🎙️Interview of Russia’s Ambassador to Sweden Sergey Belyaev with SwebbTV (April 12,2025)

Key points:

#Ukraine

🔹Let's try to remember about the root causes of this conflict. In February 2014 it was a coup d'etat in Ukraine. A so-called government of winners decided to declare the war against Russian language, Russian culture. Russian language was prohibited in Ukraine. But a large population, especially in the Eastern parts of Ukraine, are Russian speakers. And there was a confrontation between Donbass and the government in Kiev.

🔹 We managed to stop the war by achieving in the year 2015 Minsk agreements. These agreements meant that Eastern Ukraine will be a part of Ukraine, but these regions will receive some status of autonomy .It was an agreement between the Ukrainian government and its Eastern regions.

🔹And we saw all the time that the Ukrainians would like to solve this problem by military means.Many times we told Western colleagues that we will not let this to happen.
🔹We had a peace agreement with Ukraine achieved in the spring of year 22. But then former British Prime Minister Mr. Johnson came to Kiev as we know now and prohibited Ukraine to sign the agreement.

🔹 We have to understand that in the United Nations charter there is a principle of national sovereignty of the countries and at the same time there is a principle of self-determination of the peoples.In year 2014 there were disagreements but the most part of the population in eastern parts of Ukraine thought that they could continue to live within the Ukrainian state. Now this situation has changed and we have to understand this.

🔹Now we hear from the European countries, from the European Union, that they want to defeat Russia, military, economically, politically.During the history, many tried and wished, at least for time being, there were no lucky ones.

🔹These Eastern new regions are now legally, from the point of view of Russian law and Russian constitution, part of the Russian Federation. And this cannot be changed.

❓How do you in Russia regard the support from Sweden to Ukraine? Do you consider that Sweden is a part of the war?

👉Sweden is not a part of the war.It is sending a lot of materials and even weapons to the Ukraine, it's not a direct participation. But it's the thing that leads to very big instability in the region. Of course, without this help, the Ukrainian regime could not stand for a long period of time.European countries prolonged the war.

#PeaceTalks

🔹The special operation is limited to very special goals.And we, of course, would like and want to live in peace. The case is that we are interested in a long-standing solution.

🔹 The conditions will be the issue for negotiations. And, first of all, between Russia and the United States, because while our European colleagues say a lot about the participation of the Ukraine, we do understand very well that the Ukrainian regime is not its own master .

🔹 There are, of course, some principal issues for us that we cannot afford to happen or to stand.It is not possible to accept for us that, for example, a very strong line against Russian language, Russian culture, and even Orthodox Church will continue in Ukraine.

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🎙 Фрагмент интервью Министра иностранных дел Российской Федерации С.В.Лаврова газете «Коммерсантъ» (Москва, 14 апреля 2025 года)

❓ Вопрос: Вы говорите, что у новой американской администрации есть желание обсуждать не только двусторонние вопросы, но и мирное урегулирование на Украине.

На недавнем заседании ООН по Украине, созванном в связи с ударом по Кривому рогу, представитель США предупредила, что дальнейшие российские удары по украинским территориям могут привести к срыву переговоров о мире.

После этого через несколько дней последовал удар по Сумам, где по заявлениям украинской стороны вновь погибло гражданское население и дети. Значит ли это, что Россия не воспринимает предупреждения США всерьёз?

💬 С.В.Лавров: У американцев много официальных представителей. В том числе, какая-то представительница недавно что-то сказала в Гренландии. Её попросили вернуться на родину и искать другую работу.

Не хочу сказать, что эта женщина (не помню этого высказывания, которое Вы упомянули) заслуживает той же участи, но то, что в позиции Запада, Европы, в США байденовской эпохи доминировало прямое враньё — это мы хорошо знаем.

За последние пару лет я несколько раз обращал внимание Генерального секретаря ООН А.Гутерреша, что ему как главному административному (как записано в Уставе) лицу Организации следует выполнять требования статьи 100 Устава, не занимать ничью сторону, а проводить сбалансированную позицию, не получать указаний ни от какого правительства.

Давно его знаю, мы на «ты», десятилетиями работаем на разных пересекающихся позициях. Говорил ему, что он на этом посту, может, и не получает, но выполняет указания западных стран в связи с ситуацией на Украине.

