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US tells Putin to choose confrontation or dialogue over Ukraine
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Briefing by Russian Defence Ministry
21.03.2022 (17:30)
Ukrainian nationalists continue to use residential areas of settlements and social facilities as a "human shield" to deploy their artillery systems and conduct massive fire on Russian servicemen.
So, on Kiev outskirts, in Vinogradar district, Ukrainian nationalist units covered themselves with residential buildings for several days and fired multiple launch rocket systems at Russian servicemen.
At the same time, the areas of the nearby shopping centre were used as a large base for storing rocket ammunition and reloading multiple launch rocket systems.
The coordinates of the position of Ukrainian multiple rocket launchers were confirmed by Russian reconnaissence through several channels, as well as the location of warehouse with rocket ammunition was discovered.
Live monitoring and recording system clearly shows how a Ukrainian multiple launch rocket system enters a shopping centre on the outskirts of Kiev to hide and reload missiles.
High-precision long-range weapons destroyed a battery of Ukrainian multiple rocket launchers and a storage base for their ammunition in closed shopping centre on the night of March 21.
We would like to draw the attention of the Western media once again. We have presented absolute evidence of the criminal use by the Kiev nationalist regime of civilian objects in residential areas of Kiev and other cities of Ukraine, as firing positions of artillery and rocket systems.
I have to comment on the words of the adviser to the office of the Ukrainian President, Mikhail Podolyak, that allegedly Russia is fighting only with "manpower and cruise missiles."
I must emphasize that the special military operation is carried out by a professional army, which actually uses cruise missiles.
Their use is highly effective. They carry out precision strikes against military infrastructure and never against civilian objects. The nationalists themselves and the Ukrainian Armed Forces are hitting civilian targets. There are a lot of people's testimonies about this, and we have just presented one of them.
Returning to the actions of the Russian Armed Forces, not only cruise missiles are used, but also hypersonic weapons. Which is absolutely high-precision and is also used only for military targets.
In particular, we are talking about the Kinzhal aviation missile systems with hypersonic aeroballistic missiles.
The Russian Defence Ministry has analyzed the results of the destruction of the military infrastructure assets of Ukraine by aviation missile complexes Kinzhal with hypersonic aeroballistic missiles.
Underground protected storages of Ukrainian aviation weapons and combat units for Tochka-U missile systems located in the Delyatin, Ivano-Frankovsk region, as well as large fuel depots in Konstantinovka, Nikolaev region, were destroyed.
I would like to draw your attention to the fact that the use of a hypersonic aeroballistic missile of Kinzhal complex was carried out from a range of more than 1,000 kilometers. The flight time of the hypersonic missile was less than 10 minutes.
Due to hypersonic speed and ultra-high kinetic energy, the warhead of Kinzhal missile complex destroyed a protected underground arsenal located in a mountainous area, built in Soviet times to store special ammunition and missiles.
The destruction of a large fuel depot in Konstantinovka by Kinzhal hypersonic missile was due to its invisibility and invulnerability to any means of enemy air and missile defence.
Combat use of Kynzhal aviation missile system confirmed its effectiveness in destroying highly protected special enemy assets. The strikes on the military infrastructure of Ukraine by this missile system will continue within the special military operation.
I would like to emphasize that Kinzhal complex is used with a conventional warhead. Although experts are well aware of the capabilities of this weapon, not only in terms of range, but also in terms of the type of charge.
Other latest means of destruction are also used, as well as modern aviation.
All these weapons systems, as well as other weapons, if Mr. Podolyak does not know, are called the modern Russian Army and the Navy.
So I do not recommend misleading anyone about the real capabilities and professionalism of the Russian Armed Forces. All the alleged "real data" about losses of military equipment and personnel of the Russian Armed Forces, including senior and superior officers, disseminated by Mr. Podolyak is propagandistic lies.
In turn, I would like to draw Mikhail Podolyak's attention to the actions of the Ukrainian Security Service, neo-Nazi formations and other so-called "special Ukrainian structures" that terrorize their own citizens trying to leave the territory of Ukraine. It is these representatives of the Kiev regime who create a stir on the border.
They still let children and women through. Although not all of them.
As for the male population of Ukraine, they are forcibly conscripted into the army as so-called "reservists" at the border. In fact, they are used as "cannon fodder".
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Meeting of the Joint Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response in Ukraine
21.03.2022 (21:30)
On March 20, 2022, the Russian Federation once again appealed to the Kiev authorities, as well as to the United Nations, the OSCE, the International Committee of the Red Cross and other international organizations with unprecedented initiatives to conduct a large-scale humanitarian operation to rescue residents of Mariupol and foreign citizens in conditions of a severe humanitarian disaster.
According to the statement of the official representative of Kiev, in response to the proposals of the Russian Federation dictated by the principles of humanity, at 2 a.m. on March 21, 2022, an unjustified refusal to save people was received, that "there can be no question of any surrender, laying down arms."
The Kiev regime has once again shown its true face and complete indifference to the human lives of more than 130,000 innocent citizens of its country who are held captive by the crazed terrorist gangs in Mariupol.
By blocking the corridors for civilians to exit, the nationalists deprive them of the opportunity to escape, leaving them in the combat zone as a "human shield". And everyone who tries to evacuate on their own is being bullied everywhere or viciously shot in the back.
At the same time, against the background of Kiev's official statement about the refusal to carry out a humanitarian operation, and the militants to lay down their arms, they hypocritically instructed nationalist battalions to leave the city in small groups under the guise of civilians, dressed in civilian clothes, using any opportunities, including along humanitarian corridors. And the bandits immediately began to carry out this order.
So, on March 20, 2022, the terrorists of Azov battalion killed the parents of two minor children and, hiding behind the same children, tried to drive a car belonging to the family along the humanitarian corridor to Zaporozhye, but they were identified and promptly detained by Russian servicemen, and the children were rescued and the necessary assistance is being provided to them.
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21.03.2022 (17:30)
Ukrainian nationalists continue to use residential areas of settlements and social facilities as a "human shield" to deploy their artillery systems and conduct massive fire on Russian servicemen.
So, on Kiev outskirts, in Vinogradar district, Ukrainian nationalist units covered themselves with residential buildings for several days and fired multiple launch rocket systems at Russian servicemen.
At the same time, the areas of the nearby shopping centre were used as a large base for storing rocket ammunition and reloading multiple launch rocket systems.
The coordinates of the position of Ukrainian multiple rocket launchers were confirmed by Russian reconnaissence through several channels, as well as the location of warehouse with rocket ammunition was discovered.
Live monitoring and recording system clearly shows how a Ukrainian multiple launch rocket system enters a shopping centre on the outskirts of Kiev to hide and reload missiles.
High-precision long-range weapons destroyed a battery of Ukrainian multiple rocket launchers and a storage base for their ammunition in closed shopping centre on the night of March 21.
We would like to draw the attention of the Western media once again. We have presented absolute evidence of the criminal use by the Kiev nationalist regime of civilian objects in residential areas of Kiev and other cities of Ukraine, as firing positions of artillery and rocket systems.
I have to comment on the words of the adviser to the office of the Ukrainian President, Mikhail Podolyak, that allegedly Russia is fighting only with "manpower and cruise missiles."
I must emphasize that the special military operation is carried out by a professional army, which actually uses cruise missiles.
Their use is highly effective. They carry out precision strikes against military infrastructure and never against civilian objects. The nationalists themselves and the Ukrainian Armed Forces are hitting civilian targets. There are a lot of people's testimonies about this, and we have just presented one of them.
Returning to the actions of the Russian Armed Forces, not only cruise missiles are used, but also hypersonic weapons. Which is absolutely high-precision and is also used only for military targets.
In particular, we are talking about the Kinzhal aviation missile systems with hypersonic aeroballistic missiles.
The Russian Defence Ministry has analyzed the results of the destruction of the military infrastructure assets of Ukraine by aviation missile complexes Kinzhal with hypersonic aeroballistic missiles.
Underground protected storages of Ukrainian aviation weapons and combat units for Tochka-U missile systems located in the Delyatin, Ivano-Frankovsk region, as well as large fuel depots in Konstantinovka, Nikolaev region, were destroyed.
I would like to draw your attention to the fact that the use of a hypersonic aeroballistic missile of Kinzhal complex was carried out from a range of more than 1,000 kilometers. The flight time of the hypersonic missile was less than 10 minutes.
Due to hypersonic speed and ultra-high kinetic energy, the warhead of Kinzhal missile complex destroyed a protected underground arsenal located in a mountainous area, built in Soviet times to store special ammunition and missiles.
The destruction of a large fuel depot in Konstantinovka by Kinzhal hypersonic missile was due to its invisibility and invulnerability to any means of enemy air and missile defence.
Combat use of Kynzhal aviation missile system confirmed its effectiveness in destroying highly protected special enemy assets. The strikes on the military infrastructure of Ukraine by this missile system will continue within the special military operation.
I would like to emphasize that Kinzhal complex is used with a conventional warhead. Although experts are well aware of the capabilities of this weapon, not only in terms of range, but also in terms of the type of charge.
Other latest means of destruction are also used, as well as modern aviation.
All these weapons systems, as well as other weapons, if Mr. Podolyak does not know, are called the modern Russian Army and the Navy.
So I do not recommend misleading anyone about the real capabilities and professionalism of the Russian Armed Forces. All the alleged "real data" about losses of military equipment and personnel of the Russian Armed Forces, including senior and superior officers, disseminated by Mr. Podolyak is propagandistic lies.
In turn, I would like to draw Mikhail Podolyak's attention to the actions of the Ukrainian Security Service, neo-Nazi formations and other so-called "special Ukrainian structures" that terrorize their own citizens trying to leave the territory of Ukraine. It is these representatives of the Kiev regime who create a stir on the border.
They still let children and women through. Although not all of them.
As for the male population of Ukraine, they are forcibly conscripted into the army as so-called "reservists" at the border. In fact, they are used as "cannon fodder".
eng.mil.ru...
Meeting of the Joint Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response in Ukraine
21.03.2022 (21:30)
On March 20, 2022, the Russian Federation once again appealed to the Kiev authorities, as well as to the United Nations, the OSCE, the International Committee of the Red Cross and other international organizations with unprecedented initiatives to conduct a large-scale humanitarian operation to rescue residents of Mariupol and foreign citizens in conditions of a severe humanitarian disaster.
According to the statement of the official representative of Kiev, in response to the proposals of the Russian Federation dictated by the principles of humanity, at 2 a.m. on March 21, 2022, an unjustified refusal to save people was received, that "there can be no question of any surrender, laying down arms."
The Kiev regime has once again shown its true face and complete indifference to the human lives of more than 130,000 innocent citizens of its country who are held captive by the crazed terrorist gangs in Mariupol.
By blocking the corridors for civilians to exit, the nationalists deprive them of the opportunity to escape, leaving them in the combat zone as a "human shield". And everyone who tries to evacuate on their own is being bullied everywhere or viciously shot in the back.
At the same time, against the background of Kiev's official statement about the refusal to carry out a humanitarian operation, and the militants to lay down their arms, they hypocritically instructed nationalist battalions to leave the city in small groups under the guise of civilians, dressed in civilian clothes, using any opportunities, including along humanitarian corridors. And the bandits immediately began to carry out this order.
So, on March 20, 2022, the terrorists of Azov battalion killed the parents of two minor children and, hiding behind the same children, tried to drive a car belonging to the family along the humanitarian corridor to Zaporozhye, but they were identified and promptly detained by Russian servicemen, and the children were rescued and the necessary assistance is being provided to them.
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Briefing by Russian Defence Ministry
22.03.2022 (10:30)
Units of the Russian Armed Forces, developing the offensive, advanced another 6 kilometers and captured Urozhajnoe. They are now fighting with units of the 128th Separate Mountain Assault Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The grouping of troops of the Donetsk People's Republic has penetrated 4 kilometers deep into the defence of the 25th Airborne Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and is fighting to capture Kamenka, Novoselovka II, and Verhnetoreckoe.
The advance was up to 5 kilometers in Kurakhovo direction. Units of the Donetsk Republic destroyed a company of the 53rd Separate Mechanized Brigade and units of the assault battalion of the 54th Separete Mechanized Brigade of Ukrainian troops, capturing Slavnoe, Trudovskoi, Shahta Chelyuskintsev and Mar'inka.
During the day, 3 tanks, 4 infantry fighting vehicles, 4 field artillery guns and 6 all-terrain vehicles were destroyed in this area.
People's Militia units of the Lugansk Republic have established control over Kalinovo Popasnoe, Novoaleksandrovka, Stepnoe, Boguslavskoe and continue to destroy units of the 30th Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. More than 40 personnel and 5 all-terrain vehicles of the enemy were destroyed.
Operational-tactical and army aviation hit 137 military assets of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Among them: 6 command posts and communication hubs, 2 multiple launch rocket systems, 1 anti-aircraft missile system, 8 missile and artillery weapons depots, as well as 101 areas of military equipment concentration.
The Russian air defence means shot down 14 more Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles in the air, including 1 Bayraktar TB-2.
The group of "night hunters" consisting of Ka-52 and Mi-28n helicopters destroyed 9 Ukrainian tanks, 7 infantry fighting vehicles and armored personnel carriers during night strikes.
In total, 230 unmanned aerial vehicles, 181 anti-aircraft missile systems, 1,528 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 154 multiple launch rocket systems, 602 field artillery and mortars, as well as 1,312 units of special military vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed during the operation.
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Briefing by Russian Defence Ministry
22.03.2022 (19:30)
Units of the Russian Armed Forces, pursuing the retreating units of the 54th Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, advanced another 4 kilometers during the day and reached Novomikhailovka.
The grouping of troops of the Donetsk People's Republic took control of Verkhnetoretskoe and continues to attack units of the 25th Airborne Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. 2 tanks, 5 infantry fighting vehicles, 3 field artillery guns and 7 all-terrain vehicles were destroyed.
On March 22, high-precision long-range long-range air and sea-based weapons attacked Ukraine's military infrastructure. Large fuel depots of Ukrainian troops in Lisichansk and Kramatorsk, missile and artillery weapons depot in Druzhkovka and ammunition depots in Nadezhdinka and Novoaleksandrovka were destroyed.
