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On the 10th anniversary of the coup d'état in Kiev, we recall the West's role in fuelling the conflict in Ukraine, its support for Ukrainian nationalists and their terrorist activities.

🎬 Operation Ukraine: America's Fingerprints. Who supports Ukrainian Nationalism? - an RT Doc Film.

Synopsis: Immediately after the end of World War II and the defeat of the Nazis, American intelligence agencies established contacts with former Hitler collaborators to work together against the Soviet Union and later Russia. The operation to form an armed underground movement in Western Ukraine was dubbed "Aerodynamic".

The CIA assembled war criminals and Bandera movement activists from filtration camps, and created an agent network. Their task was to sabotage nuclear plants and dams on Ukrainian territory in an effort to separate it from the Soviet Union. According to CIA co-founder Frank Wisner, they terrorised civilians and were responsible for at least 35,000 casualties

In the early 1950s, Red Army units mostly wiped out the nationalist insurgency, however the CIA employed a new strategy. Since then Ukrainian nationalists have been engaged in an ideological anti-Russian war. The operation "Prolog" gradually stoked nationalist sentiment in Ukraine and bred loyalty to Nazi ideas.

What is the outcome of half-century-long American influence❓

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🎙️Russian Ambassador Andrei Kelin's comments on the origins of the crisis in Ukraine

We have extremely many ties with Ukraine - cultural, spiritual, economic. We have hundreds years of common history. After brake up of the Soviet Union more than half the Ukrainian population spoke Russian.

Ukraine quickly became anti-Russian after the first Maidan uprising in 2004, and the West reinforced this trend.

The Ukrainian government idealistically believed that as quick as it will cut off ties with Russia, join the EU and NATO, it will get billions of profit and benefits.

Multinational Ukraine was turned into mono-ethnic state by Zelensky. Russians and Russian speaking people were supposed to be aliens in Ukraine, many laws have been taken that prohibited using of Russian language and education in Russian.

Humiliation of Russian people in Ukraine, the offensive against Donbass, and failed Minsk agreements are the origins of the Ukrainian conflict.

Key points:

▪︎ Significance of Ukraine for Russia
▪︎ Ultimate causes of the Ukrainian conflict
▪︎ Consequences of the Maidan uprising
▪︎ Ukrainian separatism
▪︎ Western interference into Ukrainian internal issues
▪︎ Failure of the Minsk Agreements
▪︎ Expansion of NATO / Russia-NATO relations
▪︎ Prospects of the Ukrainian settlement
▪︎ Russian security concerns
▪︎ Peace talks in Istanbul / UK interference into the negotiations
▪︎ US / UK proxy war against Russia
▪︎ Outcome of the conflict in Ukraine
▪︎ European security system
▪︎ Prospects of the multipolar world order
▪︎ UK-Russia relations

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⚡️ Following the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War the USA and its NATO allies began actively working with former Soviet republics in order to shape them for their own neocolonial purposes.

Ukraine has always received special attention from the Western states in the post-Soviet space as it was the most developed republic, one with strong industrial, agricultural and scientific potential and extremely close ties with Russia. The goal was to seize its market, reshape the economy, making it ever-dependent on the West.

To this end, the USA and the EU, by hand of obedient Ukrainian elites, were methodically destroying the country's basis, severing the economic, trade and cultural ties with Russia.

❗️ In the early 2000s, the so-called 'collective West' inspired the Orange Revolution of 2004 that aimed at distancing Ukraine from Russia and integrating it into the Euro-Atlantic institutions came to power in Kiev.

The blatant interference of the West in the internal affairs triggered a deep political crisis in Ukraine that became irreversible and led to the unconstitutional coup d'etat in 2014.

This event led to a sharp polarization of the Ukrainian society, which predetermined an armed civil conflict. The new 'authorities' launched the so called "anti-terrorist operation" to suppress protests in Donbass by force.

☝️ As a result, Ukrainian armed forces have been shelling Donbass for all these years. This forced Russia to intervene in the situation by launching a special military operation.

The actions of the West within the framework of the large-scale "hybrid war" confirm the global nature of the confrontation in Ukraine. Military and financial assistance is being provided to the Kiev regime, and the range of 'deliveries' at the taxpayers' expense is constantly increasing.

👉 Ukraine is a mere instrument in the hands of the United States and its NATO allies, whose long-term goal is to to break the security architecture in the post-Soviet space and Eurasia as a whole.

