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8️⃣0️⃣ years ago, on February 4, 1945, the Yalta (Crimea) Conference of the Allied leaders — Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill and Franklin D.Roosevelt officially opened.
#YaltaConference of the Anti-Hitler coalition leaders went down in history as one of the most significant and key international meetings of the 'Big Three' during #WWII. The Yalta talks became a symbol of successful cooperation between the Soviet Union, the US and the UK in the fight against the common enemy — Nazism.
The decisions taken at the Conference outlined the frame of the post-war #YaltaPotsdam international relations system, with the #UNCharter becoming its international legal basis.
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By late 1944 — early 1945, the Red Army expelled the enemy from all the territory of the Soviet Union and proceeded with the operations aimed at liberating Europe from the Nazis.
🌟 In the first days of February 1945, the forces of the Red Army's 1st Byelorussian and the 1st Ukrainian Fronts successfully completed the Vistula-Oder Offensive, overcoming over 500 kilometres in less than a month (!), liberated Poland and then reached the border with Germany. Berlin was just 60 kilometres away. The collapse of the Third Reich was just a matter of time.
As the long-awaited common Allies' #Victory over Nazi Germany was as close as never, the future post-war world order-related issues needed to be discussed by the victorious great powers. While the Soviet forces were rapidly advancing in Eastern Europe in January, the preparations for the big negotiations to shape the future of the world were in full swing. Yalta, a Crimean city, was picked as the venue for that historic meeting (February 4-11, 1945).
The fate of post-war Germany was the key focus of the Yalta Conference. The Allies reaffirmed their commitment to eliminating German militarism and Nazism, and creating guarantees that “Germany would never be able again to disturb peace of the
world.”
At the Yalta talks, the 'Big Three' managed to reach agreement on Poland’s post-war borders. The Soviet delegation consistently promoted the idea of ensuring the interests of the Poles and their fundamental right to independence and sovereignty. Winston Churchill, addressing the House of Commons upon his return from Yalta, on February 27, said: "If not for the prodigious exertions and sacrifices of Russia, Poland was doomed to utter destruction at the hands of the Germans. Not only Poland as a state and as a nation, but the Poles as a race were doomed by Hitler to be destroyed or reduced to a servile station".
The Yalta Conference resulted also in adopting of 'the Declaration of Free Europe' and other crucial international legal documents on the fundamental principles of the #UnitedNations, laying down the foundation of the Yalta-Potsdam international system.
☝️ The rapidly strengthening international posture and influence of the Soviet Union, bolstered by the outstanding achievements of the Red Army in the battlefields, had a significant impact on the course and the outcomes of the negotiations. By the time Europe was almost freed from the shackles of hitlerism, the Soviet soldier enjoyed the fame of liberator whose noble feat was well-known all across the continent.
The decisions of the Yalta Conference strengthened the anti-fascist coalition in the final stages of WWII and contributed to the Victory over Germany.
🎙 From a briefing by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova (Saransk, January 31, 2025):
💬 "The participants in the Yalta Conference managed to overcome their differences, and, acting in the spirit of true solidarity, mutual respect and trust, abandoned their fleeting interests for the sake of defeating the common enemy and achieving a common victory, peace and freedom for all countries and peoples.
Unfortunately, much has changed since then. Now, multiple proponents of historical revisionism tend to falsify historical reality and associate the Yalta agreements with the split of Europe and the bloc confrontation of the post-war period."
#WeWereAllies
8️⃣0️⃣ years ago, on February 4, 1945, the Yalta (Crimea) Conference of the Allied leaders — Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill and Franklin D.Roosevelt officially opened.
#YaltaConference of the Anti-Hitler coalition leaders went down in history as one of the most significant and key international meetings of the 'Big Three' during #WWII. The Yalta talks became a symbol of successful cooperation between the Soviet Union, the US and the UK in the fight against the common enemy — Nazism.
The decisions taken at the Conference outlined the frame of the post-war #YaltaPotsdam international relations system, with the #UNCharter becoming its international legal basis.
***
By late 1944 — early 1945, the Red Army expelled the enemy from all the territory of the Soviet Union and proceeded with the operations aimed at liberating Europe from the Nazis.
As the long-awaited common Allies' #Victory over Nazi Germany was as close as never, the future post-war world order-related issues needed to be discussed by the victorious great powers. While the Soviet forces were rapidly advancing in Eastern Europe in January, the preparations for the big negotiations to shape the future of the world were in full swing. Yalta, a Crimean city, was picked as the venue for that historic meeting (February 4-11, 1945).
The fate of post-war Germany was the key focus of the Yalta Conference. The Allies reaffirmed their commitment to eliminating German militarism and Nazism, and creating guarantees that “Germany would never be able again to disturb peace of the
world.”
At the Yalta talks, the 'Big Three' managed to reach agreement on Poland’s post-war borders. The Soviet delegation consistently promoted the idea of ensuring the interests of the Poles and their fundamental right to independence and sovereignty. Winston Churchill, addressing the House of Commons upon his return from Yalta, on February 27, said: "If not for the prodigious exertions and sacrifices of Russia, Poland was doomed to utter destruction at the hands of the Germans. Not only Poland as a state and as a nation, but the Poles as a race were doomed by Hitler to be destroyed or reduced to a servile station".
The Yalta Conference resulted also in adopting of 'the Declaration of Free Europe' and other crucial international legal documents on the fundamental principles of the #UnitedNations, laying down the foundation of the Yalta-Potsdam international system.
☝️ The rapidly strengthening international posture and influence of the Soviet Union, bolstered by the outstanding achievements of the Red Army in the battlefields, had a significant impact on the course and the outcomes of the negotiations. By the time Europe was almost freed from the shackles of hitlerism, the Soviet soldier enjoyed the fame of liberator whose noble feat was well-known all across the continent.
The decisions of the Yalta Conference strengthened the anti-fascist coalition in the final stages of WWII and contributed to the Victory over Germany.
🎙 From a briefing by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova (Saransk, January 31, 2025):
💬 "The participants in the Yalta Conference managed to overcome their differences, and, acting in the spirit of true solidarity, mutual respect and trust, abandoned their fleeting interests for the sake of defeating the common enemy and achieving a common victory, peace and freedom for all countries and peoples.
Unfortunately, much has changed since then. Now, multiple proponents of historical revisionism tend to falsify historical reality and associate the Yalta agreements with the split of Europe and the bloc confrontation of the post-war period."
#WeWereAllies
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📰 Read Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s article for Russia in Global Affairs magazine
"The UN Charter as the legal foundation of a multipolar world"
🔹 80 years ago, the leaders of the Soviet Union, the United States and Britain opened the Yalta Conference to define the contours of the postwar world. Despite ideological differences, they agreed to eradicate German Nazism and Japanese militarism.
🔹 The principle of sovereign equality of states laid the foundation for the Yalta-Potsdam system: no one can claim dominance because all are formally equal, regardless of territory, population, military capabilities or any other attributes.
🔹 The UN-based world order fulfills its primary task: safeguarding humanity against a new world war.
🔹The West has never been cured of its syndrome of exceptionalism and retains its neo-colonial habits of living at the expense of others. Interstate relations based on respect for international law were not to the West's liking from the outset.
