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⚡️ This morning, in response to the Kiev regime's attempts to damage objects of Russian power infrastructure and economy, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation delivered a group strike by long-range precision weaponry at objects of the Ukrainian military-industrial infrastructure and AFU aviation bases.
The goal of the strike has been achieved. All the assigned targets have been engaged.
Statements of the Kiev regime about the allegedly deliberate missile strike launched against civilian facilities by the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation are false.
Numerous published photos and footage from Kiev clearly confirm that the destruction was caused by a Ukrainian air defence missile launched by an anti-aircraft missile system in the city.
We note in particular that similar hysterics by the Kiev regime happen for years and every time on the eve of another meeting (summit) of its patrons from the NATO.
The goal of such provocations is to ensure further funding for the Kiev regime and the continuation of the war to the last Ukrainian.
🔹 Russian Defence Ministry
The goal of the strike has been achieved. All the assigned targets have been engaged.
Statements of the Kiev regime about the allegedly deliberate missile strike launched against civilian facilities by the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation are false.
Numerous published photos and footage from Kiev clearly confirm that the destruction was caused by a Ukrainian air defence missile launched by an anti-aircraft missile system in the city.
We note in particular that similar hysterics by the Kiev regime happen for years and every time on the eve of another meeting (summit) of its patrons from the NATO.
The goal of such provocations is to ensure further funding for the Kiev regime and the continuation of the war to the last Ukrainian.
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⚡️ Briefing by Chief of Nuclear, Chemical and Biological Protection Troops of the Armed Forces of Russia Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov on Ukraine's violation of obligations under Chemical Weapons Convention (July 8, 2024)
Key talking points:
💬 The Kiev regime regularly violates the Chemical Weapons Convention. During the special military operation, more than 400 cases of non-lethal toxic chemicals used by the Ukrainian side were registered.
• The Ukrainian Armed Forces troops use toxic compounds not only in the course of combat actions, but also to carry out terrorist attacks in liberated territories against a number of Russian political figures.
• The existing evidence base proving Ukraine's violating its obligations under the Convention has been submitted to the OPCW's Technical Secretariat, but no response has been forthcoming so far.
• Moreover, the Russian Defence Ministry has information about Ukraine's active cooperation with the OPCW's Technical Secretariat, which has ratified an additional agreement on privileges and immunities for technical assistance visits. This agreement will enable Ukraine to use the OPCW for its own benefit, circumventing the existing procedures under the Convention, by imposing on the Organisation its notoriously false conclusions about chemical investigations.
• A laboratory with chemical equipment was detected in an industrial zone on the ground floor of the destroyed building in one of the locations near Avdeyevka during engineering reconnaissance. <...> Analysis of the containers showed the presence of sulphuric acid and sodium cyanide suggesting the use of found equipment for the production of toxic substances.
• The US is fully in control of the activities of the OPCW. To settle accounts with the 'undesirable' states, Washington has established an attributive mechanism in the OPCW that was used to investigate the use of chemical weapons in Syria.
❗️ According to the available information, the US and Germany, together with Ukraine and the OPCW's Technical Secretariat, are preparing to launch a special mission to investigate the so-called use of chemical weapons in Ukraine, with a view to pressing charges against Russia.
One of the so-called 'independent' states is to initiate investigations and plant evidence that Russia used toxic chemicals during the special military operation. Americans have already committed some $400,000 to this end.
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Key talking points:
💬 The Kiev regime regularly violates the Chemical Weapons Convention. During the special military operation, more than 400 cases of non-lethal toxic chemicals used by the Ukrainian side were registered.
• The Ukrainian Armed Forces troops use toxic compounds not only in the course of combat actions, but also to carry out terrorist attacks in liberated territories against a number of Russian political figures.
• The existing evidence base proving Ukraine's violating its obligations under the Convention has been submitted to the OPCW's Technical Secretariat, but no response has been forthcoming so far.
• Moreover, the Russian Defence Ministry has information about Ukraine's active cooperation with the OPCW's Technical Secretariat, which has ratified an additional agreement on privileges and immunities for technical assistance visits. This agreement will enable Ukraine to use the OPCW for its own benefit, circumventing the existing procedures under the Convention, by imposing on the Organisation its notoriously false conclusions about chemical investigations.
