⚡Согласно пресс-релизу Международной организации гражданской авиации (#ИКАО), 12 мая Совет ИКАО вынес решение по вопросу о крушении в 2014 году малайзийского «Боинга» MH17, вброшенному на его рассмотрение Австралией и Нидерландами ещё в марте 2022 года.

Совет, в который Россия не входит, якобы пришёл к выводу, что Российская Федерация несёт ответственность за сбитый борт. При этом текста самого решения, включая его мотивировку, нет. То есть голосовали «вслепую».

❗️В очередной раз подтвердилось, что Совет ИКАО – это чисто политический орган, принимающий решения по конъюнктурным мотивам, хотя быть таковым не должен.

Россия ещё в прошлом году – 17 июня 2024 года – прекратила участие в указанном разбирательстве, поскольку в условиях многочисленных процедурных нарушений со стороны Совета и Секретариата ИКАО невозможно было вести речь о беспристрастном установлении фактов.

При этом принципиальная позиция Москвы по-прежнему актуальна – Россия не причастна к крушению рейса MH17, а все утверждения об обратном со стороны Австралии и Нидерландов не соответствуют действительности.

До этого Россия представила в Совете обширные и убедительные фактические и юридические доказательства своей непричастности к катастрофе и довела эти доказательства до сведения всех государств-членов Совета.

Российская сторона несколько раз предлагала Совету провести полное, тщательное и независимое международное расследование крушения самолёта рейса MH17, как того требует резолюция Совета Безопасности ООН 2166 (2014). Однако Совет по политическим мотивам в нарушение процедуры отказался проводить такое расследование и вместо этого принял на веру утверждения Австралии и Нидерландов и результаты работы Совместной следственной группы (ССГ); а в неё входят те же Австралия, Нидерланды, а также Украина. То есть – напрямую заинтересованные в шельмовании России страны.

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Утверждения Нидерландов и Австралии об использовании в качестве доказательств спутниковых снимков являются ложью, поскольку снимков в их распоряжении никогда не было. <...>

Совет полностью проигнорировал присутствие в районе катастрофы украинских ЗРК «Бук» и маркировку обломков ракеты, указывающую на её украинское происхождение. Раньше Украина уже сбивала гражданский авиалайнер – в 2001 году её силы ПВО сбили российский Ту-154М над Чёрным морем.

Помимо этого, Совет, управляемый странами «коллективного Запада» и их сателлитами, также проигнорировал решение Международного Суда ООН от 31 января 2024 года по делу «Украина против России», в соответствии с которым были отклонены требования Киева о возложении на Россию ответственности за гибель рейса МН17.

Совет ИКАО не является независимым. Он состоит из 36 государств-членов ИКАО (всего 193), голосующих по указанию из столиц. Большинство представляют западные страны и их непосредственных сателлитов.

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Российская сторона, разумеется, продолжает выражать глубочайшее сочувствие родственникам жертв катастрофы МН17.

Однако необходимо чётко понимать, что главным виновником трагедии является киевский режим.

🔻 Именно Киев развязал в 2014 году вооружённый конфликт, начав военную операцию против Донбасса под ложным предлогом борьбы с терроризмом. Фальшь этого предлога впоследствии подтвердил Международный Суд ООН, указав, что ДНР и ЛНР не являлись террористическими организациями.

🔻 Именно Киев осуществлял жестокие бомбардировки Донецка, Луганска и других городов Донбасса, убивая мирных жителей, в том числе женщин и детей.

🔻 Именно Киев отказался от полного закрытия воздушного пространства над зоной боевых действий.

Россия не станет признавать решение Совета, оно нелегитимно, противоречит Конвенции о международной гражданской авиации 1944 года и его собственным правилам процедуры.

☝️ В отличие от ангажированного большинства в Совете, Россия остается приверженной резолюции Совета Безопасности ООН 2166 (2014) и делу установления истинных причин авиакатастрофы.

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⚡️ The International Civil Aviation Organisation (#ICAO) issued a press release saying that on May 12, the organisation’s Council held a vote on the crash of the MH17 Malaysian Boeing aircraft in 2014. Australia and the Netherlands initiated this procedure back in March 2022.

