These are serious things. We will use all legal channels at our disposal to protect our citizens. There is the Foundation for Supporting and Protecting the Rights of Compatriots Living Abroad. For the most part, it helps hire attorneys for people abroad. We are substantially increasing its financing.
This is a huge problem. We will discuss it.
This is a huge problem. We will discuss it.
⚡️ Article dated April 14, 2022 in The Jakarta Post by Axender Ivanov, Russian Ambassador to ASEAN
Ukraine: The Western-led massacre of truth
It is unfortunate that The Jakarta Post, in its editorial on April 11, 2022, is following the latest Western trend when no evidence is needed to identify those responsible for crimes against civilians. Today, the West’s “highly likely” is enough.
It may seem that the Post has already conducted an investigation into the tragedy in Kramatorsk in stating that it was “last week’s Russian missile strike”. But still, I wish to give readers a chance to reach their own conclusions.
First, Tochka-U tactical missiles, the wreckage of which was found near Kramatorsk railway station, are used only by the Ukrainian armed forces. The Russian army doesn’t possess them.
Second, an analysis of the engagement radius of the warhead, as well as the characteristic position of the Tochka-U missile's tail section, clearly shows that it was launched from a southwesterly direction away from Kramatorsk. This area is still under the full control of the Ukrainian troops in Donbass.
And last, but not least: The serial number of the Tochka-U missile found in Kramatorsk is very close to the sequential numbers of the missiles used by the Kyiv regime to kill civilians in Donbass since 2014. (Readers can easily find their pictures on the internet for comparison.)
Regarding Bucha, on March 30, the Russian military finalized the distribution of 452 tons of humanitarian aid to the people of Bucha and other places in the Kyiv region. Following another round of talks in Ankara, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced the withdrawal of its forces from Bucha.
On March 31, Bucha Mayor Anatoly Fedoruk, who is loyal to Kyiv, stated that Russian forces had peacefully pulled out of the city. On April 1, Zhan Belenyuk, a deputy of the Ukrainian parliament, joyfully visited Bucha. On April 2, members of the Ukrainian armed forces entered Bucha, posting footage of empty streets and interviewing civilians, who never mention mass killings.
On April 4, Kyiv and its Western masters started to promote fake news via mass and social media about the alleged “atrocities” of Russian forces in Bucha with video footage showing bodies on the city’s roads, claiming that they had been lying there for at least four days. The bodies were not stiff, did not show signs of decomposition, and their wounds were not bloody.
Later on April 4, no questions were asked as to why those photos and video footage had not been seen before, or why nobody had mentioned any killings for almost a week since the withdrawal. And yet, immediately after the video footage was published, French President Emmanuel Macron expressed support for banning Russian oil and coal as part of a new round of sanctions against Russia.
The United States launched the campaign to suspend Russia from the United Nations Human Rights Council and announced new sanctions against Moscow. The provocation was not considered or analyzed. It was used to blame Russia without evidence.
On April 3 and 4, Russia twice requested a UN Security Council meeting on the situation in Bucha. Our efforts have been met with the fierce opposition from the United Kingdom presidency in gross violation of the Security Council’s rules of procedure, with the support of other Western delegations, namely the US, France, Ireland, Norway and Albania.
Why? Ask them.
If you think that such staged attacks are something new for the West, you are wrong. We have been watching these shows over and over again for many years. We saw this in Syria with the so-called White helmets, the Novichok poisonings, the Mariupol hospital bombing. When the truth surfaced a few days later, nobody in the West wanted to speak about it anymore.
At 11:30 a.m. on March 14, Ukrainian forces hit a residential neighborhood in Donetsk with a Tochka-U missile with a cluster munitions warhead, which is prohibited under international law. Why has no Western media covered that tragedy? Because there was no political request for that.
Ukraine: The Western-led massacre of truth
It is unfortunate that The Jakarta Post, in its editorial on April 11, 2022, is following the latest Western trend when no evidence is needed to identify those responsible for crimes against civilians. Today, the West’s “highly likely” is enough.
It may seem that the Post has already conducted an investigation into the tragedy in Kramatorsk in stating that it was “last week’s Russian missile strike”. But still, I wish to give readers a chance to reach their own conclusions.
First, Tochka-U tactical missiles, the wreckage of which was found near Kramatorsk railway station, are used only by the Ukrainian armed forces. The Russian army doesn’t possess them.
Second, an analysis of the engagement radius of the warhead, as well as the characteristic position of the Tochka-U missile's tail section, clearly shows that it was launched from a southwesterly direction away from Kramatorsk. This area is still under the full control of the Ukrainian troops in Donbass.
And last, but not least: The serial number of the Tochka-U missile found in Kramatorsk is very close to the sequential numbers of the missiles used by the Kyiv regime to kill civilians in Donbass since 2014. (Readers can easily find their pictures on the internet for comparison.)
Regarding Bucha, on March 30, the Russian military finalized the distribution of 452 tons of humanitarian aid to the people of Bucha and other places in the Kyiv region. Following another round of talks in Ankara, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced the withdrawal of its forces from Bucha.
On March 31, Bucha Mayor Anatoly Fedoruk, who is loyal to Kyiv, stated that Russian forces had peacefully pulled out of the city. On April 1, Zhan Belenyuk, a deputy of the Ukrainian parliament, joyfully visited Bucha. On April 2, members of the Ukrainian armed forces entered Bucha, posting footage of empty streets and interviewing civilians, who never mention mass killings.
On April 4, Kyiv and its Western masters started to promote fake news via mass and social media about the alleged “atrocities” of Russian forces in Bucha with video footage showing bodies on the city’s roads, claiming that they had been lying there for at least four days. The bodies were not stiff, did not show signs of decomposition, and their wounds were not bloody.
Later on April 4, no questions were asked as to why those photos and video footage had not been seen before, or why nobody had mentioned any killings for almost a week since the withdrawal. And yet, immediately after the video footage was published, French President Emmanuel Macron expressed support for banning Russian oil and coal as part of a new round of sanctions against Russia.
The United States launched the campaign to suspend Russia from the United Nations Human Rights Council and announced new sanctions against Moscow. The provocation was not considered or analyzed. It was used to blame Russia without evidence.
On April 3 and 4, Russia twice requested a UN Security Council meeting on the situation in Bucha. Our efforts have been met with the fierce opposition from the United Kingdom presidency in gross violation of the Security Council’s rules of procedure, with the support of other Western delegations, namely the US, France, Ireland, Norway and Albania.
Why? Ask them.
If you think that such staged attacks are something new for the West, you are wrong. We have been watching these shows over and over again for many years. We saw this in Syria with the so-called White helmets, the Novichok poisonings, the Mariupol hospital bombing. When the truth surfaced a few days later, nobody in the West wanted to speak about it anymore.
At 11:30 a.m. on March 14, Ukrainian forces hit a residential neighborhood in Donetsk with a Tochka-U missile with a cluster munitions warhead, which is prohibited under international law. Why has no Western media covered that tragedy? Because there was no political request for that.
Yet, Italy’s La Stampa published photos of dead civilians taken by a Russian news agency in Donetsk, but attributed their killings to “the Russian missile attack in Kyiv”. Later, the editor of La Stampa had to make difficult explanations.
