🎙 Russian MFA Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova’s comment on Swiss neutrality during her interview with “Radio Sputnik”:
📍 January 24, 2024, Moscow
🤷🏻♀️ I was surprised to find comments from the Swiss Foreign Ministry regarding their attempts to find ways to draft some kind of negotiation process for Ukraine.
❌ Our assessment remains clear. Bern, unfortunately, has stepped away from its neutrality. You can play with words as much as you like, delve into what neutrality means, but the main thing is this - neutrality means not being involved in conflicts in favor of one of the parties.
📉 Reputation is built up over years. It can be destroyed in a second – exactly what Bern has successfully accomplished.
📍 January 24, 2024, Moscow
🤷🏻♀️ I was surprised to find comments from the Swiss Foreign Ministry regarding their attempts to find ways to draft some kind of negotiation process for Ukraine.
❌ Our assessment remains clear. Bern, unfortunately, has stepped away from its neutrality. You can play with words as much as you like, delve into what neutrality means, but the main thing is this - neutrality means not being involved in conflicts in favor of one of the parties.
📉 Reputation is built up over years. It can be destroyed in a second – exactly what Bern has successfully accomplished.
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🕯 January 27 is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. #OTD in 1945, soldiers of the Red Army of the First Ukrainian Front liberated prisoners of one of the most horrible concentration camps – Auschwitz (Oswiecim) – in the course of the Vistula-Oder Offensive.
The infamous death factory was established in 1940 near the city of Oswiecim, Poland, which was renamed Auschwitz after the Nazi occupation. It was one of the Third Reich’s biggest concentration camps.
Initially, Polish political prisoners were kept in the camp. Later, European Jews, Roma and Soviet POWs were sent there as well. According to various estimates, 75 to 90 percent of its inmates were instantly killed or were subjected to inhuman experiments by camp doctors.
Auschwitz II with crematoriums and gas chambers was built in 1941 in the village of Brzezinka (Birkenau in German) just three kilometres from the first camp. In 1942, after the “final solution to the Jewish question” adopted at the Wannsee Conference, this camp was turned into the centre for the annihilation of the European Jews.
In 1944, when the Red Army started the liberation of Europe, the leadership of the death camp rushed to destroy its infrastructure and send inmates westward. About 7,500 people remained in Auschwitz. The Nazis had planned to murder them in a few days.
The Red Army approached Oswiecim after three days of fighting on its outskirts, on the night of January 27, 1945. The prisoners wept with joy on seeing the Soviet liberators. Part of the camp was turned into a recovery hospital.
▪️In total, at least 1.3 million people passed through Auschwitz during its existence, about 1.1 million of them were exterminated.
In the past few years, the memory of this great deed of the Soviet soldiers that liberated the camp’s inmates has been systematically destroyed in a number of European countries.
❕ The accomplishment of the Soviet soldiers that liberated Europe from the Nazi scourge can never be erased.
❕ The tragedy of the Holocaust must never be repeated.
The infamous death factory was established in 1940 near the city of Oswiecim, Poland, which was renamed Auschwitz after the Nazi occupation. It was one of the Third Reich’s biggest concentration camps.
Initially, Polish political prisoners were kept in the camp. Later, European Jews, Roma and Soviet POWs were sent there as well. According to various estimates, 75 to 90 percent of its inmates were instantly killed or were subjected to inhuman experiments by camp doctors.
Auschwitz II with crematoriums and gas chambers was built in 1941 in the village of Brzezinka (Birkenau in German) just three kilometres from the first camp. In 1942, after the “final solution to the Jewish question” adopted at the Wannsee Conference, this camp was turned into the centre for the annihilation of the European Jews.
In 1944, when the Red Army started the liberation of Europe, the leadership of the death camp rushed to destroy its infrastructure and send inmates westward. About 7,500 people remained in Auschwitz. The Nazis had planned to murder them in a few days.
The Red Army approached Oswiecim after three days of fighting on its outskirts, on the night of January 27, 1945. The prisoners wept with joy on seeing the Soviet liberators. Part of the camp was turned into a recovery hospital.
▪️In total, at least 1.3 million people passed through Auschwitz during its existence, about 1.1 million of them were exterminated.
In the past few years, the memory of this great deed of the Soviet soldiers that liberated the camp’s inmates has been systematically destroyed in a number of European countries.
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🗓 On January 27, 1944, the 872-day siege of Leningrad was finally lifted, marking the end of one of the most tragic episodes of the Great Patriotic War which claimed the lives of over a million Leningraders.
The blockade began on September 8, 1941, when Nazi troops isolated the city from the rest of the country by land. From the north, it was cut off from the main forces by Finnish troops allied with the Nazi Germany. In addition to the Finns, soldiers from Belgium, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands & Norway took part in the offensive, as well as volunteers from Austria, Latvia, Poland, France & Czechoslovakia.