🔹 Viewing the Yalta-Potsdam agreements as a tactical concession, the US and its allies have never adhered to the UN Charter's fundamental principle of the sovereign equality of states.
🔹 One manifestation of the "rules-based order" was Washington's policy of geopolitical absorption of Eastern Europe. Russia has been forced to eliminate its explosive consequences with the special military operation.
🔹 "America first" bears a striking resemblance to the Hitlerite slogan "Germany above all", and a bet on "peace through strength" could be the final blow to diplomacy.
🔹 Brazen attempts to remake the world in one's own interests, in violation of UN principles, can lead to instability, confrontation and even disaster. Given the current level of international tension, a reckless rejection of the Yalta-Potsdam system, with the UN and its Charter at its core, will inevitably lead to chaos.
🔹 Multipolarity is gaining momentum, and rather than opposing it, the US could, in the foreseeable future, become a responsible centre of power alongside Russia, China, and other states across the Global South, East, North, and West.
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"The UN Charter as the legal foundation of a multipolar world"
🔹 80 years ago, the leaders of the Soviet Union, the United States and Britain opened the Yalta Conference to define the contours of the postwar world. Despite ideological differences, they agreed to eradicate German Nazism and Japanese militarism.
🔹 The principle of sovereign equality of states laid the foundation for the Yalta-Potsdam system: no one can claim dominance because all are formally equal, regardless of territory, population, military capabilities or any other attributes.
🔹 The UN-based world order fulfills its primary task: safeguarding humanity against a new world war.
🔹The West has never been cured of its syndrome of exceptionalism and retains its neo-colonial habits of living at the expense of others. Interstate relations based on respect for international law were not to the West's liking from the outset.
🔹 Viewing the Yalta-Potsdam agreements as a tactical concession, the US and its allies have never adhered to the UN Charter's fundamental principle of the sovereign equality of states.
🔹 One manifestation of the "rules-based order" was Washington's policy of geopolitical absorption of Eastern Europe. Russia has been forced to eliminate its explosive consequences with the special military operation.
🔹 "America first" bears a striking resemblance to the Hitlerite slogan "Germany above all", and a bet on "peace through strength" could be the final blow to diplomacy.
🔹 Brazen attempts to remake the world in one's own interests, in violation of UN principles, can lead to instability, confrontation and even disaster. Given the current level of international tension, a reckless rejection of the Yalta-Potsdam system, with the UN and its Charter at its core, will inevitably lead to chaos.
🔹 Multipolarity is gaining momentum, and rather than opposing it, the US could, in the foreseeable future, become a responsible centre of power alongside Russia, China, and other states across the Global South, East, North, and West.
Read in full
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🎙 Watch Ambassador Andrei Kelin's interview with James Mates, Europe Editor of ITV News
Key talking points:
🟣 We are prepared for a very serious conversation [on peace in Ukraine]. We have laid out our position and we are sticking to it. We are also on the offensive, which makes our position stronger. A lot now depends on what happens in the coming weeks and months.
🟣 Not many [in the West] are realising the root causes of the [Ukraine] conflict, and without eliminating the root causes of the conflict, nothing is possible.
🟣 There is a question of the legitimacy of Mr Zelensky, because since his powers expired last May, it is very doubtful that if he signs anything it will be legitimate.
🟣 We are winning now. Ukraine is definitely losing. Also those countries in the West, including the UK, are losing the position and the case they have tried to fight for, I mean, by supporting Ukraine, by being directly involved in this conflict.
🟣 Everyone should remember what happened during the Second World War and the role of the Soviet soldiers who liberated Oswiecim [Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp] and Europe.
🟣 If there is something serious to discuss, I'm sure it [Russia-US summit] will happen. I cannot say when, why and how, but the general mood is for high-level contacts.
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Key talking points:
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🎙 Интервью Посла России в Великобритании Андрея Келина корреспонденту телеканала «Россия 24» Александру Хабарову (7 февраля 2025 года)
Основные тезисы:
• Наряду с Вашингтоном Лондон был одним из основных «поджигателей» украинского конфликта. Рано или поздно правительству Великобритании придётся объяснять, в том числе своему народу, провал политики всесторонней поддержки Киева.
• [Британский премьер-министр] Кир Стармер продолжает политику своего предшественника по накачиванию Украины вооружениями. Здесь и бессовестная схема обворовывания России: Украине предоставляется кредит, который должен погашаться из «замороженных» российских денег.
• Эксперты в Великобритании весьма скептически оценивают его [британо-украинское 100-летнее партнёрство], поскольку понятно, что заключать 100-летнее партнёрство с кем бы то ни было, довольно бессмысленно.
• Это будет означать, если это гипотетически случится [попытки Лондона задерживать российские суда в своей исключительной экономической зоне], нарушение положений Конвенции [ООН по морскому праву]. Но до этого дело вряд ли дойдет, поскольку ответ с нашей стороны обязательно будет, и он будет абсолютно законным, легитимным и оправданным.
• Сейчас правительство Кира Стармера всеми силами пытается наполнить казну, где имеется довольно большая дыра. <...> За прошлый год 12 долларовых миллиардеров и где-то 11 тысяч миллионеров уехали [из Британии]. Это означает, что замедлилась деловая активность и инвестиционная деятельность. Всё это отрицательно сказывается на [местной] экономике.
• Что касается внутренней политики, то очевидно, что у населения [Британии] сейчас вызывают раздражение одинаковые политики Консервативной и Лейбористской партий, которые [находятся] уже много лет у власти и довели страну до плачевного состояния.
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Основные тезисы:
• Наряду с Вашингтоном Лондон был одним из основных «поджигателей» украинского конфликта. Рано или поздно правительству Великобритании придётся объяснять, в том числе своему народу, провал политики всесторонней поддержки Киева.
• [Британский премьер-министр] Кир Стармер продолжает политику своего предшественника по накачиванию Украины вооружениями. Здесь и бессовестная схема обворовывания России: Украине предоставляется кредит, который должен погашаться из «замороженных» российских денег.
• Эксперты в Великобритании весьма скептически оценивают его [британо-украинское 100-летнее партнёрство], поскольку понятно, что заключать 100-летнее партнёрство с кем бы то ни было, довольно бессмысленно.
• Это будет означать, если это гипотетически случится [попытки Лондона задерживать российские суда в своей исключительной экономической зоне], нарушение положений Конвенции [ООН по морскому праву]. Но до этого дело вряд ли дойдет, поскольку ответ с нашей стороны обязательно будет, и он будет абсолютно законным, легитимным и оправданным.
• Сейчас правительство Кира Стармера всеми силами пытается наполнить казну, где имеется довольно большая дыра. <...> За прошлый год 12 долларовых миллиардеров и где-то 11 тысяч миллионеров уехали [из Британии]. Это означает, что замедлилась деловая активность и инвестиционная деятельность. Всё это отрицательно сказывается на [местной] экономике.
• Что касается внутренней политики, то очевидно, что у населения [Британии] сейчас вызывают раздражение одинаковые политики Консервативной и Лейбористской партий, которые [находятся] уже много лет у власти и довели страну до плачевного состояния.
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Today is Diplomatic Workers' Day aka Diplomats' Day in 🇷🇺 #Russia!
This date goes back to the earliest documented mention (February 10, 1549) of the Ambassadorial Prikaz —the first state body in our country’s history that oversaw foreign affairs.