Operational-tactical and army aviation hit 83 military assets of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Among them: 4 command posts, 4 anti-aircraft missile systems, 3 missile and artillery weapons depots, as well as 68 areas of military equipment concentration.
The Russian air defence means shot down 6 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles in the air, including 1 Bayraktar TB-2 near Merefa, Kharkov region.
In total, 236 unmanned aerial vehicles, 185 anti-aircraft missile systems, 1,547 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 154 multiple launch rocket systems, 612 field artillery and mortars, as well as 1,343 units of special military vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed during the operation.
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Statement of the Joint Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response in Ukraine
22.03.2022 (21:45)
The Russian Federation continues its purposeful and coordinated work on the evacuation of civilians and foreign citizens from combat zones, as well as the provision of humanitarian assistance to the population in the territories of Ukraine liberated from neo-Nazis.
As a result of the effective measures taken, without the participation of the Kiev authorities, 68,098 people have already been evacuated from Mariupol, where the humanitarian situation has taken catastrophic proportions. Saved from the horrors and lawlessness staged by the nationalists, people are now completely safe under the protection of the Russian Federation, all those in need are provided with the necessary assistance.
Despite the endless streams of lies and misinformation, the Russian Federation continues to fully fulfill its humanitarian obligations.
Today from 10 a.m. the Russian Federation has already provided humanitarian corridors for the eighteenth time in Kiev, Chernigov, Sumy and Kharkov directions, along one humanitarian corridor to the Russian Federation, and one more through the territories controlled by the Kiev authorities towards the western borders of Ukraine.
Official Kiev has not agreed on any corridor towards Russia again.
At the same time, the Ukrainian authorities additionally announced 4 more routes in Zaporozhye direction, cynically ignoring humanitarian corridors to the Russian Federation.
Pursuing exclusively humane principles, in order to ensure the safe evacuation of civilians forcibly held by nationalists in blocked settlements, on all, including new routes, the Russian Armed Forces fully comply with the imposed ceasefire.
Despite the humanitarian corridors opening daily, Ukrainian nationalists continue to hold more than 4,500,000 civilians as a "human shield" in Kiev, Kharkov, Chernigov, Sumy and more than 20 other blocked large settlements, as well as 6,862 foreign citizens from 25 foreign states.
In addition, in the seaports of Ukraine, due to the high mine danger created by the Kiev authorities in their internal waters and territorial sea, the crews of 67 vessels from 15 foreign countries remain blocked.
The Russian Federation continues to fulfill all its humanitarian obligations. All the necessary conditions for a peaceful and safe life are being created in the liberated territories.
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eng.mil.ru...
22.03.2022 (10:30)
Units of the Russian Armed Forces, developing the offensive, advanced another 6 kilometers and captured Urozhajnoe. They are now fighting with units of the 128th Separate Mountain Assault Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The grouping of troops of the Donetsk People's Republic has penetrated 4 kilometers deep into the defence of the 25th Airborne Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and is fighting to capture Kamenka, Novoselovka II, and Verhnetoreckoe.
The advance was up to 5 kilometers in Kurakhovo direction. Units of the Donetsk Republic destroyed a company of the 53rd Separate Mechanized Brigade and units of the assault battalion of the 54th Separete Mechanized Brigade of Ukrainian troops, capturing Slavnoe, Trudovskoi, Shahta Chelyuskintsev and Mar'inka.
During the day, 3 tanks, 4 infantry fighting vehicles, 4 field artillery guns and 6 all-terrain vehicles were destroyed in this area.
People's Militia units of the Lugansk Republic have established control over Kalinovo Popasnoe, Novoaleksandrovka, Stepnoe, Boguslavskoe and continue to destroy units of the 30th Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. More than 40 personnel and 5 all-terrain vehicles of the enemy were destroyed.
Operational-tactical and army aviation hit 137 military assets of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Among them: 6 command posts and communication hubs, 2 multiple launch rocket systems, 1 anti-aircraft missile system, 8 missile and artillery weapons depots, as well as 101 areas of military equipment concentration.
The Russian air defence means shot down 14 more Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles in the air, including 1 Bayraktar TB-2.
The group of "night hunters" consisting of Ka-52 and Mi-28n helicopters destroyed 9 Ukrainian tanks, 7 infantry fighting vehicles and armored personnel carriers during night strikes.
In total, 230 unmanned aerial vehicles, 181 anti-aircraft missile systems, 1,528 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 154 multiple launch rocket systems, 602 field artillery and mortars, as well as 1,312 units of special military vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed during the operation.
eng.mil.ru...
Briefing by Russian Defence Ministry
22.03.2022 (19:30)
Units of the Russian Armed Forces, pursuing the retreating units of the 54th Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, advanced another 4 kilometers during the day and reached Novomikhailovka.
The grouping of troops of the Donetsk People's Republic took control of Verkhnetoretskoe and continues to attack units of the 25th Airborne Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. 2 tanks, 5 infantry fighting vehicles, 3 field artillery guns and 7 all-terrain vehicles were destroyed.
On March 22, high-precision long-range long-range air and sea-based weapons attacked Ukraine's military infrastructure. Large fuel depots of Ukrainian troops in Lisichansk and Kramatorsk, missile and artillery weapons depot in Druzhkovka and ammunition depots in Nadezhdinka and Novoaleksandrovka were destroyed.
Operational-tactical and army aviation hit 83 military assets of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Among them: 4 command posts, 4 anti-aircraft missile systems, 3 missile and artillery weapons depots, as well as 68 areas of military equipment concentration.
The Russian air defence means shot down 6 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles in the air, including 1 Bayraktar TB-2 near Merefa, Kharkov region.
In total, 236 unmanned aerial vehicles, 185 anti-aircraft missile systems, 1,547 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 154 multiple launch rocket systems, 612 field artillery and mortars, as well as 1,343 units of special military vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed during the operation.
eng.mil.ru...
Statement of the Joint Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response in Ukraine
22.03.2022 (21:45)
The Russian Federation continues its purposeful and coordinated work on the evacuation of civilians and foreign citizens from combat zones, as well as the provision of humanitarian assistance to the population in the territories of Ukraine liberated from neo-Nazis.
As a result of the effective measures taken, without the participation of the Kiev authorities, 68,098 people have already been evacuated from Mariupol, where the humanitarian situation has taken catastrophic proportions. Saved from the horrors and lawlessness staged by the nationalists, people are now completely safe under the protection of the Russian Federation, all those in need are provided with the necessary assistance.
Despite the endless streams of lies and misinformation, the Russian Federation continues to fully fulfill its humanitarian obligations.
Today from 10 a.m. the Russian Federation has already provided humanitarian corridors for the eighteenth time in Kiev, Chernigov, Sumy and Kharkov directions, along one humanitarian corridor to the Russian Federation, and one more through the territories controlled by the Kiev authorities towards the western borders of Ukraine.
Official Kiev has not agreed on any corridor towards Russia again.
At the same time, the Ukrainian authorities additionally announced 4 more routes in Zaporozhye direction, cynically ignoring humanitarian corridors to the Russian Federation.
Pursuing exclusively humane principles, in order to ensure the safe evacuation of civilians forcibly held by nationalists in blocked settlements, on all, including new routes, the Russian Armed Forces fully comply with the imposed ceasefire.
Despite the humanitarian corridors opening daily, Ukrainian nationalists continue to hold more than 4,500,000 civilians as a "human shield" in Kiev, Kharkov, Chernigov, Sumy and more than 20 other blocked large settlements, as well as 6,862 foreign citizens from 25 foreign states.
In addition, in the seaports of Ukraine, due to the high mine danger created by the Kiev authorities in their internal waters and territorial sea, the crews of 67 vessels from 15 foreign countries remain blocked.
The Russian Federation continues to fulfill all its humanitarian obligations. All the necessary conditions for a peaceful and safe life are being created in the liberated territories.
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eng.mil.ru...
Briefing by Russian Defence Ministry
23.03.2022 (11:00)
Units of the Russian Armed Forces continue to destroy units of the 54th Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Currently, they are fighting for the capture of Novomikhailovka.
The grouping of troops of the Donetsk People's Republic, having completed the cleaкшing of Verkhnetoretskoe from the nationalists, continued to pursue the retreating units of the 25th Airborne Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and took control of Novobakhmutovka railway station.
During the night, 3 tanks, 2 infantry fighting vehicles and 6 all-terrain vehicles were destroyed in this area.
On the evening of March 22, high-precision long-range sea-based weapons struck an arms depot in Orzhev, 14 kilometers northwest of Rovno city. As a result of the strike, a large depot of weapons and military equipment of the Ukrainian troops, including those received from Western countries, was destroyed.
Operational-tactical, army aviation and missile troops hit 97 military assets of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Among them: 2 launchers and 1 transport-loading vehicle of the Tochka-U tactical missile system in an industrial zone on the northern outskirts of Kiev, 8 anti-aircraft missile systems, including: 6 Buk-M1, 1 S-300 and 1 Osa combat vehicle, 10 command posts, 8 field artillery guns, as well as 3 artillery reconnaissance stations of NATO manufacture.
The Russian air defence means shot down 1 Su-24 near Izyum city, 16 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles in the air, including 3 Bayraktar TB-2 near Rozhin, Karashev and Maxim Gorky.
A group of "night hunters" consisting of Ka-52 and Mi-28n helicopters destroyed 8 tanks, 5 infantry fighting vehicles and armored personnel carriers, 9 vehicles and towing trucks, 3 permanent fire position and 7 field artillery and mortars during night strikes.
In total, 184 aircraft and helicopters of the Ukrainian Air Force, 246 unmanned aerial vehicles, 189 anti-aircraft missile systems, 1,558 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 156 multiple launch rocket systems, 624 field artillery and mortars, as well as 1,354 units of special military vehicles were destroyed during the operation.
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Briefing by Russian Defence Ministry
23.03.2022 (19:30)
Units of the Russian Armed Forces have advanced another 2 kilometers during the day and are fighting against units of the 54th Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the southern and southeastern outskirts of Novomikhailovka.
The grouping of troops of the Donetsk People's Republic inflicts fire damage to units of the 25th Airborne Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and is fighting for the capture of Kamenka and Novobakhmutovka.
Operational-tactical and army aviation hit 86 military assets of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Among them: 6 command posts, 2 multiple launch rocket systems, 8 field artillery guns, 3 ammunition depots, 49 areas of concentration of equipment and military hardware of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Russian Air Defence means shot down 9 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles near Izyum, Kiev, Sumy, Kharkov, Chernigov.
In total, 255 unmanned aerial vehicles, 189 anti-aircraft missile systems, 1,564 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 158 multiple launch rocket systems, 612 field artillery and mortars, as well as 1,367 units of special military vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed during the operation.
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Statement of the Joint Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response in Ukraine
23.03.2022 (21:30)
The militants of the nationalist battalions with inhuman cruelty continue to implement the criminal plan approved by the Ukrainian authorities to destroy their own civilians.
Using mass media, Internet resources and social networks, official Kiev is actively misinforming residents of Ukraine about the current situation throughout the country.
Hiding facts about the catastrophic situation of civilians in populated areas, about the outrages of nationalists maddened by permissiveness, about the disruptions of evacuation to safe places due to the alleged non-compliance by the Russian side with the ceasefire, the Kiev authorities cynically destroy the people of Ukraine.
The ruthless and cold-blooded terror carried out by neo-Nazis crosses all the boundaries imaginable for a civilized society.
So, on March 22, 2022, militants of nationalist battalions in Sumy fired from an anti-tank grenade launcher, without any reason, at an ambulance en route to provide urgent assistance to wounded civilians. As a result of the criminal actions of the terrorists, four medical workers were killed on the spot.
The blatant case of mass extermination of civilians committed by Ukrainian radicals in Kharkov. Driven by inhuman conditions of existence to extreme exhaustion, Kharkov residents attempted to leave the basement to search for water and food. For this alleged "liberty" they were shot by nationalist fanatics right in the courtyard of their house.
In addition, along with the physical destruction of the population in Chernigov, Sumy and Zaporozhye, the commanders of nationalist battalions staged a massive robbery of residential buildings, public and private organizations. Captured special ambulances and mail vehicles are used to export material values towards the western borders of Ukraine.
In Zaporozhye, the work of public services is paralyzed. The militants are purposefully destroying life-support facilities, and emergency services and ambulance crews who arrived to rescue the victims and localize the consequences of the destruction are subjected to targeted shelling and liquidation.
All these and many other facts, which we declare daily, are confirmed by numerous eyewitness testimonies, they speak of unleashed and actually legitimized by official Kiev terror against its own citizens. This is a natural consequence of the irresponsible decisions taken by Kiev to preserve its criminal power by any means, including by turning the country into a "hotbed" of nationalism and terrorism.
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23.03.2022 (11:00)
Units of the Russian Armed Forces continue to destroy units of the 54th Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Currently, they are fighting for the capture of Novomikhailovka.
The grouping of troops of the Donetsk People's Republic, having completed the cleaкшing of Verkhnetoretskoe from the nationalists, continued to pursue the retreating units of the 25th Airborne Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and took control of Novobakhmutovka railway station.
During the night, 3 tanks, 2 infantry fighting vehicles and 6 all-terrain vehicles were destroyed in this area.
On the evening of March 22, high-precision long-range sea-based weapons struck an arms depot in Orzhev, 14 kilometers northwest of Rovno city. As a result of the strike, a large depot of weapons and military equipment of the Ukrainian troops, including those received from Western countries, was destroyed.
Operational-tactical, army aviation and missile troops hit 97 military assets of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Among them: 2 launchers and 1 transport-loading vehicle of the Tochka-U tactical missile system in an industrial zone on the northern outskirts of Kiev, 8 anti-aircraft missile systems, including: 6 Buk-M1, 1 S-300 and 1 Osa combat vehicle, 10 command posts, 8 field artillery guns, as well as 3 artillery reconnaissance stations of NATO manufacture.
The Russian air defence means shot down 1 Su-24 near Izyum city, 16 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles in the air, including 3 Bayraktar TB-2 near Rozhin, Karashev and Maxim Gorky.
A group of "night hunters" consisting of Ka-52 and Mi-28n helicopters destroyed 8 tanks, 5 infantry fighting vehicles and armored personnel carriers, 9 vehicles and towing trucks, 3 permanent fire position and 7 field artillery and mortars during night strikes.