Despite the cold, hunger & horrors of war, the Leningraders selflessly defended their city from total destruction during these 872 days and even in these dire circumstances continued producing goods & various machinery to supply the war effort against the Nazis. The incredible resilience and bravery of Leningrad residents shattered all the plans and ambitions of the Nazi invaders.
⚔️ A year after the breakthrough, Soviet Army managed to finally lift the siege of the city on January 27, 1944. After the success of the Iskra Operation, the situation in the city improved dramatically, but the threat remained. At the end of 1943, the Leningrad-Novgorod Strategic Offensive Operation was planned, during which Soviet soldiers liberated the Leningrad, Novgorod and part of the Kalinin (now Tver) regions, and pushed back the enemy to the borders of Estonia and Latvia.
🎖 The courage & heroism of Leningrad defenders were highly appreciated by the Motherland. Many units & formations were awarded the honourable title of “Guards”, orders & the honorary title of “Leningrad”. On the Leningrad, Volkhov & Karelian fronts, 486 people were awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union, including eight people who received it twice. 350,000+ servicemen on the Leningrad front alone received orders & medals.
#WeRemember and pay tribute to the heroes who stopped the Nazi plague that crippled Europe and threatened humankind.
The blockade began on September 8, 1941, when Nazi troops isolated the city from the rest of the country by land. From the north, it was cut off from the main forces by Finnish troops allied with the Nazi Germany. In addition to the Finns, soldiers from Belgium, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands & Norway took part in the offensive, as well as volunteers from Austria, Latvia, Poland, France & Czechoslovakia.
Despite the cold, hunger & horrors of war, the Leningraders selflessly defended their city from total destruction during these 872 days and even in these dire circumstances continued producing goods & various machinery to supply the war effort against the Nazis. The incredible resilience and bravery of Leningrad residents shattered all the plans and ambitions of the Nazi invaders.
⚔️ A year after the breakthrough, Soviet Army managed to finally lift the siege of the city on January 27, 1944. After the success of the Iskra Operation, the situation in the city improved dramatically, but the threat remained. At the end of 1943, the Leningrad-Novgorod Strategic Offensive Operation was planned, during which Soviet soldiers liberated the Leningrad, Novgorod and part of the Kalinin (now Tver) regions, and pushed back the enemy to the borders of Estonia and Latvia.
🎖 The courage & heroism of Leningrad defenders were highly appreciated by the Motherland. Many units & formations were awarded the honourable title of “Guards”, orders & the honorary title of “Leningrad”. On the Leningrad, Volkhov & Karelian fronts, 486 people were awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union, including eight people who received it twice. 350,000+ servicemen on the Leningrad front alone received orders & medals.
#WeRemember and pay tribute to the heroes who stopped the Nazi plague that crippled Europe and threatened humankind.
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📍 January 27, 2024, Leningrad region
🕯️ January 27 is one of the most important dates in our common, national history. On this day in 1944, the Red Army fully lifted the siege of Leningrad, and a year later, in 1945, liberated Auschwitz. These two events are united not only by the same historical era. The tragedy and martyrdom of the people of Leningrad, as well as the prisoners of the death camps, will forever remain testimonies to the monstrous nature of Nazism, the unimaginable sufferings of millions of innocent, peaceful citizens.
▪️ For eight decades, our pain for these terrible sacrifices, for the broken fates, for all who went through incredible ordeals, has not subsided. Our compassion is passed from one generation to another and has no statute of limitations, just as the crimes of Hitler's fanatics and their accomplices, who cold-bloodedly planned and cruelly committed the genocide of the Soviet people.
▪️ The siege of Leningrad was unprecedented in scale of cruelty and cynicism. The goal of the Nazis was to exterminate the entire city. More than a million residents of Leningrad, I emphasize, specifically ordinary citizens, became victims of hunger, cold, endless shellings and bombing raids.
▪️ We see how the outcomes of the Nuremberg Trials, which elaborated a definitive legal assessment of Nazism, are being revised today. In certain countries, history is being rewritten and executioners justified, revanchists and neo-Nazis have adopted the ideology and methods of the Hitlerites.
▪️ We will do everything to end and completely eradicate Nazism. The followers of the Nazi executioners, however they call themselves today, are doomed.
❗️ Eternal memory to the perished. Glory to the Soviet soldier who crushed Nazism!
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• Today's story is about 71-year-old spouses from Riga, who suffer from congenital deaf-mutism and have permanent disability;
• being law-abiding citizens, in accordance with migration law, promptly started re-issuing a residence permit;
• however, even having all the necessary documents confirming the status of a disabled person, as well as a certificate of graduation from a school for the deaf, the elderly couple didn't manage to overcome bureaucratic barriers and obtain a medical exemption from the Latvian language exam;
• as a result, as expected, they did not score the required number of points in such sections as speaking and listening;
🚫 due to the failure to pass the exam, the Russian citizens had their permanent residence permit revoked, and received letters with prescription to leave the territory of Latvia;
• as a result, the married couple, who found themselves in an “illegal” situation, have lost access to social benefits, banking services, as well as free medical care in Latvia;
❗️all these atrocities occur despite the explanations of the UN Human Rights Committee, which clearly state that the deportation of people who have lived in the state for more than 10 years is unacceptable without compelling reasons.