• A laboratory with chemical equipment was detected in an industrial zone on the ground floor of the destroyed building in one of the locations near Avdeyevka during engineering reconnaissance. <...> Analysis of the containers showed the presence of sulphuric acid and sodium cyanide suggesting the use of found equipment for the production of toxic substances.
• The US is fully in control of the activities of the OPCW. To settle accounts with the 'undesirable' states, Washington has established an attributive mechanism in the OPCW that was used to investigate the use of chemical weapons in Syria.
❗️ According to the available information, the US and Germany, together with Ukraine and the OPCW's Technical Secretariat, are preparing to launch a special mission to investigate the so-called use of chemical weapons in Ukraine, with a view to pressing charges against Russia.
One of the so-called 'independent' states is to initiate investigations and plant evidence that Russia used toxic chemicals during the special military operation. Americans have already committed some $400,000 to this end.
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🤝 On July 8, the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs hosted a meeting between Special Representative of the President of the Russian Federation for the Middle East and African Countries, Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov and the "Arab Group for Peace" delegation led by former President of the People's Democratic Republic of #Yemen Ali Nasser Mohammed.
The discussions entailed a comprehensive exchange of views on pressing Middle Eastern issues, emphasizing the resolution of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, the security of maritime navigation in the Red Sea, and the stabilization of the situations in Yemen and Sudan.
🇷🇺 The Russian delegation reiterated its steadfast commitment to political and diplomatic solutions for the region's ongoing crises and conflicts, adhering to the principles and norms of international law, including the provisions of the UN Charter.
The discussions entailed a comprehensive exchange of views on pressing Middle Eastern issues, emphasizing the resolution of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, the security of maritime navigation in the Red Sea, and the stabilization of the situations in Yemen and Sudan.
🇷🇺 The Russian delegation reiterated its steadfast commitment to political and diplomatic solutions for the region's ongoing crises and conflicts, adhering to the principles and norms of international law, including the provisions of the UN Charter.
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Triumph of Bagration: the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Belarus
✍🏻Joint article by 🇷🇺Ilya Rogachev, Ambassador of Russia to South Africa, and 🇧🇾Igor Bely, Ambassador of Belarus to South Africa (8 July 2024)
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👉 Key points:
⚔ The operation by the Red Army to liberate Soviet Belarus from Nazi occupation was one of the largest in the world’s military history. It was conducted in June-August 1944 and codenamed ‘Bagration,’ after a famous general of Georgian descent in Mikhail Kutuzov’s army, who played an important role in stopping the Napoleonic invasion of Russia in 1812.
The offensive involved 2.4 million Soviet soldiers. In fierce fighting, the Red Army completely wiped out 17 divisions and 3 brigades of the Wehrmacht. Over 50 Nazi divisions were halved, with more than 500,000 enemy soldiers killed and wounded in total.
⭐ Operation ‘Bagration’ was commanded by the distinguished Soviet general Konstantin Rokossovsky who proposed his own plan of the operation and convinced Supreme Commander-in-chief Stalin to approve it.
The Red Army’s offensive was supported by all-people partisan movement in Belarus that was unparalleled in scale. Over 374,000 partisans and over 70,000 underground fighters struggled against the invaders in the Nazi-occupied territories.
🔹 Apart from struggle against the Nazis, the Red Army and Belarusian partisans had to fight on another front – against openly hostile Polish nationalist underground. They were particularly active in western parts of Belarus and Ukraine, a.k.a. ‘the Eastern Frontier’ – the territories seized by Warsaw in 1921.
The Soviet leadership presumed ‘the Eastern Frontier’ belonged to the Belarusian and Ukrainian peoples, while Polish nationalists hoped these lands would remain part of Poland after the war. This stance and open animosity towards the USSR led to direct clashes between the Poles and Soviet partisans.
☝🏻 The results of the operation were so significant that they cannot be ignored in any intellectual environment, no matter how hard some Western authors may try to downgrade its significance. The historical truth is that it was the Soviet people who played the key role in defeating Nazism, securing the freedom and independence of many nations across the globe.
✍🏻Joint article by 🇷🇺Ilya Rogachev, Ambassador of Russia to South Africa, and 🇧🇾Igor Bely, Ambassador of Belarus to South Africa (8 July 2024)
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👉 Key points:
⚔ The operation by the Red Army to liberate Soviet Belarus from Nazi occupation was one of the largest in the world’s military history. It was conducted in June-August 1944 and codenamed ‘Bagration,’ after a famous general of Georgian descent in Mikhail Kutuzov’s army, who played an important role in stopping the Napoleonic invasion of Russia in 1812.
