⚡️ Russia's Foreign Ministry statement on the situation around Iran

Moscow has received the news of the killing of the Supreme and Spiritual Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, members of his family, and senior Iranian officials in US and Israeli missile strikes with outrage and deep sorrow.

The Russian Federation strongly and consistently condemns the practice of political assassination and manhunt for leaders of sovereign states that goes against the fundamental principles of civilised interstate relations and constitutes a grave violation of international law.

In the course of continuing military operations, the number of casualties among civilians is constantly rising, with serious damage being inflicted on civilian infrastructure as well.

Retaliation strikes at the US military bases in the Arab countries of the Persian Gulf, along with the activation of anti-aircraft defence systems, have caused damage to the international airports in Dubai, Kuwait City, sea ports, high-rises and hotels in Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, the UAE, and Saudi Arabia.

It has been reported that navigation has been stopped in the Strait of Hormuz. This can lead to the blocking of hydrocarbon exports to the region and create a significant imbalance in the global oil and gas markets.

❗️ We call for immediate de-escalation, cessation of hostilities, resumption of political and diplomatic processes, to settle any existing problems on the basis of the UN Charter and the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.

The legitimate interests of all the states in the Persian Gulf must be taken into account.

💬 Extract from the briefing by Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, Moscow, February 26, 2026

Ukrainian crisis update

• On February 24, we issued a detailed statement on the special military operation. It was comprehensive, addressing all the accusations levelled against us and setting out the facts. You can find it on the Foreign Ministry website. It also lays out the assessment of the situation that compelled Russia to take this decision.

• Today, we want to focus on several specific aspects that, based on concrete evidence, underscore why the special military operation was not just justified, but necessary.

• For a long time, we were accused of exaggerating the threat of Nazism in Ukraine. We were told we had no right to speak of the genocidal tendencies of the Kiev regime, that we were simply deceiving everyone, that the threat of Nazism was non-existent. But each day brings more evidence to substantiate this assessment.

• We are now witnessing that Nazism in the former Ukrainian SSR is no longer the domain of fringe elements, as it might once have been. It is now the bedrock of state policy, directed towards creating a mono-ethnic state through the extermination of Russians and the obliteration of anything connected to Russia. Let their own representatives speak for the other minorities (I’m referring to the Hungarian community and others). I regularly present evidence to support what we have long called an attempt to destroy everything Russian in Ukraine. The goal of the Zelensky regime, which has illegitimately seized and holds power in Kiev, is to turn the country’s citizens, whom it has effectively taken hostage, into a malleable, controllable mass. I don’t want to stoop to the kind of language Bankovaya allows itself. But those who are forcing Ukrainian citizens to swear allegiance to this regime are turning them into a kind of robot, into mankurts. You see it happening, day in, day out. They are forcing people to be marched, uncomplaining, to the slaughter. Although now, it’s no longer possible without complaint, because people have finally started to resist. Tragically, this resistance is met with lethal force, because they are shown no mercy on the battlefield, and no mercy when they’re dragged off the streets by people-catchers into those... I don’t even know what to call these vans. Snatcher-mobiles – couldn’t put it better myself.

• This goal that the West has set for Zelensky can only be achieved by stripping people of their faith, their history, their native language, their culture, and the memory of their heroic ancestors. That is precisely what is happening. That is the reality in Ukraine today.

• The Ukrainian Institute of National Memory (which we have documented and referenced many times before) is engaged in a wholesale distortion of history, actively working to erase the memory of those heroic chapters when Russians and Ukrainians lived as one people in one state, fighting shoulder to shoulder against foreign invaders. In 2025, it was upgraded to the status of a central executive body, with its staff and funding increased. It is now headed by Alexander Alfyorov, an openly avowed admirer of Hitler, who routinely makes vile and derogatory statements about the Russian people. There can be no doubt whatsoever about the kind of “national memory” that this Nazi and the machinery at his disposal are seeking to forge.

• At the same time, the Kiev regime is waging a war aimed at dismantling the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC), the country’s largest religious denomination, which has the greatest number of believers. Hostile takeovers of churches involving physical violence continue, as do repressive measures against its clergy and parishioners. Criminal cases are being initiated against them on trumped-up charges.