Сейчас опять после криков о том, что в Сумах «десятками погибли дети, гражданские лица», он сделал заявление о том, что он твёрдо выступает за прекращение подобных нарушений международного гуманитарного права, за урегулирование украинского кризиса на основе Устава ООН и уважение территориальной целостности Украины на основе профильных резолюций Генеральной Ассамблеи.

❗️ Международное гуманитарное право категорически запрещает размещать военные объекты, вооружение на территории гражданских объектов.

С первых дней кризиса, да и ранее, ещё во время действия Минских договорённостей, во время «радужных», но рухнувших надежд, что они позволят решить проблему миром, оставив Украину в её территориальной целостности за минусом Крыма (они не хотели этого делать), фактов размещения артиллерии, систем противовоздушной обороны в городских кварталах около детских садов, был «миллион». Сколько в интернете выложено видео, когда украинские женщины кричат, чтобы военные убирались от магазинов, детских площадок. Но эта практика продолжается.

У нас есть факты о том, кто находился на том объекте, который был поражен в Сумах. Там была очередная «сходка» украинских военачальников со своими западными коллегами, которые то ли под видом наёмников, то ли не знаю под видом кого.

☝️ Там находятся военнослужащие стран НАТО и напрямую руководят. Все это знают. «Нью-Йорк таймс» недавно объяснила, как американцы с самого начала играли решающую роль в атаках на Россию. Без этой их роли большинство дальнобойных ракет вообще не оторвалось бы от своих мест базирования.

🇷🇺 Discover Russia outreach program

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Expenses for accommodation, meals, transfer to Moscow and back, visa fee are covered by the host party.

✍️Application requirements
Foreign citizens aged 18 to 35 are eligible to participate in the competitive selection
To participate, applicants must register on the program's website, submit a competitive application and complete a mandatory online interview
Applicants must be fluent in English and should not have proficiency in Russian

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❗️Об акте вандализма в отношении Посольства России в Швеции
 
Рано утром 15 апреля Посольство России в Стокгольме подверглось очередному акту вандализма.

На асфальт перед центральным входом в служебное здание дипмиссии, а также перед жилым комплексом на ее территории (где также расположена школа при Посольстве) были сброшены емкости с краской.

Посольство незамедлительно информировало шведскую полицию о случившемся. В МИД Швеции направлена нота с требованием надлежащим образом исполнять обязанности принимающей стороны согласно Венской конвенции о дипломатических сношениях 1961 г. в части обеспечения неприкосновенности и безопасности российского диппредставительства.

Между тем, за прошедший год это уже одиннадцатый инцидент подобного характера, а расследования, которые якобы проводили шведские правоохранительные органы по предыдущим эпизодам, не принесли каких-либо результатов.

При этом акты вандализма в отношении Посольства России в Швеции продолжаются, что не может не наводить на мысли о политических мотивах шведских официальных властей.

❗️Om en vandaliseringsattack mot Rysslands Ambassad i Sverige
 
Tidigt på morgonen den 15 april utsattes Rysslands Ambassad i Sverige återigen för en  vandaliseringsattack.
 
Behållare med färg släpptes ner på asfalten framför huvudentrén till ambassadens kontorsbyggnad samt framför bostadshuset inne på beskickningsområdet (där även Ambassadens skola ligger).
 
Ambassaden anmälde omedelbart incidenten till svenska polisen. En diplomatisk note har skickats till Svenska Utrikesdepartementet med en uppmaning till svenska sidan att fullgöra sina skyldigheter enligt Wienkonventionen om diplomatiska förbindelser från 1961, i synnerhet vad gäller att vidta alla lämpliga åtgärder för att skydda den ryska beskickningens okränkbarhet och säkerhet.
 
Detta är dock den elfte incidenten av detta slag under det gångna året, och de utredningar som de svenska rättsvårdande myndigheterna påstås håller på att utföra har inte lett till några resultat.
 
Samtidigt fortsätter vandaliseringsattacker mot Rysslands Ambassad i Sverige, vilket oundvikligen väcker misstankar om politiska motiv bakom de svenska myndigheternas agerande.
 

⚡️ Comment by Russia's Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova on Antonio Guterres’s statement regarding the developments in Sumy (April 15, 2025)

On April 13, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres made another statement on Ukraine via his Spokesperson, Stephane Dujarric. It concerns the developments in Sumy.