On the 10th anniversary of the coup d'état in Kiev, we recall the historical origins of the terrorist methods of the Kiev regime, its masterminds and the roots of Ukrainian neo-Nazism, as well as the destructive role of the West.

🎬 Operation Ukraine. Terror on Demand - RT documentary.

Synopsis: The murder of Daria Dugina, the bombing of the Crimean Bridge, torture and torment in secret prisons - the pattern and methods of modern Ukrainian neo-Nazis are unmistakable. The The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) inherited them from their predecessors - the Bandera Nazis, collaborators who ruthlessly exterminated their compatriots.

The Ukrainian Nazis were actively supported by the US: it conducted covert operations on the territory of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, funded certain groups and, after the collapse of the USSR, systematically revived the ideology of Nazism in Ukraine.

The West intended to plunge Ukraine into bloody terror in order to separate the republic from the Soviet Union and weaken the USSR's influence on the world stage. It was a covert operation - "Aerodynamic".

👉 Learn more about the operation and other facts in our article on the 10th anniversary of the coup d'état in Ukraine.

⚡️Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova’s comment on the crisis in Ukraine

💬 Today is the 10th anniversary of the anti-constitutional armed coup d’etat in Kiev. Back then, in February 2014, skilled provocateurs guided by American and European instructors led crowds of people into the streets in protest, with attractive slogans about a better European life, democracy, human rights and anti-corruption struggle.

☝️ In reality, the mass disorder was well orchestrated and funded from outside the country in a bid to overthrow the legitimate government.

🔻Euromaidan led to a deep rift in society, persecution, suppression of dissent, rampant nationalism and neo-Nazism, lawlessness and nihilism, a war on the Russian language and history, and the complete socioeconomic decay of the country.

🔻With the coup, the nationalists and their political supporters finally drove the situation to an impasse, taking the country and its citizens to the edge of an abyss.

❌ Today, the Ukrainian neo-Nazis continue firing Western weapons on civilians in Russian regions.

During his traditional touring act in European capitals with outstretched hands last week, Zelensky signed security cooperation agreements with Germany and France in the wake of a similar agreement signed by Kiev and London in January.

The worth of Western “guarantees” to Ukraine is well known.

- In February 2014, Berlin, Paris and Warsaw “guaranteed” the implementation of the agreement between Viktor Yanukovych and the opposition but did nothing to this end.

- In February 2015, Germany and France assumed the role of “guarantors” of the Minsk Package of Measures that they buried together with Kiev, cheating the entire international community.

Today, the Westerners pursue only one goal by again giving carrots to the Kiev regime. They want to turn Ukraine into a colony deprived of any rights and use it as a tool against Russia. Their “guarantees” are worth nothing.

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❗️ The aforementioned facts confirm the urgency of the goals of the special military operation to denazify and demilitarise Ukraine and remove the threats emanating from its territory. These goals will be achieved without fail.

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On the 10th anniversary of the coup d'état in Kiev, we recall the West's role in fuelling the conflict in Ukraine, its support for Ukrainian nationalists and their terrorist activities.

🎬 Red Alert: Hybrid Warfare — an RT Doc film.

In recent decades, in an attempt to maintain its hegemony and impose a neo-colonial unipolar world order, the United States has been actively opposing states that defend their sovereignty and the right to determine their own foreign and domestic policy. It has been trying to weaken new centers of power emerging in the world.

Ukraine was used as a tool in the "hybrid war" unleashed by the "collective West" led by Washington against our country as one of the pillars of the emerging multipolar world order. So as to break the fraternal people of Ukraine away from Russia, to weaken and destroy its economic and industrial potential, in 2014, a coup d'état in Kiev was carried out under the supervision of Western powers. What followed was a punitive campaign by their neo-Nazi stooges against the residents of the southeast of Ukraine.

The countries of the "collective West" openly sponsor the crimes of the Kiev regime, providing it with enormous military and financial aid, taking part in the planning of military operations and passing on intelligence that is used, among other things, to attack civilian objects and peaceful residents on Russian territory.

📹 Watch the documentary "Red Alert: Hybrid War" to find out more about the West's neocolonial approaches and its role in the conflict in Ukraine.