#No_To_Discrimination
#Discrimination_in_Latvia
#Russian_Pensioners
#Residence_Permit_Revocation
#Human_Rights_Violation
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❗️The second issue of the Bulletin on the activities of the Russian Federation Presidential Commissioner for Children’s Rights to protect children during a special military operation (SMO) is available at the official web-site of he Russian Federation Presidential Commissioner for Children’s Right in seven languages:
🇷🇺 Russian;
🇬🇧 English;
🇦🇿 Azerbaijan;
🇦🇲 Armenian;
🇪🇸 Spanish;
🇨🇳 Chinese;
🇫🇷 French.
The document contains information about activities of the Russian Federation Presidential Commissioner for Children’s Rights in the realization of the rights and interests of minors affected by the military actions.
💬 It doesn’t matter where or in what status a child is in Russia, in an orphanage, in a foster family, whether he or she has Russian citizenship or not. If he has a parent with full parental rights, the family has every opportunity to be reunited.
💬 Since the beginning of the SMO, representatives of Ukrainian authorities have not officially contacted the Presidential Commissioner for Children’s Rights. It should be noted that Maria Lvova-Belova is open to interaction with the Ukrainian side, and if official requests were received, they would be considered.
💬 It is important to understand that the territories of the DPR and LPR have been shelled by the Ukrainian Armed Forces for many years, and most orphaned children from social institutions in the republic are aware of this. Children do not perceive Russia as an enemy and expect protection and help from us, so being placed in safe territory with Russian foster families is not a traumatic circumstance for them.
*The first Bulletin was presented on April 4, 2023.
🇷🇺 Russian;
🇬🇧 English;
🇦🇿 Azerbaijan;
🇦🇲 Armenian;
🇪🇸 Spanish;
🇨🇳 Chinese;
🇫🇷 French.
The document contains information about activities of the Russian Federation Presidential Commissioner for Children’s Rights in the realization of the rights and interests of minors affected by the military actions.
💬 It doesn’t matter where or in what status a child is in Russia, in an orphanage, in a foster family, whether he or she has Russian citizenship or not. If he has a parent with full parental rights, the family has every opportunity to be reunited.
💬 Since the beginning of the SMO, representatives of Ukrainian authorities have not officially contacted the Presidential Commissioner for Children’s Rights. It should be noted that Maria Lvova-Belova is open to interaction with the Ukrainian side, and if official requests were received, they would be considered.
💬 It is important to understand that the territories of the DPR and LPR have been shelled by the Ukrainian Armed Forces for many years, and most orphaned children from social institutions in the republic are aware of this. Children do not perceive Russia as an enemy and expect protection and help from us, so being placed in safe territory with Russian foster families is not a traumatic circumstance for them.
*The first Bulletin was presented on April 4, 2023.
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⚡️ On the International Court of Justice finding no discrimination against Crimean Tatars and Ukrainians in Russia and completely rejecting Ukraine’s reparations claims
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💬 On January 31, 2024, the UN International Court of Justice released its final Judgment in the dispute with Russia initiated by Ukraine in January 2017, based on the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD). The court rejected practically all Ukraine’s demands and recognised that Russia’s policy conforms to its commitments under the convention. There is no discrimination against Crimean Tatars and Ukrainians in Crimea.
The main false accusation levelled by Kiev against Russia was that:
• Russia’s law-enforcement actions against members of the terrorist group Hizb ut-Tahrir and the extremist groups Tablighi Jamaat and the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People constituted persecution of Crimean Tatars on ethnic grounds. The court did not agree with this assessment. It did not find any elements of discrimination in the standards of Russian anti-extremist legislation. Nor did it detect any signs of racial discrimination in the application of these standards by Russian law-enforcement bodies.
• The court did not find that the ban on the Mejlis, which Russia has outlawed as an extremist organisation, violated the Convention. It emphasised in its Judgment that the Qurultay is the representative body of the Crimean Tatar people. It was not banned and continues fulfilling its functions in Crimea.
• The court rejected Ukraine’s accusations of Russia’s alleged involvement in the targeted murders and abductions of Crimean Tatars and Ukrainians in Crimea.
• The court also rejected all Ukraine’s claims on the issues of citizenship. It did not identify any cases of racial discrimination in the Russian laws on granting citizenship in Crimea since 2014.
• Ukraine’s allegations about the infringement of the rights of the Crimean Tatars and Ukrainians to access to their national media, assemblies and rallies and the preservation of cultural heritage sites were also found to lack merit.
• Russia’s restoration of the Khan’s Palace in Bachchisarai was not a “cultural catastrophe” as Ukrainian representatives tried to present it. It was necessary to remedy the effects of negligence on the part of the Ukrainian authorities that had brought this landmark of history and culture to a dilapidated state.