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⚡️ Russian MFA statement on the situation around Iran

We are concerned regarding the expansion of the armed confrontation across the entire Middle East region as a result of the aggression by the US and Israel against Iran.

It has become evident that, beyond seeking regime change in the Islamic Republic of Iran through the most unscrupulous means – including the killing of the leadership of a sovereign state – Washington and Tel Aviv are attempting to provoke a breakdown in the process of normalizing relations between Iran and its Arab neighbours.

For our part, we call for an immediate cessation of hostilities by all sides and for the adoption – as an unconditional priority – of comprehensive measures to protect civilians and civilian infrastructure in all countries of the region.

🔉 Audio statement by Maria Zakharova (in Russian)

The strike on a girls’ school in the Iranian city of Minab, which reportedly killed dozens of innocent children, warrants unequivocal condemnation.

❗️ Any attacks on civilian facilities – whether in Iran or in Arab states – are unacceptable and must cease immediately.

We once again urge the parties to renounce the use of force in addressing their differences and to return to a political and diplomatic path towards resolving all outstanding issues, with full respect for the legitimate security interests of every state in the region.

#НовыеНазначения

📑 Указом Президента Российской Федерации № 124 от 3 марта 2026 года Георгий Викторович Михно назначен Чрезвычайным и Полномочным Послом Российской Федерации в Республике Польша.

👉 Телеграм-канал Посольства России в Польше

📑 Na mocy Dekretu Prezydenta Federacji Rosyjskiej Nr 124 z dnia
3 marca 2026 roku Georgy Viktorovich Mikhno został mianowany Ambasadorem Nadzwyczajnym i Pełnomocnym Federacji Rosyjskiej w Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej

#Ambasador #Rosja #Polska

#KievRegimeCrimes

⚡️ Ambassador-at-Large of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Rodion Miroshnik:

💬 Over 150 civilians, including one minor, were injured last week as a result of actions by the Ukrainian militants.

In addition to local residents, volunteer groups were also targeted – five volunteers were injured, two of whom were killed.

EMERCOM responders, who arrived to deal with the aftermath of Ukrainian shelling, also came under attack. Five were wounded and one employee was killed.

The highest number of civilian casualties was recorded in the Belgorod, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions. In these areas, civilian infrastructure and the civilian population were targeted with drone, missile and artillery strikes by Kiev's armed formations.

❗️ Between February 23 and March 1, at least 153 civilians were affected by Ukrainian shelling – 131 people were injured, including one minor, and 22 were killed.

In total, over the past seven days, Ukrainian armed formations fired no fewer than 3,352 munitions at civilian targets on Russian territory.

🗓 24 февраля, в привязке к четвёртой годовщине начала специальной военной операции России, по инициативе Киева и его европейских спонсоров была возобновлена 11-я чрезвычайная специальная сессия (ЧСС) Генеральной Ассамблеи ООН по украинскому кризису.

На ней данная группа стран вбросила очередной ангажированный проект антироссийской резолюции. На этот раз он лукаво озаглавлен «Поддержка прочного мира на Украине» и сформулирован, в отличие от предыдущих резолюций 11-й ЧСС, лаконично.

На эту тактическую уловку авторам пришлось пойти из-за неуклонного снижения уровня поддержки их антироссийских инициатив в Генассамблее, очевидно, уже «набивших оскомину» подавляющему большинству членов международного сообщества.

Однако, несмотря на внешне обновлённую «упаковку» украинско-европейского «продукта», его суть осталась вредоносной, как и намерения авторов.

Однобокий и политизированный текст, помимо традиционных голословных обвинений в адрес России, избирательно цитирует Устав ООН и не содержит ни слова о первопричинах конфликта вокруг Украины, без устранения которых невозможно долгосрочное и устойчивое урегулирование. Включено абсурдное приветствие «заслуг» европейских стран, продолжающих «накачку» киевского режима вооружениями, по «приведению войны к завершению».

В целях расширения базы поддержки среди членов ГА документ насыщен псевдомирными элементами, включая призыв к прекращению огня, обмену военнопленными, возвращению насильственно перемещённых лиц, включая детей, в качестве «меры укрепления доверия».