❌ He has accused of the April 13 missile attack, which allegedly “continues a devastating pattern of similar assaults on Ukrainian cities and towns.” We are perplexed by such assessments by the UN Secretary-General.

We would like to remind everyone that since the beginning of the special military operation, Russia's Armed Forces have never deliberately delivered, are not delivering and will not deliver strikes on civilian population. As Russia's Defence Ministry invariably points out, our targets are always and exclusively military facilities.

The UN Secretary-General also reiterated the UN’s support to meaningful efforts towards peace that fully upholds Ukraine’s sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity, in line with the #UNCharter, international law, and relevant UN resolutions. As you can see, he never mentioned the right of nations to self-determination. This is yet another proof of Mr Guterres’s selective approach to the provisions of the UNCharter.

In this connection, we would like to point out that the Declaration on Principles of International Law concerning Friendly Relations and Cooperation among States, which was adopted by consensus by the UN General Assembly in 1970, sealed a connection between the principles of the UN Charter, which must be applied in their entirety and as a whole.

☝️ In addition, the Declaration states that the principle of territorial integrity shall be applied to all states who are conducting themselves in compliance with the principle of self-determination of peoples and are thus possessed of a government representing the whole people belonging to the territory. It is clear to everyone that the current Kiev regime does not comply with these criteria.

Zelensky’s gang has been systematically and flagrantly infringing on the fundamental freedoms of ethnic Russians and Russian-speaking citizens. We have to state that the UN Secretary-General, acting contrary to Article 1 of the UN Charter, which calls for promoting and encouraging respect for language, religious and other human rights, continues to shield the Kiev regime’s open disregard for the principles of self-determination of nations and human rights.

👉 Mr Guterres demonstrated a similar approach when he disregarded Russia’s appeals in the context of investigation into the provocation in Bucha, which Kiev orchestrated three years ago. We have publicly appealed to the UN Secretary-General on numerous occasions to at least help encourage Kiev to publish the lists of those whose bodies the Western media demonstrated to the world in early April 2022 to the accompaniment of hysterical accusations against Russia. In September 2024, a relevant official request, which was prepared by Russia’s Investigative Committee together with the Prosecutor General’s Office, was submitted to the UN Secretariat via the Permanent Mission of Russia in New York. In January and April 2025, we urged the UN Secretariat to speed up reply to our request. All our efforts were in vain; we have not received a substantive answer to our request.

❗️ We again call on Antonio Guterres and his Secretariat to take an honest stance, to stop giving biased comments in the context of the Ukrainian crisis, and to stop discrediting our country and covering up the Kiev regime’s crimes.

🎙 Address of Federation Council of Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation to parliaments of foreign countries and peoples of the world on unacceptability of distorting the history of the Second World War and rehabilitating Nazism

💬 May 9, 2025 marks the 80th Anniversary of historic Victory of the Soviet Union in the Great Patriotic War. The war unleashed by Nazi Germany and its satellites claimed the lives of 27 million Soviet citizens. Millions of people became prisoners of Nazi death camps, lost their homes, and were deported for forced labour to Germany and other countries under its control.

The Great Victory was achieved through the unwavering determination and bravery of the Soviet people and their strong resolve to defeat Nazism which presented a threat to humanity. The Allies of the Soviet Union made an important contribution to defeating the Third Reich.

The International Military Tribunal (Nuremberg Tribunal) tried and sentenced the main war criminals of the European Axis countries. It held the Nazi regime leaders accountable for crimes against peace, war crimes, and crimes against humanity, among others. The facts of forced displacement and extermination of the Soviet civilian population by Nazis and their accomplices, as established in the verdict of the Nuremberg Tribunal, must be regarded as genocide committed against the peoples of the Soviet Union.

The Victory of the Soviet Union and the other Allies over Nazism paved the way for the forming a modern system of international relations were created, and the United Nations (UN) was established.
 
The principles of international law recognised by the Charter of the Nuremberg Tribunal and expressed in the verdict passed by the Nuremberg Tribunal were confirmed by UN General Assembly Resolution 95(I) of December 11, 1946.

The Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation supports the adoption, on an annual basis, by the UN General Assembly of the resolution titled «Combating glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices that contribute to fuelling contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance», as well as Resolution 79/272 of March 4, 2025 titled «Eightieth anniversary of the end of the Second World War», co-sponsored by 54 countries.