Do you need more examples of fake news and the hypocrisy of the Western media? How about showing the world the footage of brutal executions of Russian prisoners of war (POWs) by Ukrainian nazis cutting their throats, shooting their legs and waiting until they died of blood loss? Footage of Russian POWs burned alive? What about the Geneva Convention on POWs? When it comes to Russians, the Western “democracies” just don't care.
Where are the BBC and CNN reports that reveal the truth behind the US political elite’s involvement in biological weapons activity in Ukraine?
Since the end of last year and even before then, Moscow has been the target of a coordinated information war aimed at discrediting Russia’s reasonable demands for security guarantees and at justifying the West’s geopolitical aspirations and the militarization of Ukrainian territory.
Now, this information war is used to undermine the negotiation process and to destroy established international political and economic frameworks. The goal is the West’s unipolar dominance over the world and imposing Western “rules” on others to shape the world order.
All the ongoing anti-Russian hysteria is just a disguise for sanctions and removal of the Russian “obstacle” that is hindering the creation of a unipolar world. There is no doubt that containing any rival is one of the “rules” that the West is eager to implement. Today, Russia is that rival. Tomorrow, it could be any other country with independent thinking.
What worries us most are the tactics chosen by the Kyiv regime when peaceful Ukrainians are killed by their own radicals and nazis in order to, in the best Goebbels tradition, blame the Russian army for their deaths. We have information about new plans for barbaric tragedies such as those in Bucha, Kramatorsk and elsewhere in Ukraine that have been prepared by Kyiv regime. And the position of its Western masters, unfortunately, gives it carte blanche to carry them out.
Think for yourselves as to who is massacring the truth, and why.
Do you need more examples of fake news and the hypocrisy of the Western media? How about showing the world the footage of brutal executions of Russian prisoners of war (POWs) by Ukrainian nazis cutting their throats, shooting their legs and waiting until they died of blood loss? Footage of Russian POWs burned alive? What about the Geneva Convention on POWs? When it comes to Russians, the Western “democracies” just don't care.
Where are the BBC and CNN reports that reveal the truth behind the US political elite’s involvement in biological weapons activity in Ukraine?
Since the end of last year and even before then, Moscow has been the target of a coordinated information war aimed at discrediting Russia’s reasonable demands for security guarantees and at justifying the West’s geopolitical aspirations and the militarization of Ukrainian territory.
Now, this information war is used to undermine the negotiation process and to destroy established international political and economic frameworks. The goal is the West’s unipolar dominance over the world and imposing Western “rules” on others to shape the world order.
All the ongoing anti-Russian hysteria is just a disguise for sanctions and removal of the Russian “obstacle” that is hindering the creation of a unipolar world. There is no doubt that containing any rival is one of the “rules” that the West is eager to implement. Today, Russia is that rival. Tomorrow, it could be any other country with independent thinking.
What worries us most are the tactics chosen by the Kyiv regime when peaceful Ukrainians are killed by their own radicals and nazis in order to, in the best Goebbels tradition, blame the Russian army for their deaths. We have information about new plans for barbaric tragedies such as those in Bucha, Kramatorsk and elsewhere in Ukraine that have been prepared by Kyiv regime. And the position of its Western masters, unfortunately, gives it carte blanche to carry them out.
Think for yourselves as to who is massacring the truth, and why.
🎼 Between 14 and 27 June, 2022 Moscow will host the Rachmaninoff International Competition for Pianists, Composers and Conductors. The official opening will take place on June 15th at the Moscow State Conservatory.
The competition is founded in 2021 by the Government of the Russian Federation and the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation on the eve of the 150th anniversary of the birth of Sergei Rachmaninoff and the Year of Music in 2023.
The artistic director of the competition, who initiated its founding, is a well-known pianist, People’s Artist of Russia Denis Matsuev. He will also head the piano jury. The conductors' jury will be headed by Valery Gergiev and the composers one – by Alexander Tchaikovsky.
The organizing committee of the competition includes officials, famous musicians, and directors of leading musical institutions: Valery Gergiev, Yuri Bashmet, Vladimir Fedoseyev, Valery Polyansky, Alexander Sladkovsky, Mikhail Shvydkoy, Alexei Shalashov, Alexander Sokolov and others.
Following three main specialties in the life and work of Sergei Rachmaninoff, the competition has three nominations: piano, composition and conducting. After a qualifying round (based on video applications), the maximum number of participants in the live rounds will be 24 pianists, 24 conductors, and 12 composers. The piano nomination participants should be at least 16 and no older than 32 years inclusive by the Competition opening, conductors – no older than 45 years. The Composition nomination has no age restrictions. Each of the three nominations provides six main prizes, special and additional prizes.
On April 1, the birthday of Sergei Rachmaninoff, the acceptance of applications for participation in the Rachmaninoff International Competition for Pianists, Composers and Conductors ended. In total, 529 applications were submitted for the competition from 33 countries: Russia, Belarus, Great Britain, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Austria, Poland, Serbia, Moldova, Slovenia, Iran, Israel, USA, Canada, Cuba, Brazil, Colombia, Australia, China, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Ukraine, LPR, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan. The largest number of applications was submitted in the nomination conducting – 210, followed by the nomination piano – 167 applications and composition – 152 applications.
The competition rounds will take place at the best concert venues in Moscow. Pianists are to perform in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, conductors – in the Tchaikovsky Hall; the Composition rounds will be held in the Rachmaninoff Hall (Philharmonia-2).
The Rachmaninoff International Competition for Pianists, Composers and Conductors
Official website: rachmaninoffcompetition.com VKontakte: https://vk.com/rachmaninoffcompetition Telegram: https://news.1rj.ru/str/rachmaninoffcompetition
The competition is founded in 2021 by the Government of the Russian Federation and the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation on the eve of the 150th anniversary of the birth of Sergei Rachmaninoff and the Year of Music in 2023.
The artistic director of the competition, who initiated its founding, is a well-known pianist, People’s Artist of Russia Denis Matsuev. He will also head the piano jury. The conductors' jury will be headed by Valery Gergiev and the composers one – by Alexander Tchaikovsky.
The organizing committee of the competition includes officials, famous musicians, and directors of leading musical institutions: Valery Gergiev, Yuri Bashmet, Vladimir Fedoseyev, Valery Polyansky, Alexander Sladkovsky, Mikhail Shvydkoy, Alexei Shalashov, Alexander Sokolov and others.
Following three main specialties in the life and work of Sergei Rachmaninoff, the competition has three nominations: piano, composition and conducting. After a qualifying round (based on video applications), the maximum number of participants in the live rounds will be 24 pianists, 24 conductors, and 12 composers. The piano nomination participants should be at least 16 and no older than 32 years inclusive by the Competition opening, conductors – no older than 45 years. The Composition nomination has no age restrictions. Each of the three nominations provides six main prizes, special and additional prizes.
On April 1, the birthday of Sergei Rachmaninoff, the acceptance of applications for participation in the Rachmaninoff International Competition for Pianists, Composers and Conductors ended. In total, 529 applications were submitted for the competition from 33 countries: Russia, Belarus, Great Britain, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Austria, Poland, Serbia, Moldova, Slovenia, Iran, Israel, USA, Canada, Cuba, Brazil, Colombia, Australia, China, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Ukraine, LPR, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan. The largest number of applications was submitted in the nomination conducting – 210, followed by the nomination piano – 167 applications and composition – 152 applications.