• The International Court of Justice recognised that the residents of Crimea have access to education in the Crimean Tatar and Ukrainian languages. At the same time, a majority on the court ruled that the sharp reduction in the number of schools with instruction in Ukrainian after Crimea’s transfer to Russia’s jurisdiction in 2014, is a violation of its commitments on the right to education under the CERD.
☝️ This finding is controversial enough, especially considering that the court admitted that Crimeans chose instruction in Russian of their own free will. Were the Russian authorities supposed to drag children into Ukrainian schools against their will? All those who want instruction in Ukrainian will be granted this opportunity in one way or another in accordance with current legislation.
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✅ The case is over. Russia is not supposed to take any special action to fulfil this judgment. All of Ukraine’s demands for reparations have been rejected.
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💬 On January 31, 2024, the UN International Court of Justice released its final Judgment in the dispute with Russia initiated by Ukraine in January 2017, based on the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD). The court rejected practically all Ukraine’s demands and recognised that Russia’s policy conforms to its commitments under the convention. There is no discrimination against Crimean Tatars and Ukrainians in Crimea.
The main false accusation levelled by Kiev against Russia was that:
• Russia’s law-enforcement actions against members of the terrorist group Hizb ut-Tahrir and the extremist groups Tablighi Jamaat and the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People constituted persecution of Crimean Tatars on ethnic grounds. The court did not agree with this assessment. It did not find any elements of discrimination in the standards of Russian anti-extremist legislation. Nor did it detect any signs of racial discrimination in the application of these standards by Russian law-enforcement bodies.
• The court did not find that the ban on the Mejlis, which Russia has outlawed as an extremist organisation, violated the Convention. It emphasised in its Judgment that the Qurultay is the representative body of the Crimean Tatar people. It was not banned and continues fulfilling its functions in Crimea.
• The court rejected Ukraine’s accusations of Russia’s alleged involvement in the targeted murders and abductions of Crimean Tatars and Ukrainians in Crimea.
• The court also rejected all Ukraine’s claims on the issues of citizenship. It did not identify any cases of racial discrimination in the Russian laws on granting citizenship in Crimea since 2014.
• Ukraine’s allegations about the infringement of the rights of the Crimean Tatars and Ukrainians to access to their national media, assemblies and rallies and the preservation of cultural heritage sites were also found to lack merit.
• Russia’s restoration of the Khan’s Palace in Bachchisarai was not a “cultural catastrophe” as Ukrainian representatives tried to present it. It was necessary to remedy the effects of negligence on the part of the Ukrainian authorities that had brought this landmark of history and culture to a dilapidated state.
• The International Court of Justice recognised that the residents of Crimea have access to education in the Crimean Tatar and Ukrainian languages. At the same time, a majority on the court ruled that the sharp reduction in the number of schools with instruction in Ukrainian after Crimea’s transfer to Russia’s jurisdiction in 2014, is a violation of its commitments on the right to education under the CERD.
☝️ This finding is controversial enough, especially considering that the court admitted that Crimeans chose instruction in Russian of their own free will. Were the Russian authorities supposed to drag children into Ukrainian schools against their will? All those who want instruction in Ukrainian will be granted this opportunity in one way or another in accordance with current legislation.
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✅ The case is over. Russia is not supposed to take any special action to fulfil this judgment. All of Ukraine’s demands for reparations have been rejected.
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📍 January 31, 2024, Moscow
▪️ One can understand why the Armed Forces of Ukraine are shelling peaceful cities - to divert the attention of their own population and sponsors from the failed "counteroffensive", to show that they are capable of something, to provoke us into retaliatory, reciprocal actions.
▪️ As for why the AFU shot down the Russian IL-76 with 65 of their own military personnel on board, I have no answer.
▪️ One might assume that they did it by accident. If so, it's a crime in any case - criminal negligence. Will this stop the POW exchanges? We won’t stop them, but we will not forget the crimes they commit against our citizens.
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▪️ Meanwhile, on February 1, 2024, the Russian Investigative Committee concluded that the IL-76 military transport aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces was downed on January 24, 2024, with two missiles launched by a surface-to-air system from Liptsy, Kharkov Region, Ukraine.
▪️ The engineering features, geometry and markings of the fragments collected at the crash site belong to a MIM-104A surface-to-air missile from a US Patriot launcher (developed by Raytheon and Hughes).
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🎙 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks at the embassy roundtable discussion of a settlement in Ukraine (Moscow, January 30, 2024)
💬 The Ukraine crisis is a test for the emerging multipolar world order, for the global majority, which is coming to the realisation that exclusive reliance on the mechanisms of international relations created by the collective West has no prospects.
• Former NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, now a consultant or adviser for the Vladimir Zelensky team, said recently that the West viewed Ukraine as a “defensive wall” in front of Russia. According to this mindset, everything that is linked with Ukraine must be used to inflict a “strategic defeat” on Russia.