The Russian Federation senators express their concern over the expansion of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation to include non-aligned European countries, the militarisation of the European Union, and its support for the neo-Nazi regime in Ukraine. Europe was the starting point of both world wars. For this reason, it bears a unique responsibility to humanity in preventing another global conflict.

☝️ Denying the Soviet Union’s decisive role in Victory of the Anti-hitlerite Coalition over the Nazi Germany and its satellites, glorifying Nazi criminals and their accomplices, and demolishing and desecrating monuments to Soviet liberator soldiers are all immoral and blasphemous acts.

The Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation calls on the parliaments of foreign countries and the peoples of the world to counter any attempts to falsify history, to rehabilitate or glorify Nazism, fascism, or militarism, to condemn the encouragement of the neo-Nazi regime in Ukraine and the incitement of another world war, and to demand that those who dishonour the memory of the Soviet liberators and those who fought against Nazism be brought to justice.

❗️ Only our joint efforts can protect the truth about the Second World War, counter the rise of neo-Nazism, and avert the recurrence of brutal crimes against humanity.

❗️ On this day, 10 years ago, Ukrainian writer and opposition journalist Oles' Buzina was killed just outside his home in Kiev.

He became one of the countless victims of the criminal Kiev regime because he posed a threat to it by publicly criticising the neo-Nazi group that seized power as a result of the bloody coup in Ukraine and exposing its true essence.

Oles' Buzina called on the then leadership of Ukraine to establish a dialogue with Donbass residents and pointed out the need to secure the status of the Russian language.

His activism deeply annoyed official Kiev. He also received threats from radical nationalists for promoting an interpretation of Ukraine’s history that did not align with the hateful ideology and invented background of the Ukrainian Nazis. His active civic engagement and firm stance, his calls for respect for history and the Russian language proved unwanted in post-Maidan Ukraine and cost Oles' Buzina his life.

A few days before his death, the journalist’s personal data, including his home address, were posted on the extremist website Myrotvorets, which lists personal information about all public figures, journalists, writers, and reporters who are objectionable to the Kiev regime, a resource created literally as a practical guide for planning terrorist attacks.

Even though the UN Secretary-General, official representatives of the OSCE and the US State Department, along with many public organisations, condemned the murder, extended condolences to the victim’s family and insisted on a comprehensive inquiry, the masterminds of this crime were never found, and the suspects (who everybody knew was guilty of this crime, it's well documented) were eventually released.

⚡️ Ten years later, it is quite obvious that the situation with freedom of speech in Ukraine has degraded to a critical level.

All media outlets opposed to the Kiev regime are banned, and any manifestations of dissent are brutally suppressed and erased from the information landscape. The regime has launched a manhunt for unwanted journalists, primarily Russian, leveraging a variety of capabilities, including UAVs and high-precision weapons.

The most recent victims who died at the hands of the Kiev regime militants this year include Alexander Martemyanov, Alexander Fedorchak, Andrei Panov, and Anna Prokofyeva. Other victims – Anton Voloshin, Igor Kornelyuk, Anatoly Klyan, Andrey Stenin, Darya Dugina, Oleg Klokov, Vladlen Tatarsky (Maxim Fomin), Rostislav Zhuravlev, Boris Maksudov, Semyon Yeryomin, Valery Kozhin, Nikita Tsitsagi, and Yulia Kuznetsova – will also remain in our hearts forever. Ukraine uses terrorist methods to carry out its criminal plans, while its Western handlers and biased human rights organisations continue to deliberately ignore these atrocities.

🎙️Interview of Russia’s Ambassador to Sweden Sergey Belyaev with SwebbTV (April 12,2025)

Key points:

#Sanctions
🔹 If we speak about our economy, you know, I just today saw the statistics about the most rapidly developing countries in the world. And within 10 best economies in the world, there are 5 from BRICS countries.India, Indonesia, China, Russia and Brazil.
🔹When sanctions were launched, and of course it was harmful for the economy. But from the other point of view, it helped to develop internal investments.And when European companies went out, came companies from, for example, China. Other developing countries, rapidly developing countries of Asia. And also Russian companies.
🔹 We do understand that maybe the aim of the sanctions was to influence also the Russian society. But the very specific feature of Russia is that if and when we are under pressure, and especially pressure from abroad, the society unites. And that's why we see that really about 80% of people support the President, support the government.