The competition rounds will take place at the best concert venues in Moscow. Pianists are to perform in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, conductors – in the Tchaikovsky Hall; the Composition rounds will be held in the Rachmaninoff Hall (Philharmonia-2).
The Rachmaninoff International Competition for Pianists, Composers and Conductors
Official website: rachmaninoffcompetition.com VKontakte: https://vk.com/rachmaninoffcompetition Telegram: https://news.1rj.ru/str/rachmaninoffcompetition
❗Mass Media of Russia about Situation in Ukraine (April 14, 2022)❗
1. Political statements by the leadership of the Russian Federation and friendly countries
The President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin stated that a clash with anti-Russian forces nurtured in Ukraine was inevitable; it was just a matter of time. He said that it was the West who began to turn Ukraine into an anti–Russian springboard and grow the sprouts of nationalism and neo-Nazism that had been there for a long time. The subsequent events showed how deeply neo-Nazi ideas had grown in Ukraine. This was an obvious fact that neo-Nazism had become
a fact of life in a fairly large country close to Russians.
Vladimir Putin noted that by achieving the goals of a special military operation, the Russian Federation helped the people of Donbass, and on the other hand, took measures to ensure the security of Russia itself. Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky publicly stated that Kiev didn't like any of the Minsk-2 points as well as other officials also said that the implementation of the Minsk agreements was impossible. Vladimir Putin stressed that it was impossible to continue to tolerate this genocide, which has been going on for eight years. (https://kremlin.ru)
Director General of the Russian International Affairs Council Andrey
Kortunov in an interview with Krasnaya Zvezda said that that the Biden administration didn't set up Kiev for sanity and search for a compromise with Moscow. Rather, on the contrary, Washington warned Ukraine against "excessive flexibility" and "unjustified concessions." It is understandable – the conflict in Europe affected America only indirectly, and it is mainly the European allies of the United States who has to pay for it. The Europeans are forced to accept Ukrainian refugees, suffer from a sharp rise in gas and oil prices, and withdraw from the Russian market, which is important for Europe. The cost for the United States is much lower, and therefore the incentive to end the conflict as quickly as possible is lower for
Americans than for Europeans. On the other hand, these events anyway strengthen Washington's position as the leader of the West, cement the North Atlantic Alliance, and encourage the allies to increase their military spending. (http://redstar.ru)
2. The course of special military operation. Briefings by Russian
Defense Ministry
13.04.2022 (10.30 a.m.)
Russian Armed Forces continue the special military operation in Ukraine.
At night, high-precision sea- and air-based missiles destroyed 2 large missile and artillery weapons depots of the Ukrainian Armed Forces near Sadovoe and Chudnov. Ukraine's 2 helicopters Mi-24 and 2 Mi-8 were destroyed at Mirgorod military airfield.
Air Force and Army aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces hit 46 military assets of Ukraine. Among them: 2 command posts and 1 radar station near
Borovoe, 2 multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS'), and 4 areas of Ukrainian military equipment stockpile near Borovoe and Peski-Radkovskoe. Russian Air Defence shot down 2 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).
Russian missiles and artillery hit 693 enemy assets: 676 areas of Ukrainian personnel strongholds and military equipment stockpile, 11 command posts and
5 logistics depots.
In Mariupol city, near the Illich Steelworks, 1,026 Ukrainian servicemen
of the 36th Marines Brigade has laid down their arms and surrendered voluntarily as a result of a successful offensive by the Russian Armed Forces and Donetsk People's Republic units. Among them 162 officers and 47 service-women have surrendered. 151 wounded people received primary medical care immediately on the spot and were taken to the Mariupol city hospital for further treatment. (http://mil.ru)
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation in Ukraine.
1. Political statements by the leadership of the Russian Federation and friendly countries
The President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin stated that a clash with anti-Russian forces nurtured in Ukraine was inevitable; it was just a matter of time. He said that it was the West who began to turn Ukraine into an anti–Russian springboard and grow the sprouts of nationalism and neo-Nazism that had been there for a long time. The subsequent events showed how deeply neo-Nazi ideas had grown in Ukraine. This was an obvious fact that neo-Nazism had become
a fact of life in a fairly large country close to Russians.
Vladimir Putin noted that by achieving the goals of a special military operation, the Russian Federation helped the people of Donbass, and on the other hand, took measures to ensure the security of Russia itself. Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky publicly stated that Kiev didn't like any of the Minsk-2 points as well as other officials also said that the implementation of the Minsk agreements was impossible. Vladimir Putin stressed that it was impossible to continue to tolerate this genocide, which has been going on for eight years. (https://kremlin.ru)
Director General of the Russian International Affairs Council Andrey
Kortunov in an interview with Krasnaya Zvezda said that that the Biden administration didn't set up Kiev for sanity and search for a compromise with Moscow. Rather, on the contrary, Washington warned Ukraine against "excessive flexibility" and "unjustified concessions." It is understandable – the conflict in Europe affected America only indirectly, and it is mainly the European allies of the United States who has to pay for it. The Europeans are forced to accept Ukrainian refugees, suffer from a sharp rise in gas and oil prices, and withdraw from the Russian market, which is important for Europe. The cost for the United States is much lower, and therefore the incentive to end the conflict as quickly as possible is lower for
Americans than for Europeans. On the other hand, these events anyway strengthen Washington's position as the leader of the West, cement the North Atlantic Alliance, and encourage the allies to increase their military spending. (http://redstar.ru)
2. The course of special military operation. Briefings by Russian
Defense Ministry
13.04.2022 (10.30 a.m.)
Russian Armed Forces continue the special military operation in Ukraine.
At night, high-precision sea- and air-based missiles destroyed 2 large missile and artillery weapons depots of the Ukrainian Armed Forces near Sadovoe and Chudnov. Ukraine's 2 helicopters Mi-24 and 2 Mi-8 were destroyed at Mirgorod military airfield.
Air Force and Army aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces hit 46 military assets of Ukraine. Among them: 2 command posts and 1 radar station near
Borovoe, 2 multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS'), and 4 areas of Ukrainian military equipment stockpile near Borovoe and Peski-Radkovskoe. Russian Air Defence shot down 2 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).
Russian missiles and artillery hit 693 enemy assets: 676 areas of Ukrainian personnel strongholds and military equipment stockpile, 11 command posts and
5 logistics depots.
In Mariupol city, near the Illich Steelworks, 1,026 Ukrainian servicemen
of the 36th Marines Brigade has laid down their arms and surrendered voluntarily as a result of a successful offensive by the Russian Armed Forces and Donetsk People's Republic units. Among them 162 officers and 47 service-women have surrendered. 151 wounded people received primary medical care immediately on the spot and were taken to the Mariupol city hospital for further treatment. (http://mil.ru)
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation in Ukraine.
The seaport in Mariupol has been liberated completely from the militants of the Nazi units "Azov". All hostages held by the Nazis on ships, including foreigners, have been released. The units of the Ukrainian troops and the Nazis of "Azov" located in the city are blocked and deprived of the opportunity to breakout from the encirclement.