Такие формулировки выглядят особенно циничными с учётом длинного «послужного списка» вероломства киевского режима и его европейских спонсоров, которые неоднократно демонстрировали свою недоговороспособность, саботируя все договорённости, начиная с Минских соглашений.

Показательно также, что ради дополнительных голосов авторы были вынуждены отказаться от упоминания в новой резолюции всех прошлых одиозных «продуктов» 11-й ЧСС, то есть фактически дезавуировать содержащиеся в них ультиматумы.

Нет сомнений в том, что неуклюжие манёвры Киева и европейцев в Генассамблее продиктованы стремлением создать «помехи в эфире» на фоне трёхстороннего переговорного процесса.

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❗️ Американская делегация, прямо указав, что украинско-европейская инициатива в ГА ООН вредит переговорному процессу, запросила раздельное голосование по ряду деструктивных в этом контексте пунктов проекта, потребовав, в частности, удалить из преамбулы параграф, подтверждающий «территориальную целостность Украины в пределах её международно признанных границ».

Однако европейцы «числом» продавили процедурное решение, которое не позволило состояться этому раздельному голосованию. В итоге Генассамблеей был рассмотрен исходный проект документа.

«За» выступили 107 делегаций, «против» – 12. Воздержалось 51 государство, включая США, 23 не участвовали в голосовании.

Таким образом, вместо успеха Киев и его спонсоры получили, помимо весьма блеклой статистики голосования, серьёзные политические издержки, саморазоблачившись как противники мира. Всё более очевиден также углубляющийся трансатлантический раскол по украинскому сюжету.

Год назад Совет Безопасности ООН, несущий, в соответствии с Уставом ООН, основную ответственность за поддержание международного мира и безопасности, принял резолюцию 2774. Данный документ, имеющий обязательный характер, призвал к мирному урегулированию конфликта на Украине, и сегодня задача всех заинтересованных сторон – последовательно и добросовестно исполнять данное решение Совета.

В целом состоявшиеся в ООН дискуссии наглядно демонстрируют усталость международного сообщества от украинского сюжета, который наши оппоненты пытаются искусственно держать на плаву.

Востребованы реальные усилия по мирному урегулированию, в которых Россия добросовестно участвует.

В Москве рассчитывают, что все здравомыслящие члены международного сообщества их также поддержат, не отвлекаясь на разного рода помехи.

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🗓 On February 24, marking the fourth year since the launch of Russia’s special military operation, the 11th Emergency Special Session of the UN General Assembly on the Ukraine crisis (#ESS) was reconvened at the initiative of Kiev and its European backers.

During the session, this group of countries introduced yet another biased, anti-Russia resolution. This time it was deceptively titled “Support for a Lasting Peace in Ukraine” and, unlike previous resolutions adopted at the 11th ESS, was deliberately kept brief.

The authors of the resolution were compelled to adopt this tactical approach by the steadily declining support for their anti-Russia initiatives at the General Assembly, which have clearly grown tiresome for the overwhelming majority of the international community.

This one-sided, politicised text, in addition to the usual unfounded accusations against Russia, selectively cites the UN Charter while remaining silent on the root causes of the conflict around Ukraine. Without addressing these causes, a lasting and sustainable settlement is simply unattainable. The draft also contains an absurd tribute to the “efforts” of European countries that continue to funnel weapons to the Kiev regime, allegedly “aimed at ending the war”.

In an attempt to broaden its support among General Assembly members, the document is saturated with pseudo-peaceful language, including calls for a ceasefire, prisoner exchanges, and the return of forcibly displaced persons, including children, framed as “confidence-building measures”. Such wording appears particularly cynical in light of the long record of duplicity demonstrated by the Kiev regime and its European sponsors, who have repeatedly shown their inability to negotiate in good faith by undermining every agreement reached, beginning with the Minsk accords.

👉 There is no doubt that this clumsy manoeuvring by Kiev and the Europeans in the General Assembly was intended to create a smokescreen around the trilateral negotiation process.

This was once again evident during the vote, when the Kiev regime, backed by the European “war party”, positioned itself against the broader international community, which supports genuine efforts to achieve peace in Ukraine, as well as against the other two parties to the negotiations. The US delegation, explicitly stating that the Ukrainian-European initiative at the General Assembly was detrimental to the negotiation process, requested a separate vote on several destructive provisions of the draft.

