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⚡️ This morning, in response to the Kiev regime's attempts to damage objects of Russian power infrastructure and economy, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation delivered a group strike by long-range precision weaponry at objects of the Ukrainian military-industrial infrastructure and AFU aviation bases.
The goal of the strike has been achieved. All the assigned targets have been engaged.
Statements of the Kiev regime about the allegedly deliberate missile strike launched against civilian facilities by the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation are false.
Numerous published photos and footage from Kiev clearly confirm that the destruction was caused by a Ukrainian air defence missile launched by an anti-aircraft missile system in the city.
We note in particular that similar hysterics by the Kiev regime happen for years and every time on the eve of another meeting (summit) of its patrons from the NATO.
The goal of such provocations is to ensure further funding for the Kiev regime and the continuation of the war to the last Ukrainian.
🔹 Russian Defence Ministry
The goal of the strike has been achieved. All the assigned targets have been engaged.
Statements of the Kiev regime about the allegedly deliberate missile strike launched against civilian facilities by the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation are false.
Numerous published photos and footage from Kiev clearly confirm that the destruction was caused by a Ukrainian air defence missile launched by an anti-aircraft missile system in the city.
We note in particular that similar hysterics by the Kiev regime happen for years and every time on the eve of another meeting (summit) of its patrons from the NATO.
The goal of such provocations is to ensure further funding for the Kiev regime and the continuation of the war to the last Ukrainian.
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⚡️ Briefing by Chief of Nuclear, Chemical and Biological Protection Troops of the Armed Forces of Russia Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov on Ukraine's violation of obligations under Chemical Weapons Convention (July 8, 2024)
Key talking points:
💬 The Kiev regime regularly violates the Chemical Weapons Convention. During the special military operation, more than 400 cases of non-lethal toxic chemicals used by the Ukrainian side were registered.
• The Ukrainian Armed Forces troops use toxic compounds not only in the course of combat actions, but also to carry out terrorist attacks in liberated territories against a number of Russian political figures.
• The existing evidence base proving Ukraine's violating its obligations under the Convention has been submitted to the OPCW's Technical Secretariat, but no response has been forthcoming so far.
• Moreover, the Russian Defence Ministry has information about Ukraine's active cooperation with the OPCW's Technical Secretariat, which has ratified an additional agreement on privileges and immunities for technical assistance visits. This agreement will enable Ukraine to use the OPCW for its own benefit, circumventing the existing procedures under the Convention, by imposing on the Organisation its notoriously false conclusions about chemical investigations.
• A laboratory with chemical equipment was detected in an industrial zone on the ground floor of the destroyed building in one of the locations near Avdeyevka during engineering reconnaissance. <...> Analysis of the containers showed the presence of sulphuric acid and sodium cyanide suggesting the use of found equipment for the production of toxic substances.
• The US is fully in control of the activities of the OPCW. To settle accounts with the 'undesirable' states, Washington has established an attributive mechanism in the OPCW that was used to investigate the use of chemical weapons in Syria.
❗️ According to the available information, the US and Germany, together with Ukraine and the OPCW's Technical Secretariat, are preparing to launch a special mission to investigate the so-called use of chemical weapons in Ukraine, with a view to pressing charges against Russia.
One of the so-called 'independent' states is to initiate investigations and plant evidence that Russia used toxic chemicals during the special military operation. Americans have already committed some $400,000 to this end.
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Key talking points:
💬 The Kiev regime regularly violates the Chemical Weapons Convention. During the special military operation, more than 400 cases of non-lethal toxic chemicals used by the Ukrainian side were registered.
• The Ukrainian Armed Forces troops use toxic compounds not only in the course of combat actions, but also to carry out terrorist attacks in liberated territories against a number of Russian political figures.
• The existing evidence base proving Ukraine's violating its obligations under the Convention has been submitted to the OPCW's Technical Secretariat, but no response has been forthcoming so far.
• Moreover, the Russian Defence Ministry has information about Ukraine's active cooperation with the OPCW's Technical Secretariat, which has ratified an additional agreement on privileges and immunities for technical assistance visits. This agreement will enable Ukraine to use the OPCW for its own benefit, circumventing the existing procedures under the Convention, by imposing on the Organisation its notoriously false conclusions about chemical investigations.
• A laboratory with chemical equipment was detected in an industrial zone on the ground floor of the destroyed building in one of the locations near Avdeyevka during engineering reconnaissance. <...> Analysis of the containers showed the presence of sulphuric acid and sodium cyanide suggesting the use of found equipment for the production of toxic substances.
• The US is fully in control of the activities of the OPCW. To settle accounts with the 'undesirable' states, Washington has established an attributive mechanism in the OPCW that was used to investigate the use of chemical weapons in Syria.
❗️ According to the available information, the US and Germany, together with Ukraine and the OPCW's Technical Secretariat, are preparing to launch a special mission to investigate the so-called use of chemical weapons in Ukraine, with a view to pressing charges against Russia.
One of the so-called 'independent' states is to initiate investigations and plant evidence that Russia used toxic chemicals during the special military operation. Americans have already committed some $400,000 to this end.
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5 июля 2024 г. Правительство Норвегии объявило о введении новых ограничений для российских рыболовных судов, находящихся на стоянке в портах Тромсё, Ботсфьорд и Киркенес. Максимальный срок стоянки в порту ограничивается пятью рабочими днями (семью днями, включая выходные и праздничные дни). При этом с момента предыдущего пребывания в порту на материковой части Норвегии должно пройти не менее трех дней. Также предусматривается усиление контроля со стороны правоохранительных органов.
Напоминаем, что с 6 октября 2022 г. действует запрет на заходы российских судов в порты материковой Норвегии за исключением портов Тромсё, Ботсфьорд и Киркенес. С 15 мая 2023 г. по решению полиции Норвегии ограничен сход на берег для членов экипажа российских судов в портах Киркенес и Ботсфьорд. Исключением являются случаи обращения в медицинские учреждения.
Напоминаем, что с 6 октября 2022 г. действует запрет на заходы российских судов в порты материковой Норвегии за исключением портов Тромсё, Ботсфьорд и Киркенес. С 15 мая 2023 г. по решению полиции Норвегии ограничен сход на берег для членов экипажа российских судов в портах Киркенес и Ботсфьорд. Исключением являются случаи обращения в медицинские учреждения.
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🎙 Comment by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova in connection with the Kiev regime’s attempts to blame Russia for deliberately attacking Ukraine’s civilian facilities
💬 On July 8, the Russian Armed Forces launched a combined strike involving long-range high-precision weapons systems against Ukrainian military facilities in retaliation for repeated attempts by the Armed Forces of Ukraine to damage our country’s economic enterprises.
The facilities include the Artyom and Antonov plants and the Luch Design Bureau in Kiev; the Dnepr and Yuzhmash plants in Dnepropetrovsk, the Heavy-Duty Machine-Building Plant in Kramatorsk; warehouses with Western weaponry and military equipment at the ArcelorMittal Iron and Steel Works in Krivoy Rog, as well as other facilities. All targets were destroyed.
As has often been the case with the Ukrainian air defence system, its missiles veered off course and hit residential buildings and social facilities. The same happened this time. Many eyewitnesses and other sources have already confirmed that a Western-made NASAMS surface-to-air missile hit a building of the Okhmatdet Hospital for Children in Kiev.
☝️ Officials on Bankovaya Street immediately started blaming Russia for deliberately killing children. However, no one said that the Artyom Plant is located next to the affected clinic, and that Defence Ministry buildings and military warehouses are also located next door. Certainly, no one said that the Kiev regime is deliberately deploying air defence systems in residential areas, using civilians as a “human shield.”