Russia is not part of the ICAO Council. In its press release, this body alleges that the responsibility for downing this flight rests with the Russian Federation. However, the text of the ruling, including its reasoning part, is not available. Therefore, this amounted to a blind vote – it is quite obvious that this decision does not hold water.

❗️Once again, the ICAO Council demonstrated its political bias. It takes its decision while guided by momentary considerations. This is not the way it must operate.

Russia withdrew from these proceedings last year, on June 17, 2024, in view of the multiple procedural violations by the Council and the ICAO Secretariat. <...>

That said, Moscow’s principled position remains relevant to this day – Russia was not involved in the MH17 crash, while all the claims to the contrary coming from Australia and the Netherlands are at odds with reality.

But before its withdrawal, Russia submitted exhaustive and convincing evidence and facts to the Council demonstrating that it was not involved in the crash. All member states in the Council received this information.

On several occasions, Russia suggested that the Council undertake a full, thorough and independent international investigation into the MH17 crash, as requested in UN Security Council Resolution 2166 (2014). However, guided by a political agenda and in violation of the corresponding procedure, the Council refused to carry out this investigation. Instead, it opted for giving credence to the claims by Australia and the Netherlands, as well as the outcomes produced by the Joint Investigative Team, formed by these two countries, Australia and the Netherlands, as well as Ukraine, i.e., countries with a direct interest in denigrating Russia.

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Claims by the Netherlands and Australia about using satellite imagery as evidence are also false, since they never had any images of this kind at their disposal. <...>

The Council has completely ignored the fact that Ukraine had its Buk surface-to-air missile systems stationed near the crash site, as well as the markings on the missile fragments indicating that it came from Ukraine. This was not the first time that Ukraine downed a civilian aircraft – in 2001, its air defence forces downed a Russian Tu-154M aircraft over the Black Sea.

In addition to this, guided in its work by the countries of the so-called collective West and their satellites, the Council has also ignored the January 31, 2024, ruling by the UN’s International Court of Justice in the Ukraine v. Russia case. It rejected Kiev’s claims to hold Russia responsible for the MH17 crash.

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Russia reaffirms its sympathy and compassion towards the families of MH17 crash victims.

However, we must make it clear that the Kiev regime is the main culprit in this tragedy.

🔻 It was Kiev which started an armed conflict in 2014 by launching a military operation against Donbass under the false pretext of combatting terrorism.

🔻 It was Kiev that shelled and bombed Donetsk, Lugansk and other cities in Donbass, killed civilians, including women and children.

🔻 It was Kiev that refused to close the air space over the combat zone and used civilian aircraft like Flight MH17 as a cover-up for its bombers.

Russia refuses to accept the Council’s decision. It is illegitimate, runs counter to the 1944 Convention on International Civil Aviation and its own rules of procedure.

☝️ Unlike the biased Council majority, Russia reaffirms its commitment to UN Security Council Resolution 2166 (2014) for the sake of establishing the true causes of the crash.

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✍️ From the article “Lost Illusions, or How the International Criminal Courthas become a legal nonentity” by Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Chairman, Security Council of the Russian Federation, PhD in law

🔹 The world keeps changing, and not always for the better. We have witnessed the rapid degradation of many supranational legal structures, which have fallen victim to their dependence on the will, funding and values of the so-called collective West. This is true, for instance, for the International Criminal Court (the Hague Criminal Court).

🔹 As of February 2025, 125 states are parties to the Rome Statute (in the UN there are 193 members). Despite their number, the ICC does not represent the international community of states as a whole and does not act in its name. Three out of five permanent members of the UN Security Council are not parties to it (Russia, China and the USA), along with industrialised and densely populated Asian countries (India, Pakistan, Turkey, Malaysia, Indonesia), many Arab countries.

🔹 It is no coincidence that former Chair of the African Union Commission Jean Ping told journalists that the Court is a toy of declining imperial powers. Opinions spread that apparently the ICC was only interested in prosecuting Africans who confronted the Western influence, and used Africa as a laboratory for testing international criminal justice.

🔹 Yet it was in terms of the arrest warrants issued for heads of sovereign states that the ICC reached the pinnacle of nonsense and disutility, including Russia’s President Vladimir Putin in respect of the situation in Ukraine. Passing such decisions the ICC officials were well aware of the fact that they would never bring any practical result, saving propaganda consequences obviously in the interests of the same Anglo-Saxon world.