In total, 184 aircraft and helicopters of the Ukrainian Air Force, 246 unmanned aerial vehicles, 189 anti-aircraft missile systems, 1,558 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 156 multiple launch rocket systems, 624 field artillery and mortars, as well as 1,354 units of special military vehicles were destroyed during the operation.
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Briefing by Russian Defence Ministry
23.03.2022 (19:30)
Units of the Russian Armed Forces have advanced another 2 kilometers during the day and are fighting against units of the 54th Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the southern and southeastern outskirts of Novomikhailovka.
The grouping of troops of the Donetsk People's Republic inflicts fire damage to units of the 25th Airborne Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and is fighting for the capture of Kamenka and Novobakhmutovka.
Operational-tactical and army aviation hit 86 military assets of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Among them: 6 command posts, 2 multiple launch rocket systems, 8 field artillery guns, 3 ammunition depots, 49 areas of concentration of equipment and military hardware of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Russian Air Defence means shot down 9 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles near Izyum, Kiev, Sumy, Kharkov, Chernigov.
In total, 255 unmanned aerial vehicles, 189 anti-aircraft missile systems, 1,564 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 158 multiple launch rocket systems, 612 field artillery and mortars, as well as 1,367 units of special military vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed during the operation.
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Statement of the Joint Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response in Ukraine
23.03.2022 (21:30)
The militants of the nationalist battalions with inhuman cruelty continue to implement the criminal plan approved by the Ukrainian authorities to destroy their own civilians.
Using mass media, Internet resources and social networks, official Kiev is actively misinforming residents of Ukraine about the current situation throughout the country.
Hiding facts about the catastrophic situation of civilians in populated areas, about the outrages of nationalists maddened by permissiveness, about the disruptions of evacuation to safe places due to the alleged non-compliance by the Russian side with the ceasefire, the Kiev authorities cynically destroy the people of Ukraine.
The ruthless and cold-blooded terror carried out by neo-Nazis crosses all the boundaries imaginable for a civilized society.
So, on March 22, 2022, militants of nationalist battalions in Sumy fired from an anti-tank grenade launcher, without any reason, at an ambulance en route to provide urgent assistance to wounded civilians. As a result of the criminal actions of the terrorists, four medical workers were killed on the spot.
The blatant case of mass extermination of civilians committed by Ukrainian radicals in Kharkov. Driven by inhuman conditions of existence to extreme exhaustion, Kharkov residents attempted to leave the basement to search for water and food. For this alleged "liberty" they were shot by nationalist fanatics right in the courtyard of their house.
In addition, along with the physical destruction of the population in Chernigov, Sumy and Zaporozhye, the commanders of nationalist battalions staged a massive robbery of residential buildings, public and private organizations. Captured special ambulances and mail vehicles are used to export material values towards the western borders of Ukraine.
In Zaporozhye, the work of public services is paralyzed. The militants are purposefully destroying life-support facilities, and emergency services and ambulance crews who arrived to rescue the victims and localize the consequences of the destruction are subjected to targeted shelling and liquidation.
All these and many other facts, which we declare daily, are confirmed by numerous eyewitness testimonies, they speak of unleashed and actually legitimized by official Kiev terror against its own citizens. This is a natural consequence of the irresponsible decisions taken by Kiev to preserve its criminal power by any means, including by turning the country into a "hotbed" of nationalism and terrorism.
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Briefing by Chief of Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Protection Troops of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation
24.03.2022 (15:35)
The Russian Ministry of Defence continues to analyze documents revealing the military-biological activities of the Pentagon in Ukraine.
The incoming materials allow us to trace the pattern of interaction between US government agencies and Ukrainian bio-objects. The involvement of entities close to the current US leadership, notably the Rosemont Seneca investment fund run by Hunter Biden, is noticeable in the funding of these activities. The Fund has significant financial resources of at least $2.4 billion. The foundation is closely linked to key contractors of the US military department, including Metabiota, which, along with Black and Veach, is a major supplier of equipment to the Pentagon's bio-labs around the world.
The scale of the program is impressive. The US Agency for International Development, the George Soros Foundation and the Center for Disease Control and Prevention are directly involved, in addition to the military department. Scientific supervision is provided by leading research organisations, including the Los Alamos National Laboratory, which is developing nuclear weapons as part of the Manhattan Project.
All these activities are carried out under the full control of the Pentagon.
Please note - the registration card which confirms that it was 30 Ukrainian laboratories, located in 14 settlements, that were involved in full-scale military-biological activities in Ukraine.
The document was signed by Viktor Polishchuk, Deputy State Secretary of the Ukrainian Cabinet of Ministers. The legal basis for its signing was the Agreement on Cooperation to Prevent the Spread of Technologies, Pathogens and Information that could be used for the development of biological weapons.
The registration card identifies the customer of the work, the US Defense Threat Reduction Agency, as well as a list of biobjects.
As we have previously reported, the funding for 2018-2020 alone was around $32 million. The text of the document states that the United States, its personnel and contractors are exempt from the obligation to pay taxes or other similar fees that are levied in Ukraine.
The Ministry of Defence has disclosed and summarised the flow of biomaterials. Funding for military-biological activities has enabled the US and its allies to export at least 16,000 bioassays outside Ukraine.
Thus, under the UP-8 project in Lvov, Kharkov, Odessa and Kiev, blood samples were taken from 4,000 servicemen for antibodies to hantaviruses and from 400 for antibodies to the Congo-Crimean fever virus.
This large-scale screening of the natural immunity of the population was probably carried out in order to select the biological agents most dangerous to the population of a particular region.
Document review reveals that not only human tissue and serum samples, but also dangerous pathogens and their transporters were exported. Thus, more than 10,000 samples were sent to Lugar Centre in Georgia. Other recipients include: reference laboratories in the UK, the Loeffler Institute in Germany.
All this creates risks for the transfer abroad of sensitive genetic information, as well as threats to biological security not only for Ukraine, but also for the regions where the samples were transferred.
One of the US customers' priorities is the anthrax pathogen, which is highly susceptible and persistent in the environment.
The slide shows documents from the UP-2 project, one of the tasks of which was to identify dead animal burial sites, taking soil samples from anthrax animal burial sites. The interest of US military biologists in studying insect vectors in animal burial sites is also not accidental. Apparently, they analysed the results of an outbreak of anthrax disease in Yamal in 2016, during which cases of vector-borne transmission through flies and gadflies were recorded.
Given that the situation with anthrax in Ukraine remains positive, it raises the question of the need for the Pentagon's research and its true purpose.
We know of examples where the US military departments work with anthrax has ended in biosecurity emergencies.
Between 2005 and 2015, viable anthrax spores were sent from the US Army's Dugway proving ground to 194 recipients in ten countries.
The current situation with the shipment of pathogenic biomaterials from Ukraine to European countries could result in loss of life and create a hotbed of epidemiological instability on a scale comparable to the COVID-19 pandemic.
We continue to share information on research involving Ukrainian military personnel. We would like to point out that such work is prohibited within the US and is carried out by the military department outside the US.
Earlier mention was made of the UP-8 research, which involved more than 4,000 people. According to figures published in the Bulgarian media, some 20 Ukrainian soldiers were killed in experiments in the Kharkov laboratory alone and another 200 were hospitalised.
The documents received confirm the attempt to test previously untested medicines on them. This is the Deep Drug screening system for unlicensed pharmaceuticals in the United States and Canada.
What makes the US sponsors particularly cynical is that the developer, Scymount, offered to purchase the system in question on a commercial basis, despite the fact that Ukrainian Ministry of Defence officials were engaged as volunteers.
Such unacceptable approaches, with the tacit approval of the US administration, are the norm for big pharma companies. For example, the US Naval Medical Centre in Jakarta was shut down by Indonesian authorities in 2010 because of numerous irregularities.
The Americans conducted work at the site outside the agreed research programme, collected biological samples and refused to inform the Indonesian government of their findings. The materials they obtained were used on behalf of the Pentagon-affiliated pharmaceutical company Gilead, which conducts trials of its drugs, including in Ukraine and Georgia.
We would like to draw attention that the number of biological laboratories in the USA is not comparable with other countries. According to the Chinese Foreign Ministry, they control 336 laboratories in 30 states outside national jurisdiction.
We believe that in the context of the incoming information, clarification should be sought from Washington regarding the true objectives of the US biolaboratories as part of the international investigation.
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The documents
This is a .pdf file.
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24.03.2022 (15:35)
The Russian Ministry of Defence continues to analyze documents revealing the military-biological activities of the Pentagon in Ukraine.
The incoming materials allow us to trace the pattern of interaction between US government agencies and Ukrainian bio-objects. The involvement of entities close to the current US leadership, notably the Rosemont Seneca investment fund run by Hunter Biden, is noticeable in the funding of these activities. The Fund has significant financial resources of at least $2.4 billion. The foundation is closely linked to key contractors of the US military department, including Metabiota, which, along with Black and Veach, is a major supplier of equipment to the Pentagon's bio-labs around the world.
The scale of the program is impressive. The US Agency for International Development, the George Soros Foundation and the Center for Disease Control and Prevention are directly involved, in addition to the military department. Scientific supervision is provided by leading research organisations, including the Los Alamos National Laboratory, which is developing nuclear weapons as part of the Manhattan Project.
All these activities are carried out under the full control of the Pentagon.
Please note - the registration card which confirms that it was 30 Ukrainian laboratories, located in 14 settlements, that were involved in full-scale military-biological activities in Ukraine.
The document was signed by Viktor Polishchuk, Deputy State Secretary of the Ukrainian Cabinet of Ministers. The legal basis for its signing was the Agreement on Cooperation to Prevent the Spread of Technologies, Pathogens and Information that could be used for the development of biological weapons.
The registration card identifies the customer of the work, the US Defense Threat Reduction Agency, as well as a list of biobjects.
As we have previously reported, the funding for 2018-2020 alone was around $32 million. The text of the document states that the United States, its personnel and contractors are exempt from the obligation to pay taxes or other similar fees that are levied in Ukraine.
The Ministry of Defence has disclosed and summarised the flow of biomaterials. Funding for military-biological activities has enabled the US and its allies to export at least 16,000 bioassays outside Ukraine.
Thus, under the UP-8 project in Lvov, Kharkov, Odessa and Kiev, blood samples were taken from 4,000 servicemen for antibodies to hantaviruses and from 400 for antibodies to the Congo-Crimean fever virus.
This large-scale screening of the natural immunity of the population was probably carried out in order to select the biological agents most dangerous to the population of a particular region.
Document review reveals that not only human tissue and serum samples, but also dangerous pathogens and their transporters were exported. Thus, more than 10,000 samples were sent to Lugar Centre in Georgia. Other recipients include: reference laboratories in the UK, the Loeffler Institute in Germany.
All this creates risks for the transfer abroad of sensitive genetic information, as well as threats to biological security not only for Ukraine, but also for the regions where the samples were transferred.
One of the US customers' priorities is the anthrax pathogen, which is highly susceptible and persistent in the environment.
The slide shows documents from the UP-2 project, one of the tasks of which was to identify dead animal burial sites, taking soil samples from anthrax animal burial sites. The interest of US military biologists in studying insect vectors in animal burial sites is also not accidental. Apparently, they analysed the results of an outbreak of anthrax disease in Yamal in 2016, during which cases of vector-borne transmission through flies and gadflies were recorded.
Given that the situation with anthrax in Ukraine remains positive, it raises the question of the need for the Pentagon's research and its true purpose.
We know of examples where the US military departments work with anthrax has ended in biosecurity emergencies.
Between 2005 and 2015, viable anthrax spores were sent from the US Army's Dugway proving ground to 194 recipients in ten countries.
The current situation with the shipment of pathogenic biomaterials from Ukraine to European countries could result in loss of life and create a hotbed of epidemiological instability on a scale comparable to the COVID-19 pandemic.
We continue to share information on research involving Ukrainian military personnel. We would like to point out that such work is prohibited within the US and is carried out by the military department outside the US.
Earlier mention was made of the UP-8 research, which involved more than 4,000 people. According to figures published in the Bulgarian media, some 20 Ukrainian soldiers were killed in experiments in the Kharkov laboratory alone and another 200 were hospitalised.
The documents received confirm the attempt to test previously untested medicines on them. This is the Deep Drug screening system for unlicensed pharmaceuticals in the United States and Canada.
What makes the US sponsors particularly cynical is that the developer, Scymount, offered to purchase the system in question on a commercial basis, despite the fact that Ukrainian Ministry of Defence officials were engaged as volunteers.
Such unacceptable approaches, with the tacit approval of the US administration, are the norm for big pharma companies. For example, the US Naval Medical Centre in Jakarta was shut down by Indonesian authorities in 2010 because of numerous irregularities.
The Americans conducted work at the site outside the agreed research programme, collected biological samples and refused to inform the Indonesian government of their findings. The materials they obtained were used on behalf of the Pentagon-affiliated pharmaceutical company Gilead, which conducts trials of its drugs, including in Ukraine and Georgia.
We would like to draw attention that the number of biological laboratories in the USA is not comparable with other countries. According to the Chinese Foreign Ministry, they control 336 laboratories in 30 states outside national jurisdiction.
We believe that in the context of the incoming information, clarification should be sought from Washington regarding the true objectives of the US biolaboratories as part of the international investigation.
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The documents
This is a .pdf file.
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Briefing by Russian Defence Ministry
24.03.2022 (10:00)
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.
By the morning of March 24, the units of the Russian Armed Forces took control Izyum city in Kharkov region.
On the evening of March 23 and on the night of March 24, high-precision long-range sea- and air-based weapons attacked military facilities of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
As a result of the strikes, 13 launchers of anti-aircraft missile systems were destroyed, including 9 S-300 and 4 Buk-M1 in Danilovka, south of Kiev, formation headquarters and missile and artillery weapons depot in Bakhmut, Donetsk region, as well as a temporary deployment point of the nationalist battalion in Lisichansk city.
Operational-tactical and army aviation hit 60 military assets of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Among them: 2 command posts, 2 multiple launch rocket systems, 4 ammunition depots, 47 areas of concentration of equipment and military hardware of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Russian Air Defence means shot down 2 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles near Staraya Markovka and Kharkov.