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✍️ Eduard Popov, Director of the Independent Non-Profit Organisation "Center for Public and Information Cooperation "Europe"

Ukrainian Nazism today: origin and ideological and political typology

Key points:

💬 The current-day Ukrainian nationalism / Nazism partly dates back to the early 1990s. Its rise can be traced to the Nazi proponents and social engineering technologies being "exported" to Ukraine [from the West], which became an independent state following the collapse of the Soviet Union.

• The world does not understand the nature of modern Ukrainian (neo)Nazism. The West prefers not to notice it and to stigmatize any considerations concerning this problem as a "Russian propaganda".

☝️ After the coup d'état on February 21, 2014, carried out by the US, UK and a number of EU countries, the state OF Ukraine as such does not exist. It is more correct to speak about the state IN Ukraine. Ukraine as a state has been abolished and is under external administration.

State institutions responsible for ideology and education have adopted the slogans and ideologemes of the Ukrainian Nazis. For example, the Nazi slogan "Glory to Ukraine!" adopted by the so-called Ukrainian Insurgent Army – Nazi cronies and war criminals, who later sponsored by the West waged terrorist attacks against civilians in Soviet Ukraine – is now officially used in the Ukrainian armed forces. Nazi collaborators Stepan Bandera and Roman Shukhevych are officially included in the list of heroes. The state authorities in Ukraine are pursuing a policy of Nazification, many provisions of which are borrowed from the programs of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists.

❗️ The rise of Nazism in Ukraine and the already accomplished transformation of this country into the epicenter of world Nazism/neo-Nazism is no longer a factor of internal Ukrainian politics or even Russian-Ukrainian relations. This is an important aspect of pan-European, and perhaps even world, politics.

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🎙️Комментарий Посольства России в связи с антироссийскими ограничительными мерами Лондона, 22 февраля 2024 года

▪︎Очередной рестриктивный «пакет», проштампованный Лондоном в привязке ко второй годовщине СВО, убедительно демонстрирует выхолащивание практического смысла у некогда хваленых «санкций». Теперь они театрально используются британским официозом, чтобы отмечать «юбилейные» даты и красоваться перед партнерами на международных площадках.

▪︎Трагический парадокс ситуации в том, что в Лондоне ровно 10 лет назад деятельно поддержали антиконституционный госпереворот в Киеве, приведший к власти националистический антироссийский режим. Подбадривали его на агрессивные провокации против Донбасса и воссоединившегося с Россией Крыма, закрывая глаза на невыполнение Киевом минского «Комплекса мер». Деятельно подпитывали ВСУ поставками вооружений и военными тренировками. После начала СВО полностью взяли киевский режим на поруки, фактически сорвав начавшиеся переговоры с Россией о мирном урегулировании.

▪︎Теперь же, когда режим В.Зеленского терпит поражение за поражением, в Лондоне с помощью противоправных ограничительных мер пытаются бороться с последствиями своих же ошибочных решений.

▪︎Эмоциональные выпады британских официальных лиц, требующих от России «раскаяться» и «заплатить» за свои действия, лишний раз подтверждают – западная политика санкций, шантажа и конфронтации потерпела крах.

☝️Россия продолжит всеми законными методами защищать свое благополучие и безопасность. Цели СВО будут достигнуты в полном объеме.

❗Что касается очередных нелегитимных и произвольных ограничений британской стороны, они не останутся без ответа.

⭐️ Today, on February 23, Defender of the Fatherland Day is celebrated in Russia!

Congratulations to everyone to whom it may concern, everyone who on this very day is defending our Fatherland! 🛡

🎙 Russia's President Vladimir Putin's greetings on Defender of the Fatherland Day 🇷🇺

February 23, 2024

💬 Comrades, friends,

I congratulate veterans, active military and civilian personnel of the Armed Forces and all who have served in the military on Defender of the Fatherland Day.

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On this holiday, we pay our deepest respects to our heroic fathers, grandfathers and great-grandfathers who crushed Nazism, we take out the military orders and medals, photographs and letters from frontline soldiers, say a heartfelt thank you and warmly embrace our dear veterans. We will always remember that it was the Soviet people who defended the freedom of Russia, all of Europe and the entire world.

Russian soldiers and officers are honourably carrying on these glorious military traditions. Today it is the participants of the special military operation who are on the frontlines. You fight for truth and justice; you show courage and valour in defence of Russia. You are true national heroes. We are proud of you, we admire your courage, we honour your exploits. We know it is difficult for you, and we will do everything possible to help you complete the mission you have been assigned. Thank you for valiantly performing your military duty, and for your faithful and selfless service to the Fatherland.