The Kiev junta has been using purely civilian enterprises for military purposes for a long time, either using them to assemble and repair military equipment or to store Western-made weapons and military equipment. Additionally, the Armed Forces of Ukraine use civilians and civilian facilities to shield their positions.
Quite often, carriages with military equipment and service personnel are hitched on to passenger trains. Postal delivery vehicles also transport weapons.
❗️ All this rudely violates international humanitarian law that expressly forbids the use of civilian facilities for military purposes.
Attempts by the Zelensky regime to use the tragedy with the children’s hospital in Kiev for propaganda purposes confirm its inhuman Nazi essence once again. The Kiev regime is ready to commit any crimes for the sake of retaining power. It cares nothing about the destinies and lives of fellow citizens, including children.
💬 On July 8, the Russian Armed Forces launched a combined strike involving long-range high-precision weapons systems against Ukrainian military facilities in retaliation for repeated attempts by the Armed Forces of Ukraine to damage our country’s economic enterprises.
The facilities include the Artyom and Antonov plants and the Luch Design Bureau in Kiev; the Dnepr and Yuzhmash plants in Dnepropetrovsk, the Heavy-Duty Machine-Building Plant in Kramatorsk; warehouses with Western weaponry and military equipment at the ArcelorMittal Iron and Steel Works in Krivoy Rog, as well as other facilities. All targets were destroyed.
As has often been the case with the Ukrainian air defence system, its missiles veered off course and hit residential buildings and social facilities. The same happened this time. Many eyewitnesses and other sources have already confirmed that a Western-made NASAMS surface-to-air missile hit a building of the Okhmatdet Hospital for Children in Kiev.
☝️ Officials on Bankovaya Street immediately started blaming Russia for deliberately killing children. However, no one said that the Artyom Plant is located next to the affected clinic, and that Defence Ministry buildings and military warehouses are also located next door. Certainly, no one said that the Kiev regime is deliberately deploying air defence systems in residential areas, using civilians as a “human shield.”
The Kiev junta has been using purely civilian enterprises for military purposes for a long time, either using them to assemble and repair military equipment or to store Western-made weapons and military equipment. Additionally, the Armed Forces of Ukraine use civilians and civilian facilities to shield their positions.
Quite often, carriages with military equipment and service personnel are hitched on to passenger trains. Postal delivery vehicles also transport weapons.
❗️ All this rudely violates international humanitarian law that expressly forbids the use of civilian facilities for military purposes.
Attempts by the Zelensky regime to use the tragedy with the children’s hospital in Kiev for propaganda purposes confirm its inhuman Nazi essence once again. The Kiev regime is ready to commit any crimes for the sake of retaining power. It cares nothing about the destinies and lives of fellow citizens, including children.
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🇷🇺🇺🇳 Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to the UN:
🎙 Statement by Permanent Representative Vassily Nebenzia at UN Security Council briefing on Ukraine (New York, July 9, 2024)
💬 Yesterday, the Secretariat received a letter from the Permanent Representative of that country requesting the right to speak at the briefing. Unlike all other requests, including that of the EU and Poland, the way it is drafted violates greatly the established practice and it is not addressed to the President of the Security Council, nor does it contain even basic protocol language of diplomatic communication.
❗️ The rules are the same for everyone and this has ensured the functioning of the UN Security Council for almost 80 years.
☝️ Nevertheless, we agree to let Ukraine participate in today's meeting (if there are no objections from other members of the Council), but only in view of the fact that this was requested by the member of the Security Council, namely by the United States. We regret that Ukraine is unable to act independently even in such a purely procedural matter as participation in a UN Security Council meeting, and even in that it needs guidance from its sponsors.
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💬 Nevertheless, the truth, as we all know, does not interest our Western colleagues, and in the best traditions of the Bucha provocation or the Mariupol hospital mentioned today, they tried to engage in wishful thinking by condemning the allegedly “intentional strike by the Russian Armed Forces against the children's medical facility”. The dishonesty of such tactics can be seen with the naked eye, and the Ukrainians themselves immediately noticed it, as videos of the strike swiftly appeared on the Internet negating all the efforts by Kiev and Western propagandists.
☝️ We constantly write that Ukrainian air defense missiles frequently go off target. We have already witnessed many tragedies like that, and Zelensky’s office is constantly lying to people that it is the Russians who are intentionally hitting residential buildings. The presidential office has to constantly fuel hatred among Ukrainians and justifying the continuation of the war by such "artificial tragedies".
The tragedy with an air defense missile hitting a children's hospital occurred exactly on the eve of the NATO Summit. This is the third NATO summit since the beginning of the special military operation, and similar situations occurred before each of them. All these cases were heavily exploited by the head of the Kiev clique in order to cadge new weapons for Ukraine.
⁉️ How is it possible that the Ukrainian air defense misses all five strikes on the plant, but hits the children's hospital?
❌ There is no doubt that the Ukrainian leadership will use today's situation as a pretext for ignoring further the long overdue demand in Ukrainian society (and in the entire world), for a peaceful solution to the Ukrainian crisis. This is understandable, because enacting such a solution would mean no need to extend martial law, and would require holding elections. This is what the Kiev clique fears most than anything else, realizing that the attitude of the population towards the regime is extremely negative. That is why the Ukrainian leadership prefers to sacrifice tens, if not hundreds of thousands of its fellow citizens sending them into a senseless meat grinder.
🤝 We appreciate initiatives by all States that are aimed at establishing a genuine ceasefire and addressing our legitimate concerns, rather than promoting propaganda, which was clearly seen at the pseudo-peace conference in Switzerland.
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🎙 Statement by Permanent Representative Vassily Nebenzia at UN Security Council briefing on Ukraine (New York, July 9, 2024)
💬 Yesterday, the Secretariat received a letter from the Permanent Representative of that country requesting the right to speak at the briefing. Unlike all other requests, including that of the EU and Poland, the way it is drafted violates greatly the established practice and it is not addressed to the President of the Security Council, nor does it contain even basic protocol language of diplomatic communication.
❗️ The rules are the same for everyone and this has ensured the functioning of the UN Security Council for almost 80 years.
☝️ Nevertheless, we agree to let Ukraine participate in today's meeting (if there are no objections from other members of the Council), but only in view of the fact that this was requested by the member of the Security Council, namely by the United States. We regret that Ukraine is unable to act independently even in such a purely procedural matter as participation in a UN Security Council meeting, and even in that it needs guidance from its sponsors.
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💬 Nevertheless, the truth, as we all know, does not interest our Western colleagues, and in the best traditions of the Bucha provocation or the Mariupol hospital mentioned today, they tried to engage in wishful thinking by condemning the allegedly “intentional strike by the Russian Armed Forces against the children's medical facility”. The dishonesty of such tactics can be seen with the naked eye, and the Ukrainians themselves immediately noticed it, as videos of the strike swiftly appeared on the Internet negating all the efforts by Kiev and Western propagandists.
☝️ We constantly write that Ukrainian air defense missiles frequently go off target. We have already witnessed many tragedies like that, and Zelensky’s office is constantly lying to people that it is the Russians who are intentionally hitting residential buildings. The presidential office has to constantly fuel hatred among Ukrainians and justifying the continuation of the war by such "artificial tragedies".
The tragedy with an air defense missile hitting a children's hospital occurred exactly on the eve of the NATO Summit. This is the third NATO summit since the beginning of the special military operation, and similar situations occurred before each of them. All these cases were heavily exploited by the head of the Kiev clique in order to cadge new weapons for Ukraine.
⁉️ How is it possible that the Ukrainian air defense misses all five strikes on the plant, but hits the children's hospital?