In total, 257 unmanned aerial vehicles, 202 anti-aircraft missile systems, 1,572 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 160 multiple launch rocket systems, 633 field artillery and mortars, as well as 1,379 units of special military vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed during the operation.
The Russian Defence Ministry continues to study documents received from employees of Ukrainian laboratories about secret military biological activities of the United States in Ukraine.
Experts of the Russian Nuclear, Biological and Chemical protection troops during the study of documents revealed new facts proving the direct involvement of the US Department of Defence in the development of biological weapons components in Ukraine.
In the near future, we will show original documents demonstrating that UP-2 biological project, which we have already talked about, was developed and approved by the Pentagon. The main objective of this project was to carry out a molecular analysis of particularly dangerous infections endemic to Ukraine. This work involved sampling the pathogen from old animal burial grounds to obtain new anthrax strains.
However, the Pentagon's experiments were not limited to the development of dangerous infections. For example, a pharmaceutical company contracted by the US Department of Defence, according to documents obtained, was working with the Ukrainian Defence Ministry to test unregistered medical drugs specifically on Ukrainian servicemen.
We will tell you about these and other documented facts in the near future within a special briefing.
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Statement of the Joint Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response in Ukraine
24.03.2022 (21:30)
The Russian Federation, guided solely by the principles of international humanitarian law, continues large-scale measures to provide comprehensive assistance to the population in the controlled areas of Ukraine and the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics.
To this end, humanitarian corridors continue to open daily since 10 a.m. in the directions of Kiev, Chernigov, Sumy, Kharkov and Mariupol, one to Russia and one more through Kiev-controlled territories towards Ukraine's western borders.
Of the routes proposed by us, the Ukrainian authorities have agreed on only three, but not a single humanitarian corridor to the Russian Federation has again been confirmed by official Kiev, which once again proves the indifference of the current government to its own people.
At the same time, as of this day, the Ukrainian side announced 12 additional corridors in the directions of Kiev, Zhytomyr, Zaporozhye and Donetsk, of which none in the direction of the Russian Federation.
The Russian Armed Forces strictly observe the ceasefire on all routes, including those declared by the Ukrainian side.
At the same time, the objective control data confirmed once again that the Ukrainian side continues to cynically use the ceasefire to regroup its units to more advantageous positions. In addition, the militants of the territorial defence continue to prevent civilians from leaving populated areas in every possible way.
For example, in Chernigov, by order of the head of the city and the head of the regional military administration, in order to prevent any attempts by the local population to leave the city, a road bridge across the Desna river on the Kiev direction was blown up.
In the same city, an initiative group of local residents in connection with the serious humanitarian situation (of the remaining 120 thousand people, more than half are sick, medical care is not available to them, medical facilities are filled with fighters of the AFU and territorial defenсe) appealed to the administration with a request to go to the safe areas. As a result, the activists were detained by SSU officers, and several people were subsequently shot.
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Briefing by Russian Defence Ministry
25.03.2022 (10:00)
The grouping of troops of the Russian Armed Forces advanced another 4 kilometers overnight and captured Batmanka, Mikhailovka, Krasny Partizan, Stavki and Troitskoe. Currently developing an offensive against units of the 25th Airborne Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
In the evening of March 24, Kalibr high-precision sea-based cruise missiles struck a fuel base in Kalinovka near Kiev. The largest remaining fuel base of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was destroyed. This base supplied military units in the central part of the country with fuel.
A group of "night hunters" consisting of Ka-52 and Mi-28n helicopters destroyed 24 pieces of military equipment, including 7 tanks, 5 infantry fighting vehicles and 3 armored personnel carriers during night strikes.
Operational-tactical and army aviation hit 51 military assets of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Among them: 2 command posts, 3 multiple launch rocket systems, 2 Buk M-1 anti-aircraft missile systems and 1 radar station for target illumination and targeting of S-300 anti-aircraft missile system near Dnepropetrovsk, 3 D-30 artillery mounts, 2 missile and artillery weapons depots, as well as 26 areas of military equipment concentration.
Russian air defence means shot down 2 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle in the air over Boromlya, Borshchevaya, Oleshnya and Usoki.
In total, 261 unmanned aerial vehicles, 204 anti-aircraft missile systems, 1,587 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 163 multiple launch rocket systems, 636 field artillery and mortars, as well as 1,397 units of special military vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed during the operation.
eng.mil.ru...
24.03.2022 (10:00)
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.
By the morning of March 24, the units of the Russian Armed Forces took control Izyum city in Kharkov region.
On the evening of March 23 and on the night of March 24, high-precision long-range sea- and air-based weapons attacked military facilities of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
As a result of the strikes, 13 launchers of anti-aircraft missile systems were destroyed, including 9 S-300 and 4 Buk-M1 in Danilovka, south of Kiev, formation headquarters and missile and artillery weapons depot in Bakhmut, Donetsk region, as well as a temporary deployment point of the nationalist battalion in Lisichansk city.
Operational-tactical and army aviation hit 60 military assets of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Among them: 2 command posts, 2 multiple launch rocket systems, 4 ammunition depots, 47 areas of concentration of equipment and military hardware of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Russian Air Defence means shot down 2 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles near Staraya Markovka and Kharkov.
In total, 257 unmanned aerial vehicles, 202 anti-aircraft missile systems, 1,572 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 160 multiple launch rocket systems, 633 field artillery and mortars, as well as 1,379 units of special military vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed during the operation.
The Russian Defence Ministry continues to study documents received from employees of Ukrainian laboratories about secret military biological activities of the United States in Ukraine.
Experts of the Russian Nuclear, Biological and Chemical protection troops during the study of documents revealed new facts proving the direct involvement of the US Department of Defence in the development of biological weapons components in Ukraine.
In the near future, we will show original documents demonstrating that UP-2 biological project, which we have already talked about, was developed and approved by the Pentagon. The main objective of this project was to carry out a molecular analysis of particularly dangerous infections endemic to Ukraine. This work involved sampling the pathogen from old animal burial grounds to obtain new anthrax strains.
However, the Pentagon's experiments were not limited to the development of dangerous infections. For example, a pharmaceutical company contracted by the US Department of Defence, according to documents obtained, was working with the Ukrainian Defence Ministry to test unregistered medical drugs specifically on Ukrainian servicemen.
We will tell you about these and other documented facts in the near future within a special briefing.
eng.mil.ru...
Statement of the Joint Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response in Ukraine
24.03.2022 (21:30)
The Russian Federation, guided solely by the principles of international humanitarian law, continues large-scale measures to provide comprehensive assistance to the population in the controlled areas of Ukraine and the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics.
To this end, humanitarian corridors continue to open daily since 10 a.m. in the directions of Kiev, Chernigov, Sumy, Kharkov and Mariupol, one to Russia and one more through Kiev-controlled territories towards Ukraine's western borders.
Of the routes proposed by us, the Ukrainian authorities have agreed on only three, but not a single humanitarian corridor to the Russian Federation has again been confirmed by official Kiev, which once again proves the indifference of the current government to its own people.
At the same time, as of this day, the Ukrainian side announced 12 additional corridors in the directions of Kiev, Zhytomyr, Zaporozhye and Donetsk, of which none in the direction of the Russian Federation.
The Russian Armed Forces strictly observe the ceasefire on all routes, including those declared by the Ukrainian side.
At the same time, the objective control data confirmed once again that the Ukrainian side continues to cynically use the ceasefire to regroup its units to more advantageous positions. In addition, the militants of the territorial defence continue to prevent civilians from leaving populated areas in every possible way.
For example, in Chernigov, by order of the head of the city and the head of the regional military administration, in order to prevent any attempts by the local population to leave the city, a road bridge across the Desna river on the Kiev direction was blown up.
In the same city, an initiative group of local residents in connection with the serious humanitarian situation (of the remaining 120 thousand people, more than half are sick, medical care is not available to them, medical facilities are filled with fighters of the AFU and territorial defenсe) appealed to the administration with a request to go to the safe areas. As a result, the activists were detained by SSU officers, and several people were subsequently shot.
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Briefing by Russian Defence Ministry
25.03.2022 (10:00)
The grouping of troops of the Russian Armed Forces advanced another 4 kilometers overnight and captured Batmanka, Mikhailovka, Krasny Partizan, Stavki and Troitskoe. Currently developing an offensive against units of the 25th Airborne Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
In the evening of March 24, Kalibr high-precision sea-based cruise missiles struck a fuel base in Kalinovka near Kiev. The largest remaining fuel base of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was destroyed. This base supplied military units in the central part of the country with fuel.
A group of "night hunters" consisting of Ka-52 and Mi-28n helicopters destroyed 24 pieces of military equipment, including 7 tanks, 5 infantry fighting vehicles and 3 armored personnel carriers during night strikes.
Operational-tactical and army aviation hit 51 military assets of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Among them: 2 command posts, 3 multiple launch rocket systems, 2 Buk M-1 anti-aircraft missile systems and 1 radar station for target illumination and targeting of S-300 anti-aircraft missile system near Dnepropetrovsk, 3 D-30 artillery mounts, 2 missile and artillery weapons depots, as well as 26 areas of military equipment concentration.
Russian air defence means shot down 2 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle in the air over Boromlya, Borshchevaya, Oleshnya and Usoki.
In total, 261 unmanned aerial vehicles, 204 anti-aircraft missile systems, 1,587 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 163 multiple launch rocket systems, 636 field artillery and mortars, as well as 1,397 units of special military vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed during the operation.
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originally posted by: vNex92
The Western Countries, NATO/EU/US just lost recently in Afghanistan after 20+ years after 20 years of military NATO occupation of Afghanistan fighting Taliban militant groups which gained power quickly.
Now you have an American admin that of Biden admin telling the Russians to either choose confrontation or dialogue over Ukraine? last time i saw Ukraine doesn't belong to EU, NATO nor America.
The only interests that America/NATO have on Ukraine is because closer to Russia.
I dont think the Biden admin or NATO are in a position of strength to confront Russia or anyone what happened in Afghanistan showed it. The Taliban are mocking NATO's defeat.
US tells Putin to choose confrontation or dialogue over Ukraine
The Biden administration insists that sovereign states’ right to apply for Nato membership is not negotiable. Nor are US troop deployments in Europe, administration officials have stressed. They said, however, that Washington would discuss other security guarantees, such as mutual limits on missile deployments and military exercises on the continent. That would fall far short of the comprehensive changes Moscow is demanding.
Nor are US troop deployments in Europe, administration officials have stressed
The US troop deployments in Europe for what? a Military confrontation with Russia? looks like this meeting changes nothing.
NATO created Libya's current turmoil after military intervention/regime.
NATO with western countries failed to defeat Taliban in Afghanistan, back on Eastern Europe.
All this confrontation talk is from a admin that doesn't know when inflation is going to end.
Let alone the wokeness in parts of Western culture's which had being caught at the eyes of both Russia and China.
Lets be honest: we didn't get "defeated" in Afghanistan. We milked it for what it was worth in actual capital, and dumped it when the political capital was completely spent. We didn't try to "conquer" Afghanistan. We occupied it. That was it. Nothing more. The retreat was an abysmal failure, but that isn't the 20 years spent there, where a "victory" wasn't really the aim.
It was a successful operation by all metrics it was measured by internally. To the regular joe, it was a fustercluck. Same as Vietnam. You think the US couldn't have turned Afghanistan into glass, then rolled in and started extracting the rare earth elements? We didn't...because it wasn't about conquering.
Any war the US fights, or has fought in the last 60 years, has been a war where we are our own worst enemy with regards to our attrition. We go in half assed. The one time we really didn't was Iraq. And even then, we only occupied.
Briefing by the Russian Ministry of Defence on the current results of the special military operation in Ukraine
25.03.2022 (17:00)
The Russian Defence Ministry held a briefing in Moscow today on the current results of the special military operation in Ukraine.
The briefing was attended by Colonel General Sergei Rudskoy, First Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, Colonel General Mikhail Mizintsev, Head of the National Centre for Defence Control, and Major General Igor Konashenkov, the Russian Defence Ministry's spokesperson.
Speech of the Head of the Main Operational Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation Colonel General Sergei Rudskoy
Speech of Head of the National Centre for Defence Control of the Russian Federation Colonel General Mikhail Mizintsev
Major General Igor Konashenkov recalled in his remarks that since February 24, 2022, the Russian Armed Forces launched a special military operation in Ukraine.
I want to emphasize that the special military operation is carried out strictly according to the approved plan.
The absolute priority of the actions of the Russian Armed Forces during the operation is the exclusion of unnecessary civilian casualties.
High-precision weapons selectively and accurately destroy Ukraine's military infrastructure, equipment and weapons, ammunition stores and material assets of the troops.
From the first days of the operation, when planning any action, special attention has been given to saving civilian infrastructure and civilians in Ukraine.
Before we move on to the current results of the operation, I want to show you once again the originals of the secret cipher telegrams of the 4th brigade of the National Guard of Ukraine captured by Russian servicemen.
[This is a .pdf file.]
Order of the commander of the National Guard of Ukraine Colonel-General Balan, January 22, 2022
The document is addressed to the heads of the northern Kiev, southern Odessa and western territorial administrations of the National Guard of Ukraine.
The order details a plan for the preparation of one of the strike groups for offensive actions in the zone of the so-called "joint forces operation" in the Donbass.
I especially want to draw your attention. All measures of the nationalists' combat coordination are ordered to be completed by February 28. In order to start performing combat missions as part of the Ukrainian "joint forces operation" in the Donbass in March 2022.
Since February 2022, Ukrainian troops have multiplied artillery attacks on Donbass with prohibited large-caliber artillery weapons.
Against the background of false statements about the desire for peace, Kiev has begun large-scale artillery preparations for the offensive of a shock group of troops drawn to the east of Ukraine with the support of aviation and missile systems.
A special military operation launched by the Russian Armed Forces on February 24 thwarted a large-scale offensive by shock groups of Ukrainian troops on the Lugansk and Donetsk People's Republic, which are not controlled by Kiev. This made it possible to save tens, if not hundreds of thousands, of Donbass civilians, whom the Kiev regime has been methodically shooting with large-caliber and rocket artillery for the past 8 years, driving the elderly, women and children into basements.
I would like to emphasize that the Russian servicemen taking part in the operation are courageously and selflessly fulfilling their military duty.