✍️ In 1942, the Nazi criminal Reichskommissar Erich Koch, later sentenced at the Nuremberg Trials, wrote, “Ukraine is merely an object of exploitation for us. It should pay for the expenses of the war, and its population to a certain extent should be utilised as second-rate people for the tasks of the war, even if they have to be caught with a lasso.” Doesn’t this remind you of anything❓
• In less than two years, the West has allocated over $200 billion to Ukraine to support its military programme and to shore up the budget of this totally insolvent country. To put this in perspective, the EU has appropriated less than 80 billion euros to be disbursed within seven years to provide socioeconomic support for the Global South and the Global East.
• Washington is forcing EU countries to send everything they have to Ukraine for next to nothing. The countries that do this are replenishing their arsenals with US-made weapons they buy at full price.
❗️ Weapons are spreading around the world. The Kiev regime has been famous for its efforts to seize every opportunity to make a profit, even if it deals in trading death.
💬 The Ukraine crisis is a test for the emerging multipolar world order, for the global majority, which is coming to the realisation that exclusive reliance on the mechanisms of international relations created by the collective West has no prospects.
• Former NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, now a consultant or adviser for the Vladimir Zelensky team, said recently that the West viewed Ukraine as a “defensive wall” in front of Russia. According to this mindset, everything that is linked with Ukraine must be used to inflict a “strategic defeat” on Russia.
✍️ In 1942, the Nazi criminal Reichskommissar Erich Koch, later sentenced at the Nuremberg Trials, wrote, “Ukraine is merely an object of exploitation for us. It should pay for the expenses of the war, and its population to a certain extent should be utilised as second-rate people for the tasks of the war, even if they have to be caught with a lasso.” Doesn’t this remind you of anything❓
• In less than two years, the West has allocated over $200 billion to Ukraine to support its military programme and to shore up the budget of this totally insolvent country. To put this in perspective, the EU has appropriated less than 80 billion euros to be disbursed within seven years to provide socioeconomic support for the Global South and the Global East.
• Washington is forcing EU countries to send everything they have to Ukraine for next to nothing. The countries that do this are replenishing their arsenals with US-made weapons they buy at full price.
❗️ Weapons are spreading around the world. The Kiev regime has been famous for its efforts to seize every opportunity to make a profit, even if it deals in trading death.
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It was here that a radical turning point in the Great Patriotic War took place - the largest group of Nazi Germany troops and its satellites was defeated. This victory in Stalingrad was the beginning of the end for the entire Hitler coalition.
✊ The city did not surrender to the enemy. Thanks to the incredible will to live, fortitude and courage of the defenders - the Nazis suffered a crushing defeat.
🎥 © Russian Military Historical Society
#Stalingrad #Victory79
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🎙 Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova’s comment on the ruling of the UN International Court of Justice to reject Ukraine’s accusations that Russia violated the Genocide Convention
💬 On February 2, 2024, the UN International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague issued a judgment in the case “Allegations of Genocide under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Ukraine v. Russian Federation).” For the time being, the judgment is limited by the procedural issue of the court’s jurisdiction.
However, even at that preliminary stage, the case concocted by Ukraine has already fallen apart.
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The court accepted Russia’s preliminary objections and agreed that Kiev’s accusations have nothing to do with the convention. The issue is not even about Russia committing genocide or failing to fulfil its commitments to prevent it.
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☝️ The collective West’s unprecedented interference in the case did not help Ukraine. As many as 47 countries (mostly NATO and EU members) declared their intention to support Ukraine by joining the process. Out of this number, 33 countries have already filed relevant applications at the jurisdiction stage. <...> Thus, thirty two teams of lawyers spoke in turn at the hearings in The Hague in September 2023, turning them into a total farce.
It is worth noting that these same NATO countries, when earlier accused by Serbia of violating the Genocide Convention by bombing Yugoslavia, argued to the same court that the convention did not regulate the use of force and that the military campaign “in defence” of the Kosovo Albanians was justified. At that time, the court listened to these arguments and refused to review all Serbian-filed cases.
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So now the court will review only one issue – whether Ukraine committed genocide in Donbass. In other words, Kiev has put itself in the dock as part of its own claims. We can only applaud Kiev and its Western patrons for so deftly shooting themselves in the foot.
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💬 On February 2, 2024, the UN International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague issued a judgment in the case “Allegations of Genocide under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Ukraine v. Russian Federation).” For the time being, the judgment is limited by the procedural issue of the court’s jurisdiction.
However, even at that preliminary stage, the case concocted by Ukraine has already fallen apart.
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The court accepted Russia’s preliminary objections and agreed that Kiev’s accusations have nothing to do with the convention. The issue is not even about Russia committing genocide or failing to fulfil its commitments to prevent it.
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☝️ The collective West’s unprecedented interference in the case did not help Ukraine. As many as 47 countries (mostly NATO and EU members) declared their intention to support Ukraine by joining the process. Out of this number, 33 countries have already filed relevant applications at the jurisdiction stage. <...> Thus, thirty two teams of lawyers spoke in turn at the hearings in The Hague in September 2023, turning them into a total farce.
