⚡️ Russia's President Vladimir Putin's Statement (May 11, 2025)

💬 #President Putin: We suggest the authorities in Kiev to resume direct talks, which they themselves interrupted in the end of 2022.

We propose to start the talks without delay, next week, on September 15, in Istanbul.

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🇷🇺🇹🇷 On May 11, President of Russia Vladimir Putin and President of Türkiye Recep Tayyip Erdogan held a telephone conversation.

The Leaders had a thorough discussion of the President of Russia's initiative on resuming direct talks between Russia and Ukraine, which were proposed to be held in Istanbul starting on May 15.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan has expressed his full support for Russia's proposal and emphasised his willingness to provide a venue for the talks in Istanbul. The Turkish side will offer all possible assistance in organising and holding talks aimed at achieving sustainable peace.

The President of Russia conveyed his impressions of the events held in Moscow to mark the 80th anniversary of Great Victory, as well as the international engagements that took place over these few days.

The Leaders have also expressed mutual interest in further expanding the bilateral ties in trade and investment and, in particular, implementing joint strategic projects in energy.

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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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🎙 Excerpt from the press statement by the President of Russia Vladimir Putin (May 11, 2025)

💬 Vladimir Putin: Russia has proposed ceasefire initiatives on several occasions, but they, these initiatives, have been repeatedly sabotaged by Ukraine.

For example, the Kiev regime defiantly violated about 130 times the 30-day – I want to make it a point – 30-day moratorium, from March 18 to April 17, on strikes against energy facilities, which was declared in accordance with our agreement with US President Donald Trump.

The Easter truce initiated by Russia was not observed either: the ceasefire regime was violated by Ukrainian forces almost 5,000 times.

Nevertheless, for the celebration of Victory Day – and we consider this to be a sacred holiday for us as well, just imagine that we lost 27 million people – we declared a ceasefire for the third time on this holiday, which is sacred to us.

Incidentally we conveyed to those of our colleagues in the West who, in my opinion, are sincerely looking for ways to settlement, our position on this issue, on a ceasefire on Victory Day, and that in the future we do not exclude the possibility of extending the terms of this truce – but, of course, after analysing what will happen in these several days, based on the results of how the Kiev regime will react to our proposal.

And what do we see? What are these results?

The Kiev authorities, as you can see for yourself, did not respond at all to our ceasefire proposal.

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As I have already said, the Kiev authorities not only declined our ceasefire proposal, but also, as we all saw, tried to intimidate the leaders of the states who gathered for the celebrations in Moscow.

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I will repeat: we have proposed steps towards a ceasefire on many occasions. We have never refused to engage in dialogue with the Ukrainian side. Let me remind you again: it was not us who interrupted the negotiations in 2022; it was the Ukrainian side.

❗️ In this connection, 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 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 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 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 and would be the first step, I repeat, towards a long-term, sustainable peace, rather than a prelude to continuing armed conflict after the Ukrainian armed forces have been rearmed, re-equipped and frantically digged trenches and new strongholds. Who needs such peace?

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.

Let me reiterate myself: Russia is ready for talks without any preliminary conditions. There are combat actions and war going on now, and we propose to resume negotiations that were not interrupted by us.

Well, what's wrong about it?

Those who really want peace cannot but support this.

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🇷🇺🇹🇷📞 On May 12, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Türkiye Hakan Fidan spoke over the phone.

The Ministers discussed issues related to President of Russia Vladimir Putin’s initiative to start direct talks on Ukrainian settlement in Istanbul on May 15.

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🎙 Russia’s Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova’s answer to a media question

❓ Question: Zelensky said that he was ready to travel to Istanbul on May 15 to take part in the talks on settling the Ukraine crisis. In their reporting on this matter, certain media outlets have recalled that Vladimir Putin has met Zelensky only once – it happened in Paris back in December 2019. During the meeting, they discussed renewing the Minsk agreements which were signed in 2014 and 2015, but were unable to agree on a treaty. But what was the actual situation at that time with respect to that matter?