The offensive involved 2.4 million Soviet soldiers. In fierce fighting, the Red Army completely wiped out 17 divisions and 3 brigades of the Wehrmacht. Over 50 Nazi divisions were halved, with more than 500,000 enemy soldiers killed and wounded in total.
⭐ Operation ‘Bagration’ was commanded by the distinguished Soviet general Konstantin Rokossovsky who proposed his own plan of the operation and convinced Supreme Commander-in-chief Stalin to approve it.
The Red Army’s offensive was supported by all-people partisan movement in Belarus that was unparalleled in scale. Over 374,000 partisans and over 70,000 underground fighters struggled against the invaders in the Nazi-occupied territories.
🔹 Apart from struggle against the Nazis, the Red Army and Belarusian partisans had to fight on another front – against openly hostile Polish nationalist underground. They were particularly active in western parts of Belarus and Ukraine, a.k.a. ‘the Eastern Frontier’ – the territories seized by Warsaw in 1921.
The Soviet leadership presumed ‘the Eastern Frontier’ belonged to the Belarusian and Ukrainian peoples, while Polish nationalists hoped these lands would remain part of Poland after the war. This stance and open animosity towards the USSR led to direct clashes between the Poles and Soviet partisans.
☝🏻 The results of the operation were so significant that they cannot be ignored in any intellectual environment, no matter how hard some Western authors may try to downgrade its significance. The historical truth is that it was the Soviet people who played the key role in defeating Nazism, securing the freedom and independence of many nations across the globe.
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🇷🇺🇮🇳 At the Novo-Ogaryovo residence of the President of Russia near Moscow, Vladimir Putin and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is on a two-day official visit to Russia, hold an informal meeting.
The talks will cover prospects for further development of the traditionally friendly Russian-Indian relations, as well as current international and regional issues.
#DruzhbaDosti 🤝 #RussiaIndia
The talks will cover prospects for further development of the traditionally friendly Russian-Indian relations, as well as current international and regional issues.
#DruzhbaDosti 🤝 #RussiaIndia
⚡️ Russia's Embassy in Canada:
❗️The latest Ottawa’s anti-Russia hysteria regarding the destruction in Kiev caused by a Ukrainian air defence missile is a hypocrisy against the backdrop of the silent reaction to everyday shelling of Russian cities and villages by NATO-supplied missiles and drones.
The more weapons are delivered to Ukrainian neo-Nazis, the longer the conflict will continue with yet more casualties to follow. The best way to stop the bloodshed is a comprehensive settlement based on the peace proposals voiced by President Vladimir Putin on June 14.
❗️The latest Ottawa’s anti-Russia hysteria regarding the destruction in Kiev caused by a Ukrainian air defence missile is a hypocrisy against the backdrop of the silent reaction to everyday shelling of Russian cities and villages by NATO-supplied missiles and drones.
The more weapons are delivered to Ukrainian neo-Nazis, the longer the conflict will continue with yet more casualties to follow. The best way to stop the bloodshed is a comprehensive settlement based on the peace proposals voiced by President Vladimir Putin on June 14.
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❗️The latest Ottawa’s anti-Russia hysteria regarding the destruction in Kiev caused by a Ukrainian air defence missile is a hypocrisy against the backdrop of the silent reaction to everyday shelling of Russian cities and villages by NATO-supplied missiles…
🇸🇸 Today, South Sudan celebrates #IndependenceDay!
The independent Republic of South Sudan (RSS) was proclaimed on July 9, 2011, following a twenty-year civil war, which ended with the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, and a referendum on self-determination held on January 9, 2011, where 98 percent of the participants voted in favour of South Sudan’s secession.
Russia recognised the young African state immediately after it gained independence: the corresponding Presidential executive order was signed on July 11, 2011. On July 14, 2011, the RSS was admitted to the UN, and on July 28, to the African Union.
🤝 Relations between Russia and South Sudan are developing very intensively. Trade, economic and humanitarian ties are being strengthened. In 2019, RSS President Salva Kiir Mayardit took part in the first #RussiaAfrica Summit in Sochi, and in September 2023, came to Moscow on an official visit, during which he held talks with President of Russia Vladimir Putin.
