❗️Major points made by Russian President Vladimir Putin during the online meeting of the Russia's Council for Civil Society and Human Rights:

▪️The international doctrine of human rights is used to justify the ideological dominance of the West;

▪️International organizations demonstrate cynical bias towards Russia, they are not able to fulfill their tasks;

▪️The West and international human rights organizations cannot but know that Ukraine is shelling residential areas of Donbass;

▪️Russia will continue to fight for its national interests - at first by peaceful means, but if this does not help - by all available means;

▪️Of the 300,000 mobilized, only 150,000 are in the zone of the special military operation. 77,000 of those are in combat units and the rest are in territorial defense forces;

▪️Additional mobilization efforts do not make sense;

▪️Mass public executions carried out in Ukraine for attempts to leave combat positions, no such issues in Russia.

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“Sometimes we see that the human rights agenda is being hijacked to destroyed sovereignty in some countries and to assert a dialogical political or economic dominance,” Russian President Vladimir Putin said during an online meeting of Russia's Council for Civil Society and Human Rights.

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⚡️More statements made by Russian President Vladimir Putin during the online meeting of the Russia's Council for Civil Society and Human Rights:

▪️The threat of nuclear war is rising;

▪️Russia did not talk about the possibility of using nuclear weapons, unlike the former prime minister of Great Britain;

▪️Russia does not have its tactical nuclear weapons in other countries, unlike the United States;

▪️Russia considers nuclear weapons as a means of defense, as a possibility of a retaliatory strike.

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🛰The UN General Assembly has adopted a Russian resolution on the non-deployment of the first weapons in space, according to the results of the vote.

📌122 countries voted for the resolution, 50 were against it, while four abstained.

▪️The resolution urges all States, especially those with space capabilities, to consider the possibility of not to being the first to place weapons in outer space.

▪️According to the text, the UN General Assembly urges the early start of substantive work on the basis of the updated draft treaty on the prevention of the placement of weapons in outer space, submitted by China and Russia at the Conference on Disarmament in 2008.

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📹WATCH: China’s leader Xi Jinping has arrived to Saudi Arabia

He received a warm welcome by the Royal family in Riyadh.

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📹The Russian Defense Ministry has published footage showing Russian Uragan MLRS in combat action as part of the special military operation in Ukraine.

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“We know that people in Donbass have been suffering from these crimes and the international community, the so-called ‘international community’, has been turning a blind eye to these crimes for eight long years,” Russian President Vladimir Putin said during an online meeting of Russia's Council for Civil Society and Human Rights.

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