On April 13 high-precision missiles destroyed 36 assets of Ukraine. Among them: two repair depots and two stockpile of rocket and artillery weapons of the 57th and 24th Ukrainian Mechanized Brigades, five strong points of the 24th Mechanized Brigade, the command post of the 15th regiment of the National Guard of Ukraine. The headquarters and fuel deport of the 128th Mountain Assault Brigade were destroyed.
Air Force and Army aviation hit 10 military assets of Ukraine. Among them: a control center, three stockpile of rocket and artillery weapons and 6 areas of Ukrainian military equipment stockpile.
Totally 130 aircraft, 103 helicopters, 244 anti-aircraft missile systems, 447 UAVs, 2,173 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 243 MLRS', 937 field artillery and mortar guns and 2,082 units of special military vehicles were destroyed during the operation.
There are some attempts of sabotage and strikes by Ukrainian troops on the territory of the Russia. If such cases continue, the Russian Armed Forces will strike at decision-making centers, including in Kiev. (http://mil.ru)
3. Crimes of the Ukrainian Nazis and the armed forces of Ukraine
The Russian Federation's Joint Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response in Ukraine continues registering the egregious facts of the inhumane treatment of civilians by Ukrainian forces. In Kharkov militants of nationalist units continue to set up positions in residential buildings, kindergartens and schools, as well as to place heavy weapons in densely populated neighbourhoods. At the same time, the evacuation of civilians has been banned since 10 April 2022.
Ukrainian armed forces equipped firing positions and deployed armored
vehicles in schools in Severodonetsk, Serebryanka and Belozerskoe. Nationalists in Chernigov Region also continue to conduct raids on private households. They
forcibly seize food, valuables, and personal vehicles from people under threats of physical violence and murder. (http://mil.ru)
4. Exposure of disinformation
The Russian embassy in Washington dismissed as baseless the US Department of State Spokesperson Ned Price’s claims about the possibility of Russia
using chemical weapons in Ukraine. The Russian Armed Forces didn't and couldn't have any chemical warfare agents at their disposal, because Russia eliminated all chemical weapons stockpiles back in 2017.
Washington is to stop spreading disinformation. Instead, Americans should have intensified the process of chemical demilitarization of their country. The United States remains the only state party to the Chemical Weapons Convention that has not fulfilled the international commitments it made. (https://ria.ru)
The Kiev authorities, under the guidance of the West countries led by the US, continue to collect pseudo-evidence of Russia's so-called guilt. For this purpose
a curfew and a complete blockade of the city was imposed in Irpin from 6 a.m. April, 12 until 9 a.m. April, 15. Security forces and "obscure" volunteers only were allowed to enter the city during this period. It has been confirmed that this period of time would be used by Kiev to stage a cynical filming for further promotion of the fakes by the Western media. (http://mil.ru)
The National Battalion "Azov" claimed that Russian troops had used chemical weapons (probably zarin) in Mariupol, spraying an unknown substance from
a UAV.
In 2017, Russia completely destroyed all its chemical weapons stockpiles, including zarin. This was confirmed by Deputy Director General of the Technical Secretariat of the International Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons Hamid Ali Rao.
On April 13 high-precision missiles destroyed 36 assets of Ukraine. Among them: two repair depots and two stockpile of rocket and artillery weapons of the 57th and 24th Ukrainian Mechanized Brigades, five strong points of the 24th Mechanized Brigade, the command post of the 15th regiment of the National Guard of Ukraine. The headquarters and fuel deport of the 128th Mountain Assault Brigade were destroyed.
Air Force and Army aviation hit 10 military assets of Ukraine. Among them: a control center, three stockpile of rocket and artillery weapons and 6 areas of Ukrainian military equipment stockpile.
Totally 130 aircraft, 103 helicopters, 244 anti-aircraft missile systems, 447 UAVs, 2,173 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 243 MLRS', 937 field artillery and mortar guns and 2,082 units of special military vehicles were destroyed during the operation.
There are some attempts of sabotage and strikes by Ukrainian troops on the territory of the Russia. If such cases continue, the Russian Armed Forces will strike at decision-making centers, including in Kiev. (http://mil.ru)
3. Crimes of the Ukrainian Nazis and the armed forces of Ukraine
The Russian Federation's Joint Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response in Ukraine continues registering the egregious facts of the inhumane treatment of civilians by Ukrainian forces. In Kharkov militants of nationalist units continue to set up positions in residential buildings, kindergartens and schools, as well as to place heavy weapons in densely populated neighbourhoods. At the same time, the evacuation of civilians has been banned since 10 April 2022.
Ukrainian armed forces equipped firing positions and deployed armored
vehicles in schools in Severodonetsk, Serebryanka and Belozerskoe. Nationalists in Chernigov Region also continue to conduct raids on private households. They
forcibly seize food, valuables, and personal vehicles from people under threats of physical violence and murder. (http://mil.ru)
4. Exposure of disinformation
The Russian embassy in Washington dismissed as baseless the US Department of State Spokesperson Ned Price’s claims about the possibility of Russia
using chemical weapons in Ukraine. The Russian Armed Forces didn't and couldn't have any chemical warfare agents at their disposal, because Russia eliminated all chemical weapons stockpiles back in 2017.
Washington is to stop spreading disinformation. Instead, Americans should have intensified the process of chemical demilitarization of their country. The United States remains the only state party to the Chemical Weapons Convention that has not fulfilled the international commitments it made. (https://ria.ru)
The Kiev authorities, under the guidance of the West countries led by the US, continue to collect pseudo-evidence of Russia's so-called guilt. For this purpose
a curfew and a complete blockade of the city was imposed in Irpin from 6 a.m. April, 12 until 9 a.m. April, 15. Security forces and "obscure" volunteers only were allowed to enter the city during this period. It has been confirmed that this period of time would be used by Kiev to stage a cynical filming for further promotion of the fakes by the Western media. (http://mil.ru)
The National Battalion "Azov" claimed that Russian troops had used chemical weapons (probably zarin) in Mariupol, spraying an unknown substance from
a UAV.
In 2017, Russia completely destroyed all its chemical weapons stockpiles, including zarin. This was confirmed by Deputy Director General of the Technical Secretariat of the International Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons Hamid Ali Rao.
The more so opposition Russian and Ukrainian publications also wrote about the early elimination of all chemical weapons in Russia. (http://www.xn--80aaenqccitej3b1b.xn--p1ai/) #Russia #Ukraine #Donbass
⚡ Spokesperson Maria Zakharova’s interview with "RT" TV Channel, Moscow, April 16, 2022
Question: It became known that during the special military operation in Ukraine, Russian troops discovered new documents on military biological activities in Ukraine. Can you talk about this in more detail?
Maria Zakharova: As a result of the Special Military Operation in Ukraine (SMO), Russia’s Armed Forces found documents that shed some light on the bio-military programme implemented by the US Defence Department in Ukraine. The researchers in the programme were studying the most dangerous pathogens – potential biological agents for biological weapons that have natural focuses in both Ukraine and Russia. They were also researching ways that epidemics spread based on these agents. The scale of work makes it obvious that a considerable, and probably the most important, part of the information on the American military programme remains concealed from the international community.
