W trakcie swojej pracy Aleksandr Butiagin uzyskiwał wszystkie niezbędne zezwolenia od odpowiednich organów właściwych, w tym w okresie przed 2014 rokiem – od władz Ukrainy. Wszystkie odkryte przez naszego specjalistę znaleziska były przekazywane do Wschodniokrymskiego Muzeum Historyczno-Kulturowego i Rezerwatu Przyrody, pomnażając dziedzictwo kulturowe narodów Krymu.
❗️Podkreślono, że Federacja Rosyjska domaga się natychmiastowego uwolnienia rosyjskiego obywatela oraz odmowy jego przekazania w ręce represyjnej machiny reżimu kijowskiego, nie mającej nic wspólnego z wymiarem sprawiedliwości.
❗️Предупреждение для граждан России, планирующих поездки в Польшу
• В Польше отмечаются рост русофобских настроений, увеличение случаев преследования российских граждан, обвинений в их адрес по совершенно надуманным предлогам.
• Существуют риски, связанные с поездками в новые регионы России. Такие действия могут быть интерпретированы польскими властями по запросу Украины как противоправные.
• В нынешних условиях Посольство России в Польше настоятельно рекомендует российским гражданам воздержаться от поездок в Польшу без особой необходимости.
• В Польше отмечаются рост русофобских настроений, увеличение случаев преследования российских граждан, обвинений в их адрес по совершенно надуманным предлогам.
• Существуют риски, связанные с поездками в новые регионы России. Такие действия могут быть интерпретированы польскими властями по запросу Украины как противоправные.
• В нынешних условиях Посольство России в Польше настоятельно рекомендует российским гражданам воздержаться от поездок в Польшу без особой необходимости.
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❗️Об ограничениях на въезд и пребывание в Польше по небиометрическим паспортам
• По решению польских властей с 1 апреля 2026 г. Польша прекратит признавать выданные Российской Федерацией небиометрические (пятилетние) общегражданские заграничные паспорта. Въезд в Польшу и пребывание в этой стране с такими документами будут считаться незаконными. Их обладателям необходимо заранее оформить новые биометрические (десятилетние) общегражданские заграничные паспорта.
• Информация о категориях граждан России, для которых в настоящее время сохраняется возможность въезда в Польшу, размещена на главной странице интернет-сайта Посольства России в Польше в разделе «Об ограничениях на въезд в Польшу российских граждан и автомобилей».
• По решению польских властей с 1 апреля 2026 г. Польша прекратит признавать выданные Российской Федерацией небиометрические (пятилетние) общегражданские заграничные паспорта. Въезд в Польшу и пребывание в этой стране с такими документами будут считаться незаконными. Их обладателям необходимо заранее оформить новые биометрические (десятилетние) общегражданские заграничные паспорта.
• Информация о категориях граждан России, для которых в настоящее время сохраняется возможность въезда в Польшу, размещена на главной странице интернет-сайта Посольства России в Польше в разделе «Об ограничениях на въезд в Польшу российских граждан и автомобилей».
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