❌ There is no doubt that the Ukrainian leadership will use today's situation as a pretext for ignoring further the long overdue demand in Ukrainian society (and in the entire world), for a peaceful solution to the Ukrainian crisis. This is understandable, because enacting such a solution would mean no need to extend martial law, and would require holding elections. This is what the Kiev clique fears most than anything else, realizing that the attitude of the population towards the regime is extremely negative. That is why the Ukrainian leadership prefers to sacrifice tens, if not hundreds of thousands of its fellow citizens sending them into a senseless meat grinder.
🤝 We appreciate initiatives by all States that are aimed at establishing a genuine ceasefire and addressing our legitimate concerns, rather than promoting propaganda, which was clearly seen at the pseudo-peace conference in Switzerland.
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🇷🇺🇺🇳 Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to the UN:
🎙 Explanation of vote by First Deputy Permanent Representative Dmitry Polyanskiy prior to the vote on the UNGA draft resolution “Safety and security of nuclear facilities of Ukraine, including the ZNPP" (July 11, 2024)
💬 When many of the UN Member States received an invitation to June’s pseudo-peace and pseudo-global get-together in Bürgenstock, Switzerland, they asked for our assessment of this venture. We urged our colleagues not to cherish any illusions about the true intentions of its organizers.
Those intentions were plain to see. They wanted by hook or by crook to cajole as many countries as possible into coming to pose for a group photo in order to create the appearance of universal support for the Kiev regime and its Western sponsors. <...>
Colleagues, we now have the opportunity to see for ourselves that our Western colleagues cannot be trusted even when it comes to some trifling matters. Today, before your eyes, a draft resolution provocatively ennoscriptd "Safety and Security of nuclear facilities in Ukraine, including the ZNPP" has been pushed through in the General Assembly.
Although disguised, the primary goal of the resolution is fairly clear. Its sponsors are seeking to endorse the outcomes of the meeting in the Alps with the blessing from the General Assembly, and thus promote the false Western narrative about the source of threats to nuclear facilities in Ukraine.
I believe it is obvious to all sensible people present here that such sensitive and technical issues should be discussed in the UN Office in Vienna under the auspices of the Agency, which possesses the relevant mandate, expertise and competence to do so. <...>
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🎙 Remarks to the press by First Deputy Permanent Representative Dmitry Polyanskiy following the vote on the UNGA draft resolution "Safety and Security of Ukraine’s Nuclear Facilities, Including the ZNPP" (July 11, 2024)
Key talking points:
💬 You all had the opportunity to witness what has happened. There was a politicized resolution, presented by Ukraine under the guise of the problems of nuclear safety of this country. But in fact, it was a political draft.
• Of course, this another nonconsensual, politicized draft will make absolutely no effect on the ground, as the previous ones. It may only unfortunately embolden the party of war in Europe, in the US and in Ukraine, of course.
• The obvious thing which should be added to it [resolution], of course, is the condemnation of Ukrainian strikes on the Zaporozhskaya NPP. There are so many proofs to these strikes. I showed one. It is a UAV which we brought from there. There are dozens of these cases. All of them are being documented, and this big truth is absolutely out of the draft. It shows how detached it is from reality.
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🎙 Explanation of vote by First Deputy Permanent Representative Dmitry Polyanskiy prior to the vote on the UNGA draft resolution “Safety and security of nuclear facilities of Ukraine, including the ZNPP" (July 11, 2024)
💬 When many of the UN Member States received an invitation to June’s pseudo-peace and pseudo-global get-together in Bürgenstock, Switzerland, they asked for our assessment of this venture. We urged our colleagues not to cherish any illusions about the true intentions of its organizers.
Those intentions were plain to see. They wanted by hook or by crook to cajole as many countries as possible into coming to pose for a group photo in order to create the appearance of universal support for the Kiev regime and its Western sponsors. <...>
Colleagues, we now have the opportunity to see for ourselves that our Western colleagues cannot be trusted even when it comes to some trifling matters. Today, before your eyes, a draft resolution provocatively ennoscriptd "Safety and Security of nuclear facilities in Ukraine, including the ZNPP" has been pushed through in the General Assembly.
Although disguised, the primary goal of the resolution is fairly clear. Its sponsors are seeking to endorse the outcomes of the meeting in the Alps with the blessing from the General Assembly, and thus promote the false Western narrative about the source of threats to nuclear facilities in Ukraine.
I believe it is obvious to all sensible people present here that such sensitive and technical issues should be discussed in the UN Office in Vienna under the auspices of the Agency, which possesses the relevant mandate, expertise and competence to do so. <...>
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🎙 Remarks to the press by First Deputy Permanent Representative Dmitry Polyanskiy following the vote on the UNGA draft resolution "Safety and Security of Ukraine’s Nuclear Facilities, Including the ZNPP" (July 11, 2024)
Key talking points:
💬 You all had the opportunity to witness what has happened. There was a politicized resolution, presented by Ukraine under the guise of the problems of nuclear safety of this country. But in fact, it was a political draft.
• Of course, this another nonconsensual, politicized draft will make absolutely no effect on the ground, as the previous ones. It may only unfortunately embolden the party of war in Europe, in the US and in Ukraine, of course.
• The obvious thing which should be added to it [resolution], of course, is the condemnation of Ukrainian strikes on the Zaporozhskaya NPP. There are so many proofs to these strikes. I showed one. It is a UAV which we brought from there. There are dozens of these cases. All of them are being documented, and this big truth is absolutely out of the draft. It shows how detached it is from reality.
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Ответ официального представителя МИД России М.В.Захаровой на вопрос СМИ об ужесточении Норвегией ограничений в отношении российских рыболовных судов
Вопрос: 5 июля власти Норвегии объявили о дополнительном ужесточении режима захода российских рыболовных судов в три порта на севере страны – Тромсё, Ботсфьорд и Киркенес, которые остаются для них открытыми в условиях действия антироссийских санкций. Новые меры затронут продолжительность пребывания судов в порту, периодичность заходов, место швартовки, а также предусматривают усиление полицейского контроля. Как Вы могли бы это прокомментировать?
Ответ: Вводимые ограничения подрывают одну из единичных областей практического взаимодействия, которое пока еще поддерживается нашими странами. Ответственным за принятие таких решений стоит напомнить, что на данный момент сохранение рыбных запасов, представляющее «фундаментальный интерес» для Норвегии, возможно только совместно с Россией. Продолжение давления на наш рыбопромысловый флот будет неизбежно иметь негативные последствия как для занятого в данной отрасли населения Норвегии, так и всей выстраивавшейся десятилетиями устойчивой системы управления биологическими ресурсами Баренцева и Норвежского морей.
Нововведениям предшествовала информационная кампания норвежских спецслужб, вменяющих российским морским судам осуществление «разведывательно-диверсионной деятельности» в экономической зоне и территориальных водах Норвегии. С подобными примитивными сценариями мы сталкивались в последнее время неоднократно и в других русофобствующих европейских странах, где сфабрикованные обвинения в шпионаже используются в качестве предлога для преследования и искоренения всего связанного с Россией.
Со своей стороны не оставим очередной недружественный шаг Норвегии без ответа, намерены предпринять соответствующие меры с целью обеспечения интересов российской рыбопромысловой отрасли.
https://mid.ru/ru/foreign_policy/news/1961693/
Вопрос: 5 июля власти Норвегии объявили о дополнительном ужесточении режима захода российских рыболовных судов в три порта на севере страны – Тромсё, Ботсфьорд и Киркенес, которые остаются для них открытыми в условиях действия антироссийских санкций. Новые меры затронут продолжительность пребывания судов в порту, периодичность заходов, место швартовки, а также предусматривают усиление полицейского контроля. Как Вы могли бы это прокомментировать?
