🇷🇺 Latest statements by Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov:

▪️ The content of the published conversation between the German officers emphasizes the direct involvement of the West in the conflict over Ukraine.

▪️ Peskov after the publication of German officers' conversation about the Crimean Bridge: If this is part of state policy, then it is very bad.

▪️ The Kremlin expects to learn the results of the promised investigation by Olaf Scholz after the publication of the German officers' conversation.

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❗️ Russia systematically monitors and documents Ukraine's use of chemical poisoning agents in the zone of the special military operation, the Industry and Trade Ministry has said.

Western countries are the developers and suppliers of military poisons for Kiev.

Moscow will raise the issue of Kiev's systematic use of chemicals on March 5 at a session of the OPCW executive council, the ministry said.

📹 The audience is packed ahead of Russian Security Council Chairman Dmitry Medvedev's speech at the Russian Znanie Society’s educational marathon

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❗️ WATCH LIVE: Dmitry Medvedev speaks at the Russian Znanie Society’s educational marathon

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❗️ De-Nazification in Germany has not been completed, and if the Germans do not change the situation, then the consequences for Germany will be terrible, the Russian Foreign Ministry said, commenting on the intercepted conversation between German officers

Russia does not need other people's land, but it will not give up its own

Main statements of Dmitry Medvedev's speech at the Russian Znanie Society’s educational marathon:

▪️ We are building the future of our country, which is today fulfilling a special, fateful mission in the global world, and there is no doubt that it will be fulfilled;

▪️ It is important to realize where and how Russia's borders are delineated in our time and what they may be in the future;

▪️ The territories on both banks of the Dnepr River are an integral part of Russia's historical strategic borders;

▪️ We are not talking about expanding the borders of the Russian Federation by seizing the territory of Ukraine;

▪️ If Ukraine had not fallen into the stupid trap set by the US to fight Russia, everything could have been different;

▪️ A country's security can be effectively ensured only when it is confident of stability far beyond its perimeter.

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📹 Dmitry Medvedev spoke about his dialog with Barack Obama

"When the Arab Spring started, when the difficulties with Syria started, I asked: 'Just imagine if you displace the political regime and the people who are ruling the country, what's next?' His answer struck me to the core, I think he was sincere. He said: 'I don't know, we don't think that far ahead,'" he said.

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❗️ WATCH LIVE: Lavrov Takes the Podium to Address World Youth Festival

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❗️ It is surprising that Germany is not concerned about conversations on an attack on the Crimean Bridge, but about their leakage, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said

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❗️ The Russian Defense Ministry confirmed the destruction of another US-made Abrams tank.

Latest statements of Sergey Lavrov's speech at the World Youth Festival:

▪️ Aid to Ukraine has been $250 billion, during the same period Africa received about $60 billion for the entire continent from the West;

▪️ Lloyd Austin said something specific: if Ukraine is defeated, NATO will have to fight;

▪️ I believe that the UN concept is still viable if you honestly fulfill everything that is stated. But everything about the honesty of the West became clear already with Winston Churchill's Fulton speech;

▪️ Officials of the Ukrainian regime after the coup d'état openly said that Kharkov and Nikolaev should forget the Russian language. They say that Russians should be exterminated both legally and physically;

▪️ Multipolarity must be built on the full enforcement of international law;

▪️ The Euro-Atlantic security system has failed, and even a few years before the special military operation, the West had begun to violate the OSCE’s principles;

▪️ BRICS is a global integration process that has been developing for many years on the basis of consensus. Its main axis is the balance of interests.

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📹 The West will never dominate again, it is necessary to look for new forms of interaction, but the West is trying in every possible way to hamper the process of multipolarity, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said

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Zelensky will have to pay!

The European Commission has said that Volodymyr Zelensky made a mistake by believing all the shells from the EU would be free for Kiev.

The matter relates to the delivery of the promised one million shells. European Commissioner Thierry Breton said that Brussels was going to "supply" them, not "transfer" them to Ukraine. He said that there are three supply channels, and only one of them is free of charge. Ukraine has received 300,000 shells through this channel, and by the end of March that number will increase to 550,000.

The other two channels have to be paid for, Breton emphasized, noting that the total amount is more than the promised million.

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🇷🇺 Russian forces have destroyed another US-made Abrams tank using the latest ‘Upyr’ FPV drone. What makes the Upyr (lit. ‘Vampire’) live up to its ghoulish name?

Upyr’s characteristics

▪️ Helicopter-type kamikaze drone

▪️ Velocity up to 180 kilometers per hour

▪️ Payload up to 2 kg

▪️ High maneuverability aerodynamic design

▪️ Allows first-person view (FPV)

▪️ Fitted with camera to wirelessly transmit video feed to goggles, headset, mobile device, or other display

▪️ Camera's improved light sensitivity allows operation in twilight

▪️ Fitted with thermal imaging technology

▪️ Maneuvers during precipitation, in conditions of elevation changes, wooded areas

▪️ Upgraded video transmitter and receiver help tackle electronic warfare (EW) systems aimed at jamming

▪️ Designed for high-precision attacks up to 12 km deep behind the front line

▪️ Can destroy armored vehicles in concealed positions, hit targets where artillery cannot reach them

▪️ Armed with RPG-7 rounds, such as PG-7VL and RKG-3M, as well as anti-tank hand grenades

▪️ Can be armed with high-explosive fragmentation bombs made directly in a combat zone

▪️ Flight range doubled thanks to “Udlinitel” transponder

The Upyr has been used by the Russian Armed Forces in the special op zone since May 2023. During this time, it has been used to force Ukrainian troops to pull military hardware back from the front line. Upyr drones also helped disable a Ukrainian mortar during an operation to evacuate Russian soldiers, and proved effective in destroying Ukrainian speedboats.

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📸 AI vision of destroyed US-made Abrams tank in Ukraine

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