It is worth noting that these same NATO countries, when earlier accused by Serbia of violating the Genocide Convention by bombing Yugoslavia, argued to the same court that the convention did not regulate the use of force and that the military campaign “in defence” of the Kosovo Albanians was justified. At that time, the court listened to these arguments and refused to review all Serbian-filed cases.
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So now the court will review only one issue – whether Ukraine committed genocide in Donbass. In other words, Kiev has put itself in the dock as part of its own claims. We can only applaud Kiev and its Western patrons for so deftly shooting themselves in the foot.
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🇩🇪🎥 Several days ago, Armin Coerper, a TV journalist from Germany's ZDF (Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen), travelled from Moscow to Mariupol to share his first-hand impressions of the city’s current state. He emphasized the importance of covering the Ukrainian crisis "from both sides" to allow viewers to form their own opinions.
❌ Eventually, most his report and observations contradicted the Western mainstream narrative. Notably:
• He moved freely around the city, speaking with locals without any oversight or restrictions;
• A vast majority of the local population expressed pro-Russian sentiments;
• Mariupol isn’t a ghost town. People go about their usual lives, with full access to electricity, heating, hot water, Wi-Fi, stores and restaurants;
• No signs of "partisan networks" or "resistance" were evident;
• Russia is actively rebuilding the city, with the scale of work ranging from new schools to entire residential blocks being particularly impressive;
• Artists of the Mariupol theatre are happy to be able to perform in Russian again.
🤬 Armin Coerper (who by no means can be called a pro-Russian reporter – just watch the translated interview) has faced serious criticism from his EU colleagues for his personal take on Mariupol's current state.
☠️ On February 2, 2024, he was added to the "Mirotvorets" — an online hit list run by Ukrainian neo-Nazis.
🤷🏻 This whole bizarre situation is the current state of the European “freedom of speech” in a nutshell.
❌ Eventually, most his report and observations contradicted the Western mainstream narrative. Notably:
• He moved freely around the city, speaking with locals without any oversight or restrictions;
• A vast majority of the local population expressed pro-Russian sentiments;
• Mariupol isn’t a ghost town. People go about their usual lives, with full access to electricity, heating, hot water, Wi-Fi, stores and restaurants;
• No signs of "partisan networks" or "resistance" were evident;
• Russia is actively rebuilding the city, with the scale of work ranging from new schools to entire residential blocks being particularly impressive;
• Artists of the Mariupol theatre are happy to be able to perform in Russian again.
🤬 Armin Coerper (who by no means can be called a pro-Russian reporter – just watch the translated interview) has faced serious criticism from his EU colleagues for his personal take on Mariupol's current state.
☠️ On February 2, 2024, he was added to the "Mirotvorets" — an online hit list run by Ukrainian neo-Nazis.
🤷🏻 This whole bizarre situation is the current state of the European “freedom of speech” in a nutshell.
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⚡️ Comment by Russia's MFA Spox Maria Zakharova on the Kiev regime’s terrorist attack on residential areas in Lisichansk
💬 According to the Military Commandant’s Office of the Russian Federation’s Lugansk People’s Republic, on Saturday, February 3, the Kiev regime launched rockets at civilian infrastructure in the city of Lisichansk, destroying a bakery. This is yet another cruel terrorist attack perpetrated by the Ukrainian neo-Nazis.
At the time of the attack, the bakery was filled with dozens of local civilians, as is usual on Saturdays, including elderly people and families with children, who had come to buy bread and food. The Ukrainian army chiefs who ordered the attack were well aware of this and acted deliberately.
The building was completely destroyed. The Russian Emergencies Ministry estimates that there may be up to 40 people trapped under the debris. At least 28 civilians have been confirmed dead, and there are numerous other victims. At present, Emergencies Ministry crews are working to find and rescue survivors and recover bodies from the rubble.
According to preliminary information, the rockets were fired from a Western multiple launch system. This new terrorist attack is the Kiev extremists’ way of expressing “gratitude” to the EU countries for their generous financial support.
❗️ EU citizens must be made aware that their taxes are being used to buy deadly weapons, which the Kiev regime uses to kill innocent civilians. <...>
This incident once again demonstrates the criminal nature of the Kiev regime. According to President of Russia Vladimir Putin, the ringleaders on Bankovaya Street and in the Armed Forces of Ukraine are parts of the same terrorist organisation.
☝️ Russia will inform international organisations about the latest act of terrorism committed by the Zelensky gang. We expect that these international organisations will promptly issue an unequivocal condemnation of Kiev’s new crime.
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💬 According to the Military Commandant’s Office of the Russian Federation’s Lugansk People’s Republic, on Saturday, February 3, the Kiev regime launched rockets at civilian infrastructure in the city of Lisichansk, destroying a bakery. This is yet another cruel terrorist attack perpetrated by the Ukrainian neo-Nazis.