#DiplomatsDay #DWR2025
This date goes back to the earliest documented mention (February 10, 1549) of the Ambassadorial Prikaz —the first state body in our country’s history that oversaw foreign affairs.
#DiplomatsDay #DWR2025
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📰 Интервью Посла России в Великобритании Андрея Келина газете «Аргументы и факты» (10 февраля 2025 года)
🔴 Российско-британские отношения по вине Лондона пребывают в затяжном кризисе. Здешнее правительство и при консерваторах, да и при нынешних лейбористах откровенно претендует на роль лидера антироссийского фронта. Выступает вдохновителем и активным участником многих недружественных акций.
🔴 Нынешние британские власти пытаются очернить Россию «по всем статьям», а становление неонацизма в некоторых государствах стремятся не замечать. Да и неудобные страницы истории нередко предпочитают попросту игнорировать. Достаточно посмотреть на заявления отдельных британских деятелей в связи с годовщиной освобождения Освенцима, в которых не нашлось места для упоминания воинов Красной армии.
🔴 Британия приняла весьма деятельное участие в развязывании и подпитке гибридной войны против нашей страны, ведомой руками украинцев. Более того, стала непосредственным участником конфликта после преступного применения ВСУ ракет Storm Shadow вглубь территории России.
🔴 В условиях фактической цензуры, которой в западных странах подвергаются российские и альтернативные СМИ, перед российскими дипломатами стоит задача доводить позицию России до думающих элементов истеблишмента и широких кругов населения стран пребывания.
🔴 Односторонние ограничительные меры, которые Лондон применяет против нашей страны, её граждан и организаций, нелегитимны и юридически ничтожны.
🔴 Надеемся, что Сергей и Юлия Скрипали живы, здоровы и остаются на свободе. Но беспокойство за них только растёт. К сожалению, власти Соединённого Королевства делают всё, чтобы утаить правду о судьбе наших граждан.
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🎙 Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s greetings on Diplomats’ Day (February 10, 2025)
💬 Colleagues,
Today, we are celebrating a professional holiday that brings together many generations of diplomats, who have devoted their lives to serving Russia.
We are paying tribute to the emerging tradition to honour our country’s diplomatic workers, which dates back to 2003, when we first marked this significant date in line with President Vladimir Putin’s decision.
🤝 First of all, I would like to express gratitude to all those who honestly perform their professional duty at the Central Office in Smolenskaya Square, territorial missions in the Russian regions, and our numerous foreign missions. Thank you for your conscientious service, self-denial, and non-indifferent attitude to what has been entrusted to you.
Russian diplomats have always been distinguished by their commitment to the ideals of patriotism and firmly safeguarded the interests of Fatherland at all times, under any social and political system, and under all circumstances.
The names of many of them have been forever entered in the glorious annals of Russian history. I am referring to Alexander Bezborodko, Alexander Gorchakov, Alexandra Kollontai, Anatoly Dobrynin, Yevgeny Primakov, Vitaly Churkin, and numerous others. We cherish their memory and honour their services. <...>
This year is special on the diplomatic calendar, being marked by the 80th Anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War and World War II. It has also been proclaimed the Year of the Defender of the Fatherland.
It is with a particular gratitude that we pay homage to the immortal feat of valour committed by staff members of the People’s Commissariat of Foreign Affairs, who rose with arms in hand to the defence of Motherland during the grim years of war.
🏅 We recall the names of diplomats, our senior colleagues, who were bringing Victory closer at the foreign policy front. They made an invaluable contribution to the establishment of the anti-Hitler coalition and later to reaching fundamental agreements on the postwar international order, the most important of which were the decisions to create the United Nations and approve its Charter whose principles and goals in their totality and interconnection remain relevant to this day.
It is largely due to our country’s leaders and diplomatic service that the Yalta-Potsdam system of international relations has guaranteed global peace and security for the past eight decades.
Now that Russia is facing fateful challenges again, our priority and sacred duty is to safeguard peace based on the legal results of World War II. <...>
We will continue to do whatever is possible and necessary to protect Russia’s national interests in the context of foreign policy support for the special military operation and to create the safe and most favourable conditions for national development and wellbeing of our people.
🌐 We will continue to promote multifaceted cooperation with all sober-minded partners and primarily with the Global Majority – former republics of the USSR and countries of Greater Eurasia, Africa, and Latin America.
In collaboration with our numerous friends and opinion allies, we will help to strengthen the foundations of multipolarity, create Eurasian security architecture, and establish international interaction mechanisms impervious to the destructive influence of the Western minority. <...>
🎉 I wish you good health, wellbeing, and new attainments for the good of your Fatherland. Success and good luck to you! Congratulations once again!
#DiplomatsDay
💬 Colleagues,
Today, we are celebrating a professional holiday that brings together many generations of diplomats, who have devoted their lives to serving Russia.
We are paying tribute to the emerging tradition to honour our country’s diplomatic workers, which dates back to 2003, when we first marked this significant date in line with President Vladimir Putin’s decision.
🤝 First of all, I would like to express gratitude to all those who honestly perform their professional duty at the Central Office in Smolenskaya Square, territorial missions in the Russian regions, and our numerous foreign missions. Thank you for your conscientious service, self-denial, and non-indifferent attitude to what has been entrusted to you.
Russian diplomats have always been distinguished by their commitment to the ideals of patriotism and firmly safeguarded the interests of Fatherland at all times, under any social and political system, and under all circumstances.
The names of many of them have been forever entered in the glorious annals of Russian history. I am referring to Alexander Bezborodko, Alexander Gorchakov, Alexandra Kollontai, Anatoly Dobrynin, Yevgeny Primakov, Vitaly Churkin, and numerous others. We cherish their memory and honour their services. <...>
This year is special on the diplomatic calendar, being marked by the 80th Anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War and World War II. It has also been proclaimed the Year of the Defender of the Fatherland.
It is with a particular gratitude that we pay homage to the immortal feat of valour committed by staff members of the People’s Commissariat of Foreign Affairs, who rose with arms in hand to the defence of Motherland during the grim years of war.
It is largely due to our country’s leaders and diplomatic service that the Yalta-Potsdam system of international relations has guaranteed global peace and security for the past eight decades.
Now that Russia is facing fateful challenges again, our priority and sacred duty is to safeguard peace based on the legal results of World War II. <...>
We will continue to do whatever is possible and necessary to protect Russia’s national interests in the context of foreign policy support for the special military operation and to create the safe and most favourable conditions for national development and wellbeing of our people.
🌐 We will continue to promote multifaceted cooperation with all sober-minded partners and primarily with the Global Majority – former republics of the USSR and countries of Greater Eurasia, Africa, and Latin America.
In collaboration with our numerous friends and opinion allies, we will help to strengthen the foundations of multipolarity, create Eurasian security architecture, and establish international interaction mechanisms impervious to the destructive influence of the Western minority. <...>
🎉 I wish you good health, wellbeing, and new attainments for the good of your Fatherland. Success and good luck to you! Congratulations once again!
#DiplomatsDay
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✉️ President Vladimir Putin congratulated current staff and veterans of the Russian Foreign Ministry on their professional holiday, Diplomatic Worker's Day.