💬 Maria Zakharova: Indeed, the Normandy format summit in Paris on December 9, 2019, was the one and only time when President Vladimir Putin had a meeting with Zelensky. However, extending the Minsk agreements was not and could not have been on the agenda. Signed on February 12, 2015 in Minsk, this Package of Measures was designed as an open-ended agreement (with no expiration date), setting forth a final settlement in the intra-Ukrainian conflict between Kiev, Donetsk and Lugansk. The UN Security Council approved this document.

As during the earlier Normandy Format summits in Paris in 2015 and in Berlin in 2016, the 2019 summit focused on specific steps the parties to the agreements, primarily Kiev, had to take in order to ensure that the specific provisions of the Minsk Package of Measures are fully carried out.

We remember well the 2019 summit in Paris for Zelensky’s provocative negotiating tactic when he suddenly refused to approve the outcome document despite the fact that it was already drafted and coordinated by the parties involved, including Kiev. He asked to remove the provision on the separation of forces along the entire line of contact and insisted on replacing it with a provision which provided for the separation of forces in three sections only. However, he failed to deliver even on these commitments which he had articulated himself.

In August 2022, then Secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defence Council Alexey Danilov, who no longer serves in this position, acknowledged that Kiev did not intend to deliver on any of its commitments at that time, while focusing all its efforts on preparing for war with Russia. This is what he told NTA, a Ukrainian television network: “War preparations started after the December 9, 2019 meeting in Paris when Zelensky did not accept the terms Russia, France and Germany were offering. Zelensky said that there would be no Minsk 3 deal. The next day, it started to become increasingly clear to us that a big war with Russia was imminent.”

Later, it turned out that Berlin and Paris were helping Kiev prepare for war. In 2022, former German Chancellor Angela Merkel and former French president François Hollande said that no one planned to execute the Minsk agreements, and that the sole purpose of this deal consisted of winning time for preparing Ukraine to settle the so-called Donbass issue by force.

❗️ Today, these same countries are pushing for a 30-day truce to give Kiev a respite and enable it to restore its military capabilities to be able to continue confronting Russia.

#Announcement

🗓 On May 27-29, 2025, in Moscow, Secretary of the Russian Security Council Sergey Shoigu will chair the 13th International Meeting of High Representatives for Security Issues.

Invitations to participate in this forum have been extended to more than 150 states of the Global South and East, the #CIS, #CSTO, #EAEU, and #SCO countries, as well as to the leaders of more than 20 international organisations.

The agenda of the 13th forum focuses on international security cooperation.

ℹ️ The Security Council of the Russian Federation has been holding the annual international meetings of high representatives in charge of security issues since 2010. It is an important international platform for exchange of views on all global security-related issues and mechanisms to strengthen cooperation between partner countries to combat international terrorism, extremism, transnational crime, drug trafficking, as well as new challenges and threats.

Media accreditation is open until May 20, 2025

⚡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.

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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🎙 Briefing by Russia's Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova (Moscow, May 6, 2025)

🔹 The decisive role of the Soviet Union and the Red Army in defeating Nazi Germany and lessons drawn from history
🔹 Celebrating the 80th Anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War in Russia and around the world
🔹 Ukraine crisis
🔹 Kiev regime crimes
🔹 On Stephane Dujarric’s comments
🔹 On Argentina’s authorities declassification of documents regarding Nazi presence in the country
🔹 NATO-Georgia command and staff exercise
🔹 Russia's EMERCOM assistance to friendly Iran in fighting the Shahid Rajaee Port fire

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#Victory80

We will forever remember the price we paid for Victory in the Great Patriotic War. Unlike countries of the Western Europe overpowered by Nazis, the Soviet Union did not succumb to Nazis who planned to exterminate us all. We faced a war of annihilation. For decades after Nuremberg, this was never questioned. Now, we are forced to prove that it was genocide.

The peoples of the Soviet Union not only defeated the Wehrmacht, but also brought life, liberation and salvation to the peoples of Eastern and Central Europe. The Red Army, the Soviet soldiers halted the Nazi extermination machine in its tracks and extinguished the Holocaust crematoria. Those who deny this are clearly supporting the resurgence of Nazism and the rise of neo-Nazism.