Ответ: Вводимые ограничения подрывают одну из единичных областей практического взаимодействия, которое пока еще поддерживается нашими странами. Ответственным за принятие таких решений стоит напомнить, что на данный момент сохранение рыбных запасов, представляющее «фундаментальный интерес» для Норвегии, возможно только совместно с Россией. Продолжение давления на наш рыбопромысловый флот будет неизбежно иметь негативные последствия как для занятого в данной отрасли населения Норвегии, так и всей выстраивавшейся десятилетиями устойчивой системы управления биологическими ресурсами Баренцева и Норвежского морей.
Нововведениям предшествовала информационная кампания норвежских спецслужб, вменяющих российским морским судам осуществление «разведывательно-диверсионной деятельности» в экономической зоне и территориальных водах Норвегии. С подобными примитивными сценариями мы сталкивались в последнее время неоднократно и в других русофобствующих европейских странах, где сфабрикованные обвинения в шпионаже используются в качестве предлога для преследования и искоренения всего связанного с Россией.
Со своей стороны не оставим очередной недружественный шаг Норвегии без ответа, намерены предпринять соответствующие меры с целью обеспечения интересов российской рыбопромысловой отрасли.
https://mid.ru/ru/foreign_policy/news/1961693/
Посольство России в Норвегии - Russlands Ambassade i Norge
Ответ официального представителя МИД России М.В.Захаровой на вопрос СМИ об ужесточении Норвегией ограничений в отношении российских рыболовных судов Вопрос: 5 июля власти Норвегии объявили о дополнительном ужесточении режима захода российских рыболовных судов…
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🎙 Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova’s comment on the UN General Assembly adopting Ukrainian draft resolution “Safety and security of nuclear facilities of Ukraine, including the Zaporozhskaya Nuclear Power Plant“
💬 On July 11, the UN General Assembly reviewed Ukraine’s draft resolution “Safety and security of nuclear facilities of Ukraine, including the Zaporozhskaya Nuclear Power Plant.”
Ninety-nine countries, mostly members of the collective West which strictly adhere to the bloc discipline, as well as their closest associates, supported the adoption of the text. Western delegations were conspicuously reluctant to take the floor in order to discuss the motives for voting.
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Kiev persistently violates the most important point which talks about the unacceptability of attacking the plant.
The Russian Side regularly sends the relevant evidence to the UN Security Council, the IAEA Secretariat, and other international entities. Rafael Grossi himself constantly turns the spotlight on threats to the ZNPP during his briefings at the UN Security Council.
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☝️ A right-minded person knows that if the Kiev regime was genuinely interested in keeping the nuclear facilities safe, it would have stopped the irresponsible shelling of ZNPP and the adjacent town of Energodar which is home to the plant’s employees and their families.
In conclusion, I would like to reiterate that Russia stands ready to continue to take the necessary measures to ensure the safety of nuclear sites, including the ZNPP and other plants located within our borders.
We call on the Zelensky regime and its Western mentors to come to their senses and to stop acting irresponsibly pushing humanity towards a disaster of planetary proportions.
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💬 On July 11, the UN General Assembly reviewed Ukraine’s draft resolution “Safety and security of nuclear facilities of Ukraine, including the Zaporozhskaya Nuclear Power Plant.”
Ninety-nine countries, mostly members of the collective West which strictly adhere to the bloc discipline, as well as their closest associates, supported the adoption of the text. Western delegations were conspicuously reluctant to take the floor in order to discuss the motives for voting.
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Kiev persistently violates the most important point which talks about the unacceptability of attacking the plant.
The Russian Side regularly sends the relevant evidence to the UN Security Council, the IAEA Secretariat, and other international entities. Rafael Grossi himself constantly turns the spotlight on threats to the ZNPP during his briefings at the UN Security Council.
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☝️ A right-minded person knows that if the Kiev regime was genuinely interested in keeping the nuclear facilities safe, it would have stopped the irresponsible shelling of ZNPP and the adjacent town of Energodar which is home to the plant’s employees and their families.
In conclusion, I would like to reiterate that Russia stands ready to continue to take the necessary measures to ensure the safety of nuclear sites, including the ZNPP and other plants located within our borders.
We call on the Zelensky regime and its Western mentors to come to their senses and to stop acting irresponsibly pushing humanity towards a disaster of planetary proportions.
Read in full
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#HistoryOfRussia
On July 15, 1240 — 784 years ago — the forces of the Russian city-state of Novgorod under the command of Prince Alexander Nevsky triumphed over Swedish invaders who had invaded Novgorod's territory.
This event is known as the Battle of the Neva.
In the 13th century, Sweden sought to expand its dominions and establish control over the territories surrounding the Gulf of Finland. The invaders aimed to establish a fortress and convert the locals to Catholicism, but they encountered fierce resistance from the Novgorodians and their young Prince, Alexander Yaroslavich.
⚔️ The Swedes landed on the banks of the Neva, near the confluence of the Izhora River, close to modern-day Saint Petersburg. Alexander Nevsky swiftly assembled his forces and marched to meet the enemy. The battle was brief but intense, culminating in a decisive victory for the Russian warriors.
The victory at the Battle of the Neva thwarted further Swedish advancement eastward and strengthened the position of the Novgorod Republic. Alexander Nevsky became a national hero and a symbol of the defense of Russian lands against foreign invaders.
#DidYouKnow ❓ At the time of the Battle of the Neva, Alexander Yaroslavich was only 19 years old. He distinguished himself as a seasoned commander and a skilled warrior, fighting shoulder to shoulder with his troops. It was for this victory that the young prince earned the epithet of Nevsky.
Canonised in 1547, the Grand Prince is considered the patron saint of Russian diplomacy.
On July 15, 1240 — 784 years ago — the forces of the Russian city-state of Novgorod under the command of Prince Alexander Nevsky triumphed over Swedish invaders who had invaded Novgorod's territory.
This event is known as the Battle of the Neva.
In the 13th century, Sweden sought to expand its dominions and establish control over the territories surrounding the Gulf of Finland. The invaders aimed to establish a fortress and convert the locals to Catholicism, but they encountered fierce resistance from the Novgorodians and their young Prince, Alexander Yaroslavich.
⚔️ The Swedes landed on the banks of the Neva, near the confluence of the Izhora River, close to modern-day Saint Petersburg. Alexander Nevsky swiftly assembled his forces and marched to meet the enemy. The battle was brief but intense, culminating in a decisive victory for the Russian warriors.
The victory at the Battle of the Neva thwarted further Swedish advancement eastward and strengthened the position of the Novgorod Republic. Alexander Nevsky became a national hero and a symbol of the defense of Russian lands against foreign invaders.
#DidYouKnow ❓ At the time of the Battle of the Neva, Alexander Yaroslavich was only 19 years old. He distinguished himself as a seasoned commander and a skilled warrior, fighting shoulder to shoulder with his troops. It was for this victory that the young prince earned the epithet of Nevsky.
Canonised in 1547, the Grand Prince is considered the patron saint of Russian diplomacy.
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⚡️ Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s answer to a question from the Moscow. Kremlin. Putin programme (July 14, 2024)
❓ Question: Many have noticed that tragedies happen in Ukraine [on schedule] ahead of important talks or NATO summits, and that they are publicly blamed on Russia.
💬 Sergey Lavrov: The Defence Ministry and the Foreign Ministry have made many comments on this. Your colleagues regularly raise this subject, keeping it from expiring. It is those who orchestrate these provocations that would like it to expire.
I will travel to New York next week. Russia holds the Security Council presidency this month. We will discuss multilateral cooperation and ensuring equal and indivisible security. Of course, we will also raise the issue of the West trying to manipulate everything and everyone.
I would like to hear their answer to a question we have asked dozens of times: Could we take a look at the list of people whose bodies the BBC showed in Bucha? It is a shame when an elementary question is left unanswered, just like the question about progress in investigating the terrorist attack on the Nord Stream gas pipelines. We should ask simple but concrete questions about everything else the West is blaming on us to send the ball back to their “court.”