Speaking at a US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations hearing on March 9, 2022, Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs, Victoria Nuland, said Washington was trying to prevent the transfer of some research materials from Ukrainian bio-laboratories to Russian forces. During press briefings on March 7, 10, 17, 24 and 31, Chief of the Russian Armed Forces’ Radiation, Chemical and Biological Defence Forces Igor Kirillov described the US bio-military activities in Ukraine, based on the information obtained during the SMO in Ukraine by the Armed Forces of Russia. He also set forth conclusions based on expert analysis. Researchers continue to study these materials.
Question: What is Russia doing to see that the United States provides clarification on its military biological cooperation with Ukraine?
Maria Zakharova: Russia has made public the facts that have come to light to date at the UN and other international organisations and called on the US authorities to provide detailed explanations, but, predictably, Washington does not appear to be ready to share with the public any meaningful information on its military biological programme in Ukraine.
Furthermore, clearly, the White House thinks that offence is the best defence and has launched yet another propaganda campaign centered on the false assertion that our country’s efforts to draw the attention of the international community to the activities of US military biologists in Ukraine are allegedly nothing more than a smoke screen, which, they say, Moscow will try to use to cover up the potential use of biological or chemical weapons during the special military operation that is conducted by the Russian Armed Forces.
This crude attempt by the US to divert public attention from this dangerously explosive issue of US-controlled biological laboratories in Ukraine and to drown it in this “apocalyptic sensation” was – at first glance unexpectedly – strongly supported by German political leadership. A number of leading German politicians and top officials, including Federal Chancellor of Germany Olaf Scholz, have released statements that mimic the US narrative in the form of righteous threats and warnings directed at Russia. Berlin’s official proactive verbal stance remains in line with the strategy that it has pursued for a long time now in the context of the Ukraine crisis (which isn’t helpful in settling it now and which earlier led the Minsk process into a dead-end with its deliberate pro-Kiev slant), but nevertheless stands out in its blatant cynicism of the overall flow of anti-Russia rhetoric that has been coming from Germany in recent weeks. First of all, in view of the key circumstance that even before the Russian Armed Forces started this special military operation, Germany, alongside the United States, had been conducting vigorous military biological activities in Ukraine for many years and, possibly, continues to do so.
Question: It became known that during the special military operation in Ukraine, Russian troops discovered new documents on military biological activities in Ukraine. Can you talk about this in more detail?
Maria Zakharova: As a result of the Special Military Operation in Ukraine (SMO), Russia’s Armed Forces found documents that shed some light on the bio-military programme implemented by the US Defence Department in Ukraine. The researchers in the programme were studying the most dangerous pathogens – potential biological agents for biological weapons that have natural focuses in both Ukraine and Russia. They were also researching ways that epidemics spread based on these agents. The scale of work makes it obvious that a considerable, and probably the most important, part of the information on the American military programme remains concealed from the international community.
Speaking at a US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations hearing on March 9, 2022, Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs, Victoria Nuland, said Washington was trying to prevent the transfer of some research materials from Ukrainian bio-laboratories to Russian forces. During press briefings on March 7, 10, 17, 24 and 31, Chief of the Russian Armed Forces’ Radiation, Chemical and Biological Defence Forces Igor Kirillov described the US bio-military activities in Ukraine, based on the information obtained during the SMO in Ukraine by the Armed Forces of Russia. He also set forth conclusions based on expert analysis. Researchers continue to study these materials.
Question: What is Russia doing to see that the United States provides clarification on its military biological cooperation with Ukraine?
Maria Zakharova: Russia has made public the facts that have come to light to date at the UN and other international organisations and called on the US authorities to provide detailed explanations, but, predictably, Washington does not appear to be ready to share with the public any meaningful information on its military biological programme in Ukraine.
Furthermore, clearly, the White House thinks that offence is the best defence and has launched yet another propaganda campaign centered on the false assertion that our country’s efforts to draw the attention of the international community to the activities of US military biologists in Ukraine are allegedly nothing more than a smoke screen, which, they say, Moscow will try to use to cover up the potential use of biological or chemical weapons during the special military operation that is conducted by the Russian Armed Forces.
This crude attempt by the US to divert public attention from this dangerously explosive issue of US-controlled biological laboratories in Ukraine and to drown it in this “apocalyptic sensation” was – at first glance unexpectedly – strongly supported by German political leadership. A number of leading German politicians and top officials, including Federal Chancellor of Germany Olaf Scholz, have released statements that mimic the US narrative in the form of righteous threats and warnings directed at Russia. Berlin’s official proactive verbal stance remains in line with the strategy that it has pursued for a long time now in the context of the Ukraine crisis (which isn’t helpful in settling it now and which earlier led the Minsk process into a dead-end with its deliberate pro-Kiev slant), but nevertheless stands out in its blatant cynicism of the overall flow of anti-Russia rhetoric that has been coming from Germany in recent weeks. First of all, in view of the key circumstance that even before the Russian Armed Forces started this special military operation, Germany, alongside the United States, had been conducting vigorous military biological activities in Ukraine for many years and, possibly, continues to do so.
We strongly believe that this is largely what motivates Germany to be more active, as compared to other EU countries, in its attempts to ascribe to our country criminal plans concerning the use of biological and chemical weapons in Ukraine and the Donetsk and Lugansk people’s republics, which have not yet been liberated.
Question: Are there any additional details about Germany’s military biological activities in Ukraine?
Maria Zakharova: For you to better understand the situation, I will cite the following facts. Since 2013, under the auspices of the German Federal Foreign Office, the German Government has been implementing the German Biosecurity Programme (GBP) which includes partnership projects with government agencies and research organisations in focus countries, which Ukraine became part of in 2014, the year of Maidan. German specialists from the Institute of Microbiology of the German Armed Forces (Munich), Friedrich Loeffler Institute (Greifswald-Riems Island), Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine (Hamburg) and the Robert Koch Institute (Berlin), which specialise in research of deadly biological agents, are engaged in practical activities.
According to the German Federal Foreign Office, the third phase of the GBP will be implemented in 2020-2022. We can infer from the publicly available materials that the GBP’s stated technical goals include, among others, the gathering of epidemic intelligence in third countries, including with the use of big data technology, and developing the infrastructure of partner countries for handling dangerous biological agents.
The Institute of Experimental and Clinical Veterinary Medicine in Kharkov has been the Institute of Microbiology of the German Armed Forces’ main Ukrainian counterparty since 2016, which we know from its own data. The two institutes cooperate under the Ukrainian-German project noscriptd “Initiative on Biological Safety and Biological Defence in the Management of the Zoonotic Risks at the Outer Borders of the European Union.” The fact that its official goal is to “improve the biological defence and security situation” in Ukraine, “particularly in the east of the country” gives rise to the rhetorical question of which border the German military biologists consider an outer border for the purposes of their professional interests. Is it the Russian-Ukrainian border?
The Institute of Microbiology claims in its materials that the project is related to the “potential threat of biological terrorism” in Ukraine amid the unending hostilities in eastern regions of that country. It is crystal clear that this is a way to send a subtle message about the DPR and LPR’s possible “involvement” in hatching plans for the use of internationally prohibited biological weapons. In so doing, the German military have been deliberately intimidating their Ukrainian counterparts for a long time and have, in fact, been psychologically pitting them against the Donbass republics. Ukrainian biological safety experts invariably participate in the medical biodefence conferences that are regularly held by the Institute of Microbiology of the German Armed Forces.