By now, more than 3.5 thousand servicemen of the Armed Forces have been awarded high state awards for their heroism in performing combat tasks during a special military operation.
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation will continue to carry out a special military operation until all the tasks are completed.
At the end of today's briefing, I note that the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation will continue to regularly and through all available channels to bring truthful information to the public about the progress and results of the ongoing special military operation in Ukraine.
We can see that despite the lowered "iron curtain" of information boycott by Western countries towards the Russian Federation, the truth about what is happening in Ukraine successfully overcomes these artificial obstacles. Because truth is power.
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25.03.2022 (17:00)
The Russian Defence Ministry held a briefing in Moscow today on the current results of the special military operation in Ukraine.
The briefing was attended by Colonel General Sergei Rudskoy, First Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, Colonel General Mikhail Mizintsev, Head of the National Centre for Defence Control, and Major General Igor Konashenkov, the Russian Defence Ministry's spokesperson.
Speech of the Head of the Main Operational Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation Colonel General Sergei Rudskoy
Speech of Head of the National Centre for Defence Control of the Russian Federation Colonel General Mikhail Mizintsev
Major General Igor Konashenkov recalled in his remarks that since February 24, 2022, the Russian Armed Forces launched a special military operation in Ukraine.
I want to emphasize that the special military operation is carried out strictly according to the approved plan.
The absolute priority of the actions of the Russian Armed Forces during the operation is the exclusion of unnecessary civilian casualties.
High-precision weapons selectively and accurately destroy Ukraine's military infrastructure, equipment and weapons, ammunition stores and material assets of the troops.
From the first days of the operation, when planning any action, special attention has been given to saving civilian infrastructure and civilians in Ukraine.
Before we move on to the current results of the operation, I want to show you once again the originals of the secret cipher telegrams of the 4th brigade of the National Guard of Ukraine captured by Russian servicemen.
[This is a .pdf file.]
Order of the commander of the National Guard of Ukraine Colonel-General Balan, January 22, 2022
The document is addressed to the heads of the northern Kiev, southern Odessa and western territorial administrations of the National Guard of Ukraine.
The order details a plan for the preparation of one of the strike groups for offensive actions in the zone of the so-called "joint forces operation" in the Donbass.
I especially want to draw your attention. All measures of the nationalists' combat coordination are ordered to be completed by February 28. In order to start performing combat missions as part of the Ukrainian "joint forces operation" in the Donbass in March 2022.
Since February 2022, Ukrainian troops have multiplied artillery attacks on Donbass with prohibited large-caliber artillery weapons.
Against the background of false statements about the desire for peace, Kiev has begun large-scale artillery preparations for the offensive of a shock group of troops drawn to the east of Ukraine with the support of aviation and missile systems.
A special military operation launched by the Russian Armed Forces on February 24 thwarted a large-scale offensive by shock groups of Ukrainian troops on the Lugansk and Donetsk People's Republic, which are not controlled by Kiev. This made it possible to save tens, if not hundreds of thousands, of Donbass civilians, whom the Kiev regime has been methodically shooting with large-caliber and rocket artillery for the past 8 years, driving the elderly, women and children into basements.
I would like to emphasize that the Russian servicemen taking part in the operation are courageously and selflessly fulfilling their military duty.
By now, more than 3.5 thousand servicemen of the Armed Forces have been awarded high state awards for their heroism in performing combat tasks during a special military operation.
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation will continue to carry out a special military operation until all the tasks are completed.
At the end of today's briefing, I note that the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation will continue to regularly and through all available channels to bring truthful information to the public about the progress and results of the ongoing special military operation in Ukraine.
We can see that despite the lowered "iron curtain" of information boycott by Western countries towards the Russian Federation, the truth about what is happening in Ukraine successfully overcomes these artificial obstacles. Because truth is power.
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Meeting with winners of 2021 Presidential Prize for young cultural professionals and for writing and art for children and young people
March 25, 2022 16:05
President of Russia Vladimir Putin:
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Russian culture has made an invaluable contribution to the development of world civilisation. For centuries, Russian masters of literature, music and fine arts have given humankind new aesthetic traditions and, more importantly, ideals and meanings that have become moral and spiritual guidelines for millions of people and entire generations.
Russian culture is human-centric. The best classical works are focused on the inner life, personal quests and emotional experiences of human beings. They ask relevant questions, help people to think, understand and draw conclusions.
It is not surprising that the Russian mentality is known for taking things to heart. We feel very strongly about other people’s pain and injustice. We are capable of feeling sincere joy about others’ success and helping those who truly need our help.
Russian culture always protected Russia’s national identity. While readily taking in all the best and constructive, it patently rejected anything false or momentary, anything that would disrupt the continuity of our spiritual values, moral principles, and historical memory.
This unique quality reliably protects the Russian people even today, when seemingly eternal concepts and norms are being eroded and undermined in different countries, history is being distorted, and the laws of nature itself are being violated.
In a number of countries – mainly the so-called Western countries – these processes have not just permeated politics, society, sports and education, but they often run the show in these areas, they are being aggressively imposed.
Suffice it to mention the notion of cancel culture, which generally refers to public ostracism, boycotting, and sometimes withholding, even oblivion of certain obvious facts, books, names of historical and modern public figures, writers or anyone who does not fit into modern patterns, no matter how absurd they actually are.
This did not begin yesterday. For example, as we are well aware, Hollywood has regularly released films that declared the United States the sole defeater of Nazism. Those films effectively “cancelled” the courage and heroism, and the victory achieved by the Red Army, which made a decisive contribution – suffice it to consider the numbers of military units that fought on the Eastern Front, near Germany – that decisive contribution has been cancelled as well.
When Japan annually commemorates the victims of the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August, they either bashfully keep silent about who dropped the bombs on their cities, or they write flagrant nonsense, that some abstract allies did it. This is what their textbooks say. They simply prefer not to talk about the fact that it was the United States that committed such as a terrible and unjustified massacre at the end of World War II. They have cynically decided to “cancel” this truth as well.
Children's writer J. K. Rowling, the author of books that have sold hundreds of millions of copies around the world, has recently been cancelled in much the same way for displeasing supporters of so-called gender freedoms.
Today, they are trying to cancel an entire millennium-old country, our people. I am referring to the mounting discrimination against everything related to Russia, about the trend that is gaining momentum in a number of Western states – with the complete connivance and sometimes with encouragement from the ruling elite.
This notorious cancel culture has turned into the cancellation of culture. The names Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich and Rachmaninoff are blacked out on concert posters. Russian writers and their books are banned. The last time a campaign like this happened, it was the Nazis who began destroying objectionable literature in Germany. We know well and remember from documentaries the burning of books right on public squares.
It is impossible to imagine this in our country. We are insured against this largely owing to domestic culture. For us, this is inseparable from our Motherland, from Russia where there is no room for ethnic intolerance and where representatives of dozens of nationalities and ethnic groups have lived, worked and brought up children for centuries. Our society is proud of its cultural diversity – the strength and advantage of our state.
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March 25, 2022 16:05
President of Russia Vladimir Putin:
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Russian culture has made an invaluable contribution to the development of world civilisation. For centuries, Russian masters of literature, music and fine arts have given humankind new aesthetic traditions and, more importantly, ideals and meanings that have become moral and spiritual guidelines for millions of people and entire generations.
Russian culture is human-centric. The best classical works are focused on the inner life, personal quests and emotional experiences of human beings. They ask relevant questions, help people to think, understand and draw conclusions.
It is not surprising that the Russian mentality is known for taking things to heart. We feel very strongly about other people’s pain and injustice. We are capable of feeling sincere joy about others’ success and helping those who truly need our help.
Russian culture always protected Russia’s national identity. While readily taking in all the best and constructive, it patently rejected anything false or momentary, anything that would disrupt the continuity of our spiritual values, moral principles, and historical memory.
This unique quality reliably protects the Russian people even today, when seemingly eternal concepts and norms are being eroded and undermined in different countries, history is being distorted, and the laws of nature itself are being violated.
In a number of countries – mainly the so-called Western countries – these processes have not just permeated politics, society, sports and education, but they often run the show in these areas, they are being aggressively imposed.
Suffice it to mention the notion of cancel culture, which generally refers to public ostracism, boycotting, and sometimes withholding, even oblivion of certain obvious facts, books, names of historical and modern public figures, writers or anyone who does not fit into modern patterns, no matter how absurd they actually are.
This did not begin yesterday. For example, as we are well aware, Hollywood has regularly released films that declared the United States the sole defeater of Nazism. Those films effectively “cancelled” the courage and heroism, and the victory achieved by the Red Army, which made a decisive contribution – suffice it to consider the numbers of military units that fought on the Eastern Front, near Germany – that decisive contribution has been cancelled as well.
When Japan annually commemorates the victims of the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August, they either bashfully keep silent about who dropped the bombs on their cities, or they write flagrant nonsense, that some abstract allies did it. This is what their textbooks say. They simply prefer not to talk about the fact that it was the United States that committed such as a terrible and unjustified massacre at the end of World War II. They have cynically decided to “cancel” this truth as well.
Children's writer J. K. Rowling, the author of books that have sold hundreds of millions of copies around the world, has recently been cancelled in much the same way for displeasing supporters of so-called gender freedoms.
Today, they are trying to cancel an entire millennium-old country, our people. I am referring to the mounting discrimination against everything related to Russia, about the trend that is gaining momentum in a number of Western states – with the complete connivance and sometimes with encouragement from the ruling elite.
This notorious cancel culture has turned into the cancellation of culture. The names Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich and Rachmaninoff are blacked out on concert posters. Russian writers and their books are banned. The last time a campaign like this happened, it was the Nazis who began destroying objectionable literature in Germany. We know well and remember from documentaries the burning of books right on public squares.
It is impossible to imagine this in our country. We are insured against this largely owing to domestic culture. For us, this is inseparable from our Motherland, from Russia where there is no room for ethnic intolerance and where representatives of dozens of nationalities and ethnic groups have lived, worked and brought up children for centuries. Our society is proud of its cultural diversity – the strength and advantage of our state.
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Briefing by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, Moscow, March 24, 2022
24 March 2022 19:03
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Question:
Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said that it would be impossible to go back in time in terms of our relations with the Western countries. What did he mean? Will this affect what remains of economic ties, trade and investment, for example, the Arctic LNG project which includes a French company?
Maria Zakharova:
We are not interested in looking back. Instead, we are looking forward. We are focusing on the future. Setting our usual verbiage aside, we just had enough of them, their arrogance, lack of respect, trampling on the interests of others, failing to understand what is going on, and the outright ignorance of facts and history. They don’t know how to negotiate, tend to rely exclusively on force, destroy the existing contractual mechanisms which have always served as a foundation of international relations no matter where you look, be it the economy, finances, business, culture, humanitarian ties, the defence sector, strategy and security, or countering new challenges and threats. Sergey Ryabkov has spoken about this many times. His latest statement was no different.
If they are interested in preserving what they have not destroyed so far, we will probably seek to do the same on our side. We will treat this as the remnants of the relations we used to share. In fact, they have been shaping their trade and investment construct for decades. We must realise that for many years we have been facing a full-scale financial and economic war to destroy our economy. They have already said twice that they shattered us and “ripped us to pieces.” This is the first time I heard that you can rip something to pieces twice. They managed to do this, it seems. This is the way they view us. Still, the plan remains intact. If they already made two attempts, this means that they will persist in their efforts. We can now see this by the methods they use. One of them is to undermine the wellbeing of our citizens. Our citizens must understand where it all comes from. The Americans used to act in the shadows, but now they no longer try to conceal anything. They are even proud of it. This is part of their policy, which is wild, terrible, unhinged and heedless of all legal norms. They seem to take special pride in this. This is how the United States views its exceptionalism. On that point, I agree. There is no other country like this, that has such an ideology and places itself above all the existing norms of morality and law, with so much hypocrisy and the propensity to use the democratic institutions it creates for propaganda and making misleading promises and trampling upon anything that used to be regarded as something right and good.
The restrictions they imposed by ending normal trade relations and banning exports and imports of entire product categories, blacklisting so many Russian nationals and companies, stopping deliveries of high-tech products, restricting investment in competitive sectors of the economy and trying to impose a transport blockade, etc. – all this means only one thing. The United States has thrown all the global rules of international commerce into the trash bin. The de facto theft of our foreign exchange reserves is the most hostile act of them all. We have witnessed this many times, but never at this scale. With this act, the United States defaulted on its liabilities by refusing to honour them. This is something the American citizens must clearly see for themselves. If the government engages in what amounts to outright theft, this means that they cannot service their debt. This means that they defaulted on their debt.
As for the Russia-US economic interaction, we always sought mutually beneficial ties. If only one side benefits from them, this has nothing to do with cooperation or interaction. There can be various options here, but this has nothing to do with cooperation. Even when the restrictions went beyond all reasonable limits, we were still ready to work with the US. However, we kept emphasising that these ties must benefit both sides, even when using unlawful mechanisms. However, we are now beyond this point. This is not even a question of generating at least some returns on what remains of our relations anymore.
What’s the use of talking about the future of trade and economic relations if the United States has banned Russian energy imports and new investment in the Russian energy sector, which is the key element of bilateral economic ties? Do you see what I mean? They refuse to accept reality. We will definitely not go down this path. What should we think if Washington wants to outlaw the application of WTO rules towards Russia? Or when the White House forces businesses to get out of Russia and then says during briefings that it has nothing to do with it, that it is their free choice? That it is their decision. However, we know that secret briefings are being held, letters are being sent, and threats and blackmail are being used by US officials to force the decision on large and medium-sized businesses. Washington is holding secret briefings and sending out letters, and then it says that it has nothing to do with this. But it does. No business would ever leave a profitable market (read what Karl Marx had to say on that point), especially a market like Russia. They only leave (after all, this is capitalism) when they are put in circumstances that are detrimental to their business and are even threatening their very survival. The US Administration has placed its businesses in these circumstances. As for who destroyed what, this question is not for us to answer. It should be addressed to the Western leaders, first of all the United States, which is threatening new sanctions and is forcing its sanctions policy on others.