At the time of the attack, the bakery was filled with dozens of local civilians, as is usual on Saturdays, including elderly people and families with children, who had come to buy bread and food. The Ukrainian army chiefs who ordered the attack were well aware of this and acted deliberately.
The building was completely destroyed. The Russian Emergencies Ministry estimates that there may be up to 40 people trapped under the debris. At least 28 civilians have been confirmed dead, and there are numerous other victims. At present, Emergencies Ministry crews are working to find and rescue survivors and recover bodies from the rubble.
According to preliminary information, the rockets were fired from a Western multiple launch system. This new terrorist attack is the Kiev extremists’ way of expressing “gratitude” to the EU countries for their generous financial support.
❗️ EU citizens must be made aware that their taxes are being used to buy deadly weapons, which the Kiev regime uses to kill innocent civilians. <...>
This incident once again demonstrates the criminal nature of the Kiev regime. According to President of Russia Vladimir Putin, the ringleaders on Bankovaya Street and in the Armed Forces of Ukraine are parts of the same terrorist organisation.
☝️ Russia will inform international organisations about the latest act of terrorism committed by the Zelensky gang. We expect that these international organisations will promptly issue an unequivocal condemnation of Kiev’s new crime.
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❌ Последние 20 лет переговорная деятельность Конференции по разоружению фактически заблокирована. Ведомый США «коллективный Запад» исходит из необходимости обеспечения выгодного ему глобального мира и безопасности посредством наращивания своего военного потенциала. Именно поэтому западная группа государств последовательно блокирует любые конструктивные предложения по разработке эффективных разоруженческих соглашений.
☢️ Информация о том, что Пентагон может разместить ядерное оружия в Великобритании якобы «для отражения угрозы со стороны России» уже давно муссируется в западных СМИ. Речь, по видимому, идёт о расконсервации ранее использовавшейся США британской авиабазы Лейкенхит, где хранились американские ядерные авиабомбы. В случае реализации этой затеи, ситуация в области европейской и глобальной безопасности только ухудшится. Именно этого, вероятно, и добиваются США, которые являются основными бенефициарами дестабилизированной обстановки в мире.
☣️ Аргументированные вопросы России к Вашингтону и Киеву в отношении их военно-биологической активности в нарушение режима КБТО всё еще остаются без ответа по существу и по-прежнему требуют решения. Мы продолжим активную работу на профильных многосторонних площадках в целях урегулирования сложившейся ситуации.
🇺🇳 Тему обстрелов ВСУ российских городов, в которых погибают десятки мирных жителей, мы регулярно поднимаем в контактах с Верховным комиссаром ООН по правам человека Ф.Тюрком. Мы постоянно направляем в возглавляемое им Управление (УВКПЧ) информацию о злодеяниях, совершаемых украинскими националистами. «Отписки» общего и аморфного характера, которые мы получаем в ответ, мы считаем примерами бюрократической и ни к чему не обязывающей работы. Однако для нас это неудивительно, так как УВКПЧ и его глава занимают очевидно прозападные позиции, что вызывает глубокое сожаление.
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📍 February 6, 2024
❗️ The Conference on Disarmament (CD) remains an important body. It is one of the main permanent fora for multilateral negotiations which has adopted important treaties in the past.
📉 Regrettably, the dynamics within the CD have shifted since the mid-1990s, leading to a stagnation in negotiations. The Member States can't even agree to adopt a Programme of Work. Such an impasse stems from the fact that the US-led “collective West” intends to maintain global peace, strategic security and stability by preserving its military superiority. It uses the CD to achieve its geopolitical objectives. For us it is essential that this body develops legally binding norms to halt the arms race.
🛡️ The “collective West” also ignores the fundamental principle of indivisibility of security, i.e. that one cannot develop its own security to the detriment of others, in this case - Russia. The problem is that the West wants a world order based on its own rules. We, instead, want to work on the basis of the principles of the UN Charter.
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🇷🇺🇺🇳 Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to the UN:
🎙 Russian Ambassador to the UN Vassily Nebenzia's remarks at UNSC briefing with regard to the UAF strike against Lisichansk (February 6, 2024)
💬 Ukrainian fighters have become so brutal and brazen that they commit terrorist attacks almost weekly, shelling civilian infrastructure and killing civilians on Russian territory.
• The actions of the Kiev regime are strikingly cruel and sophisticatedly hateful. The attack on Belgorod, the two strikes on Donetsk, and now a strike on Lisichansk took place on off days and holidays in places of mass gathering of civilians.
• Ukrainian armed forces feel total impunity and permissiveness. What’s more, they feel the unconditional support of Washington, London and Brussels, who do not care about the killings of civilians, broken families and ruined lives.
• In its blind hatred of our country and desire to weaken Russia in any way, the West is ready to pay with other people's lives and compromise universal norms of morality.