The message reads, in part:
The message reads, in part:
The Russian Foreign Ministry can be justly proud of its rich and glorious history. Its employees have always served the Motherland with honour, displaying civic courage, exceptional professionalism and dedication to duty.
Continuing these traditions with dignity, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is resolutely and consistently defending Russia's legitimate national interests in the current challenging international environment.
It ensures effective cooperation with the global majority states in order to build a just multipolar world order based on mutual respect, the rule of international law, and the principles of equal and indivisible security. This is evidenced, in particular, by the productive work of Russia's BRICS chairmanship and the success of the association's Summit in Kazan.
There is no doubt that in the year of the 80th anniversary of the Great Victory, Russian diplomats will continue their active efforts in opposing any attempts to falsify history, manifestations of neo-Nazism, Russophobia and other forms of discrimination based on ethnic or religious grounds. Moreover, protecting the rights of our compatriots abroad remains a priority.
I am confident that the MFA's close-knit team will continue to work with the utmost dedication and contribute to the strengthening of Russia's international standing.
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🎙 Excerpt from Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's remarks at a solemn event marking #DiplomatsDay (Moscow, 10 February 2025)
💬 The Greater Eurasian Partnership is called to serve as a solid material foundation underlying architecture of equal and indivisible security across Eurasia.
Our vision of the Eurasian security architecture implies its openness to all countries and associations of geographical Eurasia, meaning that European countries are welcome to participate in the continental cooperation, provided they abandon their hostile policies and bloc thinking that was largely behind the armed conflict in Ukraine.
The causes of Ukraine crisis run deep. We never tire of discussing them, and we are pushing for having them removed.
First and foremost, the issue is about creating threats to Russia's security through NATO eastward expansion and the policy pursued by the Kiev regime, which came to power on the heels of an anti-constitutional coup, seeking to exterminate everything about Russia, including its language, culture, media, and canonical Orthodoxy. Complete and irreversible elimination of the root causes of the conflict is the only way forward if we want to put an end to it.
☝️ Russia is ready for talks that will secure our legitimate national interests, not at the expense of the interests of others, but in the context of an agreement on a comprehensive security system that takes everyone's interests into account.
💬 The Greater Eurasian Partnership is called to serve as a solid material foundation underlying architecture of equal and indivisible security across Eurasia.
Our vision of the Eurasian security architecture implies its openness to all countries and associations of geographical Eurasia, meaning that European countries are welcome to participate in the continental cooperation, provided they abandon their hostile policies and bloc thinking that was largely behind the armed conflict in Ukraine.
The causes of Ukraine crisis run deep. We never tire of discussing them, and we are pushing for having them removed.
First and foremost, the issue is about creating threats to Russia's security through NATO eastward expansion and the policy pursued by the Kiev regime, which came to power on the heels of an anti-constitutional coup, seeking to exterminate everything about Russia, including its language, culture, media, and canonical Orthodoxy. Complete and irreversible elimination of the root causes of the conflict is the only way forward if we want to put an end to it.
☝️ Russia is ready for talks that will secure our legitimate national interests, not at the expense of the interests of others, but in the context of an agreement on a comprehensive security system that takes everyone's interests into account.
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📞 President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with President of the transitional phase of the Syrian Arab Republic Ahmed al-Sharaa
Vladimir Putin wished Ahmed al-Sharaa every success in addressing various objectives facing the country’s new leadership for the benefit of the Syrian nation with which Russia has been traditionally linked by relations of friendship and mutually beneficial cooperation.
The Presidents conducted a detailed exchange of opinions regarding the situation in Syria. The Russian Side emphasised its principled position in support of the Syrian state’s unity, sovereignty and territorial integrity. In this connection, the leaders noted the importance of implementing a range of measures for the sake of sustained national normalisation, invigorating intra-Syrian dialogue involving leading political forces and ethnic and religious groups.
Vladimir Putin reaffirmed Russia’s invariable readiness to help improve the socio-economic situation in Syria, including the provision of humanitarian aid to its residents.
The Presidents touched upon multiple key issues of practical collaboration in trade and economic, educational and other spheres, including in the context of recent talks in Damascus that involved a Russian interdepartmental delegation. They agreed to continue these useful contacts for elaborating a wide-ranging agenda of expanded bilateral cooperation.
The Presidents had a constructive, business-like and detailed telephone conversation.
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Vladimir Putin wished Ahmed al-Sharaa every success in addressing various objectives facing the country’s new leadership for the benefit of the Syrian nation with which Russia has been traditionally linked by relations of friendship and mutually beneficial cooperation.
The Presidents conducted a detailed exchange of opinions regarding the situation in Syria. The Russian Side emphasised its principled position in support of the Syrian state’s unity, sovereignty and territorial integrity. In this connection, the leaders noted the importance of implementing a range of measures for the sake of sustained national normalisation, invigorating intra-Syrian dialogue involving leading political forces and ethnic and religious groups.
Vladimir Putin reaffirmed Russia’s invariable readiness to help improve the socio-economic situation in Syria, including the provision of humanitarian aid to its residents.
The Presidents touched upon multiple key issues of practical collaboration in trade and economic, educational and other spheres, including in the context of recent talks in Damascus that involved a Russian interdepartmental delegation. They agreed to continue these useful contacts for elaborating a wide-ranging agenda of expanded bilateral cooperation.
The Presidents had a constructive, business-like and detailed telephone conversation.
#RussiaSyria
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🇷🇺🇺🇸📞 President Vladimir Putin and President Donald Trump spoke over the phone.
The Leaders discussed issues related to the prisoner exchange between Russia and the United States. The US President assured the Russian President of the American side's commitment to fulfill all the agreements reached.
The two Heads of State also discussed a possible settlement in Ukraine. Donald Trump spoke in favour of stopping the hostilities as soon as possible and solving the crisis peacefully. In turn, Vladimir Putin stressed the need to eliminate the root causes of the conflict and agreed with Donald Trump in that a sustainable solution could only be achieved through peaceful negotiations.
In addition, Russia's President endorsed one of the US President's key arguments that it's time for both nations to work together.
The conversation also brought up the Middle East settlement, Iran's nuclear programme, and bilateral economic relations between Russia and the United States.
The Russian President invited the US President to visit Moscow and expressed willingness to receive visiting US officials to discuss issues of mutual interest, including a possible Ukraine settlement.
Presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump agreed to maintain personal contacts in the future, including face-to-face meetings.
The Leaders discussed issues related to the prisoner exchange between Russia and the United States. The US President assured the Russian President of the American side's commitment to fulfill all the agreements reached.
The two Heads of State also discussed a possible settlement in Ukraine. Donald Trump spoke in favour of stopping the hostilities as soon as possible and solving the crisis peacefully. In turn, Vladimir Putin stressed the need to eliminate the root causes of the conflict and agreed with Donald Trump in that a sustainable solution could only be achieved through peaceful negotiations.
In addition, Russia's President endorsed one of the US President's key arguments that it's time for both nations to work together.
The conversation also brought up the Middle East settlement, Iran's nuclear programme, and bilateral economic relations between Russia and the United States.
The Russian President invited the US President to visit Moscow and expressed willingness to receive visiting US officials to discuss issues of mutual interest, including a possible Ukraine settlement.
Presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump agreed to maintain personal contacts in the future, including face-to-face meetings.