Obviously, to ensure protection against a potential biological attack, it is first necessary to study the potential biological agents with which it can be made. In other words, it is necessary to conduct research in the field of biological or chemical weapons. The Armed Forces of Germany (AFG) have enough knowledge and practical skills in this area, as was demonstrated by the scandalous incident with the mysterious poisoning of blogger Alexey Navalny. Specialists from the AFG Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology – a military institution allied with the AFG Institute of Microbiology – supposedly very quickly detected in the body of the Russian citizen traces of some military toxin that NATO lists in the Novichok family.
Question: Are there any additional details about Germany’s military biological activities in Ukraine?
Maria Zakharova: For you to better understand the situation, I will cite the following facts. Since 2013, under the auspices of the German Federal Foreign Office, the German Government has been implementing the German Biosecurity Programme (GBP) which includes partnership projects with government agencies and research organisations in focus countries, which Ukraine became part of in 2014, the year of Maidan. German specialists from the Institute of Microbiology of the German Armed Forces (Munich), Friedrich Loeffler Institute (Greifswald-Riems Island), Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine (Hamburg) and the Robert Koch Institute (Berlin), which specialise in research of deadly biological agents, are engaged in practical activities.
According to the German Federal Foreign Office, the third phase of the GBP will be implemented in 2020-2022. We can infer from the publicly available materials that the GBP’s stated technical goals include, among others, the gathering of epidemic intelligence in third countries, including with the use of big data technology, and developing the infrastructure of partner countries for handling dangerous biological agents.
The Institute of Experimental and Clinical Veterinary Medicine in Kharkov has been the Institute of Microbiology of the German Armed Forces’ main Ukrainian counterparty since 2016, which we know from its own data. The two institutes cooperate under the Ukrainian-German project noscriptd “Initiative on Biological Safety and Biological Defence in the Management of the Zoonotic Risks at the Outer Borders of the European Union.” The fact that its official goal is to “improve the biological defence and security situation” in Ukraine, “particularly in the east of the country” gives rise to the rhetorical question of which border the German military biologists consider an outer border for the purposes of their professional interests. Is it the Russian-Ukrainian border?
The Institute of Microbiology claims in its materials that the project is related to the “potential threat of biological terrorism” in Ukraine amid the unending hostilities in eastern regions of that country. It is crystal clear that this is a way to send a subtle message about the DPR and LPR’s possible “involvement” in hatching plans for the use of internationally prohibited biological weapons. In so doing, the German military have been deliberately intimidating their Ukrainian counterparts for a long time and have, in fact, been psychologically pitting them against the Donbass republics. Ukrainian biological safety experts invariably participate in the medical biodefence conferences that are regularly held by the Institute of Microbiology of the German Armed Forces.
Obviously, to ensure protection against a potential biological attack, it is first necessary to study the potential biological agents with which it can be made. In other words, it is necessary to conduct research in the field of biological or chemical weapons. The Armed Forces of Germany (AFG) have enough knowledge and practical skills in this area, as was demonstrated by the scandalous incident with the mysterious poisoning of blogger Alexey Navalny. Specialists from the AFG Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology – a military institution allied with the AFG Institute of Microbiology – supposedly very quickly detected in the body of the Russian citizen traces of some military toxin that NATO lists in the Novichok family.
Such a high level of expertise – if, of course, all statements were factually accurate – suggests that the AFG is able to synthesise toxic substances independently, including the notorious Novichok and its markers.
Germany’s Friedrich Loeffler Institute that is in charge of the centre for the study of the most dangerous viruses and zoonotic infections on the Baltic Island of Riems, maintains active cooperation with the Ukrainian State Research Institute of Laboratory Diagnostics and Veterinary-Sanitary Expertise (Kiev), the State Scientific Control Institute of Bio-Technology and Strains of Microorganisms (Kiev) and also with the Institute of Experimental and Clinical Veterinary Medicine (Kharkov) that cooperates in parallel with the AFG Institute of Microbiology. In Ukraine, the Friedrich Loeffler Institute has focused on Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever. Soviet scientists discovered it for the first time on the territory of Russian Crimea in 1944. There is documented evidence that the institute commissioned its Ukrainian partners to collect samples of ectoparasite recipients of bats that were transferred to the afore-mentioned Reims Island under the existing agreements.
The Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine has concentrated its activities in Ukraine on extremely dangerous fevers – Denge, Chikungunya, West Nile and Usutu, to name a few.
This information on Germany’s bio-military activities in Ukraine is far from exhaustive. It cannot be ruled out that, as the special military operation progresses, additional documents will be discovered by the Russian Armed Forces. According to confirmed reports, Germany closely coordinated its work on biological security with its American allies that established a network of at least 30 biological laboratories in Ukraine. In addition to their other activities, they were involved in dangerous research.
We urge German officials to immediately stop spreading false allegations about our country’s intentions to use weapons banned by international law. We believe that such statements can only serve to push neo-Nazi battalions to commit horrible provocations, and moral responsibility for their tragic consequences will be shared by Berlin.
Germany’s Friedrich Loeffler Institute that is in charge of the centre for the study of the most dangerous viruses and zoonotic infections on the Baltic Island of Riems, maintains active cooperation with the Ukrainian State Research Institute of Laboratory Diagnostics and Veterinary-Sanitary Expertise (Kiev), the State Scientific Control Institute of Bio-Technology and Strains of Microorganisms (Kiev) and also with the Institute of Experimental and Clinical Veterinary Medicine (Kharkov) that cooperates in parallel with the AFG Institute of Microbiology. In Ukraine, the Friedrich Loeffler Institute has focused on Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever. Soviet scientists discovered it for the first time on the territory of Russian Crimea in 1944. There is documented evidence that the institute commissioned its Ukrainian partners to collect samples of ectoparasite recipients of bats that were transferred to the afore-mentioned Reims Island under the existing agreements.
The Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine has concentrated its activities in Ukraine on extremely dangerous fevers – Denge, Chikungunya, West Nile and Usutu, to name a few.
This information on Germany’s bio-military activities in Ukraine is far from exhaustive. It cannot be ruled out that, as the special military operation progresses, additional documents will be discovered by the Russian Armed Forces. According to confirmed reports, Germany closely coordinated its work on biological security with its American allies that established a network of at least 30 biological laboratories in Ukraine. In addition to their other activities, they were involved in dangerous research.
We urge German officials to immediately stop spreading false allegations about our country’s intentions to use weapons banned by international law. We believe that such statements can only serve to push neo-Nazi battalions to commit horrible provocations, and moral responsibility for their tragic consequences will be shared by Berlin.
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Medvedchuk’s spouse Oksana Marchenko appealed to the British government and people: “I appeal to the relatives and friends of Aiden Eslin and Shaun Pinner: Angela Eslin, Nathan and Shannon Wood, Derby and Evan Pinner. It's in your power to ask the Prime Minister of your country, Boris Johnson, to influence the Ukrainian leadership and achieve the release of Aiden and Sean by exchanging them for the Ukrainian opposition politician detained by the Kiev authorities, my husband Viktor Medvedchuk.”