Ultimately, the General Assembly voted on the original draft: 107 delegations voted in favour, 12 against, 51 states (including the US) abstained, and 23 did not participate.

Rather than a success, Kiev and its backers secured a distinctly unconvincing result and incurred significant political costs, having exposed themselves as opponents of peace. The widening transatlantic rift over the Ukrainian issue is also becoming increasingly apparent.

Overall, the discussions at the UN clearly reflect the international community’s fatigue with the Ukrainian issue – a situation our opponents are attempting to keep artificially alive. Against this backdrop, what is required are genuine efforts toward a peaceful settlement, efforts in which Russia is participating in good faith.

☝️ Moscow hopes that all reasonable members of the international community will likewise support the said efforts, without being distracted by minor obstructions.

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#AntiFake

In pursuit of its twisted political agenda to discredit, to mar Russia's image and justify criminal Kiev regime, the neoliberal Western press does not hesitate to resort to bald-faced lies.

On February 17, Financial Times published another malicious article titled “Russia is using monuments to peddle misinformation.”  

The author, some Fiona Greenland, Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia, previously helped make up the mythology behind the fake story about “millions of kidnapped and deported Ukrainian children.”

These cynical accusations which are repeated lies echoing the Kiev criminals with no evidence whatsoever have been repeatedly refuted with multiple real facts.

The author went even further in her blatant. blinding cynicism: the article speaks of the propagandistic nature of the Alley of Angels memorial complex, which was built in Donetsk in 2015 in memory of children murdered by the Kiev regime during the war it started in 2014 against the peaceful people of Donbass.

The very fact that a memorial site with the names of murdered CHILDREN engraved on it is being used for such manipulations goes beyond not only journalism but basic human morality. Where any normal person would lower their head in mourning, the author allows herself to speculate about “propaganda value” of death of children and declares the preservation of their memory an act of "Kremlin propaganda".

The same well-worn scheme, refined over the years, is being used: declare remembrance to be “propaganda” and, under that pretext, attempt to erase it. This is precisely how the West seeks to rewrite the outcomes of the WWII: monuments to Soviet liberators are an eyesore for the descendants of Nazis and their ideological followers. In the same way, they are now attempting to whitewash the bloody Kiev regime of crimes and terrorist attacks.

In an effort to absolve Zelensky and his sponsors, the newspaper casts doubt on the very fact of children’s deaths, asserting that Kiev killed no one and that the memorials erected in memory of the victims serve a propagandistic purpose which Russia is supposedly using to "justify its aggression".

To follow this logic, why should the Financial Times not call London’s Cenotaph “propaganda,” or call so the ruins of the French village of Oradour-sur-Glane? Perhaps the American cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer, Normandy, is merely a propaganda artefact, too? The Ground Zero Memorial in New York, according to FT, is not about remembering the victims of terrorism, either?

The evidence of crimes committed by the Kiev regime is so extensive that only those actively avoiding such information could fail to notice it. For those suffering from selective blindness 👉 we have compiled a selection of photos and videos documenting crimes by the Kiev regime against the civilians, including minors.

This is just a small fraction of the evidence, that has been presented time and again. We also recommend consulting the reports compiled by Foreign Ministry Ambassador-at-Large for Crimes of the Kiev Regime Rodion Miroshnik 👉 Learn more

The Financial Times would do better to concern itself with the names of those killed — according to the Kiev regime — in Bucha in April 2022. The Russian Federation, including through Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, repeatedly requested a list of the alleged victims from the UN Secretary-General

But all they do is throw up hands saying that the Kiev regime for unclear (or rather, very clear) reasons requests that no lists be provided. It is obvious that the truth about the events in Bucha would expose the staged nature of this heinous provocation.

As for the Alley of Angels in Donetsk, behind each child’s name there is a real tragedy of real residents of Donbass who became victims of crimes perpetrated by the Kiev regime.

Rest assured, Russia will continue to seek accountability for all those responsible for those abject crimes. Meanwhile, false and low-quality materials like this article will forever leave a mark of inhumanity on their authors

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