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💬 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov: After Russia launched the special military operation, we were accused of all sorts of evil.
For years, no one had listened to our warnings about the root causes of the Ukraine conflict. Several agreements were made to save Ukraine after the 2014 Nazi coup, instigated and financed by the West, but they were never implemented.
We had no choice but to solve this problem ourselves by launching the special military operation.
I was really struck by the sudden excitement with which the whole world seems to be discussing the phone call [between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump] and the reports that followed as an extraordinary event. Just look at what President Biden and his team have done.
❌ Their European satellites have also abandoned dialogue and diplomacy as a method of dealing with the outside world and have instead turned to the language of threats and sanctions, arming the Nazi regime in Kiev to wage war against Russia and going so far as to send their specialists to target the long-range missiles they have supplied to strike Russian territory. <...>
From the way the world froze after Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin spoke over the phone, it is clear that the West has been taking for granted everything that is happening in Ukraine, what Vladimir Zelensky's Nazi regime is doing.
That is probably why many in the West, starting with the leaders of the European Union, were taken aback by a normal, basic conversation between two well-mannered, polite people who do not put their differences aside. They have their disagreements, but they realise that politics is about sitting down and talking, and finding common ground.
☝️ Sadly, the reaction in the West shows that there are virtually no such people left there. Two well-mannered men have just shown the whole world how politics should be done.
I only hope that this will make those who have forgotten how to do it come to their senses, and re-read their history and political science books.
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For years, no one had listened to our warnings about the root causes of the Ukraine conflict. Several agreements were made to save Ukraine after the 2014 Nazi coup, instigated and financed by the West, but they were never implemented.
We had no choice but to solve this problem ourselves by launching the special military operation.
I was really struck by the sudden excitement with which the whole world seems to be discussing the phone call [between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump] and the reports that followed as an extraordinary event. Just look at what President Biden and his team have done.
❌ Their European satellites have also abandoned dialogue and diplomacy as a method of dealing with the outside world and have instead turned to the language of threats and sanctions, arming the Nazi regime in Kiev to wage war against Russia and going so far as to send their specialists to target the long-range missiles they have supplied to strike Russian territory. <...>
From the way the world froze after Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin spoke over the phone, it is clear that the West has been taking for granted everything that is happening in Ukraine, what Vladimir Zelensky's Nazi regime is doing.
That is probably why many in the West, starting with the leaders of the European Union, were taken aback by a normal, basic conversation between two well-mannered, polite people who do not put their differences aside. They have their disagreements, but they realise that politics is about sitting down and talking, and finding common ground.
☝️ Sadly, the reaction in the West shows that there are virtually no such people left there. Two well-mannered men have just shown the whole world how politics should be done.
I only hope that this will make those who have forgotten how to do it come to their senses, and re-read their history and political science books.
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🏅 On February 14, 1943, the Red Army liberated the city of Rostov-on-Don from the Nazi invaders.
#RostovOnDon was occupied twice during the Great Patriotic War. The Nazis took the city in November 1941, and later it was under the enemy occupation again from July 22, 1942 to February 14, 1943. The Germans were determined to hold the city at any costs as it was an important transport hub in the region and a huge administrative centre opening the way for the Nazis to the Caucasus.
🌟 In February 1943, the Red Army carried out the Rostov offensive operation to liberate the city, defeat the enemy’s army group on the Don River and thus block the Wehrmacht units’ redeployment to #Donbass.
The Soviet 28th Army under the command of Lieutenant General Vasily Gerasimenko reached the outskirts of Rostov-on-Don following a 600-kilometre march across snow-covered southern steppes.
Four Nazi divisions were concentrated in Rostov-on-Don. The enemy had built there strong defence lines with robust fortifications and numerous machine-gun and artillery firing points.
The Red Army offensive was also complicated by the terrain: the right bank of the Don River, where the city is located, was much higher than the left bank, from which the Soviet forces were launching their attack. The penetration of the enemy defences in the city seemed impossible.
⚔️ In the early hours of February 8, 1943, the Southern Front forces led by Colonel-General Rodion Malinovsky launched the operation to liberate Rostov-on-Don. The Nazi-occupied city saw brutal, fierce fighting that lasted for six days. On February 14, 1943, the Red Army broke through the enemy’s defences and entered the city from Bataysk. The German garrison was encircled and forced to surrender.
Rostov-on-Don’s pre-war population of more than 1.5 million people was effectively decimated by #WWII and the German occupation, dwindling to 150'000. The Nazis also destroyed there the local industries, looted and captured its cultural heritage.
Thanks to the heroism and unrivalled morale of the Red Army soldiers, Rostov-on-Don was finally liberated after 205 days of occupation. During the Rostov offensive, the Soviet forces not only liberated the Rostov Region, but also took a bridgehead near the Mius River to use it in a further offensive in the direction of Donbass.
#OurVictory #WeRemember
#RostovOnDon was occupied twice during the Great Patriotic War. The Nazis took the city in November 1941, and later it was under the enemy occupation again from July 22, 1942 to February 14, 1943. The Germans were determined to hold the city at any costs as it was an important transport hub in the region and a huge administrative centre opening the way for the Nazis to the Caucasus.
The Soviet 28th Army under the command of Lieutenant General Vasily Gerasimenko reached the outskirts of Rostov-on-Don following a 600-kilometre march across snow-covered southern steppes.
Four Nazi divisions were concentrated in Rostov-on-Don. The enemy had built there strong defence lines with robust fortifications and numerous machine-gun and artillery firing points.
The Red Army offensive was also complicated by the terrain: the right bank of the Don River, where the city is located, was much higher than the left bank, from which the Soviet forces were launching their attack. The penetration of the enemy defences in the city seemed impossible.
⚔️ In the early hours of February 8, 1943, the Southern Front forces led by Colonel-General Rodion Malinovsky launched the operation to liberate Rostov-on-Don. The Nazi-occupied city saw brutal, fierce fighting that lasted for six days. On February 14, 1943, the Red Army broke through the enemy’s defences and entered the city from Bataysk. The German garrison was encircled and forced to surrender.
Rostov-on-Don’s pre-war population of more than 1.5 million people was effectively decimated by #WWII and the German occupation, dwindling to 150'000. The Nazis also destroyed there the local industries, looted and captured its cultural heritage.
Thanks to the heroism and unrivalled morale of the Red Army soldiers, Rostov-on-Don was finally liberated after 205 days of occupation. During the Rostov offensive, the Soviet forces not only liberated the Rostov Region, but also took a bridgehead near the Mius River to use it in a further offensive in the direction of Donbass.
#OurVictory #WeRemember
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📺 Watch Minister-Counsellor Alexander Gusarov's interview with the Southern African Times
Key talking points:
• Russia is returning to Africa, rekindling lost connections and tapping new opportunities. <...> We are reopening or establishing new embassies across the region. We have established a new department within the Russian MFA to deal with the partnership with Africa. This shows the level of our political and economic investment into the region.
• With its growing population, treasure trove of natural resources and industrial development, Africa really is the continent of the future. We are doing our utmost to engage in demand-driven cooperation with African countries, both bilaterally and multilaterally.
• Russia has not just aligned itself with decolonization efforts, but we have actually spearheaded and championed these efforts in many different ways. Our country was actively driving the decolonization process, contributing to the self-determination of African nations.