💬 Maria Zakharova: UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who recently went to Kiev, must be aware of the developments with Her Majesty’s subjects. He is sure to reply, isn’t he?
Meanwhile, Liz Truss might take the opportunity to reveal what exactly the British nationals were doing there [in Mariupol, with Neo-Nazis] anyway.
Medvedchuk’s spouse Oksana Marchenko appealed to the British government and people: “I appeal to the relatives and friends of Aiden Eslin and Shaun Pinner: Angela Eslin, Nathan and Shannon Wood, Derby and Evan Pinner. It's in your power to ask the Prime Minister of your country, Boris Johnson, to influence the Ukrainian leadership and achieve the release of Aiden and Sean by exchanging them for the Ukrainian opposition politician detained by the Kiev authorities, my husband Viktor Medvedchuk.”
💬 Maria Zakharova: UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who recently went to Kiev, must be aware of the developments with Her Majesty’s subjects. He is sure to reply, isn’t he?
Meanwhile, Liz Truss might take the opportunity to reveal what exactly the British nationals were doing there [in Mariupol, with Neo-Nazis] anyway.
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⚡British mercenary tells, what is really happening in the city of Mariupol. The truth from the eye-witness, not from global media, that creates myths while being far away from Ukraine.
❗Mass Media of Russia about Situation in Ukraine (April 19, 2022)❗
1. Political statements by the leadership of the Russian Federation and friendly countries
Russian President Vladimir Putin taking part in the meeting on economic issues said that the pressure from sanctions, yet more pressure from sanctions imposed by Western countries has been the main negative factor for the economy lately. United States and European countries expected еру sanctions to rapidly produce a devastating effect on Russia’s finances and economy, sow panic in the markets, bring about a collapse in the banking system and create major shortages of goods in shops.
However, this policy has failed in Russia. The strategy of unleashing an economic blitzkrieg has been ineffective. Moreover, the sanctions affected those who initiated them. Russia has been able to withstand this unprecedented pressure. The situation is getting back to normal with the ruble recovering to where it was in the first half of February, which is attributable to a robust trade surplus, which is an objective reality.
As for the consumer market, retail demand has stabilized after a brief period of panic buying, which does happen in situations like this. Retail chains are restocking their supplies. (kremlin.ru)
Press Secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov on April, 18 said that Russia's response to Western sanctions is being formulated in the government. He stressed that it would be coincidence of Moscow's interests. Peskov also pointed out that the negotiation process with Ukraine continues but its dynamics leaves much to be desired. Despite this the military operation is going according to plan. (lenta.ru)
2. The course of special military operation. Briefings by Russian Defense Ministry
18.04.2022 (10:00)
Russian Armed Forces continue the special military operation in Ukraine.
Russian Air Forces destroyed 16 military assets of Ukraine. Among them:
5 command posts, 1 fuel storage and 3 ammunition depots, military facilities in Barvenkovo, Gulyai Pole, Kamyshevakha, Zelenoe Pole, Velikomikhailovka and Nikolaev.
Army aviation hit 108 enemy targets of Ukrainian Armed Forces. One Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle was shot down by an air-to-air missile near Buda. 8 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles were destroyed near Pashkovo, Veseloe and Illichevka.
4 arms depots were destroyed with high-precision land-based missiles "Iskander"near Popasnaya, Yampol and Kramotorsk. Russian artillery hit 315 Ukrainian assets including 18 command posts, 22 artillery batteries, 1 anti-aircraft missile system OSA-AKM, 275 strong points.
Russian Air Defence shot down 3 Ukrainian combat aircraft: 2 fighters MiG-29 near Izyum and 1 Su-25 near Avdeevka. 11 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were also shot down near Klimovo, Nevelskoe, Novotroitskoe, Izyum, Panteleimonovka, Sladkovodnoe and Yasnoe.
In total since the beginning of SMO, 139 aircrafts, 483 unmanned aerial vehicles, 250 anti-aircraft missile systems, 2,326 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 254 multiple launch rocket systems, 1,004 field artillery and mortars, 2,184 special military vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have been destroyed. (mil.ru)
18.04.2022 (20:00)
Russian Armed Forces continue the special military operation in Ukraine.
On April 18, high-precision air-based missiles of the Russian Air Forces hit the 124-th Joint Support Centre of the Logistics Command of the Ukrainian Armed Forces near Lvov. The logistics centre and the large shipments of foreign weapons that have arrived in Ukraine from the US and European countries over the last six days have been destroyed. In addition, a large ammunition depot near Vasilkov in Kiev Region has been destroyed.
Russian Air Forces destroyed 16 military assets of Ukraine. Among them:
2 command posts, 2 strong points of Ukrainian troops in Popasnaya, Barvenkovo and Krasniy Liman.
1. Political statements by the leadership of the Russian Federation and friendly countries
Russian President Vladimir Putin taking part in the meeting on economic issues said that the pressure from sanctions, yet more pressure from sanctions imposed by Western countries has been the main negative factor for the economy lately. United States and European countries expected еру sanctions to rapidly produce a devastating effect on Russia’s finances and economy, sow panic in the markets, bring about a collapse in the banking system and create major shortages of goods in shops.
However, this policy has failed in Russia. The strategy of unleashing an economic blitzkrieg has been ineffective. Moreover, the sanctions affected those who initiated them. Russia has been able to withstand this unprecedented pressure. The situation is getting back to normal with the ruble recovering to where it was in the first half of February, which is attributable to a robust trade surplus, which is an objective reality.
As for the consumer market, retail demand has stabilized after a brief period of panic buying, which does happen in situations like this. Retail chains are restocking their supplies. (kremlin.ru)
Press Secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov on April, 18 said that Russia's response to Western sanctions is being formulated in the government. He stressed that it would be coincidence of Moscow's interests. Peskov also pointed out that the negotiation process with Ukraine continues but its dynamics leaves much to be desired. Despite this the military operation is going according to plan. (lenta.ru)
2. The course of special military operation. Briefings by Russian Defense Ministry
18.04.2022 (10:00)
Russian Armed Forces continue the special military operation in Ukraine.
Russian Air Forces destroyed 16 military assets of Ukraine. Among them:
5 command posts, 1 fuel storage and 3 ammunition depots, military facilities in Barvenkovo, Gulyai Pole, Kamyshevakha, Zelenoe Pole, Velikomikhailovka and Nikolaev.
Army aviation hit 108 enemy targets of Ukrainian Armed Forces. One Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle was shot down by an air-to-air missile near Buda. 8 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles were destroyed near Pashkovo, Veseloe and Illichevka.
4 arms depots were destroyed with high-precision land-based missiles "Iskander"near Popasnaya, Yampol and Kramotorsk. Russian artillery hit 315 Ukrainian assets including 18 command posts, 22 artillery batteries, 1 anti-aircraft missile system OSA-AKM, 275 strong points.
Russian Air Defence shot down 3 Ukrainian combat aircraft: 2 fighters MiG-29 near Izyum and 1 Su-25 near Avdeevka. 11 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were also shot down near Klimovo, Nevelskoe, Novotroitskoe, Izyum, Panteleimonovka, Sladkovodnoe and Yasnoe.
