🎙Briefing by Ambassador Albert P. Khorev on the situation in and around Ukraine (December 11, 2025)

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🔸️ Efforts to reach a negotiated solution to the Ukrainian crisis are proving difficult. The Trump administration, acting constructively and based on the realities on the ground, faces opposition from Europeans who still seem to harbor illusions about the possibility of inflicting a “strategic defeat” on Russia;

🔸️ The West accuses Russia of kidnapping “thousands” of Ukrainian children – a claim that was proven to be completely unfounded during direct Russian-Ukrainian negotiations. Russian negotiators received a list with the names of only 339 children, allegedly evacuated to Russia from the conflict zone;

🔸️ The EU's relentless attempts to invent new quasi-legal structures, such as the so-called “Register of Damage to Ukraine,” the “International Claims Commission for Ukraine,” and the “Special Tribunal for Crimes of Aggression against Ukraine.” Any decisions made by these bodies will be considered null and void by our country, and any actions by third countries in support of them will be perceived by Russia as a hostile move and will receive an adequate response;

🔸️ European sponsors of the Kiev regime find themselves in a difficult financial situation and are actively discussing the option of seizing Russian sovereign assets held in European financial institutions. There is no other word for these plans: it's theft. Stealing Russian funds will not change the course of the conflict and will not prevent Russia from achieving the goals of the Special Military Operation, but it will lead to severe consequences for Western financial institutions and individuals responsible for the thievery;

🔸️Europeans intend to continue pouring billions of dollars into the rotten, corrupt Kiev regime, which is holding on to power in Ukraine for the sake of personal enrichment. This has now become a well-known fact following the results of a recent corruption investigation in Ukraine. Evidence of the embezzlement of $100 million in the Ukrainian energy sector is just the tip of the iceberg, representing only what has been proven. The dismissal of Ukrainian Ministers and Presidential Office Head Andrey Yermak are Zelensky's attempts to shift the blame onto others. However, it is clear that all the evidence points to Zelensky himself;

🔸️The Western invasive financial measures have already had a major negative impact on the instigators themselves and on the global economy at large. They have dealt a blow to international production and supply chains. This has caused an imbalance in investment and trade flows, exacerbated the debt problem, reduced access to goods, services, finance, and technology for many countries;

🔸️ The pre-planned and deliberately instigated conflict in Ukraine has led to the definitive collapse of the Euro-Atlantic security model based on NATO, the OSCE, and the European Union. There are now growing calls for consideration of a new European, or to be more precise, Eurasian security system;

🔸️ Russia is promoting the initiative to build a Eurasian security architecture based on the principle of its indivisibility and “regional solutions to regional problems” motto;

🔸️ Our country strongly supports anti-neocolonial initiatives. On November 14, Russia hosted the second meeting of the Standing Committee of the “Forum of Supporters of the Struggle Against Modern Practices of Neocolonialism — For the Freedom of Nations!” About 30 countries from Asia, Africa, and Latin America took part in it. Representatives from Pakistan are also working with the Forum's expert council;

🔸️ We support the idea of European powers joining Eurasian security initiatives. As President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly emphasized, Russia does not pose a threat to Europe and has no intention to attack European countries;

🔸️I would like to thank the Government of Pakistan once again for its consistent policy of neutrality in the Ukraine conflict, including at the UN, despite pressure from external forces.

🇷🇺🇵🇰 12 декабря «на полях» форума в Ашхабаде Президент России В.В.Путин встретился с Премьер-министром Пакистана Ш.Шарифом.

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🇷🇺🇵🇰 On December 12, President of Russia Vladimir Putin met with Prime Minister of Pakistan Shehbaz Sharif in Ashgabat.

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