There are many alarming challenges and risks in the modern world, but the powerful capabilities and combat readiness of our army and navy guarantee Russia’s security and its free, sovereign development.

Incorporating our real combat experience, we will continue to strengthen the Armed Forces in every possible way, including ongoing re-equipping and modernisation efforts.

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🎙️Ambassador Andrei Kelin's interview to Enda Brady for TRT World, 22 February, 2024

Excerpts from the interview:

I have no doubts that Russia is going to win in the Ukrainian conflict. I would like to attract your attention that Russia is much better adapted now, the political situation and economy are stable. President Vladimir Putin is supported by majority of the Russian population.

Western sanctions did not bring disaster to Russia. We have self-sufficient military-industrial complex which is now working at full capacity.

We need to achieve the goals of the SMO, which have been clearly formulated by Russian President. The front line is moving steadily westwards, and there are no doubts that it will continue to move towards the western part of Ukraine.

Ukraine should become neutral and the Russian security interests should be taken into account not only by Ukraine but also by the West, especially by the US. The normal conditions for the Russian speaking population should be created in Ukraine as well.

Main topics:

▪Prospects of the settlement in Ukraine
▪UK interference into the negotiations
▪Outcome of the Ukrainian conflict
▪Russian security concerns / expansion of NATO
▪Russia-US relations

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🕯 On Defender of the Fatherland Day, Russia's President Vladimir Putin laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier by the Kremlin Wall.

The President honoured the memory of the fallen soldiers with a minute of silence.

The ceremony was also attended by Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu, army veterans, officers and cadets from military schools.

The ceremony concluded with a ceremonial march by the guard of honour and a military band.

⚡️The European Union remains in an "anti-Russian fever", losing its sense of reality and behaving as if it had a licence to interfere in the trade and economic relations of third countries.

The adoption of the thirteenth "package" of restrictions against Russia clearly shows that the sanctions toolkit has finally become a universal way for Brussels to communicate with the outside world. Well, this is "geopolitical Europe", and this is what the rules on which the EU believes the world order is based look like in action.

Another “package” is yet another act of symbolism, this time to mark the beginning of the Russian special military operation. Meanwhile, the EU fails to notice that it is making a mockery of itself with its obsession with special dates. The former European Union, which no longer exists and never will, attached symbolic importance to the creation of a single currency, the Schengen area and a common market for labour, capital, goods and services.

Now Brussels finds it much more relevant to assert itself at Russia's expense, to force European capitals to pursue an anti-Russian line, and to intimidate third countries. The EU is annoyed by sovereign states refusing to follow its flawed course. Brussels apparently finds it hard to understand that third countries pursue an independent policy and are guided by their own national interests.

❗️The states of the Global Majority see all this, understand it and, we are sure, will draw the appropriate conclusions. We have already drawn ours.

🎙 President of Russia Vladimir Putin’s answer to journalist Pavel Zarubin’s question (February 22, 2024)

❓US President Biden came up with another rude remark about you. You have never said anything like that about any foreign leader, and you have never even taken the liberty to make any inappropriate remark. Will you respond the same way now?

💬 Vladimir Putin: Look, we recently talked and you asked me who we prefer to see as the new US president. I said we would work with any president. But for Russia, Biden is preferable. I am right, judging by what he said, because it is an adequate reaction to what I said.

Why? Because he cannot say to me, “Great, Vlad, thank you, you helped me a lot.” We understand what’s going on there in terms of domestic policy, and this is an absolutely adequate reaction. Which means I was right.

What I said was basically for our domestic audience, not the US. You are a Russian journalist, and you asked me what’s [who] better for us. I said then, and I will say it again: Biden.

🎙️Embassy comment on the illegitimate sanctions against Russia

Emotional outbursts from British officials demanding that Russia “must be made to pay” underscore the futility of the Western policy of sanctions, blackmail and confrontation. Russia continues to protect its welfare and security with all lawful means. All objectives of the Special Military Operation will be achieved.

▪︎Yet another batch of restrictive measures produced by London on occasion of the second anniversary of the launch of Russia’s Special Military Operation offers convincing proof that the once vaunted "sanctions" have forfeited any practical meaning. This is now a prop used by British officials to mark particular dates and show off in front of their partners at international fora.