• When we meet with our African colleagues, we try to talk less and listen more. We have the Russia-Africa Summit. Last year, we held the Russia-Africa Partnership Forum meeting at ministerial level. These are all formats for discussing manifold avenues for cooperation, be it healthcare, education, telecommunications or space research.
• We have ramped up scholarship grants for African students. We are fine-tuning the system of vocational tuition and guidance, opening up new linguistics courses within Russian universities, and also faculties of Russian universities in Africa. At the time of the first Russia-Africa Summit back in 2019, there were about 17,000 African students studying in Russia. Last year, it was 35,000.
• We are coordinating quite closely with African colleagues <...> at the UN on a plethora of issues. Russia's position is more often than not closer to the stance adopted by the countries of the Global South, including Africa. As for Africa's representation within multilateral bodies, we are certainly supportive of these endeavors, including in the UN Security Council.
• Russia is able to provide quite substantive technological advances, for example in the nuclear sphere, such as small modular reactors. It would certainly be useful to quenching African energy needs.
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#RussiaAfrica
Key talking points:
• Russia is returning to Africa, rekindling lost connections and tapping new opportunities. <...> We are reopening or establishing new embassies across the region. We have established a new department within the Russian MFA to deal with the partnership with Africa. This shows the level of our political and economic investment into the region.
• With its growing population, treasure trove of natural resources and industrial development, Africa really is the continent of the future. We are doing our utmost to engage in demand-driven cooperation with African countries, both bilaterally and multilaterally.
• Russia has not just aligned itself with decolonization efforts, but we have actually spearheaded and championed these efforts in many different ways. Our country was actively driving the decolonization process, contributing to the self-determination of African nations.
• When we meet with our African colleagues, we try to talk less and listen more. We have the Russia-Africa Summit. Last year, we held the Russia-Africa Partnership Forum meeting at ministerial level. These are all formats for discussing manifold avenues for cooperation, be it healthcare, education, telecommunications or space research.
• We have ramped up scholarship grants for African students. We are fine-tuning the system of vocational tuition and guidance, opening up new linguistics courses within Russian universities, and also faculties of Russian universities in Africa. At the time of the first Russia-Africa Summit back in 2019, there were about 17,000 African students studying in Russia. Last year, it was 35,000.
• We are coordinating quite closely with African colleagues <...> at the UN on a plethora of issues. Russia's position is more often than not closer to the stance adopted by the countries of the Global South, including Africa. As for Africa's representation within multilateral bodies, we are certainly supportive of these endeavors, including in the UN Security Council.
• Russia is able to provide quite substantive technological advances, for example in the nuclear sphere, such as small modular reactors. It would certainly be useful to quenching African energy needs.
Watch the interview in full on our YouTube channel
#RussiaAfrica
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⚡️ On Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s telephone conversation with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio
🇷🇺🇺🇸📞 On February 15, at the initiative of the American Side, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov had a telephone conversation with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
Building on the February 12 telephone conversation between the Presidents of Russia and the United States, the two Foreign Ministers agreed to maintain an open channel of communication to address longstanding issues in Russian-American relations. Their goal is to remove unilateral barriers inherited from the previous US administration that have hindered mutually beneficial trade, economic and investment cooperation.
Both Sides expressed a shared commitment to engaging on key international issues, including the Ukraine settlement, developments in Palestine and the broader Middle East, as well as other regional matters.
The conversation also covered ways to swiftly reverse the restrictions on Russian diplomatic missions in the United States, which were introduced by the Obama administration in 2016 and led to reciprocal measures. It was agreed that expert-level meetings will be organised in the near future to coordinate specific steps towards removing these obstacles to the functioning of diplomatic missions in Russia and the United States.
❗️ Sergey Lavrov and Marco Rubio reaffirmed their readiness to restore a respectful and constructive interstate dialogue in line with the approach set by the Presidents. They agreed to maintain regular contact, including discussions on preparations for a potential high-level Russian-American summit.
🇷🇺🇺🇸📞 On February 15, at the initiative of the American Side, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov had a telephone conversation with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
Building on the February 12 telephone conversation between the Presidents of Russia and the United States, the two Foreign Ministers agreed to maintain an open channel of communication to address longstanding issues in Russian-American relations. Their goal is to remove unilateral barriers inherited from the previous US administration that have hindered mutually beneficial trade, economic and investment cooperation.
Both Sides expressed a shared commitment to engaging on key international issues, including the Ukraine settlement, developments in Palestine and the broader Middle East, as well as other regional matters.
The conversation also covered ways to swiftly reverse the restrictions on Russian diplomatic missions in the United States, which were introduced by the Obama administration in 2016 and led to reciprocal measures. It was agreed that expert-level meetings will be organised in the near future to coordinate specific steps towards removing these obstacles to the functioning of diplomatic missions in Russia and the United States.
❗️ Sergey Lavrov and Marco Rubio reaffirmed their readiness to restore a respectful and constructive interstate dialogue in line with the approach set by the Presidents. They agreed to maintain regular contact, including discussions on preparations for a potential high-level Russian-American summit.
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🎙 Excerpt from Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's remarks and answers to media questions following talks with US administration officials in Riyadh (18 February 2025)
💬 We let our US counterparts know that we took note of President Trump being the first Western leader to state clearly on several occasions that pulling Ukraine into NATO was one of the main reasons for what is happening now, and that this was one of the biggest mistakes made by Biden and his administration, and that if Trump were president, this would have never have happened.
In this regard, we were clear with our counterparts that President Putin has repeatedly emphasised that NATO expansion and absorption of Ukraine was a direct threat to the interests of the Russian Federation and our sovereignty.
Considering this, the presence of the troops from NATO countries [in Ukraine] under a foreign flag — an EU flag, or any national flag — does not change anything in this regard. This is unacceptable.
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💬 We let our US counterparts know that we took note of President Trump being the first Western leader to state clearly on several occasions that pulling Ukraine into NATO was one of the main reasons for what is happening now, and that this was one of the biggest mistakes made by Biden and his administration, and that if Trump were president, this would have never have happened.
In this regard, we were clear with our counterparts that President Putin has repeatedly emphasised that NATO expansion and absorption of Ukraine was a direct threat to the interests of the Russian Federation and our sovereignty.
Considering this, the presence of the troops from NATO countries [in Ukraine] under a foreign flag — an EU flag, or any national flag — does not change anything in this regard. This is unacceptable.
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"We will not accept British troops on Ukrainian soil"
📺 Watch Ambassador Andrei Kelin’s interview with BBC Newsnight (19 February 2025)
Key talking points:
• [Russia-US talks in Riyadh] have three outcomes. First and foremost, it was the re-establishment of contacts and diplomacy with the United States, which is a precondition for everything else. Secondly, they have launched a process on the Ukrainian settlement, which is in the very initial phase. And third, both sides have agreed that we need full-scale relations between the US and Russia.
• We have proposed several compromises to the Ukrainians over the last 10 years: the Minsk I and then Minsk II agreements. We have tried to negotiate with them all the time. It has been rejected.
• If the Europeans are going to install certain contingents on the Ukrainian soil, it means that they are going to construct bases and infrastructure. That does not differ from NATO's presence on the territory of Ukraine. We will not accept the presence of military contingents from other European countries that are members of NATO on the Ukrainian soil.