❓ Question: Many have noticed that tragedies happen in Ukraine [on schedule] ahead of important talks or NATO summits, and that they are publicly blamed on Russia.
💬 Sergey Lavrov: The Defence Ministry and the Foreign Ministry have made many comments on this. Your colleagues regularly raise this subject, keeping it from expiring. It is those who orchestrate these provocations that would like it to expire.
I will travel to New York next week. Russia holds the Security Council presidency this month. We will discuss multilateral cooperation and ensuring equal and indivisible security. Of course, we will also raise the issue of the West trying to manipulate everything and everyone.
I would like to hear their answer to a question we have asked dozens of times: Could we take a look at the list of people whose bodies the BBC showed in Bucha? It is a shame when an elementary question is left unanswered, just like the question about progress in investigating the terrorist attack on the Nord Stream gas pipelines. We should ask simple but concrete questions about everything else the West is blaming on us to send the ball back to their “court.”
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🎙 Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova’s answer to a media question on toughening restrictions on Russian fishing vessels by Norway
❓ Question: On July 5, Norwegian authorities announced additional toughening of Russian fishing vessels’ entry regime in three ports in the North of Norway: Tromso, Batsfjord and Kirkenes, which remain open for them amid anti-Russia sanctions. The new measures will concern the duration of ships’ stay in the ports, the frequency of calling at the ports, the mooring area and provide for stricter police control. How could you comment on this?
💬 Maria Zakharova: These restrictions undermine one of the few areas of practical interaction still existing between our countries. Those responsible for adopting such decisions should remember that currently preservation of fish resources of a “fundamental interest” for Norway is only possible in cooperation with Russia.
Continued pressure on our fishing fleet will inevitably have unfavourable consequences both for the Norway’s population employed in this sector and for the sustainable decades-old system of managing biological reserves in the Barents and Norwegian seas.
The novelties were preceded by an information campaign of Norwegian special services, which accused Russian maritime ships of carrying out “reconnaissance and subversive activities” in Norway’s economic zone and territorial waters.
We have come across such primitive stories many times of late also in other Russophobic European countries, where trumped-up espionage charges are used as a pretext for persecuting and eliminating everything related to Russia.
☝️ We will not leave another unfriendly step by Norway unanswered and are going to take relevant measures to secure the interests of the Russian fishing industry.
❓ Question: On July 5, Norwegian authorities announced additional toughening of Russian fishing vessels’ entry regime in three ports in the North of Norway: Tromso, Batsfjord and Kirkenes, which remain open for them amid anti-Russia sanctions. The new measures will concern the duration of ships’ stay in the ports, the frequency of calling at the ports, the mooring area and provide for stricter police control. How could you comment on this?
💬 Maria Zakharova: These restrictions undermine one of the few areas of practical interaction still existing between our countries. Those responsible for adopting such decisions should remember that currently preservation of fish resources of a “fundamental interest” for Norway is only possible in cooperation with Russia.
Continued pressure on our fishing fleet will inevitably have unfavourable consequences both for the Norway’s population employed in this sector and for the sustainable decades-old system of managing biological reserves in the Barents and Norwegian seas.
The novelties were preceded by an information campaign of Norwegian special services, which accused Russian maritime ships of carrying out “reconnaissance and subversive activities” in Norway’s economic zone and territorial waters.
We have come across such primitive stories many times of late also in other Russophobic European countries, where trumped-up espionage charges are used as a pretext for persecuting and eliminating everything related to Russia.
☝️ We will not leave another unfriendly step by Norway unanswered and are going to take relevant measures to secure the interests of the Russian fishing industry.
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⚡️ The Kiev regime and its armed formations continue targeted terrorist attacks against civilians in Russian regions. They are being carried out with the use of weapons supplied by NATO countries, which are de facto involved in attacking the population of our country.
The goal is obvious: to intimidate the civilian population and destroy civilian infrastructure.
❗️Accountability for the crimes committed by the Ukrainian armed formations and military units of Ukrainian neo-Nazis is provided for by the legislation of the Russian Federation and will inevitably follow.
💬 Rodion Miroshnik, Ambassador-at-Large of the Russian Foreign Ministry on crimes of the Kiev regime, continues his thorough work to systematize data on the terrible tragedies that were caused by the use of weapons by the formations of the Kiev regime against the civilian population.
👉 We bring to your attention the thematic digest regarding the most heinous crimes committed in June 2024
🇷🇺 The Russian Permanent Mission to the OSCE presented this digest to all OSCE participating States, the OSCE Secretariat and OSCE specialized institutions.
❗️It is important not to allow the Kiev regime and its Western sponsors to silence the crimes by the Kiev regime and their dire consequences.
The goal is obvious: to intimidate the civilian population and destroy civilian infrastructure.
❗️Accountability for the crimes committed by the Ukrainian armed formations and military units of Ukrainian neo-Nazis is provided for by the legislation of the Russian Federation and will inevitably follow.
💬 Rodion Miroshnik, Ambassador-at-Large of the Russian Foreign Ministry on crimes of the Kiev regime, continues his thorough work to systematize data on the terrible tragedies that were caused by the use of weapons by the formations of the Kiev regime against the civilian population.
👉 We bring to your attention the thematic digest regarding the most heinous crimes committed in June 2024
🇷🇺 The Russian Permanent Mission to the OSCE presented this digest to all OSCE participating States, the OSCE Secretariat and OSCE specialized institutions.
❗️It is important not to allow the Kiev regime and its Western sponsors to silence the crimes by the Kiev regime and their dire consequences.
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🎙 Выступление С.В.Лаврова в ходе заседания Совета Безопасности ООН по многостороннему сотрудничеству в интересах формирования более справедливого, демократического и устойчивого мироустройства.
📍 Нью-Йорк, 16 июля 2024 года
💬 Сегодня испытанию на прочность подвергаются сами основы международного правопорядка – стратегическая стабильность и ооноцентричная система мировой политики. Урегулировать множащиеся конфликты невозможно, если не разобраться в их первопричинах и не восстановить веру в нашу способность объединять усилия ради общего блага и справедливости для всех.
Будем откровенны: далеко не все представленные в этом зале государства признают ключевой принцип Устава ООН: суверенное равенство всех государств. США давно устами своих президентов объявили о собственной исключительности. Это касается отношения Вашингтона к своим союзникам, от которых требуют беспрекословного послушания, даже в ущерб их национальным интересам.
👉 «Правь, Америка!» В этом суть пресловутого «порядка, основанного на правилах» – прямой угрозы многосторонности и международному миру.
Важнейшие компоненты международного права – Устав ООН и решения нашего Совета – трактуются «коллективным Западом» извращенно и выборочно – в зависимости от того, какая установка поступила из Белого дома.
Ключевые тезисы:
• Гегемонистская политика Вашингтона не меняется десятилетиями. Все без исключения схемы евроатлантической безопасности были основаны на обеспечении доминирования США, включая подчинение им Европы и «сдерживание» России. Главная роль отводилась НАТО, которая в итоге «подмяла» под себя создававшийся вроде бы для европейцев Евросоюз. Беззастенчиво приватизированы структуры ОБСЕ в грубейшее нарушение Хельсинкского Заключительного акта.
• Безоглядное расширение НАТО вопреки многократным, в течение долгих лет предупреждениям со стороны Москвы, спровоцировало и украинский кризис, начиная с организованного Вашингтоном госпереворота в феврале 2014 года для установления полного контроля над Украиной с целью подготовки наступления на Россию при помощи приведенного к власти неонацистского режима.