I would like to point out that we have never tried to push foreign businesses out of the country. We welcomed them, and we remained patient despite the sanctions. At the same time, we held investment forums, sent out invitations and created preferential conditions for foreign companies. No decisions have been taken that would have placed foreign business (I am referring to Western businesses, because reality and common sense are prevailing in other parts of the world) in conditions of permanent segregation. Of course, not. Our actions will be based on reality.
We are interested in equal and lasting cooperation with all business partners (including Western ones) who have to adjust to the pressure and anti-Russia instructions of their political authorities. This is preposterous, the destruction of the free market. But it is a fact of life, we are aware of it, and we are responding to it accordingly.
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24 March 2022 19:03
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Question:
Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said that it would be impossible to go back in time in terms of our relations with the Western countries. What did he mean? Will this affect what remains of economic ties, trade and investment, for example, the Arctic LNG project which includes a French company?
Maria Zakharova:
We are not interested in looking back. Instead, we are looking forward. We are focusing on the future. Setting our usual verbiage aside, we just had enough of them, their arrogance, lack of respect, trampling on the interests of others, failing to understand what is going on, and the outright ignorance of facts and history. They don’t know how to negotiate, tend to rely exclusively on force, destroy the existing contractual mechanisms which have always served as a foundation of international relations no matter where you look, be it the economy, finances, business, culture, humanitarian ties, the defence sector, strategy and security, or countering new challenges and threats. Sergey Ryabkov has spoken about this many times. His latest statement was no different.
If they are interested in preserving what they have not destroyed so far, we will probably seek to do the same on our side. We will treat this as the remnants of the relations we used to share. In fact, they have been shaping their trade and investment construct for decades. We must realise that for many years we have been facing a full-scale financial and economic war to destroy our economy. They have already said twice that they shattered us and “ripped us to pieces.” This is the first time I heard that you can rip something to pieces twice. They managed to do this, it seems. This is the way they view us. Still, the plan remains intact. If they already made two attempts, this means that they will persist in their efforts. We can now see this by the methods they use. One of them is to undermine the wellbeing of our citizens. Our citizens must understand where it all comes from. The Americans used to act in the shadows, but now they no longer try to conceal anything. They are even proud of it. This is part of their policy, which is wild, terrible, unhinged and heedless of all legal norms. They seem to take special pride in this. This is how the United States views its exceptionalism. On that point, I agree. There is no other country like this, that has such an ideology and places itself above all the existing norms of morality and law, with so much hypocrisy and the propensity to use the democratic institutions it creates for propaganda and making misleading promises and trampling upon anything that used to be regarded as something right and good.
The restrictions they imposed by ending normal trade relations and banning exports and imports of entire product categories, blacklisting so many Russian nationals and companies, stopping deliveries of high-tech products, restricting investment in competitive sectors of the economy and trying to impose a transport blockade, etc. – all this means only one thing. The United States has thrown all the global rules of international commerce into the trash bin. The de facto theft of our foreign exchange reserves is the most hostile act of them all. We have witnessed this many times, but never at this scale. With this act, the United States defaulted on its liabilities by refusing to honour them. This is something the American citizens must clearly see for themselves. If the government engages in what amounts to outright theft, this means that they cannot service their debt. This means that they defaulted on their debt.
As for the Russia-US economic interaction, we always sought mutually beneficial ties. If only one side benefits from them, this has nothing to do with cooperation or interaction. There can be various options here, but this has nothing to do with cooperation. Even when the restrictions went beyond all reasonable limits, we were still ready to work with the US. However, we kept emphasising that these ties must benefit both sides, even when using unlawful mechanisms. However, we are now beyond this point. This is not even a question of generating at least some returns on what remains of our relations anymore.
What’s the use of talking about the future of trade and economic relations if the United States has banned Russian energy imports and new investment in the Russian energy sector, which is the key element of bilateral economic ties? Do you see what I mean? They refuse to accept reality. We will definitely not go down this path. What should we think if Washington wants to outlaw the application of WTO rules towards Russia? Or when the White House forces businesses to get out of Russia and then says during briefings that it has nothing to do with it, that it is their free choice? That it is their decision. However, we know that secret briefings are being held, letters are being sent, and threats and blackmail are being used by US officials to force the decision on large and medium-sized businesses. Washington is holding secret briefings and sending out letters, and then it says that it has nothing to do with this. But it does. No business would ever leave a profitable market (read what Karl Marx had to say on that point), especially a market like Russia. They only leave (after all, this is capitalism) when they are put in circumstances that are detrimental to their business and are even threatening their very survival. The US Administration has placed its businesses in these circumstances. As for who destroyed what, this question is not for us to answer. It should be addressed to the Western leaders, first of all the United States, which is threatening new sanctions and is forcing its sanctions policy on others.
I would like to point out that we have never tried to push foreign businesses out of the country. We welcomed them, and we remained patient despite the sanctions. At the same time, we held investment forums, sent out invitations and created preferential conditions for foreign companies. No decisions have been taken that would have placed foreign business (I am referring to Western businesses, because reality and common sense are prevailing in other parts of the world) in conditions of permanent segregation. Of course, not. Our actions will be based on reality.
We are interested in equal and lasting cooperation with all business partners (including Western ones) who have to adjust to the pressure and anti-Russia instructions of their political authorities. This is preposterous, the destruction of the free market. But it is a fact of life, we are aware of it, and we are responding to it accordingly.
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Comment by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova on the results of the NATO summit
24 March 2022 20:18
On March 24, Brussels hosted an emergency NATO summit. Its participants again focused on the developments in Ukraine in the context of Russia’s special military operation. They made their ritual accusations against Russia and threatened our country. There is no point in refuting them one by one. This summit was clearly part of NATO’s self-zombification.
The participants demonstrated absolute loyalty to Washington and a willingness to follow in the wake of its instructions to comprehensively deter Russia. The announced decision to continue rendering political and practical support to the Kiev regime confirms NATO’s interest in continuing the hostilities. Urging the sides to hold talks, NATO did not make a single attempt to induce Ukraine’s leaders towards a peaceful settlement to the conflict in Donbass. Moreover, NATO Secretary-General Yens Stoltenberg proudly announced that in the past eight years, the alliance has trained tens of thousands of military personnel in Ukraine’s armed forces, who are now taking part in the hostilities. Pumping Ukraine with weapons, Brussels provoked Kiev into using force against the LPR and the DPR, and it is now reaping the horrible results.
Now NATO officials are talking about a new reality in European security as if Brussels has nothing to do with it. The NATO members took one stone after another from the foundation of European security: they silently watched the United States destroy the ABM Treaty, stood by as Washington walked away from the INF Treaty and they allowed the Americans to renounce the Open Skies Treaty. In 2008, they announced their willingness to accept Georgia and Ukraine into NATO, and their intention to continue moving closer to Russia. They ignored all of our warnings. Now, they once again confirm their commitment to an open door policy. Everyone knows where this policy leads.
NATO officials look for any argument to justify the dangerous and destabilising arms buildup on the eastern flank. They announced the formation of four new multi-ethnic NATO battalions in Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia.
They are preparing the ground for the long-term development of its anti-Russia course in NATO’s new strategic concept at the upcoming summit in Madrid. Europe’s militarisation is gaining momentum thanks to the alliance’s efforts. The fanning of anti-Russia hysteria is being used to increase spending on the acquisition of new weapons from their main supplier – the US military-industrial complex.
Covering up the US’s shady dealings with secret research in biological and chemical arms, the alliance groundlessly accuses Russia of a possible provocation in the best traditions of a disinformation campaign. This is not the first time it has resorted to this tactic.
Washington may list the NATO summit as an achievement in its geopolitical strategy. It has managed to enhance the discipline of its allies in working for the “total deterrence” of Russia and exerting pressure on the countries that are able to make sovereign decisions and conduct an independent policy. European claims of a certain “strategic autonomy” simply look ridiculous against this background.
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Minister of Defence held a working meeting with the leadership of the Russian Defence Ministry
26.03.2022 (10:15)
The Minister of Defence of the Russian Federation, General of the Army Sergei Shoigu, held a working meeting on the implementation of the state defence order program and the fulfillment of social obligations to the servicemen of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.
"We held a meeting with the Ministry of Finance on a whole range of issues regarding the fulfillment of budget obligations for this year, and, most importantly, the state defence order. With the difficulties that exist today, we are fulfilling the state defence order in a planned manner. Taking into account the fact that this year's budget financing exceeded the previous year's by 15%, it is obvious that we have to look at what we should pay special attention to when fulfilling the tasks of the state defence order," the Russian Defence Minister said.
"Despite the anti-Russian sanctions, today the level of concluding government contracts is 85%, in April we will complete this work in full," said Sergei Shoigu.
"We continue the advanced supply of weapons and equipment with the use of credit funds. The priorities are high-precision long-range weapons, aviation equipment, as well as maintaining the combat readiness of strategic nuclear forces," the head of the Russian military department stressed.
"Taking into account the special military operation, this year it is necessary to maintain the set pace of delivery of advanced weapons to the troops, including robotic complexes, information support and electronic warfare, as well as combat service support," Shoigu said.
"I would also like to note that the Ministry of Defence fully fulfills all social obligations to the personnel, taking into account the decisions taken on the relevant indexations. This also applies to the indexation of military allowances and wages for civilian personnel and, of course, as stipulated in our legislation, it certainly applies to military pensioners as well. In addition, amendments to the law "on veterans" were approved, according to which participants in a special military operation in Ukraine are recognized as combat veterans. Such support will also be extended to relatives of this category of servicemen," added the Russian Defence Minister.
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Briefing by Russian Defence Ministry
26.03.2022 (10:30)
A group of troops of the Russian Armed Forces is fighting for the capture of the settlements of Novomikhailovka and Novobakhmutovka, inflicting fire damage to the enemy in strong points and on its reserves.
During the day of March 25, high-precision cruise missiles of sea-based Kalibr destroyed a depot with ammunition and weapons in the area of the settlement of Velikiye Korovitsy, Zhytomyr region.
Also, a high-precision Onyx cruise missile destroyed a fuel base in the area of Nikolaev, from which fuel was supplied to the AFU grouping in the southern part of Ukraine.
During the day, 117 military facilities of Ukraine were hit by operational-tactical and army aviation.
Among them: six command posts, three multiple rocket launchers, one S-300 anti-aircraft missile system,
nine depots with weapons and ammunition, two with fuel and lubricants, as well as 92 strong points of the AFU units, nationalist battalions and the area of concentration of military equipment.
Three Ukrainian aircraft (two Su-25 and one Su-24), as well as six unmanned aerial vehicles were shot down by Russian air defence systems in the air over the village of Vishnevoye. In addition, one tactical missile of the Tochka-U complex was destroyed near the village of Vasilevka.
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, 267 unmanned aerial vehicles, 207 anti-aircraft missile systems, 1,618 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 166 multiple rocket launchers, 662 field artillery and mortar guns, as well as 1,453 units of special military vehicles have been destroyed.
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24 March 2022 20:18
On March 24, Brussels hosted an emergency NATO summit. Its participants again focused on the developments in Ukraine in the context of Russia’s special military operation. They made their ritual accusations against Russia and threatened our country. There is no point in refuting them one by one. This summit was clearly part of NATO’s self-zombification.
The participants demonstrated absolute loyalty to Washington and a willingness to follow in the wake of its instructions to comprehensively deter Russia. The announced decision to continue rendering political and practical support to the Kiev regime confirms NATO’s interest in continuing the hostilities. Urging the sides to hold talks, NATO did not make a single attempt to induce Ukraine’s leaders towards a peaceful settlement to the conflict in Donbass. Moreover, NATO Secretary-General Yens Stoltenberg proudly announced that in the past eight years, the alliance has trained tens of thousands of military personnel in Ukraine’s armed forces, who are now taking part in the hostilities. Pumping Ukraine with weapons, Brussels provoked Kiev into using force against the LPR and the DPR, and it is now reaping the horrible results.
Now NATO officials are talking about a new reality in European security as if Brussels has nothing to do with it. The NATO members took one stone after another from the foundation of European security: they silently watched the United States destroy the ABM Treaty, stood by as Washington walked away from the INF Treaty and they allowed the Americans to renounce the Open Skies Treaty. In 2008, they announced their willingness to accept Georgia and Ukraine into NATO, and their intention to continue moving closer to Russia. They ignored all of our warnings. Now, they once again confirm their commitment to an open door policy. Everyone knows where this policy leads.
NATO officials look for any argument to justify the dangerous and destabilising arms buildup on the eastern flank. They announced the formation of four new multi-ethnic NATO battalions in Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia.
They are preparing the ground for the long-term development of its anti-Russia course in NATO’s new strategic concept at the upcoming summit in Madrid. Europe’s militarisation is gaining momentum thanks to the alliance’s efforts. The fanning of anti-Russia hysteria is being used to increase spending on the acquisition of new weapons from their main supplier – the US military-industrial complex.
Covering up the US’s shady dealings with secret research in biological and chemical arms, the alliance groundlessly accuses Russia of a possible provocation in the best traditions of a disinformation campaign. This is not the first time it has resorted to this tactic.
Washington may list the NATO summit as an achievement in its geopolitical strategy. It has managed to enhance the discipline of its allies in working for the “total deterrence” of Russia and exerting pressure on the countries that are able to make sovereign decisions and conduct an independent policy. European claims of a certain “strategic autonomy” simply look ridiculous against this background.
mid.ru...
Minister of Defence held a working meeting with the leadership of the Russian Defence Ministry
26.03.2022 (10:15)
The Minister of Defence of the Russian Federation, General of the Army Sergei Shoigu, held a working meeting on the implementation of the state defence order program and the fulfillment of social obligations to the servicemen of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.
"We held a meeting with the Ministry of Finance on a whole range of issues regarding the fulfillment of budget obligations for this year, and, most importantly, the state defence order. With the difficulties that exist today, we are fulfilling the state defence order in a planned manner. Taking into account the fact that this year's budget financing exceeded the previous year's by 15%, it is obvious that we have to look at what we should pay special attention to when fulfilling the tasks of the state defence order," the Russian Defence Minister said.
"Despite the anti-Russian sanctions, today the level of concluding government contracts is 85%, in April we will complete this work in full," said Sergei Shoigu.