❗️ The British government should understand the real situation as soon as possible and not try to prolong the suffering in Ukraine. It is much more important for the British government not to provide more weapons, but to think about how to restore Ukraine after what has happened <...> I call on the UK government to recognise that the course and the policy it has followed in recent years has been wrong.
• Since Zelensky's legitimacy expired in May last year, he should have elections, because we do not see how we can negotiate anything with him, because if he puts his signature on any kind of agreement and tomorrow he is not elected president, then that piece of paper will not be of much value.
• We have no ideas and no plans at all to fight against NATO. All these claims that we have some plans to attack NATO in five or seven years' time are made by silly people who just want to have more money for defence.
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📺 Watch Ambassador Andrei Kelin’s interview with BBC Newsnight (19 February 2025)
Key talking points:
• [Russia-US talks in Riyadh] have three outcomes. First and foremost, it was the re-establishment of contacts and diplomacy with the United States, which is a precondition for everything else. Secondly, they have launched a process on the Ukrainian settlement, which is in the very initial phase. And third, both sides have agreed that we need full-scale relations between the US and Russia.
• We have proposed several compromises to the Ukrainians over the last 10 years: the Minsk I and then Minsk II agreements. We have tried to negotiate with them all the time. It has been rejected.
• If the Europeans are going to install certain contingents on the Ukrainian soil, it means that they are going to construct bases and infrastructure. That does not differ from NATO's presence on the territory of Ukraine. We will not accept the presence of military contingents from other European countries that are members of NATO on the Ukrainian soil.
❗️ The British government should understand the real situation as soon as possible and not try to prolong the suffering in Ukraine. It is much more important for the British government not to provide more weapons, but to think about how to restore Ukraine after what has happened <...> I call on the UK government to recognise that the course and the policy it has followed in recent years has been wrong.
• Since Zelensky's legitimacy expired in May last year, he should have elections, because we do not see how we can negotiate anything with him, because if he puts his signature on any kind of agreement and tomorrow he is not elected president, then that piece of paper will not be of much value.
• We have no ideas and no plans at all to fight against NATO. All these claims that we have some plans to attack NATO in five or seven years' time are made by silly people who just want to have more money for defence.
Watch the interview in full on our YouTube channel
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💬 President Vladimir Putin: The purpose and subject of our negotiations [with the United States in Riyadh] was the restoration of Russian-American relations. <...>
Without enhancing the level of trust between Russia and the United States, it is impossible to solve many problems, including the Ukrainian crisis. The very purpose of this meeting was precisely to enhance trust between Russia and the United States.
As for other participants, first and foremost, Russia has never refused contacts with European counterparts. Russia has never turned its back on negotiations with Ukraine – never.
It is, in fact, our counterparts in these discussions who have chosen to withdraw. The Europeans terminated contacts with Russia, and the Ukrainian side has self-imposed a ban on negotiations, withdrawing from the Istanbul process and publicly announcing that.
Well, we are not imposing anything on anyone. We are prepared – I have already stated this a hundred times: if they so desire, let them conduct these negotiations, and we will be ready to return to the negotiating table. <...>
With regard to the negotiating process, President Trump told me during the phone call – and I can confirm this – that the United States is operating on the premise that the negotiating process will include both Russia and Ukraine.
No one is excluding Ukraine from this process.
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Without enhancing the level of trust between Russia and the United States, it is impossible to solve many problems, including the Ukrainian crisis. The very purpose of this meeting was precisely to enhance trust between Russia and the United States.
As for other participants, first and foremost, Russia has never refused contacts with European counterparts. Russia has never turned its back on negotiations with Ukraine – never.
It is, in fact, our counterparts in these discussions who have chosen to withdraw. The Europeans terminated contacts with Russia, and the Ukrainian side has self-imposed a ban on negotiations, withdrawing from the Istanbul process and publicly announcing that.
Well, we are not imposing anything on anyone. We are prepared – I have already stated this a hundred times: if they so desire, let them conduct these negotiations, and we will be ready to return to the negotiating table. <...>
With regard to the negotiating process, President Trump told me during the phone call – and I can confirm this – that the United States is operating on the premise that the negotiating process will include both Russia and Ukraine.
No one is excluding Ukraine from this process.
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🎙 Интервью Посла России в Великобритании Андрея Келина программе «60 минут» на телеканале «Россия-1» (21 февраля 2025 года)
Основные тезисы:
🔸 Обычно [британские политики] приезжают в Вашингтон со своим мнением, а выходят с мнением Президента США.
🔸 Не забудем оскорбительные и хамские реплики британского руководства, включая [мининдел Британии] Дэвида Лэмми. Поэтому в отношении участия Европы в каком-то [переговорном] процессе говорить преждевременно.
🔸 У нас есть контакты с Форин Офисом. Они имеют неполитический характер. По некоторым вопросам у нас [с британцами] ведутся разговоры, но они избегают обсуждения украинских дел.
🔸 Для нас любое развёртывание [военных контингентов], особенно британских, на территории Украины абсолютно неприемлемо. Британцы об этом знают.
🔸 Британцы очень сильно вложились в Украину и противостояние с Россией. Сопровождение «украинского проекта» потребовало колоссальных средств — порядка 70 млрд фунтов стерлингов (около 100 млрд долларов). Поэтому магистральная установка здесь остаётся [прежней] — нанесение нам «стратегического поражения».
🔸 Просаживаемые Лондоном на Украине деньги вполне можно было бы направить на решение болезненных проблем в британской экономике.
🔸 Заблокировать работу нашего посольства британцы так и не решились. Каналы связи остаются открытыми, и в ряде случаев они используются. Если британские власти начнут проявлять интерес к диалогу [с Россией], мы ответим на это.
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Основные тезисы:
🔸 Обычно [британские политики] приезжают в Вашингтон со своим мнением, а выходят с мнением Президента США.
🔸 Не забудем оскорбительные и хамские реплики британского руководства, включая [мининдел Британии] Дэвида Лэмми. Поэтому в отношении участия Европы в каком-то [переговорном] процессе говорить преждевременно.
🔸 У нас есть контакты с Форин Офисом. Они имеют неполитический характер. По некоторым вопросам у нас [с британцами] ведутся разговоры, но они избегают обсуждения украинских дел.
🔸 Для нас любое развёртывание [военных контингентов], особенно британских, на территории Украины абсолютно неприемлемо. Британцы об этом знают.
🔸 Британцы очень сильно вложились в Украину и противостояние с Россией. Сопровождение «украинского проекта» потребовало колоссальных средств — порядка 70 млрд фунтов стерлингов (около 100 млрд долларов). Поэтому магистральная установка здесь остаётся [прежней] — нанесение нам «стратегического поражения».
🔸 Просаживаемые Лондоном на Украине деньги вполне можно было бы направить на решение болезненных проблем в британской экономике.
🔸 Заблокировать работу нашего посольства британцы так и не решились. Каналы связи остаются открытыми, и в ряде случаев они используются. Если британские власти начнут проявлять интерес к диалогу [с Россией], мы ответим на это.
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💬 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov: The predominance of conflicts and hotspots on the international agenda and their impact on global stability prove that it is impossible to ensure the security of some countries at the expense of the security of others.