🎊 We congratulate our South Sudanese colleagues and friends on their national holiday, wish them well-being, stability and prosperity!
#RussiaSouthSudan
The independent Republic of South Sudan (RSS) was proclaimed on July 9, 2011, following a twenty-year civil war, which ended with the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, and a referendum on self-determination held on January 9, 2011, where 98 percent of the participants voted in favour of South Sudan’s secession.
Russia recognised the young African state immediately after it gained independence: the corresponding Presidential executive order was signed on July 11, 2011. On July 14, 2011, the RSS was admitted to the UN, and on July 28, to the African Union.
🤝 Relations between Russia and South Sudan are developing very intensively. Trade, economic and humanitarian ties are being strengthened. In 2019, RSS President Salva Kiir Mayardit took part in the first #RussiaAfrica Summit in Sochi, and in September 2023, came to Moscow on an official visit, during which he held talks with President of Russia Vladimir Putin.
🎊 We congratulate our South Sudanese colleagues and friends on their national holiday, wish them well-being, stability and prosperity!
#RussiaSouthSudan
🇷🇺🇮🇷📞 President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin spoke over the phone with President-elect of the Islamic Republic of Iran Masoud Pezeshkian.
Vladimir Putin congratulated Masoud Pezeshkian on his victory in the presidential election and wished him success in this important office.
Both Sides expressed their satisfaction with the current high level of bilateral neighbourly relations, and reaffirmed their commitment to closely work together to further develop mutually beneficial cooperation in various areas.
🤝 The two Leaders agreed to establish personal contact this year.
✉️ Also, a message of congratulations was sent to Masoud Pezeshkian.
#RussiaIran
Vladimir Putin congratulated Masoud Pezeshkian on his victory in the presidential election and wished him success in this important office.
Both Sides expressed their satisfaction with the current high level of bilateral neighbourly relations, and reaffirmed their commitment to closely work together to further develop mutually beneficial cooperation in various areas.
🤝 The two Leaders agreed to establish personal contact this year.
✉️ Also, a message of congratulations was sent to Masoud Pezeshkian.
#RussiaIran
🇷🇺🇮🇳 On July 8, 2024 President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi held an informal meeting at the presidential residence in Novo-Ogaryovo, Moscow Region.
💬 Vladimir Putin: We will hold official talks tomorrow, and today we can discuss the issues on our agenda unofficially, in a quiet and comfortable atmosphere.
<...>
But first I would like to congratulate you on being re-elected as Prime Minister. I think that there is a good reason for that. It is the result of the many years of your work at the helm of government. You have ideas of your own, you are a very energetic person, you know how to get results to benefit India and its people. And the outcome is obvious: India is the third-largest economy in the world. It is probably the largest country in the world by population, 1.4 billion people. <...> You have devoted your whole life to serving the Indian people, and they are aware of that.
#RussiaIndia 🤝 #DruzhbaDosti
💬 Vladimir Putin: We will hold official talks tomorrow, and today we can discuss the issues on our agenda unofficially, in a quiet and comfortable atmosphere.
<...>
But first I would like to congratulate you on being re-elected as Prime Minister. I think that there is a good reason for that. It is the result of the many years of your work at the helm of government. You have ideas of your own, you are a very energetic person, you know how to get results to benefit India and its people. And the outcome is obvious: India is the third-largest economy in the world. It is probably the largest country in the world by population, 1.4 billion people. <...> You have devoted your whole life to serving the Indian people, and they are aware of that.
#RussiaIndia 🤝 #DruzhbaDosti
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🕊 Humanitarian Action «To the children’s hands» to help children of new regions of Russia.
In early April 2022, in collaboration with the Russian Humanitarian Mission, an autonomous non-commercial organization, and other partners, the Russian Presidential Commissioner for Children’s Rights launched the humanitarian mission "To the Children’s Hands".
👉 Its primary objective is to address specific requests from individual families.
Humanitarian convoys are delivering supplies to operational headquarters of the mission in the new regions of Russia, as well as to the Belgorod region.
👉 Currently, there are five operational humanitarian headquarters: in Donetsk, Mariupol, Lugansk, Melitopol, and Genichesk. From these locations, humanitarian aid is distributed to minors in need, families with children, and children’s institutions, even in areas affected by active hostilities.
✅ In 2023, the headquarters received over 3,600 requests from citizens.