In a futile attempt, the embassies of the Kiev regime and its Western patrons are trying to propagate deep-rooted falsehoods that defy history. In their hatred, Ukrainian diplomats go so far as to equate the Soviet Union (homeland of their forefathers) with the Third Reich. <...>What they are doing causes nothing but indignation and disgust. Fathers and grandfathers of many of them, including the ringleader of the Kiev junta Zelensky, were front-line soldiers who fought for the common Soviet Motherland against Nazi invaders and criminals. What would their ancestors say, looking them in the eye, seeing their descendants who, for the sake of personal gain or a pat on the shoulder from their Western master, smear their own past and betray their own history?

#KievRegimeCrimes

The Kiev regime has really pushed the limits in its so-called de-communisation policy. It now advises Great Patriotic War veterans living in Ukraine – as unbelievable as this may sound – to conceal the war-time decorations they earned for winning the war, for the battles they fought and the feats they accomplished during the Great Patriotic War. They are being told to wear their decorations on the inside of their jackets so that they do not cause any misgivings to those around them who might somehow be disturbed. They referred to them as "sensitive people" without going as far as calling them Russia-haters, but there is no doubt that this is what they had in mind. How can this be? And how do we frame this posture? This is a deliberate effort to sneer at these people, mock and disparage them.

The Kiev regime now wants the real heroes not only to stay in the shadows, but to stage their self-annihilation of sorts so that they keep their heads underwater without even daring to show their decorations and medals. It is quite obvious that the Kiev regime views those who saved the world from Nazism with fear, hatred and resentfulness.

#UN #DoubleStandards

During his regular media briefing, Spokesperson for the UN Secretary-General Stephane Dujarric made yet another outrageous comment regarding the situation in Ukraine.

The UN Secretary-General, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, and some other UN agencies are not averse to seizing on even the most absurd accusations against our country.

#Georgia #NATO

The Alliance is continuing with its policy of drawing South Caucasus republics into its orbit.

It should be clear to everyone that NATO’s actions in the South Caucasus are not aimed at enhancing security but at creating a zone of instability and military-political tension in the region.

🇷🇺🇲🇾 On May 14, President of Russia Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister of Malaysia Anwar Ibrahim, who is on an official visit to Moscow, held talks in the Kremlin.

The Leaders had an in-depth discussion of key issues of bilateral political, trade and economic cooperation, outlined measures to further develop Russian-Malaysian interaction and exchanged views on current international and regional issues.

💬 President Putin's greetings at the start of the discussion: Mr Prime Minister, friends, Mr Prime Minister, friends,

I am delighted to welcome you to Moscow.

Malaysia is a long-time, trusted and important partner for Russia in the world and in Southeast Asia.

I know that Malaysia assumed the rotating ASEAN chairship on January 1, 2025. We hope that with your assistance our relations with that respected and reliable association will develop as steadily as relations between our countries, which are based on friendship and partnership.

📈 We maintain steady trade and economic ties. However, it is regrettable that our trade, which can overall be described as good, decreased last year. Our intergovernmental commission will address this issue, seeking to understand the reasons behind this decline and doing everything in its power to move our relations onto a positive development trajectory.

We have good relations in virtually all spheres. I believe that we have maintained diplomatic relations since 1967. We sincerely hope that your visit will be fruitful as well.

We remember and are grateful to you for attending the Eastern Economic Forum. I know that from Moscow you will travel to Kazan, where you will attend the Russia – Islamic World Forum, which we consider to be very important. I have no doubt that your visit will not only be substantive but will also be held at a high level and will promote the further development of relations between our countries.

🤝 We are developing our cultural relationship. One of its elements, tourism, has both economic and cultural aspects. Malaysia is becoming an increasingly attractive destination for Russian tourists. We are grateful to you for working hard to ensure the comfort and safety of our citizens in Malaysia.

We are delighted to host your visit. Mr Prime Minister, welcome to Russia.

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