• Военная инфраструктура НАТО продвигается в регион Тихого океана с очевидной целью подорвать асеаноцентричную архитектуру, которая долгие десятилетия выстраивалась на основе принципов равноправия, учета взаимных интересов и консенсуса.
• Где все те атрибуты свободного рынка, к которым США и их союзники столько лет всех приучали? Рыночная экономика, добросовестная конкуренция, неприкосновенность собственности, презумпция невиновности, свобода передвижения людей, товаров, капиталов и услуг – сегодня всё это отправлено в утиль.
• Ключевым элементом реформы ООН должно стать изменение состава Совета Безопасности, <...> в Совбезе явно перепредставлены страны «коллективного Запада». Давно назревшим шагом является достижение максимально широкого согласия о конкретных параметрах реформы, призванной укрепить представленность Азии, Африки и Латинской Америки.
• Необходимы перемены в кадровой политике Секретариата ООН, чтобы устранить засилье граждан и подданных стран Запада в административных структурах Организации. Генсекретарь и его сотрудники обязаны неукоснительно, без каких-либо исключений соблюдать принципы беспристрастности и нейтральности, как предписывает ст. 100 Устава ООН, о чём мы не устаем напоминать.
• Всё большую роль в построении справедливого многостороннего порядка на основе принципов Устава ООН играют #БРИКС и #ШОС. В них объединены страны, представляющие различные регионы и цивилизации, сотрудничающие на основе равенства, взаимного уважения, консенсуса и обоюдоприемлемых компромиссов – «золотого стандарта» многостороннего взаимодействия с участием великих держав.
❗️ Если все без исключения будут следовать его духу и букве, то Объединенным Нациям по силам преодолеть текущие разногласия и прийти к общему знаменателю по большинству вопросов. «Конец истории» не состоялся. Давайте вместе работать в интересах начала истории подлинной многосторонности, отражающей все богатство культурно-цивилизационного многообразия народов мира.
📍 Нью-Йорк, 16 июля 2024 года
💬 Сегодня испытанию на прочность подвергаются сами основы международного правопорядка – стратегическая стабильность и ооноцентричная система мировой политики. Урегулировать множащиеся конфликты невозможно, если не разобраться в их первопричинах и не восстановить веру в нашу способность объединять усилия ради общего блага и справедливости для всех.
Будем откровенны: далеко не все представленные в этом зале государства признают ключевой принцип Устава ООН: суверенное равенство всех государств. США давно устами своих президентов объявили о собственной исключительности. Это касается отношения Вашингтона к своим союзникам, от которых требуют беспрекословного послушания, даже в ущерб их национальным интересам.
👉 «Правь, Америка!» В этом суть пресловутого «порядка, основанного на правилах» – прямой угрозы многосторонности и международному миру.
Важнейшие компоненты международного права – Устав ООН и решения нашего Совета – трактуются «коллективным Западом» извращенно и выборочно – в зависимости от того, какая установка поступила из Белого дома.
Ключевые тезисы:
• Гегемонистская политика Вашингтона не меняется десятилетиями. Все без исключения схемы евроатлантической безопасности были основаны на обеспечении доминирования США, включая подчинение им Европы и «сдерживание» России. Главная роль отводилась НАТО, которая в итоге «подмяла» под себя создававшийся вроде бы для европейцев Евросоюз. Беззастенчиво приватизированы структуры ОБСЕ в грубейшее нарушение Хельсинкского Заключительного акта.
• Безоглядное расширение НАТО вопреки многократным, в течение долгих лет предупреждениям со стороны Москвы, спровоцировало и украинский кризис, начиная с организованного Вашингтоном госпереворота в феврале 2014 года для установления полного контроля над Украиной с целью подготовки наступления на Россию при помощи приведенного к власти неонацистского режима.
• Военная инфраструктура НАТО продвигается в регион Тихого океана с очевидной целью подорвать асеаноцентричную архитектуру, которая долгие десятилетия выстраивалась на основе принципов равноправия, учета взаимных интересов и консенсуса.
• Где все те атрибуты свободного рынка, к которым США и их союзники столько лет всех приучали? Рыночная экономика, добросовестная конкуренция, неприкосновенность собственности, презумпция невиновности, свобода передвижения людей, товаров, капиталов и услуг – сегодня всё это отправлено в утиль.
• Ключевым элементом реформы ООН должно стать изменение состава Совета Безопасности, <...> в Совбезе явно перепредставлены страны «коллективного Запада». Давно назревшим шагом является достижение максимально широкого согласия о конкретных параметрах реформы, призванной укрепить представленность Азии, Африки и Латинской Америки.
• Необходимы перемены в кадровой политике Секретариата ООН, чтобы устранить засилье граждан и подданных стран Запада в административных структурах Организации. Генсекретарь и его сотрудники обязаны неукоснительно, без каких-либо исключений соблюдать принципы беспристрастности и нейтральности, как предписывает ст. 100 Устава ООН, о чём мы не устаем напоминать.
• Всё большую роль в построении справедливого многостороннего порядка на основе принципов Устава ООН играют #БРИКС и #ШОС. В них объединены страны, представляющие различные регионы и цивилизации, сотрудничающие на основе равенства, взаимного уважения, консенсуса и обоюдоприемлемых компромиссов – «золотого стандарта» многостороннего взаимодействия с участием великих держав.
❗️ Если все без исключения будут следовать его духу и букве, то Объединенным Нациям по силам преодолеть текущие разногласия и прийти к общему знаменателю по большинству вопросов. «Конец истории» не состоялся. Давайте вместе работать в интересах начала истории подлинной многосторонности, отражающей все богатство культурно-цивилизационного многообразия народов мира.
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#HistoryDiplomacy
🌐 On July 17, 1945, a conference of the heads of government of the Soviet Union, the United States, and Britain opened in the Berlin suburb of Potsdam. It was the final WWII meeting of the leaders of the three Allied powers, Joseph Stalin, Harry Truman and Winston Churchill (later replaced by Clement Attlee).
The discussion focused on the principles of Germany’s post-WWII organisation in Europe. Decisions were adopted concerning complete disarmament and demilitarisation of that country, liquidation of the National Socialist Party, and prevention of Nazi propaganda. Nazi criminals had to answer for their atrocities before the law. The International Military Tribunal was established with its statute approved in August 1945. The first and the most important trial is known as the Nuremberg trial. Germany undertook to pay reparations and was divided into four – Soviet, American, British and French – occupation zones.
The universally recognised principles underlying the establishment of peace and security in Europe and around the world were developed at Potsdam, namely:
👉 preventing the revival of German militarism and Nazism as the main prerequisite for security in Europe;
👉 relations between countries should be based on the principles of sovereignty, national independence, equality and non-interference in internal affairs.
Establishing the Council of Foreign Ministers of the USSR, USA, Britain, France and China was the first resolution adopted at the conference. It was entrusted with preparing a peace settlement with Germany’s former allies and, following the establishment of an inclusive German government, a peace treaty with Germany.
The conference also dealt with a number of territorial issues related to the end of the war in Europe. Through the efforts of the Soviet delegation, which consistently adhered to the agreements reached earlier in Tehran and Yalta, the territory of Poland was substantially expanded, and the city of Koenigsberg (Kaliningrad) and the neighbouring area were transferred to the USSR.
✅ Thus, in Potsdam, the Allies succeeded in using international legal basis to consolidate the outcomes of common Victory over Nazis, to which the Soviet Union made a decisive contribution. The decisions adopted at the conference were of great importance for the post-war peace settlement in Europe and the eradication of German militarism and Nazism.
🌐 On July 17, 1945, a conference of the heads of government of the Soviet Union, the United States, and Britain opened in the Berlin suburb of Potsdam. It was the final WWII meeting of the leaders of the three Allied powers, Joseph Stalin, Harry Truman and Winston Churchill (later replaced by Clement Attlee).
