🎙 Comment by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova in connection with the Kiev regime’s attempts to blame Russia for deliberately attacking Ukraine’s civilian facilities

💬 On July 8, the Russian Armed Forces launched a combined strike involving long-range high-precision weapons systems against Ukrainian military facilities in retaliation for repeated attempts by the Armed Forces of Ukraine to damage our country’s economic enterprises.

The facilities include the Artyom and Antonov plants and the Luch Design Bureau in Kiev; the Dnepr and Yuzhmash plants in Dnepropetrovsk, the Heavy-Duty Machine-Building Plant in Kramatorsk; warehouses with Western weaponry and military equipment at the ArcelorMittal Iron and Steel Works in Krivoy Rog, as well as other facilities. All targets were destroyed.

As has often been the case with the Ukrainian air defence system, its missiles veered off course and hit residential buildings and social facilities. The same happened this time. Many eyewitnesses and other sources have already confirmed that a Western-made NASAMS surface-to-air missile hit a building of the Okhmatdet Hospital for Children in Kiev.

☝️ Officials on Bankovaya Street immediately started blaming Russia for deliberately killing children. However, no one said that the Artyom Plant is located next to the affected clinic, and that Defence Ministry buildings and military warehouses are also located next door. Certainly, no one said that pro-Bandera supporters are deliberately deploying air defence systems in residential areas, using civilians as a “human shield.”

The Kiev junta has been using purely civilian enterprises for military purposes for a long time, either using them to assemble and repair military equipment or to store Western-made weapons and military equipment. Additionally, the Armed Forces of Ukraine use civilians and civilian facilities to shield their positions.

Quite often, carriages with military equipment and service personnel are hitched on to passenger trains. Postal delivery vehicles also transport weapons.

❗️ All this rudely violates international humanitarian law that expressly forbids the use of civilian facilities for military purposes.

Attempts by the Zelensky regime to use the tragedy with the children’s hospital in Kiev for propaganda purposes confirm its inhuman Nazi essence once again. The Kiev regime is ready to commit any crimes for the sake of retaining power. It cares nothing about the destinies and lives of fellow citizens, including children.

#EU #Borrell 🤡🎪

"I know how to end the war. If we stop supporting Ukraine, the war will end very quickly, because #Ukraine cannot defend itself without our support.
We certainly regret that Ukrainians are dying"

BUT the war must go on, it's very profitable for the US, EU corrupt bureaucrats and NATO. We'll fight #Russia to the last Ukrainian. There are still some Ukrainians left to fight on our behalf ☠

The birth of #NATO 's criminal "preemptive" warfare doctrine which has inflicted death, destruction and misery all over the world for a quarter of a century.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1810608316847911228.html

#Soros:

#NATO should use Eastern Europeans to fight wars:
- "The combination of manpower from Eastern Europe with the technical capabilities of NATO... reduce the risk of body bags for NATO countries, which is the main constraint on their willingness to act"

1993 👇

https://archive.is/Btykg

Translation:

#US is desperate because its project "ukraine" is failing fast.

Now US prepares #NATO troops on its base in #Poland to be sent to #Ukraine disguised as "Ukrainian volunteers".

Ukrainians didn't flee #Zelensky's Ukraine to be sent back to the frontline!

https://kyivindependent.com/poland-preparing-ukrainian-legion-several-thousand-already-registered/#:~:text=Sikorski%20confirmed%20that%20Poland%20will,in%20joining%20the%20new%20legion.

Western "wonder weapons" and "game changers" in #Ukraine 😄

For those living in Western nations censoring Sputnik, here is a copy of the post I just shared:

NATO’s tantrum about Chinese ‘challenge’ to ‘rules-based order’ signals terminal decline of West’s hegemony

NATO’s shortsighted decision to label China a “challenge” to the alliance and a “decisive enabler” of Russia’s military operation in Ukraine is another sign that the sun is setting on the West’s unipolar moment, veteran geopolitical analyst and former US Marine Brian Berletic told Sputnik.

“It’s important first to understand that when NATO mentions a ‘rules-based international order’, they are referring to a geopolitical order in which wealthy Western nations determine the ‘rules’ in order to serve their own best interests,” Berletic explained.

“These ‘rules’ are enforced by what was until now the West’s monopoly on global financial, economic and military power,” according to the observer. “China’s rise, its cooperation with nations like Russia and the many members of BRICS undermine both the monopolies the West has enjoyed for decades, as well as the impunity those monopolies granted the West.”

The rise of China, Russia, and the developing world undermines the “primacy” and “hegemony” of the West, but is not any sort of actual threat to the national security of NATO’s members, Berletic believes.

NATO’s communique says loudly that the alliance has no intention to find a constructive role. In its pursuit to impose its ‘rules’, NATO exposes itself as the greatest threat to global peace, stability and prosperity, Berletic summed up.