In total since the beginning of SMO, 139 aircrafts, 483 unmanned aerial vehicles, 250 anti-aircraft missile systems, 2,326 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 254 multiple launch rocket systems, 1,004 field artillery and mortars, 2,184 special military vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have been destroyed. (mil.ru)
18.04.2022 (20:00)
Russian Armed Forces continue the special military operation in Ukraine.
On April 18, high-precision air-based missiles of the Russian Air Forces hit the 124-th Joint Support Centre of the Logistics Command of the Ukrainian Armed Forces near Lvov. The logistics centre and the large shipments of foreign weapons that have arrived in Ukraine from the US and European countries over the last six days have been destroyed. In addition, a large ammunition depot near Vasilkov in Kiev Region has been destroyed.
Russian Air Forces destroyed 16 military assets of Ukraine. Among them:
2 command posts, 2 strong points of Ukrainian troops in Popasnaya, Barvenkovo and Krasniy Liman.
Russian Air Forces and Army aviation hit 84 military assets of Ukraine. Destroyed: plant to repair tactical missile warheads “Tochka-U” in Dnepropetrovsk, command post of the territorial defence battalion near Zelenoe Pole, 2 ammunition depots and 1 fuel storage facility near Chervonaya Polyana.
Russian artillery hit 331 military assets: 9 command posts,
1 missile and artillery weapons depot, as well as 315 enemy targets near Popasnaya and Novomaiorskoe. Up to 120 nationalists were killed near Novotoshkovskaya.
In total, 139 aircrafts, 483 unmanned aerial vehicles, 250 anti-aircraft missile systems, 2,337 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 254 multiple launch rocket systems, 1,009 field artillery and mortars, as well as 2,196 special military vehicles of Ukrainian Armed Forces were destroyed during the operation. (mil.ru)
Emergency Statement of the Joint Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response in Ukraine
18.04.2022 (14:45)
According to available information, the Kiev regime, with the support of several Western countries, is completing preparations for monstrous provocations with numerous victims in Zaporozhye, Nikolaev, Odessa, Sumy and Kharkov regions. For this purpose, more than 70 mobile groups were formed from nationalist battalions on vans and cross-country vehicles equipped with mortars (so-called "traveling mortars") with the task of shelling Orthodox churches and churches on Easter Night (April 23-24, 2022) to accuse Russian servicemen of massacring civilians on this sacred holiday for believers..
A large number of Western news agency journalists are to be involved in the filming of the alleged "Russian atrocities" and the immediate spreading of the fakes by Kiev.
The Ukrainian authorities' prepared provocations demonstrate their complete indifference to the fate of their own citizens.
We call on the United Nations, the OSCE, the International Committee of the Red Cross and other international organizations to immediately influence the Kiev regime to prevent this inhumane provocation that ignores all norms of morality and international humanitarian law.
We warn the countries of the so-called "civilised West" led by the US in advance that the Russian Federation has an evidence base of another terrible crime being prepared by the Kiev regime.
This emergency statement should be published immediately and reported to the United Nations, the OSCE, the International Committee of the Red Cross and other international organisations through all available information resources. (mil.ru)
3. Crimes of the Ukrainian Nazis and the armed forces of Ukraine
On April, 15 Russian Armed Forces prevented an attempt of Ukrainian Air Force to launch a missile attack on the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station. (redstar.ru)
Kiev regime treats its own citizens inhumanely and is violating the norms of morality and International humanitarian law. Ukrainian Armed Forces and nazis's battalions purposefully place their firing positions and heavy weapons in kindergartens, schools, municipal and medical organizations. (redstar.ru)
4. Exposure of disinformation
Fake:
President of Ukraine V.Zelensky in the interview to CNN said that the losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the military operation amounted to 2.5-3 thousand people.
As a matter of fact:
Ukraine always use the information strategy to overestimate the enemy's losses and underestimate their own. Irretrievable losses of Ukraine are 23,367 people including more than 4,000 people in Mariupol. (войнасфейками.рф) #Russia #Ukraine #Donbass
Russian artillery hit 331 military assets: 9 command posts,
1 missile and artillery weapons depot, as well as 315 enemy targets near Popasnaya and Novomaiorskoe. Up to 120 nationalists were killed near Novotoshkovskaya.
In total, 139 aircrafts, 483 unmanned aerial vehicles, 250 anti-aircraft missile systems, 2,337 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 254 multiple launch rocket systems, 1,009 field artillery and mortars, as well as 2,196 special military vehicles of Ukrainian Armed Forces were destroyed during the operation. (mil.ru)
Emergency Statement of the Joint Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response in Ukraine
18.04.2022 (14:45)
According to available information, the Kiev regime, with the support of several Western countries, is completing preparations for monstrous provocations with numerous victims in Zaporozhye, Nikolaev, Odessa, Sumy and Kharkov regions. For this purpose, more than 70 mobile groups were formed from nationalist battalions on vans and cross-country vehicles equipped with mortars (so-called "traveling mortars") with the task of shelling Orthodox churches and churches on Easter Night (April 23-24, 2022) to accuse Russian servicemen of massacring civilians on this sacred holiday for believers..
A large number of Western news agency journalists are to be involved in the filming of the alleged "Russian atrocities" and the immediate spreading of the fakes by Kiev.
The Ukrainian authorities' prepared provocations demonstrate their complete indifference to the fate of their own citizens.
We call on the United Nations, the OSCE, the International Committee of the Red Cross and other international organizations to immediately influence the Kiev regime to prevent this inhumane provocation that ignores all norms of morality and international humanitarian law.
We warn the countries of the so-called "civilised West" led by the US in advance that the Russian Federation has an evidence base of another terrible crime being prepared by the Kiev regime.
This emergency statement should be published immediately and reported to the United Nations, the OSCE, the International Committee of the Red Cross and other international organisations through all available information resources. (mil.ru)
3. Crimes of the Ukrainian Nazis and the armed forces of Ukraine
On April, 15 Russian Armed Forces prevented an attempt of Ukrainian Air Force to launch a missile attack on the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station. (redstar.ru)
Kiev regime treats its own citizens inhumanely and is violating the norms of morality and International humanitarian law. Ukrainian Armed Forces and nazis's battalions purposefully place their firing positions and heavy weapons in kindergartens, schools, municipal and medical organizations. (redstar.ru)
4. Exposure of disinformation
Fake:
President of Ukraine V.Zelensky in the interview to CNN said that the losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the military operation amounted to 2.5-3 thousand people.
As a matter of fact:
Ukraine always use the information strategy to overestimate the enemy's losses and underestimate their own. Irretrievable losses of Ukraine are 23,367 people including more than 4,000 people in Mariupol. (войнасфейками.рф) #Russia #Ukraine #Donbass
Dear friends, I am glad to say that today, April 19, 2022, I presented my credentials as Ambassador of the Russian Federation to the Republic of Singapore to H.E. Ms Halimah Yacob, President of the Republic of Singapore.
Looking forward to establishing friendly and cordial relations. Expect you would reciprocate.
Nikolay Kudashev
Looking forward to establishing friendly and cordial relations. Expect you would reciprocate.
Nikolay Kudashev
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