The discussion focused on the principles of Germany’s post-WWII organisation in Europe. Decisions were adopted concerning complete disarmament and demilitarisation of that country, liquidation of the National Socialist Party, and prevention of Nazi propaganda. Nazi criminals had to answer for their atrocities before the law. The International Military Tribunal was established with its statute approved in August 1945. The first and the most important trial is known as the Nuremberg trial. Germany undertook to pay reparations and was divided into four – Soviet, American, British and French – occupation zones.
The universally recognised principles underlying the establishment of peace and security in Europe and around the world were developed at Potsdam, namely:
👉 preventing the revival of German militarism and Nazism as the main prerequisite for security in Europe;
👉 relations between countries should be based on the principles of sovereignty, national independence, equality and non-interference in internal affairs.
Establishing the Council of Foreign Ministers of the USSR, USA, Britain, France and China was the first resolution adopted at the conference. It was entrusted with preparing a peace settlement with Germany’s former allies and, following the establishment of an inclusive German government, a peace treaty with Germany.
The conference also dealt with a number of territorial issues related to the end of the war in Europe. Through the efforts of the Soviet delegation, which consistently adhered to the agreements reached earlier in Tehran and Yalta, the territory of Poland was substantially expanded, and the city of Koenigsberg (Kaliningrad) and the neighbouring area were transferred to the USSR.
✅ Thus, in Potsdam, the Allies succeeded in using international legal basis to consolidate the outcomes of common Victory over Nazis, to which the Soviet Union made a decisive contribution. The decisions adopted at the conference were of great importance for the post-war peace settlement in Europe and the eradication of German militarism and Nazism.
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When the blitzkrieg plan failed, the Third Reich began planning a large-scale summer offensive. The main blow was to target the southern section of the Soviet-German front. The plan was to destroy the adversary west of the Don River, to subsequently capture the oil-bearing regions in the Caucasus and cross the passes over the Caucasian Range. Hitler’s strategy was to seize the most important transport and industrial centre, the city named after the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the USSR.
Colonel-General Friedrich Paulus, one of the masterminds of Nazi Germany’s plan of attack on the USSR, was assigned to command the offensive.
For 200 days and nights, the German forces unsuccessfully tried to break the morale of the city’s defenders, first on the banks of the Don and Volga, and then just outside Stalingrad and finally in the city.
The German occupiers are seeking to reach Stalingrad and the Volga, and are desperate to seize the Kuban and the North Caucasus with their oil and grain resources at any cost. The enemy has already captured Voroshilovgrad, Starobelsk, Rossosh, Kupyansk, Valuyki, Novocherkassk, Rostov-on-Don, and half of Voronezh. We have lost over 70 million people, more than 800 million poods of grain annually and more than 10 million tonnes of metal annually. We no longer have superiority in manpower or grain reserves. To retreat further means to ruin ourselves and lose our Motherland as well. Each new piece of territory left will further strengthen the enemy and profoundly weaken our defence, our Motherland.
All that considered, it is time to finish retreating. NOT ONE STEP BACK! That should be our main call now. Henceforth the solid law of discipline for each commander, Red Army soldier, and commissar should be this – NOT A SINGLE STEP BACK without order from higher command. This is the call of our Motherland. To fulfill this call means to defend our land, to save our Motherland, to exterminate and defeat the hated enemy.
One of the heroes of Stalingrad, Vassily Chuikov, has played a decisive role in the victory. He was always inventing new tactics for planning and conducting military operations, based on the current realities and prevailing circumstances. It was his initiative to set up assault groups in the city, which started tormenting the enemy day and night.
Commander of the 64th and later the 62nd Army, Chuikov had tremendous faith in his soldiers:
A soldier who is aware of the army’s current objectives can take his own decisions if he finds himself on his own fighting in a basement or under a staircase. There is nothing wrong with that. In street fighting, a soldier is sometimes his own general.
This approach inspired the defenders to perform heroic acts that went down in history. The most famous example of the valour of Soviet soldiers was the defence of the Pavlov House, which was held for 58 days under the onslaught of superior enemy forces. The Nazis attacked the building using aviation, artillery and mortar fire, but the defenders never retreated a single step.
☝️ The victory over the Nazi war machine in one of the most fierce and large-scale battles of all-time showed that it was indeed possible to match and overcome the Third Reich, thus strengthening the international standing of the Soviet Union and its armed forces, and further uniting the anti-Hitler coalition.
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🎙 Statement by FM Sergey Lavrov during the UNSC meeting on multilateral cooperation in the interest of a more just, democratic and sustainable world order
📍 New York, July 16, 2024
💬 Today, the very foundations of the international legal order - strategic stability and the UN-centric system of international politics - are put to the test. We won’t be able to resolve the mounting conflicts unless we understand their root causes and restore faith in our ability to join forces for the common good and justice for all.
Let’s face it: not all countries represented in this chamber recognise the key principle of the UN Charter which is the sovereign equality of all states. Speaking through its presidents, the US has long declared its exceptionalism. This applies to Washington’s attitude towards its allies, whom it demands to be unquestioningly obedient even to the detriment of their national interests.
👉 Rule, America! This is the thrust of the notorious “rules-based order” which presents a direct threat to multilateralism and international peace.
The most important components of international law - the UN Charter and the resolutions of our Council - are interpreted by the collective West in a perverse and selective manner, depending on the instructions coming from the White House.
Key talking points:
• Washington’s hegemonistic policy has been the same for decades. Absolutely all schemes of Euro-Atlantic security were based on America’s domination, including the subjugation of Europe and the “containment” of Russia. The main role in this was assigned to NATO, which has ultimately tramped down the European Union that had been created to serve Europeans. The alliance has unceremoniously privatised OSCE bodies in brazen violation of the Helsinki Final Act.
• The unrestrained enlargement of NATO, which went on for years contrary to Moscow’s warnings, has also provoked the Ukraine crisis that began with the state coup organised by Washington in February 2014 to seize full control of Ukraine and use the neo-Nazi regime they brought to power to prepare an attack on Russia.
• NATO’s military infrastructure is moving into the Pacific with the obvious aim of undermining the ASEAN-centric architecture, which has for many decades been built on the principles of equality, mutual interests and consensus.
• Where are the free market attributes that the US and its allies have been telling everyone to follow for so many years? Market economy, fair competition, inviolability of private property, presumption of innocence, freedom of movement of people, goods, capital and services - all of these have been scrapped.
• The pivotal element of the reform of the UN should be the reshuffle of the UN Security Council, <...> which clearly has too many representatives of the collective West. A badly needed step is to reach the broadest accord possible on the concrete parameters of the reform, which should increase the representation of Asia, Africa and Latin America.
• The personnel policy of the UN Secretariat should be changed as well to eliminate the domination of Western citizens and subjects in the administrative UN bodies. The UN Secretary-General and his staff must faithfully and with no exceptions comply with the principles of impartiality and neutrality.
• #BRICS and the #SCO are playing an increasing role in the development of a just multilateral world based on the principles of the UN Charter. Their member states represent different regions and civilisations whose interaction is based on equality, mutual respect, consensus and mutually accepted compromises, which is the golden standard of multilateral cooperation involving great powers.
❗️ The UN will be able to overcome current disagreements and to reach consensus on most issues if everyone, without exception, honours its letter and spirit. “The end of history” has failed to materialise. Let us work together in the interests of launching the history of genuine multilateralism that reflects the entire wealth of cultural and civilisational diversity of the world’s nations.
📍 New York, July 16, 2024
💬 Today, the very foundations of the international legal order - strategic stability and the UN-centric system of international politics - are put to the test. We won’t be able to resolve the mounting conflicts unless we understand their root causes and restore faith in our ability to join forces for the common good and justice for all.