▪︎The tragic paradox is that ten years ago London actively supported the unlawful coup d’etat in Kiev. The very same coup that swept a nationalistic anti-Russian regime to power. Turning a blind eye to Kiev’s unwillingness to implement the Minsk agreements, the British authorities encouraged aggressive provocations against Donbass and Crimea, after the latter reunified with Russia.

▪︎The UK supplied Ukrainian armed forces with weapons and trained them. Following the launch of the Special Military Operation, London assumed full responsibility for the Kiev regime and derailed peace negotiations with Russia.

▪︎Now, when Zelensky and his clique are stumbling from one defeat to the next, the UK Government is attempting to reverse the consequences of its own blunders through similarly unlawful sanctions.

❗As for the UK Government’s latest illegitimate and arbitrary restrictions, they will be met with a due response.

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🇷🇺🇧🇷 On February 22, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov met with President of Brazil Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in Brasilia to discuss further steps to promote friendly bilateral relations, including preparations for the 12th session of the Intergovernmental Commission on Trade and Economic Cooperation and the upcoming meeting of the High-Level Commission to coordinate additional measures to expand mutual trade and implement joint projects in various areas.

The Sides welcomed the intensified inter-parliamentary and inter-party contacts, as well as the development of humanitarian and sports ties.

🌐 Special attention was given to the practical aspects of interaction in the international arena, particularly in light of Russia’s BRICS chairmanship and Brazil’s G20 chairmanship in 2024.

The Officials agreed to coordinate activities in these formats and at the UN to advance the reform of global governance institutions, which should reflect the increased weight of the Global South countries in the economy and politics around the world.

The Parties exchanged opinions on developments related to Ukraine. President Lula da Silva confirmed Brazil’s commitment to conflict resolution based on the legitimate concerns of all Parties in the security sphere and emphasised the futility of unilateral initiatives and ultimatums.

☝️ Sergey Lavrov and President Lula da Silva expressed their shared concerns regarding the deep crisis in the Palestinian territories, which has claimed the lives of tens of thousands of civilians. They agreed that the UN Security Council should demand an immediate ceasefire, address grave humanitarian issues, and remove obstacles to the implementation of UN resolutions on the creation of a Palestinian state.

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🇷🇺🇧🇾 President Vladimir Putin sent a message of congratulations to President of the Republic of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko on the successful outcome of the parliamentary and local elections.

💬 Vladimir Putin: The high voter turnout and the election results are clear evidence of the broad support for the course towards harmonious socioeconomic development of Belarus conducted under your guidance. This policy is also designed to ensure internal political stability and promote mutually beneficial integration processes within the Union State.

We hope that the newly elected deputies of the House of Representatives of the National Assembly and the local councils at different levels will engage in productive cooperation with their Russian counterparts as part of interparliamentary dialogue and multifaceted interregional ties.

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⚡️ Statement by the Foreign Ministry regarding the response to the 13th EU package of sanctions against Russia

The European Union continues its futile attempts to put pressure on Russia through unilateral restrictive measures. On February 23, the EU countries adopted the 13th package of sanctions. We consider these EU moves illegitimate and believe they undermine the international legal prerogatives of the UN Security Council.

⛔️ In response to this unfriendly move, the Russia has significantly expanded the list of representatives of European institutions and EU member states, who, under Federal Law No 114-FZ On the Procedure for Entering and Exiting the Russian Federation dated August 15, 1996, are denied entry to our country.

It concerns officials from law enforcement agencies and commercial organisations in the EU countries and EU nationals who are involved in providing military assistance to the neo-Nazi Kiev regime; representatives of European agencies engaged in prosecuting Russian officials for “illegal arrests and deportation of people from Ukrainian territories;” those who are involved in establishing a “tribunal” against the Russian leadership and collecting relevant materials; those who call for confiscation of Russian state assets or the use of the profits from them in the interests of Ukraine; those who support the sanctions against our country and try to undermine Russia’s relations with other states, and those who are engaged in distributing misinformation about our country.

The Russian stop-list also includes representatives of the Council of Europe, members of the legislative assemblies of the EU countries, participants in the Parliamentary Assembly of the OSCE and PACE, who systematically make unfriendly statements regarding Russia.

❗️This is to reiterate that any unfriendly actions by Western countries will be met with a timely and commensurate response.