"We continue the advanced supply of weapons and equipment with the use of credit funds. The priorities are high-precision long-range weapons, aviation equipment, as well as maintaining the combat readiness of strategic nuclear forces," the head of the Russian military department stressed.
"Taking into account the special military operation, this year it is necessary to maintain the set pace of delivery of advanced weapons to the troops, including robotic complexes, information support and electronic warfare, as well as combat service support," Shoigu said.
"I would also like to note that the Ministry of Defence fully fulfills all social obligations to the personnel, taking into account the decisions taken on the relevant indexations. This also applies to the indexation of military allowances and wages for civilian personnel and, of course, as stipulated in our legislation, it certainly applies to military pensioners as well. In addition, amendments to the law "on veterans" were approved, according to which participants in a special military operation in Ukraine are recognized as combat veterans. Such support will also be extended to relatives of this category of servicemen," added the Russian Defence Minister.
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Briefing by Russian Defence Ministry
26.03.2022 (10:30)
A group of troops of the Russian Armed Forces is fighting for the capture of the settlements of Novomikhailovka and Novobakhmutovka, inflicting fire damage to the enemy in strong points and on its reserves.
During the day of March 25, high-precision cruise missiles of sea-based Kalibr destroyed a depot with ammunition and weapons in the area of the settlement of Velikiye Korovitsy, Zhytomyr region.
Also, a high-precision Onyx cruise missile destroyed a fuel base in the area of Nikolaev, from which fuel was supplied to the AFU grouping in the southern part of Ukraine.
During the day, 117 military facilities of Ukraine were hit by operational-tactical and army aviation.
Among them: six command posts, three multiple rocket launchers, one S-300 anti-aircraft missile system,
nine depots with weapons and ammunition, two with fuel and lubricants, as well as 92 strong points of the AFU units, nationalist battalions and the area of concentration of military equipment.
Three Ukrainian aircraft (two Su-25 and one Su-24), as well as six unmanned aerial vehicles were shot down by Russian air defence systems in the air over the village of Vishnevoye. In addition, one tactical missile of the Tochka-U complex was destroyed near the village of Vasilevka.
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, 267 unmanned aerial vehicles, 207 anti-aircraft missile systems, 1,618 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 166 multiple rocket launchers, 662 field artillery and mortar guns, as well as 1,453 units of special military vehicles have been destroyed.
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Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks at a meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Alexander Gorchakov Public Diplomacy Fund, Moscow, March
25, 2022
25 March 2022 16:45
Colleagues,
We are starting a meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Alexander Gorchakov Public Diplomacy Fund.
There is no need to mention again that we are having this meeting at a difficult time. The international situation has reached its boiling point. In fact, we are witnessing the climax of a policy to contain Russia, pursued by the West for a long time now in order to weaken our positions, to try to reassert a unipolar world (as they are now admitting almost openly), demanding everyone to obey the “rules” developed by Western countries. The United States is playing a critical role in advancing these policies and philosophies. This is clear to everyone.
The support provided by Washington and Brussels (NATO and the EU) to the Kiev regime in order to turn it into a tool for containing Russia and everything that is Russian came as the high point of their Russophobic policies. All these years, Ukraine has consistently been passing laws banning the use of the Russian language in education, the media, and even in everyday life. That way, all Russian roots and the common history of the Russian and Ukrainian peoples were ripped out in Ukraine.
In recent years, Ukraine has been flooded with weapons, drawn into NATO, and nudged towards a forceful solution of the Donbass issue. The Kiev leadership was encouraged to sabotage the Minsk Package of Measures for the peaceful settlement of the crisis in eastern Ukraine even despite the fact that this document is part of international law and was approved by a UN Security Council resolution.
While the Ukrainian leadership was evading its obligations under the Minsk agreements, the nationalists were destroying civilian facilities, schools and hospitals in Donbass. Everyone knows that. These facts, including the killing of civilians, were regularly depicted by our media, but hushed up in the West. Over 10,000 civilians are dead. No one in the West paid attention to the inhuman economic, trade, transport and food blockade of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk people’s republics.
Kiev’s unconcealed plans to acquire nuclear capability caused our concern. The military biological programmes implemented by the Pentagon in Ukraine and the creation of almost 30 laboratories came to our attention. We raised this issue at the UN Security Council. This is not a one-time act, and this topic will remain in the focus because it is directly related to risks and threats to international peace and security. It is in this vein that we will be asking questions about non-transparent military-biological activities around the globe.
We are particularly concerned about the geopolitical space of the former USSR, where the American military and the Pentagon are establishing military bio-laboratories. Even the host countries of these US facilities do not always know what kind of research they are making there.
President of Russia Vladimir Putin explained in detail that in this situation we had no choice. An onslaught was waged against us from all sides to impede our development and create a direct threat at our borders. Furthermore, Ukraine officially announced that it would never fulfil the Minsk agreements. We had no choice but to recognize the DPR and the LPR and to launch a special military operation at their requests and based on our mutual assistance treaties with them. This operation is aimed at protecting people and their lives from the danger of the war, at demilitarising and de-Nazifying Ukraine. We had to make sure that the threats to Russia’s security and the rebirth of Nazi and neo-Nazi ideology and practice, banned by the Nuremberg Trials, would never come from the territory of Ukraine.
Today, a total hybrid war was declared against us. Hitler’s Germany used this term. Now it is mentioned by many European politicians when they describe what they want to do with the Russian Federation. They do not hide their goals but declare them in public: to break, destroy, eliminate and stifle the Russian economy and Russia as a whole.
When we see this no-holds-barred sanctions campaign, we understand that nothing stands behind the “values” that our Western colleagues have continuously preached at us: freedom of expression, a market economy, the inviolability of private ownership or the presumption of innocence. As soon as the West had to do something practical as regards Russia, it easily abandoned all these values.
Regardless of these efforts, isolating Russia is out of the question (although precisely this goal was set). Nor are we going to self-isolate. We have many friends, allies and partners in the world. Russia works with many countries on all continents within many associations. We will continue to do so.
Propaganda juggles the voting numbers for provocative resolutions in the UN. However, the overwhelming majority of states outside the historical collective West do not want to play a lopsided game. They are subjected to enormous pressure, but they should not be guided by the provocative texts of propaganda that the West plays with at the UN; they need to be guided by the real status of trade and economic ties. The overwhelming majority of states has not joined (and, I’m convinced, will not join) the West’s sanctions game. These states are interested in developing equitable interstate cooperation based on the key principles of the UN Charter, primarily the sovereign equality of states. The West is crudely trampling this underfoot and imposing its “supremacy” on all countries. The history of Russia and Europe has witnessed such attempts to subdue everyone and everything. They are doomed to fail.
Colleagues,
It is necessary to take into account the current geopolitical environment in the work of the Fund. Emphasis should be laid on promoting cooperation with the organisations in the countries that have remained immune to anti-Russian hysteria. They account for the overwhelming majority of the international community (over 80 percent of the world’s population). The newest challenges and threats (cyberspace and the persisting risk of war) should remain on the Fund’s agenda.
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25 March 2022 16:45
Colleagues,
We are starting a meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Alexander Gorchakov Public Diplomacy Fund.
There is no need to mention again that we are having this meeting at a difficult time. The international situation has reached its boiling point. In fact, we are witnessing the climax of a policy to contain Russia, pursued by the West for a long time now in order to weaken our positions, to try to reassert a unipolar world (as they are now admitting almost openly), demanding everyone to obey the “rules” developed by Western countries. The United States is playing a critical role in advancing these policies and philosophies. This is clear to everyone.
The support provided by Washington and Brussels (NATO and the EU) to the Kiev regime in order to turn it into a tool for containing Russia and everything that is Russian came as the high point of their Russophobic policies. All these years, Ukraine has consistently been passing laws banning the use of the Russian language in education, the media, and even in everyday life. That way, all Russian roots and the common history of the Russian and Ukrainian peoples were ripped out in Ukraine.
In recent years, Ukraine has been flooded with weapons, drawn into NATO, and nudged towards a forceful solution of the Donbass issue. The Kiev leadership was encouraged to sabotage the Minsk Package of Measures for the peaceful settlement of the crisis in eastern Ukraine even despite the fact that this document is part of international law and was approved by a UN Security Council resolution.
While the Ukrainian leadership was evading its obligations under the Minsk agreements, the nationalists were destroying civilian facilities, schools and hospitals in Donbass. Everyone knows that. These facts, including the killing of civilians, were regularly depicted by our media, but hushed up in the West. Over 10,000 civilians are dead. No one in the West paid attention to the inhuman economic, trade, transport and food blockade of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk people’s republics.
Kiev’s unconcealed plans to acquire nuclear capability caused our concern. The military biological programmes implemented by the Pentagon in Ukraine and the creation of almost 30 laboratories came to our attention. We raised this issue at the UN Security Council. This is not a one-time act, and this topic will remain in the focus because it is directly related to risks and threats to international peace and security. It is in this vein that we will be asking questions about non-transparent military-biological activities around the globe.
We are particularly concerned about the geopolitical space of the former USSR, where the American military and the Pentagon are establishing military bio-laboratories. Even the host countries of these US facilities do not always know what kind of research they are making there.
President of Russia Vladimir Putin explained in detail that in this situation we had no choice. An onslaught was waged against us from all sides to impede our development and create a direct threat at our borders. Furthermore, Ukraine officially announced that it would never fulfil the Minsk agreements. We had no choice but to recognize the DPR and the LPR and to launch a special military operation at their requests and based on our mutual assistance treaties with them. This operation is aimed at protecting people and their lives from the danger of the war, at demilitarising and de-Nazifying Ukraine. We had to make sure that the threats to Russia’s security and the rebirth of Nazi and neo-Nazi ideology and practice, banned by the Nuremberg Trials, would never come from the territory of Ukraine.
Today, a total hybrid war was declared against us. Hitler’s Germany used this term. Now it is mentioned by many European politicians when they describe what they want to do with the Russian Federation. They do not hide their goals but declare them in public: to break, destroy, eliminate and stifle the Russian economy and Russia as a whole.
When we see this no-holds-barred sanctions campaign, we understand that nothing stands behind the “values” that our Western colleagues have continuously preached at us: freedom of expression, a market economy, the inviolability of private ownership or the presumption of innocence. As soon as the West had to do something practical as regards Russia, it easily abandoned all these values.
Regardless of these efforts, isolating Russia is out of the question (although precisely this goal was set). Nor are we going to self-isolate. We have many friends, allies and partners in the world. Russia works with many countries on all continents within many associations. We will continue to do so.
Propaganda juggles the voting numbers for provocative resolutions in the UN. However, the overwhelming majority of states outside the historical collective West do not want to play a lopsided game. They are subjected to enormous pressure, but they should not be guided by the provocative texts of propaganda that the West plays with at the UN; they need to be guided by the real status of trade and economic ties. The overwhelming majority of states has not joined (and, I’m convinced, will not join) the West’s sanctions game. These states are interested in developing equitable interstate cooperation based on the key principles of the UN Charter, primarily the sovereign equality of states. The West is crudely trampling this underfoot and imposing its “supremacy” on all countries. The history of Russia and Europe has witnessed such attempts to subdue everyone and everything. They are doomed to fail.
Colleagues,
It is necessary to take into account the current geopolitical environment in the work of the Fund. Emphasis should be laid on promoting cooperation with the organisations in the countries that have remained immune to anti-Russian hysteria. They account for the overwhelming majority of the international community (over 80 percent of the world’s population). The newest challenges and threats (cyberspace and the persisting risk of war) should remain on the Fund’s agenda.
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Comment by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova on the causes of the crisis in Russia-US bilateral relations
26 March 2022 14:33
US representatives of various levels have been trying to absolve themselves of responsibility for the state of Russian-US bilateral relations, which are nearing a total rupture. The blame is routinely laid on Russia, which is accused of causing an “escalation” because we do not miss blows and always respond to hostile attacks either in kind or asymmetrically.
Washington seems to think it is acceptable to expel Russian diplomats on trumped-up charges, seize property – or steal it, to put it bluntly, close down our diplomatic missions and then to hypocritically gape at why those “insolent Russians” repay in kind, thus hurting US missions in Russia.
Is this a result of the traditional Anglo-Saxon arrogance or an unwavering belief in their infallibility, which lets them dictate rules and conditions to others? It doesn’t matter. It is high time the Americans realise that each hostile action will be followed by a response that will hurt them in any case.
We advise those who follow the state of Russia-US relations to take a look at the timeline of aggressive actions against the Russian diplomatic presence. The facts speak for themselves.
December 2016: Following Hillary Clinton’s defeat by Donald Trump, the Barack Obama Administration expelled 35 Russian diplomats on New Year’s Eve under the pretext of alleged election meddling, while in passing also illegally taking over two of our diplomatic properties.
August 2017: The Russian Consulate General in San Francisco was shut down at the demand of the US Department of State and its building and the Consul General’s residence were seized. At the same time, the building of the Office of the Russian Trade Representative in Washington D.C. was also seized.
March 2018: Without stating any specific complaints, the US government demanded that 60 staff of our embassy, consulate general in New York and the Russian Permanent Mission to the UN leave the country.
April 2018: The Americans demanded that the Russian Consulate General in Seattle be closed. The Consul General’ residence, which was owned by the Russian Federation as a private property, was foreclosed just like the previously seized diplomatic properties.
September 2021: The State Department arbitrarily ordered that 24 diplomatic mission staff who had been in the United States for over three years leave the US territory.
April 2021: The US Administration announced the expulsion of 10 Russian diplomats as part of a new wave of anti-Russia sanctions.
September 2021: Russia was issued an ultimatum that 55 more diplomatic staff of the Russian Federation who had been in the US for over three years must leave the country. They were given two deadlines, January 30, 2022 and June 30, 2022.
March 2022: Joe Biden’s Administration declared 12 diplomats serving at the Russian Permanent Mission to the UN and one Russian UN Secretariat employee personae non grata.
We do not evade dialogue and are ready to hold talks but only on equal terms, on condition there is a reciprocal movement, which at present cannot be discerned in Washington even under a magnifying glass. Quite the opposite, the US is doing everything to further hamper the performance of Russian diplomatic missions in the United States while at the same time engaging in hypocritical speculations on the need to preserve a diplomatic presence.
We urge Washington once again to think of the repercussions.