Let’s face it: not all countries represented in this chamber recognise the key principle of the UN Charter which is the sovereign equality of all states. Speaking through its presidents, the US has long declared its exceptionalism. This applies to Washington’s attitude towards its allies, whom it demands to be unquestioningly obedient even to the detriment of their national interests.
👉 Rule, America! This is the thrust of the notorious “rules-based order” which presents a direct threat to multilateralism and international peace.
The most important components of international law - the UN Charter and the resolutions of our Council - are interpreted by the collective West in a perverse and selective manner, depending on the instructions coming from the White House.
Key talking points:
• Washington’s hegemonistic policy has been the same for decades. Absolutely all schemes of Euro-Atlantic security were based on America’s domination, including the subjugation of Europe and the “containment” of Russia. The main role in this was assigned to NATO, which has ultimately tramped down the European Union that had been created to serve Europeans. The alliance has unceremoniously privatised OSCE bodies in brazen violation of the Helsinki Final Act.
• The unrestrained enlargement of NATO, which went on for years contrary to Moscow’s warnings, has also provoked the Ukraine crisis that began with the state coup organised by Washington in February 2014 to seize full control of Ukraine and use the neo-Nazi regime they brought to power to prepare an attack on Russia.
• NATO’s military infrastructure is moving into the Pacific with the obvious aim of undermining the ASEAN-centric architecture, which has for many decades been built on the principles of equality, mutual interests and consensus.
• Where are the free market attributes that the US and its allies have been telling everyone to follow for so many years? Market economy, fair competition, inviolability of private property, presumption of innocence, freedom of movement of people, goods, capital and services - all of these have been scrapped.
• The pivotal element of the reform of the UN should be the reshuffle of the UN Security Council, <...> which clearly has too many representatives of the collective West. A badly needed step is to reach the broadest accord possible on the concrete parameters of the reform, which should increase the representation of Asia, Africa and Latin America.
• The personnel policy of the UN Secretariat should be changed as well to eliminate the domination of Western citizens and subjects in the administrative UN bodies. The UN Secretary-General and his staff must faithfully and with no exceptions comply with the principles of impartiality and neutrality.
• #BRICS and the #SCO are playing an increasing role in the development of a just multilateral world based on the principles of the UN Charter. Their member states represent different regions and civilisations whose interaction is based on equality, mutual respect, consensus and mutually accepted compromises, which is the golden standard of multilateral cooperation involving great powers.
❗️ The UN will be able to overcome current disagreements and to reach consensus on most issues if everyone, without exception, honours its letter and spirit. “The end of history” has failed to materialise. Let us work together in the interests of launching the history of genuine multilateralism that reflects the entire wealth of cultural and civilisational diversity of the world’s nations.
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Участниками исследования народов Севера станут 2 тыс. оленеводов и зверобоев
Маршруты экспедиций "Чистая Арктика - Восток - 77" и "Россия-360" проложены таким образом, чтобы ученые смогли лично встретиться с максимальным количеством представителей коренных малочисленных народов, ведущих традиционную хозяйственную деятельность в тундре и тайге, а также работающих в поселках и городах.
Участниками исследования народов Севера станут 2 тыс. оленеводов и зверобоев
Маршруты экспедиций "Чистая Арктика - Восток - 77" и "Россия-360" проложены таким образом, чтобы ученые смогли лично встретиться с максимальным количеством представителей коренных малочисленных народов, ведущих традиционную хозяйственную деятельность в тундре и тайге, а также работающих в поселках и городах.
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Участниками исследования народов Севера станут 2 тыс. оленеводов и зверобоев
Маршруты экспедиций "Чистая Арктика - Восток - 77" и "Россия-360" проложены таким образом, чтобы ученые смогли лично встретиться с максимальным количеством представителей коренных малочисленных народов, ведущих традиционную хозяйственную деятельность в тундре…
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🎙 Statement by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov during the UN Security Council meeting on multilateral cooperation in the interest of a more just, democratic and sustainable world order (New York, July 16, 2024)
💬 The actions of the US and its allies are hindering international cooperation and the creation of a more just world. They have taken countries and regions hostage, prevent nations from realising their sovereign rights declared in the UN Charter
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I am confident that this situation can be changed if there is good will, of course. To stop the implementation of a negative scenario, we would like to propose to discuss a number of steps towards restoring trust and stabilising the international situation.
1. The root causes of the ongoing crisis in Europe should be eliminated once and for all. The conditions for restoring stable peace in Ukraine have been put forth by President of Russia Vladimir Putin.
A political and diplomatic settlement should be complemented with practical steps, to be taken in the West and the Euro-Atlantic community, to remove threats to the Russian Federation. The coordination of mutual guarantees and agreements should be based on the recognition of the new geostrategic realities on the Eurasian continent, where a continental architecture of really equal and indivisible security is taking shape. Europe risks lagging behind this objective historical process. We are ready to discuss a balance of interests.
2. The restoration of the regional and global balance of forces should be accompanied with active efforts to eliminate injustices in the global economy. There must be no monopoly in monetary and financial regulation, trade and technologies, by definition. <...>
3. Major fundamental changes are necessary in other institutes of global governance if we want them to work to the benefit of all. This primarily concerns the United Nations Organisation, which remains the embodiment of multilateralism against all the odds, with unique and universal legitimacy and universally recognised broad competencies.
An important step towards the restoration of the UN’s effectiveness would be the reconfirmation by all Member States of their commitment to the principles of the UN Charter, not selectively but in their entirety and as a whole. <...>
4. Regional associations have practical significance for the development of multipolarity, including the #CIS, the #CSTO, the #EAEU, #ASEAN, the Gulf Cooperation Council (#GCC), the Arab League, the African Union and #CELAC. <...>.
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❗️It depends on member countries alone whether our world will be diverse and equitable. The Charter of our Organisation is our foothold.
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💬 The actions of the US and its allies are hindering international cooperation and the creation of a more just world. They have taken countries and regions hostage, prevent nations from realising their sovereign rights declared in the UN Charter
<...>
I am confident that this situation can be changed if there is good will, of course. To stop the implementation of a negative scenario, we would like to propose to discuss a number of steps towards restoring trust and stabilising the international situation.
1. The root causes of the ongoing crisis in Europe should be eliminated once and for all. The conditions for restoring stable peace in Ukraine have been put forth by President of Russia Vladimir Putin.
A political and diplomatic settlement should be complemented with practical steps, to be taken in the West and the Euro-Atlantic community, to remove threats to the Russian Federation. The coordination of mutual guarantees and agreements should be based on the recognition of the new geostrategic realities on the Eurasian continent, where a continental architecture of really equal and indivisible security is taking shape. Europe risks lagging behind this objective historical process. We are ready to discuss a balance of interests.
2. The restoration of the regional and global balance of forces should be accompanied with active efforts to eliminate injustices in the global economy. There must be no monopoly in monetary and financial regulation, trade and technologies, by definition. <...>
3. Major fundamental changes are necessary in other institutes of global governance if we want them to work to the benefit of all. This primarily concerns the United Nations Organisation, which remains the embodiment of multilateralism against all the odds, with unique and universal legitimacy and universally recognised broad competencies.
An important step towards the restoration of the UN’s effectiveness would be the reconfirmation by all Member States of their commitment to the principles of the UN Charter, not selectively but in their entirety and as a whole. <...>
4. Regional associations have practical significance for the development of multipolarity, including the #CIS, the #CSTO, the #EAEU, #ASEAN, the Gulf Cooperation Council (#GCC), the Arab League, the African Union and #CELAC. <...>.
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❗️It depends on member countries alone whether our world will be diverse and equitable. The Charter of our Organisation is our foothold.
👉 Read in full