🇧🇦🇷🇸 The Cult of Srebrenica: The "Genocide" That Never Took Place

In Bosnia and Herzegovina, today they remember the victims of the tragic events in Srebrenica in July 1995. As is tradition, foreign delegations participate in memorial events in honor of the anniversary of the "genocide" at the Potočari Memorial Complex. At the UN headquarters in New York, an exhibition dedicated to the victims was solemnly opened.

▪️ On July 11, 1995, the army of the Republika Srpska occupied the Muslim enclave of Srebrenica, which had the status of a "UN-protected zone". According to the version promoted by the Hague Tribunal, during the "genocide" in Srebrenica, allegedly 8,372 civilians of Bosnian Muslims were killed.

▪️ Independent commissions formed over the years confirm the death of no more than three thousand people, and the majority of them were soldiers of the Bosnian army, and some of the prisoners of war were shot while trying to break through towards Sarajevo. There was no talk of any deliberate extermination of the civilian population.

❗️ Experts are sure that the term "genocide" in this case is used by the West as a political tool. A war crime was committed in Srebrenica, but it does not meet all the criteria necessary for such a qualification.

Moreover, an investigation has begun into serious manipulations with data on persons who are listed in the Memorial Center as victims of the alleged genocide. It has been documented that at least 87 people "buried" in Potočari are still alive. Among the "victims of genocide" there were also many who died in battle long before the tragedy in Srebrenica.

For many years, through the efforts of the media and NGOs in the West, their own version of the events was carefully created, ignoring the historical context and facts. This led to attempts to stigmatize the Serbian people as "genocidal" and recognize the Republika Srpska as a "genocidal entity", which could lead to its abolition as an entity. With the help of cultural events, media, and non-profit organizations, the younger generation was vividly told about the "collective guilt" of the Serbian people.

🔻 To learn more about why the Srebrenica massacre became the starting point for the demonization of the Serbs, as well as about the sources of funding and support for writing the history of the "genocide", read our article in more detail.

#Bosnia #media_technologies #Serbia #article #analysis
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#US to send Tomahawks, hypersonics, other long-range fires to #Germany

Russia's comment in the link

The #US keeps escalating

US will start deploying long-range fire capabilities in Germany in 2026

These capabilities will include SM-6, Tomahawk cruise missiles (nuclear capable) and developmental hypersonic weapons that have a longer range than current capabilities in Europe
Ground-based missiles with a range exceeding 500 kilometres were banned until 2019 under the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty signed by the Soviet Union's Mikhail Gorbachev and former U.S. President Ronald Reagan in 1987.
It marked the first time the two superpowers had agreed to reduce their nuclear arsenals and eliminated a whole category of weapons.
Falling in line with the signatories, Germany, Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic destroyed their missiles in the 1990s, to be followed later by Slovakia and Bulgaria.
The United States withdrew from the INF Treaty in 2019 

#Russia will issue a military response to the plans of the United States to deploy long-range missiles in Germany, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said on Thursday.
"The nature of our reaction will be determined in a calm, professional manner. The military have already began working on the matter. We will, of course, analyze which specific systems will be discussed... We will determine a military response to this new threat," Ryabkov told reporters.

Freudian slip? 😜

#Biden:

"And now I want to hand it over to the president of Ukraine, who has as much courage as he has determination, ladies and gentleman, President Putin." ❗
😄

Watch #Zelensky's reaction to #Biden: "the President of Ukraine... ladies and gentlemen, President Putin." 😄

#Russia's debt falls again to $306bn in 1Q24 from $326bn in 4Q23. Reserves are up to just under $600bn. Russia can more than cover its debt dollar for dollar with cash.

The Russian foreign debt declined by 3.4% year on year to $306.1bn as of July 1, the Central Bank said. "Dynamics of the indicator was largely driven by the decline of liabilities of other sectors on credits and loans borrowed, including with the framework of direct investing relations," the regulator said. The Russian foreign debt stood at $340.77bn as of July 1, 2023.

When the shit hits the fan ...

#JihadiJulian is in tatters 🤗

https://x.com/JulianRoepcke/status/1811781705180540969?t=2waVLX-s2xRlbQM-4vukkg&s=19

Professor Jeffrey Sachs: The most recent NATO declaration reaffirms the deadly and delusional strategy of Neocons.

For the sake of America's security and world peace, the U.S. should immediately abandon the neocon quest for hegemony in favor of diplomacy and peaceful co-existence.

The neoconservatives were originally led by Richard Cheney, the Defense Secretary in 1992. Every President since then—Clinton, Bush, Obama, Trump, and Biden—has pursued the neocon agenda of U.S. hegemony, leading theU.S. into perpetual wars of choice, including Serbia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, and Ukraine, as well as relentless eastward expansion of NATO, despite a clear U.S. and German promise in 1990 to Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev that NATO would not move one inch eastward.
The core neocon idea is that the U.S. should have military, financial, economic, and political dominance over any potential rival in any part of the world. It is targeted especially at rival powers such as China and Russia, and therefore brings the U.S. into direct confrontation with them. The American hubris is stunning: most of the world does not want to be led by the U.S., much less led by a U.S. state clearly driven by militarism, elitism and greed.

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/nato-neoconservatism-empire