✅ In 2024, 460 appeals were submitted, resulting in targeted aid being provided to 1,490 children.
🤝 In total, more than 250 tonnes of aid have been delivered.
❤️ This humanitarian cargo includes medicines, vitamins, specialized food for children with disabilities, wheelchairs, verticalizers, exercise equipment for disabled children, clothing, shoes, bedding, personal hygiene products, stationery, and food. During winter, critical needs were focused on items for warmth, such as blankets, portable heaters, and generators for autonomous power supply.
📖 Read more about humanitarian projects and children's stories in the Bulletin
#ChildrensRightsCommissioner #ChildrenRights #HelpingChildren
In early April 2022, in collaboration with the Russian Humanitarian Mission, an autonomous non-commercial organization, and other partners, the Russian Presidential Commissioner for Children’s Rights launched the humanitarian mission "To the Children’s Hands".
👉 Its primary objective is to address specific requests from individual families.
Humanitarian convoys are delivering supplies to operational headquarters of the mission in the new regions of Russia, as well as to the Belgorod region.
👉 Currently, there are five operational humanitarian headquarters: in Donetsk, Mariupol, Lugansk, Melitopol, and Genichesk. From these locations, humanitarian aid is distributed to minors in need, families with children, and children’s institutions, even in areas affected by active hostilities.
✅ In 2023, the headquarters received over 3,600 requests from citizens.
✅ In 2024, 460 appeals were submitted, resulting in targeted aid being provided to 1,490 children.
🤝 In total, more than 250 tonnes of aid have been delivered.
❤️ This humanitarian cargo includes medicines, vitamins, specialized food for children with disabilities, wheelchairs, verticalizers, exercise equipment for disabled children, clothing, shoes, bedding, personal hygiene products, stationery, and food. During winter, critical needs were focused on items for warmth, such as blankets, portable heaters, and generators for autonomous power supply.
📖 Read more about humanitarian projects and children's stories in the Bulletin
#ChildrensRightsCommissioner #ChildrenRights #HelpingChildren
📺 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s address to participants in the Forum of BRICS Sister Cities and Municipalities (July 9, 2024)
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💬 Colleagues,
Friends,
I am delighted to welcome the organisers and participants of the traditional Forum of BRICS Sister Cities and Municipalities.
This year, the forum is being held in the Nizhny Novgorod Region and its capital, Nizhny Novgorod, which are known for their history and hospitality. Today, the region, just like the whole of Russia, is demonstrating its openness to the world and its readiness to develop foreign relations based on the principles of respect, equality and mutual advantage.
Russia, which holds #BRICS Chairmanship this year, is working to build up comprehensive strategic partnership within this association. We are paying priority attention to humanitarian cooperation and contacts between people.
Interaction between cities and municipalities has a big role to play in these efforts. It has recently been growing in terms of scope and, more importantly, quality. Plans for this year include many relevant events, which will certainly make a substantial contribution to the development of interregional cooperation within BRICS.
One such event is the Forum of Sister Cities and Municipalities. Over the past years, it has become an effective platform for developing dialogue between regional and municipal authorities, which has led to the establishment of sister city relations between many of them.
The accession of new members to BRICS on January 1, 2024, has considerably increased the potential of this mechanism. It offers new opportunities for exchanging experience on the key aspects of urban life, in particular, urban construction, local self-government and law-making, social protection, security and other essential topics.
During this forum, you will discuss vital issues such as enhancing the quality of city life, the economic development of municipalities, modern urban architecture, the digitalisation of urban environment, as well as various aspects of the ecology, education, culture, sport and youth exchanges. The Russian participants have considerable experience they can and will share in all these spheres.
A cultural programme is an integral part of this event. I am sure that you will enjoy learning about the region’s history and architecture and the crafts of our country.
🤝 No doubt that your forum will be held in a business-like and friendly atmosphere, which will help you establish useful contacts, discuss promising joint projects, as well as strengthen friendship and trust between our nations.
I wish you fruitful discussions and all the best.
#BRICS2024
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💬 Colleagues,
Friends,
I am delighted to welcome the organisers and participants of the traditional Forum of BRICS Sister Cities and Municipalities.
This year, the forum is being held in the Nizhny Novgorod Region and its capital, Nizhny Novgorod, which are known for their history and hospitality. Today, the region, just like the whole of Russia, is demonstrating its openness to the world and its readiness to develop foreign relations based on the principles of respect, equality and mutual advantage.