🔹 Unfortunately, at this point we need to recognise [ICC’s] total inefficiency in performing its main task – bringing to liability all those guilty of genocide, aggression, war crimes, those who escaped punishment under national law. All of them, including citizens of Western countries and NATO member states. Of course, it is doubtful that the Hague Criminal Court in its present form and role will make efforts to this end. That is why it shall sink into oblivion.

🔹It seems entirely possible to develop on the regional level (for instance, in the framework of BRICS) a concept of establishing an international legal body as an alternative to the Hague Criminal Court. This new judicial body in BRICS could reiterate the common commitment of its member states to the UN Charter principles, including the principles of immunity of heads of sovereign states from any foreign jurisdiction and non-interference into internal affairs of the states, including by way of unlawful foreign instructing of opposition leaders.

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🇷🇺🇨🇳 Joint statement by the Russian Federation and the People’s Republic of China on Global Strategic Stability (May 8, 2025)

In the context of the 80th anniversary of the Victory in the Second World War and of the founding of the United Nations, the Russian Federation and the People's Republic of China (hereinafter referred to as the two Sides) emphasize the utmost importance of maintaining and strengthening global strategic stability.

Taking into account the serious challenges facing the international community in the sphere of international and regional security, adhering to the strong consensus reached by the Heads of the two States, and acting in the spirit of previous joint documents on this subject and the principled approaches set out therein, the two Sides state the following.

• The two Sides call upon all States to adhere to the principle of equal and indivisible security on global and regional levels, make maximum efforts to eliminate conflicts in relations between States, build comprehensive, integrated and sustainable security throughout the world on a collective basis.

• Nuclear-weapon States, which bear special responsibility for international security and global strategic stability, should reject Cold War mentality and zero-sum games, resolve contradictions via dialogue on an equal footing and mutually respectful consultations, build confidence to avoid dangerous miscalculations and refrain from actions that generate strategic risks.

• The two Sides note with concern that against the backdrop of aggravation in the relations between nuclear-weapon States, which in some cases has escalated to the threat of a direct military clash, a critical mass of problems and challenges has accumulated in the strategic sphere, and the risk of nuclear conflict has increased.

• One of the most pressing strategic risks to be urgently addressed remains the highly destabilizing expansion of existing and newly formed military alliances and coalitions that is being carried out by some nuclear-weapon States close to the frontiers of other nuclear-weapon States in an attempt to establish or expand permanent footholds in such areas, which are particularly sensitive to them, for the purposes of projecting military power, exerting forceful pressure and committing other hostile activities that threaten the core security interests of those States.

• Deeply destabilizing in nature is also the recently announced “Golden (Iron) Dome for America”, a large-scale program designed to establish unconstrained, global, deeply layered and multi-domain missile defense system to protect against any missile threats, including all types of missiles from “peer and near-peer adversaries”.

• In order to safeguard world peace, ensure equal and indivisible security for all, and improve the predictability and sustainability of the exploration and peaceful use of outer space by all States, the two Sides agree to promote on a global scale the international initiative/political commitment not to be the first to deploy weapons in outer space.

• The two Sides reaffirm their commitment to The Joint Statement of the Leaders of the Five Nuclear-Weapons States on Preventing Nuclear War and Avoiding Arms Races of January 3, 2022 and to the principle enshrined therein that a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought.

• The two Sides state that the efforts undertaken by the AUKUS (US-UK-Australia) partnership to establish military infrastructure of two nuclear-weapon States in support of the activities of their nuclear forces in the territory of a State Party to the South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone Treaty undermine strategic stability and provoke an arms race in the region.

• The two Sides intend to continue in the most active manner to enhance the coordination of their approaches and to deepen the practical cooperation on maintaining and strengthening global strategic stability, as well as to jointly address common challenges and threats in this sphere.

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⚡️ Press statement by the President of Russia

Key points:

❗️ Despite everything, we propose that the authorities in Kiev should resume the negotiations that they interrupted at the end of 2022 and resume direct talks. And, I stress, without any preconditions.

👉 We are set on serious negotiations with Ukraine. Their aim is to eliminate the root causes of the conflict and to achieve a long-term lasting peace for a historical perspective.