• Among recent heinous crimes of the Kiev junta is the terrorist attack of January 24 that downed the Russian military transport aircraft IL-76, which was carrying 65 Ukrainian POWs for an exchange.
• Today we have irrefutable evidence that a Patriot missile system was used in the strike, which leaves no doubt that Washington is a direct accomplice in this crime.
• Evidence of the Ukrainian armed forces' involvement in the IL-76 plane crash is so solid that even the West cannot ignore it.
• We call on the members of the Security Council and the United Nations leadership to strongly condemn the attack on Lisichansk and all other terrorist acts by the Kiev regime. The Bandera junta views your silence as a carte blanche to commit more crimes.
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🎙 Russian Ambassador to the UN Vassily Nebenzia's remarks at UNSC briefing with regard to the UAF strike against Lisichansk (February 6, 2024)
💬 Ukrainian fighters have become so brutal and brazen that they commit terrorist attacks almost weekly, shelling civilian infrastructure and killing civilians on Russian territory.
• The actions of the Kiev regime are strikingly cruel and sophisticatedly hateful. The attack on Belgorod, the two strikes on Donetsk, and now a strike on Lisichansk took place on off days and holidays in places of mass gathering of civilians.
• Ukrainian armed forces feel total impunity and permissiveness. What’s more, they feel the unconditional support of Washington, London and Brussels, who do not care about the killings of civilians, broken families and ruined lives.
• In its blind hatred of our country and desire to weaken Russia in any way, the West is ready to pay with other people's lives and compromise universal norms of morality.
• Among recent heinous crimes of the Kiev junta is the terrorist attack of January 24 that downed the Russian military transport aircraft IL-76, which was carrying 65 Ukrainian POWs for an exchange.
• Today we have irrefutable evidence that a Patriot missile system was used in the strike, which leaves no doubt that Washington is a direct accomplice in this crime.
• Evidence of the Ukrainian armed forces' involvement in the IL-76 plane crash is so solid that even the West cannot ignore it.
• We call on the members of the Security Council and the United Nations leadership to strongly condemn the attack on Lisichansk and all other terrorist acts by the Kiev regime. The Bandera junta views your silence as a carte blanche to commit more crimes.
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❗️ «Рецепт оздоровления» деятельности КР, возвращения её в нормальное русло, соответствующее её мандату и задачам - предельно прост. США и их союзники на Конференции должны отказаться от своей деструктивной линии в пользу тесного и взаимовыгодного взаимодействия и совместного с остальными государствами-членами поиска путей оживления деятельности форума.
🤝 Российская делегация на протяжении многих лет предпринимает последовательные усилия по сближению позиций государств, выступая с инициативами, направленными на решение наиболее актуальных вопросов международной безопасности и предлагая компромиссные варианты "развязок" по программе работы КР.
🇷🇺 Ещё в 2008 г. Россия совместно с Китаем внесла на рассмотрение Конференции проект Договора о предотвращении размещения оружия в космическом пространстве, применения силы или угрозы силой в отношении космических объектов, который тогда получил широкую поддержку. В 2016 г. Россия предложила разработать на форуме конвенцию о борьбе с актами химтерроризма, впоследствии с учётом пожеланий делегаций распространенную и на биотерроризм.
❌ Однако именно Вашингтон и его ближайшие союзники в итоге заблокировали эти и ряд других конструктивных предложений. Взамен они настойчиво предлагают сосредоточиться на выработке неких необязательных «норм ответственного поведения». Так они рассчитывают сформировать миропорядок, основанный на неких
«правилах», которые можно будет время от времени переписывать, подгоняя под свои интересы в зависимости от изменения ситуации в мире.
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🤝 Сегодня важно развивать набирающую обороты тенденцию формирования нового полицентричного миропорядка, в основе которого лежат взаимоуважительные международные отношения. Это позволит отодвинуться от «точки невозврата», к которой нас подталкивает агрессивная политика Вашингтона и подыгрывающего ему Брюсселя.
🇺🇳 Запад стремится превратить многосторонние институты в инструменты реализации своекорыстных интересов. В частности, это делается через политику «приватизации» секретариатов ООН и других международных организаций. На ооновцев, включая высшее руководство, оказывается беспрецедентное давление. В нарушение статьи 100 Устава Организации их понуждают встать на «правильную сторону», под которой подразумеваются западные политические установки, игнорирующие традиционные духовно-нравственные ценности и культурно-цивилизационное многообразие современного мира.
🌐 Современная архитектура глобального управления не вполне соответствует геополитическим реалиям. А они должны учитывать появление на карте мира новых центров политико-экономического влияния, способствовать построению более справедливого и демократичного миропорядка, укрепления подлинно многосторонних начал в международных делах.
❗️ Всё более востребованной становится реформа Совета Безопасности ООН. Хроническая недопредставленность развивающихся стран должна быть устранена. Судите сами: когда из пятнадцати членов СБ минимум шесть-семь делегаций представляют «коллективный Запад», такой состав, конечно же, нельзя назвать репрезентативным.
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