#ModernRussia
🔹 In Russia we are now a really democratic country, state of law. And we do not have any ideology on the basis of our state.President Putin has really a very strong support of the people. And I'm sure that the same situation will continue in the Russian future also.
🔹Our main goal, the main task for our state is to improve the level of life of our people. So that people will be protected and that they will live better and better. It's funds of the state that are used for this.

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#Opinion by Russia's MFA spokeswoman Maria #Zakharova

💬 The Ukrainian social media is packed with the obituaries of Ukrainian military personnel killed on April 13 in the strike on a venue in Sumy that brought together commanders from Ukrainian Seversk Tactical Group.

Here is an account of the death of Ukrainian fighter Vladimir Zherebtsov. Here’s an obituary for Ukrainian army colonel Yury Yula.

Here’s the statement by the mayor of the Ukrainian city Konotop Artyom Semenikhin containing direct accusation of Head of the Sumy Regional Military Administration Vladimir Artyukh who convened a meeting of Ukrainian combatants with the participation of women and children.

Semenikhin openly demanded resignation of General Artyukh, who uses terrorist “civilian human shield” tactics to protect his thugs.

This Kiev regime’s war crime was so obvious even to the Ukrainian people and the Kiev-controlled media that voices of outrage were heard among Zelensky’s inner circle as well. Verkhovnaya Rada Deputy Maryana Bezuglaya publicly demanded to find out who, fearing a Russian strike on a legitimate target, ordered to use women and children as human shields during the military event.

Zelensky confirmed every accusation coming his way by firing Head of the Sumy Military Administration Artyukh yesterday, thus shifting the responsibility for this hideous war crime, which this time was directed against his own citizens, onto him.

Does UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres know about all this? The day that followed the attack on a perfectly legitimate target, he was “deeply alarmed and shocked” by Russia’s Sunday missile strike on Sumy and accused our country of “attacking civilians.”

I also have a question for Kallas and Merz who deliberately went ahead with verbal manipulations and poured dirt over Russia on Sunday and Monday. How are you now going to justify what your underling did?

For some reason, representatives of our embassies in Sweden and Lithuania were summoned to the local foreign ministries. Apparently, poisoned by the fumes of competitive Russophobia, they were trying to take advantage of anything they could lay their hands on to further damage relations with our country which, as is, are unlikely to get revived for many years to come.

When the Ukrainians attacked civilians on the Crimean Bridge, when SBU terrorists blew up Russian journalists in the Moscow suburbs and in St Petersburg, when drones attacked the Moscow Kremlin, and when Ukrainian punishers committed genocide and mass murder in the Kursk Region and buried old people alive in the village of Russkoye Porechnoye, these Euro peacemakers kept silent, and all the UN Secretariat did was diplomatically “call for peace.”

When the gunmen get-together was liquidated, everyone started blaming Russia at once... When it became clear that the local authorities purposely used children as a shield to protect these ghouls, everyone went silent.

If you think of it, after these publications and dismissals, they should now kneel in repentance before the whole world.

The above facts not only prove, but demonstrate with disarming directness that the Kiev regime uses women and children as human shields, and then cast these staged performances as acts of alleged Russian aggression. The Ukrainian Nazi militants are, in fact, taking their own fellow citizens hostage. The blood of civilian victims is on the hands of Zelensky and his henchmen, as well as the conniving Western mob.

The hoax in Bucha and the unrelenting attacks by the Ukrainian armed forces on Russian energy facilities even during the negotiated moratorium demonstrably show that this hideous circus has quite a few bloody tricks up its sleeve.

https://xn--r1a.website/MariaVladimirovnaZakharova/10208

🎞️Donbass: Echoes of War

History repeats itself; this phrase now echoes around Donbass, a region that suffered at the hands of the fascists during the course of World War II. Here, fierce battles were waged, daring resistance groups emerged, and great feats of courage unfolded on the front lines.

During the liberation of Mariupol in 1943 and the battle for 'Azovstal' in 2022, the tactic of using human shields and utilising residential buildings as firing points were used by the fascists then, and by the Armed Forces of Ukraine today.

Explore how the harrowing past and the present day events are inextricably intertwined on this heroic land.

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