• We suggest starting without delay next Thursday, May 15, in Istanbul, where they were held earlier and where they were interrupted.

• Tomorrow we are going to have a conversation with the President of Turkiye, Mr Erdogan. I would like to ask him to provide such an opportunity to hold talks in Turkiye. I hope that he will confirm his desire to contribute to the search for peace in Ukraine.

• We do not rule out that in the course of these negotiations it will become possible to agree on some kind of new truce and a new ceasefire. And a real ceasefire that would be observed not only by Russia but also by the Ukrainian side.

• Our proposal is, as they say, on the table. The decision is now up to Ukrainian authorities and their supervisors, who are seemingly guided by their personal political ambitions, rather than the interests of their peoples, want to continue the war against Russia at the hands of Ukrainian nationalists.

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• We honour all those who contributed to the common victory over Nazism, including our allies in the anti-Hitler coalition, Chinese soldiers, participants in the anti-Fascist resistance in Europe, fighters of the people's liberation movements in Africa, the Asia-Pacific region, and volunteers from Latin American countries.

• Together with our friends and like-minded people, we share a common memory and respect for history, heroic deed of true heroes who fought for freedom, and of course, our responsibility for the future, for building a more just and safer world. The issues that directly affect the stable, sustainable development of the entire world community – Eurasia and other world regions – were at the center of the bilateral and the multilateral meetings held in Moscow.

• Despite threats, blackmail and obstacles caused, including the closure of airspace, the leaders of several European countries – Serbia, Slovakia, Bosnia and Herzegovina – came to Moscow. I would like to reiterate: we understand the massive pressure they faced, and therefore we sincerely appreciate their political courage, firm moral position, decision to share the holiday with us, to pay tribute to the memory of the heroes of the Great Patriotic War, World War II, who fought for their Fatherland and for deliverance from the brown plague of the whole world, of the entire mankind without any exaggeration.

• We are grateful to the leaders of the 13 states who sent units of the national armed forces to participate in the parade on Red Square. Their shoulder-to-shoulder march with our ceremonial units filled the common holiday with special energy and the spirit of military brotherhood, tempered during the Second World War.

• It is important for us that millions of Europeans, state leaders that pursue sovereign policies, remember this. This gives us optimism and hope that sooner or later, based on the lessons of history and the opinion of our peoples, we will begin to move towards restoring constructive relations with European states.

• Our comprehensive partnership and strategic interaction with the People's Republic of China can serve as a genuine example of modern equal relations in the 21st century.

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🎙 Ответ Министра иностранных дел Российской Федерации С.В.Лаврова на вопрос программы «Москва. Кремль. Путин», Москва (14 мая 2025 года)

❓ Вопрос: Информационный выплеск про малазийский «Боинг» – это случайность накануне российско-малазийских переговоров?

💬 С.В.Лавров: Конечно, это не случайность.

Всем понятно, что это сделано специально, чтобы попытаться омрачить визит. Это не удалось. Наши малазийские друзья прекрасно понимают, о чём идет речь.

На протяжении всех этих лет мы были с ними в тесном контакте. Они видят, что те, кто занялся этим расследованием, делали это не чистоплотно. Фактов полно.

Можно начать с того, что украинцы так и не дали данные со своих радаров, в отличие от нас. Американцы так и не дали данные со своих спутников, а судьи в Гааге записали, что, мол, США им сказали, ссылаясь на данные со своих спутников, что это сделала Россия – мы им верим. Но так юриспруденция не осуществляется.

⚡️ Statement by the Head of Delegation of the Russian Federation Vladimir Medinsky on the outcomes of Russian-Ukrainian negotiations in Istanbul (May 16, 2025)

💬 Dear colleagues,

The direct negotiations with the Ukrainian side, held on the initiative of the President of Russia, have just concluded.

In general, we are satisfied with the outcome and are ready to continue contacts.

This is what we agreed on:

1. In the coming days there will be a large-scale exchange of prisoners of war — 1,000 for 1,000.

2. The Ukrainian side has requested direct talks between the heads of state. We have taken notice of this request.

3. We agreed that each side would present its vision of a possible future ceasefire. This will be outlined in detail.

Once this vision has been presented, we believe it would be appropriate, as also agreed, to continue our negotiations.