Security can only be indivisible and equal for all. There is no place for hegemony or hostile bloc policies in a multipolar environment.
It is high time for the West to accept the new balance of power and start building a relationship with the majority of nations based on mutual respect.
We also discussed this with our US colleagues in Riyadh and agreed on the main point: international relations must be based on the understanding that each country has its own national interests.
Geopolitical contradictions can only be diffused through constructive cooperation relying on the principles of the UN Charter in their entirety and interconnection.
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Security can only be indivisible and equal for all. There is no place for hegemony or hostile bloc policies in a multipolar environment.
It is high time for the West to accept the new balance of power and start building a relationship with the majority of nations based on mutual respect.
We also discussed this with our US colleagues in Riyadh and agreed on the main point: international relations must be based on the understanding that each country has its own national interests.
Geopolitical contradictions can only be diffused through constructive cooperation relying on the principles of the UN Charter in their entirety and interconnection.
Read in full
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🗓 On this very day, 11 years ago, Kiev became ground zero for a Western-backed unconstitutional coup, that triggered all the events around Ukraine and its now former regions ever since. This led to an armed civil conflict, essentially a war waged by the Kiev regime against its own people, and a deepest crisis of international and European security since World War II.
11 years have passed since the tragic and horrible events of February 2014. The residing "authorities" in Kiev, aka the Kiev regime, and their Western sponsors are, as per their usual m.o., are attempting to distort the truth, conceal true facts, and turn the timeline of those events, their substance upside down.
❗️ The truth is stubborn; it tends to get revealed sooner or later, as recent events in the world have once again proven.
LEARN MORE: On the origins of Ukrainian nationalism, the crimes of the OUN-UPA, and the support of the West
The most horrific events unfolded on 20 February: the still unidentified snipers began shooting on the Institutskaya Street in the centre of Kiev at both law enforcement and protesters. Euromaidan supporters and Western politicians, seized "the opportunity", blamed the legitimate authorities of Ukraine. No evidence of Yanukovich's involvement was provided, and there is none to this day. Unlike, the Maidan activists & the opposition who benefited the most and was seen smuggling weapons into the area <...>
On 21 February, in an attempt to avoid further bloodshed, Yanukovych signed an Agreement on the Settlement of the Political Crisis in Ukraine with the opposition (from the opposition's side — Vitali Klitschko (UDAR party), Arseniy Yatsenyuk ("Fatherland"), and Oleg Tyagnybok ("Freedom")), which was supported and guaranteed by the foreign ministers of Germany, France, and Poland. This document envisaged the creation of a government of national trust, constitutional reform, and the organization of early presidential elections.
None of the Agreement's provisions were implemented.
The next day, on February 22, the Supreme Council passed a resolution on Viktor Yanukovych's "self-removal" from performing the duties of the President of Ukraine, thereby usurping power (although he remained a legitimate president, remained in Ukraine and had made no statements regarding resignation).
It was then announced that the "government of the victors (winner)" would be formed. The West turned a blind eye to all violations and hurried to declare a "change of power" in Ukraine, openly encouraging the putschists to pursue their anti-Russian policy. What ensued was basically a hunt for the remaining law enforcement officers and officials loyal to their oath and the country.
The very next day, the very first decision of the new "government" through the Verkhovnaya Rada was to revoke the law on the status of the Russian language, which according to data was back then the mother tongue of the majority (!) of the Ukrainian citizens.
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The "mediation" meddling of the West led to a sharp polarisation of Ukrainian society, which created the preconditions for an armed civil conflict. The first legislative steps of the "Maidan victors" — the abovementioned cancellation of the language law — were received with alarm in South-Eastern Ukraine, where spontaneous formation of popular militia forces began.
Kiev immediately accused all the inhabitants of the region of "state treason" and "terrorism", threw the army and neo-Nazi punitive battalions to violently suppress the protests.
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❗️ "Euromaidan" created a deep rift in Ukrainian society, lead to persecution, fight against dissent, spread of nationalism and neo-Nazism, legal lawlessness and nihilism, fighting the Russian language and own history, complete degradation of the socio-economic situation in the country.
The terror and horror brought by the Ukrainian neo-Nazis and nationalists in 2014 must be brought to an end.
Denazification is imminent.
📖 Read, remember or learn more about these tragic events of 2014.
11 years have passed since the tragic and horrible events of February 2014. The residing "authorities" in Kiev, aka the Kiev regime, and their Western sponsors are, as per their usual m.o., are attempting to distort the truth, conceal true facts, and turn the timeline of those events, their substance upside down.
❗️ The truth is stubborn; it tends to get revealed sooner or later, as recent events in the world have once again proven.
LEARN MORE: On the origins of Ukrainian nationalism, the crimes of the OUN-UPA, and the support of the West
The most horrific events unfolded on 20 February: the still unidentified snipers began shooting on the Institutskaya Street in the centre of Kiev at both law enforcement and protesters. Euromaidan supporters and Western politicians, seized "the opportunity", blamed the legitimate authorities of Ukraine. No evidence of Yanukovich's involvement was provided, and there is none to this day. Unlike, the Maidan activists & the opposition who benefited the most and was seen smuggling weapons into the area <...>
On 21 February, in an attempt to avoid further bloodshed, Yanukovych signed an Agreement on the Settlement of the Political Crisis in Ukraine with the opposition (from the opposition's side — Vitali Klitschko (UDAR party), Arseniy Yatsenyuk ("Fatherland"), and Oleg Tyagnybok ("Freedom")), which was supported and guaranteed by the foreign ministers of Germany, France, and Poland. This document envisaged the creation of a government of national trust, constitutional reform, and the organization of early presidential elections.
None of the Agreement's provisions were implemented.
The next day, on February 22, the Supreme Council passed a resolution on Viktor Yanukovych's "self-removal" from performing the duties of the President of Ukraine, thereby usurping power (although he remained a legitimate president, remained in Ukraine and had made no statements regarding resignation).
It was then announced that the "government of the victors (winner)" would be formed. The West turned a blind eye to all violations and hurried to declare a "change of power" in Ukraine, openly encouraging the putschists to pursue their anti-Russian policy. What ensued was basically a hunt for the remaining law enforcement officers and officials loyal to their oath and the country.
The very next day, the very first decision of the new "government" through the Verkhovnaya Rada was to revoke the law on the status of the Russian language, which according to data was back then the mother tongue of the majority (!) of the Ukrainian citizens.
<...>
The "mediation" meddling of the West led to a sharp polarisation of Ukrainian society, which created the preconditions for an armed civil conflict. The first legislative steps of the "Maidan victors" — the abovementioned cancellation of the language law — were received with alarm in South-Eastern Ukraine, where spontaneous formation of popular militia forces began.
Kiev immediately accused all the inhabitants of the region of "state treason" and "terrorism", threw the army and neo-Nazi punitive battalions to violently suppress the protests.
<...>
❗️ "Euromaidan" created a deep rift in Ukrainian society, lead to persecution, fight against dissent, spread of nationalism and neo-Nazism, legal lawlessness and nihilism, fighting the Russian language and own history, complete degradation of the socio-economic situation in the country.
The terror and horror brought by the Ukrainian neo-Nazis and nationalists in 2014 must be brought to an end.
Denazification is imminent.
📖 Read, remember or learn more about these tragic events of 2014.
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