Russia, which holds #BRICS Chairmanship this year, is working to build up comprehensive strategic partnership within this association. We are paying priority attention to humanitarian cooperation and contacts between people.
Interaction between cities and municipalities has a big role to play in these efforts. It has recently been growing in terms of scope and, more importantly, quality. Plans for this year include many relevant events, which will certainly make a substantial contribution to the development of interregional cooperation within BRICS.
One such event is the Forum of Sister Cities and Municipalities. Over the past years, it has become an effective platform for developing dialogue between regional and municipal authorities, which has led to the establishment of sister city relations between many of them.
The accession of new members to BRICS on January 1, 2024, has considerably increased the potential of this mechanism. It offers new opportunities for exchanging experience on the key aspects of urban life, in particular, urban construction, local self-government and law-making, social protection, security and other essential topics.
During this forum, you will discuss vital issues such as enhancing the quality of city life, the economic development of municipalities, modern urban architecture, the digitalisation of urban environment, as well as various aspects of the ecology, education, culture, sport and youth exchanges. The Russian participants have considerable experience they can and will share in all these spheres.
A cultural programme is an integral part of this event. I am sure that you will enjoy learning about the region’s history and architecture and the crafts of our country.
🤝 No doubt that your forum will be held in a business-like and friendly atmosphere, which will help you establish useful contacts, discuss promising joint projects, as well as strengthen friendship and trust between our nations.
I wish you fruitful discussions and all the best.
#BRICS2024
🎙 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 the Kiev regime is 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.
💬 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 the Kiev regime is 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.
#AntiFake
❗️ Disinformation in Balkan media
In the past weeks, several Balkan media outlets, specifically, the 'Nova' news portal, have been disseminating misleading information about alleged challenges in Russia-Serbia relations. Authors claim that dialogue between Moscow and Belgrade is going through a crisis, no less, and the bilateral contacts “are suffering from misunderstanding and lack of regularity.”
❌ These claims are absolutely not true and contradict facts. Despite the complicated international situation, close ties between Russia and Serbia continue to develop consistently based on a broad and constructive agenda.
🤝 We compare our approaches and views with our Serbian partners on a regular basis. In particular, the entire scope of Russia-Serbia relations was discussed at length during Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko’s trip to Belgrade on July 1-2 and his meetings with the highest officials of the Republic of Serbia, including President Aleksandar Vucic, Prime Minister Milos Vucevic, Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandar Vulin, Deputy Prime Minister Ivica Dacic and Minister without portfolio in the Government of Serbia Nenad Popovic. There is more information in the Foreign Ministry’s comments available across all online pages of the MFA.
It is obvious that the partner approach to developing cooperation between Moscow and Belgrade causes so much irritation among certain media outlets and those behind them that the fake news about “disagreements” has been planted in the Serbian media even in the follow-up to the recent multi-dimensional Russia-Serbia talks. The Russian Embassy in Belgrade also commented on the ridiculousness of these publications.
❗️ Disinformation in Balkan media
In the past weeks, several Balkan media outlets, specifically, the 'Nova' news portal, have been disseminating misleading information about alleged challenges in Russia-Serbia relations. Authors claim that dialogue between Moscow and Belgrade is going through a crisis, no less, and the bilateral contacts “are suffering from misunderstanding and lack of regularity.”
❌ These claims are absolutely not true and contradict facts. Despite the complicated international situation, close ties between Russia and Serbia continue to develop consistently based on a broad and constructive agenda.
🤝 We compare our approaches and views with our Serbian partners on a regular basis. In particular, the entire scope of Russia-Serbia relations was discussed at length during Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko’s trip to Belgrade on July 1-2 and his meetings with the highest officials of the Republic of Serbia, including President Aleksandar Vucic, Prime Minister Milos Vucevic, Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandar Vulin, Deputy Prime Minister Ivica Dacic and Minister without portfolio in the Government of Serbia Nenad Popovic. There is more information in the Foreign Ministry’s comments available across all online pages of the MFA.
It is obvious that the partner approach to developing cooperation between Moscow and Belgrade causes so much irritation among certain media outlets and those behind them that the fake news about “disagreements” has been planted in the Serbian media even in the follow-up to the recent multi-dimensional Russia-Serbia talks. The Russian Embassy in Belgrade also commented on the ridiculousness of these publications.