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Briefing by Russian Defence Ministry
26.03.2022 (20:00)
Units of the Russian Armed Forces are fighting for the capture of Novomikhailovka.
During the day's fighting, more than 30 servicemen of the Ukrainian Armed Forces of 54th Mechanised Brigade, 6 armoured vehicles and 2 field artillery mounts of 46th Separate Assault Battalion were destroyed.
The offensive continues against the well-fortified concrete fortifications in Novoselovka and Novobakhmutovka settlements.
The defending units of the 25th Ukrainian Separate Airborne Brigade are suffering significant losses. Most of the fortifications have already been destroyed.
During the day, up to 50 Ukrainian servicemen were destroyed, 7 long-term firing points and 5 armoured targets in protected shelters were suppressed.
Operational-tactical and army aviation hit 91 military assets of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Among them: 2 command posts, 11 field depots with arms and ammunition, 2 electronic warfare stations, as well as 20 strongholds of Ukrainian Armed Forces units and 52 areas of military equipment concentration.
Russian air defence means shot down Ukrainian Mi-24 helicopter over Staraya Basan'.
During the day, four Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were destroyed over Balakleya, Kiev, Chernigov. One Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle approaching Sevastopol in the airspace over the Black Sea was also destroyed.
In total, 271 unmanned aerial vehicles, 1,627 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 167 multiple launch rocket systems, 669 field artillery and mortars, as well as 1,474 units of special military vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed during the operation.
In recent days, many Russian male citizens have received fake phone calls in which an answer-back unit informs them of a call to the military commissariat.
I want to emphasize, all such fake calls are made from the territory of Ukraine, are completely untrue and are a provocation by the Ukrainian special services.
I officially declare that the Russian Defence Ministry does not planning to call any citizens in reserve to military commissariats.
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Meeting of the Joint Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response in Ukraine
26.03.2022 (21:30)
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The Russian Federation's Joint Coordination Headquarters for the Humanitarian Response in Ukraine continues to thoroughly document numerous egregious instances of violence against civilians.
Here are just some of them over the past day:
in Kramatorsk, a vehicle delivering drinking water to civilians was hit by a mortar. As a result, three people were injured and two were concussed. The shelling was cynically carried out at the time of distribution of water to the local population;
in Odessa, on the instructions of the governor of the region, the Khadjibey dam was mined, which the neo-Nazis plan to blow up. If these criminal acts are realised, densely populated areas will be in the flood zone along with the townspeople. At the same time, an attempt by a representative of the Ukrainian state emergency service to prevent the said mad decision was rudely and harshly suppressed to the point of threatening to shoot him.
Thus, the Kiev authorities are everywhere demonstrating their complete indifference to their own people and their willingness to sacrifice innocent people in favour of the geopolitical goals of their "Western masters".
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eng.mil.ru...
26 March 2022 14:33
US representatives of various levels have been trying to absolve themselves of responsibility for the state of Russian-US bilateral relations, which are nearing a total rupture. The blame is routinely laid on Russia, which is accused of causing an “escalation” because we do not miss blows and always respond to hostile attacks either in kind or asymmetrically.
Washington seems to think it is acceptable to expel Russian diplomats on trumped-up charges, seize property – or steal it, to put it bluntly, close down our diplomatic missions and then to hypocritically gape at why those “insolent Russians” repay in kind, thus hurting US missions in Russia.
Is this a result of the traditional Anglo-Saxon arrogance or an unwavering belief in their infallibility, which lets them dictate rules and conditions to others? It doesn’t matter. It is high time the Americans realise that each hostile action will be followed by a response that will hurt them in any case.
We advise those who follow the state of Russia-US relations to take a look at the timeline of aggressive actions against the Russian diplomatic presence. The facts speak for themselves.
December 2016: Following Hillary Clinton’s defeat by Donald Trump, the Barack Obama Administration expelled 35 Russian diplomats on New Year’s Eve under the pretext of alleged election meddling, while in passing also illegally taking over two of our diplomatic properties.
August 2017: The Russian Consulate General in San Francisco was shut down at the demand of the US Department of State and its building and the Consul General’s residence were seized. At the same time, the building of the Office of the Russian Trade Representative in Washington D.C. was also seized.
March 2018: Without stating any specific complaints, the US government demanded that 60 staff of our embassy, consulate general in New York and the Russian Permanent Mission to the UN leave the country.
April 2018: The Americans demanded that the Russian Consulate General in Seattle be closed. The Consul General’ residence, which was owned by the Russian Federation as a private property, was foreclosed just like the previously seized diplomatic properties.
September 2021: The State Department arbitrarily ordered that 24 diplomatic mission staff who had been in the United States for over three years leave the US territory.
April 2021: The US Administration announced the expulsion of 10 Russian diplomats as part of a new wave of anti-Russia sanctions.
September 2021: Russia was issued an ultimatum that 55 more diplomatic staff of the Russian Federation who had been in the US for over three years must leave the country. They were given two deadlines, January 30, 2022 and June 30, 2022.
March 2022: Joe Biden’s Administration declared 12 diplomats serving at the Russian Permanent Mission to the UN and one Russian UN Secretariat employee personae non grata.
We do not evade dialogue and are ready to hold talks but only on equal terms, on condition there is a reciprocal movement, which at present cannot be discerned in Washington even under a magnifying glass. Quite the opposite, the US is doing everything to further hamper the performance of Russian diplomatic missions in the United States while at the same time engaging in hypocritical speculations on the need to preserve a diplomatic presence.
We urge Washington once again to think of the repercussions.
mid.ru...
Briefing by Russian Defence Ministry
26.03.2022 (20:00)
Units of the Russian Armed Forces are fighting for the capture of Novomikhailovka.
During the day's fighting, more than 30 servicemen of the Ukrainian Armed Forces of 54th Mechanised Brigade, 6 armoured vehicles and 2 field artillery mounts of 46th Separate Assault Battalion were destroyed.
The offensive continues against the well-fortified concrete fortifications in Novoselovka and Novobakhmutovka settlements.
The defending units of the 25th Ukrainian Separate Airborne Brigade are suffering significant losses. Most of the fortifications have already been destroyed.
During the day, up to 50 Ukrainian servicemen were destroyed, 7 long-term firing points and 5 armoured targets in protected shelters were suppressed.
Operational-tactical and army aviation hit 91 military assets of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Among them: 2 command posts, 11 field depots with arms and ammunition, 2 electronic warfare stations, as well as 20 strongholds of Ukrainian Armed Forces units and 52 areas of military equipment concentration.
Russian air defence means shot down Ukrainian Mi-24 helicopter over Staraya Basan'.
During the day, four Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were destroyed over Balakleya, Kiev, Chernigov. One Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle approaching Sevastopol in the airspace over the Black Sea was also destroyed.
In total, 271 unmanned aerial vehicles, 1,627 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 167 multiple launch rocket systems, 669 field artillery and mortars, as well as 1,474 units of special military vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed during the operation.
In recent days, many Russian male citizens have received fake phone calls in which an answer-back unit informs them of a call to the military commissariat.
I want to emphasize, all such fake calls are made from the territory of Ukraine, are completely untrue and are a provocation by the Ukrainian special services.
I officially declare that the Russian Defence Ministry does not planning to call any citizens in reserve to military commissariats.
eng.mil.ru...
Meeting of the Joint Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response in Ukraine
26.03.2022 (21:30)
..................................
The Russian Federation's Joint Coordination Headquarters for the Humanitarian Response in Ukraine continues to thoroughly document numerous egregious instances of violence against civilians.
Here are just some of them over the past day:
in Kramatorsk, a vehicle delivering drinking water to civilians was hit by a mortar. As a result, three people were injured and two were concussed. The shelling was cynically carried out at the time of distribution of water to the local population;
in Odessa, on the instructions of the governor of the region, the Khadjibey dam was mined, which the neo-Nazis plan to blow up. If these criminal acts are realised, densely populated areas will be in the flood zone along with the townspeople. At the same time, an attempt by a representative of the Ukrainian state emergency service to prevent the said mad decision was rudely and harshly suppressed to the point of threatening to shoot him.
Thus, the Kiev authorities are everywhere demonstrating their complete indifference to their own people and their willingness to sacrifice innocent people in favour of the geopolitical goals of their "Western masters".
.....................................................
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Briefing by Russian Defence Ministry
27.03.2022 (09:30)
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue their offensive in the course of the special military operation.
On March 26, high-precision, long-range aviation weapons destroyed a large fuel base near Lvov, which provided fuel for Ukrainian troops in western Ukraine, as well as near Kiev.
In addition, high-precision cruise missiles have destroyed the workshops of Lvov Radio Repair Plant in Lvov city. This enterprise has overhauled and upgraded Tor and S-125 anti-aircraft missile systems, radar stations for Ukrainian air force, electronic warfare equipment and sights for tanks.
Also, high-precision sea-based long-range weapons destroyed a warehouse of missiles for S-300 and Buk anti-aircraft missile systems in Plesetskoye, 30 kilometres southwest of Kiev city.
Operational-tactical and army aviation hit 67 military assets of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Among them: 2 command posts, 3 field depots with arms and ammunition, 11 strongholds of Ukrainian Armed Forces units and 20 areas of military equipment concentration.
Russian air defence means overnight destroyed 18 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles over Novaya Basan, Peski, Borispol, Shchors, Vishnevoe, Kryukovka and Petrovskiy.
In total, 289 unmanned aerial vehicles, 1,656 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 169 multiple launch rocket systems, 684 field artillery and mortars, as well as 1,503 units of special military vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed during the operation.
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Briefing by Russian Defence Ministry
28.03.2022 (10:00)
The grouping of troops of the Russian Armed Forces, continuing a successful offensive, has penetrated 2 kilometres deep into the defence of the 95th Airborne Assault Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and reached the southern outskirts of Novoselovka.
Units of the Lugansk People's Republic advanced 5 kilometres during the offensive, capturing Ivanovka and Novosadovoye and reaching Novolublino and Terny line.
Aviation and air defence means of the Russian Aerospace Forces shot down 4 Su-24 aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force over Chernigov region, including 2 near Repka and 2 more near Gorodnya.
1 Ukrainian Su-27 fighter jet has been shot down near Kramatorsk, Donetsk region.
During the day, 19 Ukrainian unmannes aeriao vehicles were destroyed near Kapitonovka, Prishib, Andreevka, Balakleya, Bulgakovo, Bezymyanoe, Gorodnya, Zgurovka, Krasnogorlovka, Mandrykino, Mariupol, Termakhovka, Tolkachi, Chernobaevka and Yakovlevka.
In addition, 5 missiles of the Ukrainian Smerch multiple launch rocket system were shot down in the air near Chernobaevka airfield, Kherson region.
During the day on March 27, operational-tactical and army aviation hit 36 military assets of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Among them: 2 command posts, 2 anti-aircraft missile systems, 1 multiple launch rocket system, 3 ammunition depots and 2 fuel depots, as well as 23 areas of military equipment concentration.
In total, 308 unmanned aerial vehicles, 1,713 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 170 multiple launch rocket systems, 715 field artillery and mortars, as well as 1,557 units of special military vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed during the operation.
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Briefing by Russian Defence Ministry
28.03.2022 (19:00)
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation in Ukraine.
Kalibr high-precision sea-based cruise missiles destroyed large ammunition depots near Ushomir and Veselovka, Zhytomir Region, from which a group of Ukrainian troops defending Kiev's suburbs had been supplied.
On March 28, Russian aviation and air defence means shot down 3 more Ukrainian Air Force aircraft in the air: 2 Su-24s west of Korosten, Zhytomir Region and 1 Su-25 over Druzhkovka, Donetsk Region.
Ukrainian Mi-8 helicopter, which was heading for the emergency evacuation of the Azov national battalion commanders who had abandoned their subordinates, has been shot down near Mariupol, 5 kilometres from the coastline over the Sea of Azov.
In addition, 1 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle was shot down near Chernobaevka.
Operational-tactical and army aviation hit 41 military assets of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Among them: 2 multiple launch rocket system, 1 electronic warfare station, 2 field ammunition depots and 24 areas of Ukrainian military equipment concentration.
In total, 123 aircfaft and 74 helicopters, 309 unmanned aerial vehicles, 1,721 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 172 multiple launch rocket systems, 721 field artillery and mortars, as well as 1,568 units of special military vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed during the operation.
eng.mil.ru...
27.03.2022 (09:30)
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue their offensive in the course of the special military operation.
On March 26, high-precision, long-range aviation weapons destroyed a large fuel base near Lvov, which provided fuel for Ukrainian troops in western Ukraine, as well as near Kiev.
In addition, high-precision cruise missiles have destroyed the workshops of Lvov Radio Repair Plant in Lvov city. This enterprise has overhauled and upgraded Tor and S-125 anti-aircraft missile systems, radar stations for Ukrainian air force, electronic warfare equipment and sights for tanks.
Also, high-precision sea-based long-range weapons destroyed a warehouse of missiles for S-300 and Buk anti-aircraft missile systems in Plesetskoye, 30 kilometres southwest of Kiev city.
Operational-tactical and army aviation hit 67 military assets of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Among them: 2 command posts, 3 field depots with arms and ammunition, 11 strongholds of Ukrainian Armed Forces units and 20 areas of military equipment concentration.
Russian air defence means overnight destroyed 18 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles over Novaya Basan, Peski, Borispol, Shchors, Vishnevoe, Kryukovka and Petrovskiy.
In total, 289 unmanned aerial vehicles, 1,656 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 169 multiple launch rocket systems, 684 field artillery and mortars, as well as 1,503 units of special military vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed during the operation.
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Briefing by Russian Defence Ministry
28.03.2022 (10:00)
The grouping of troops of the Russian Armed Forces, continuing a successful offensive, has penetrated 2 kilometres deep into the defence of the 95th Airborne Assault Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and reached the southern outskirts of Novoselovka.
Units of the Lugansk People's Republic advanced 5 kilometres during the offensive, capturing Ivanovka and Novosadovoye and reaching Novolublino and Terny line.
Aviation and air defence means of the Russian Aerospace Forces shot down 4 Su-24 aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force over Chernigov region, including 2 near Repka and 2 more near Gorodnya.
1 Ukrainian Su-27 fighter jet has been shot down near Kramatorsk, Donetsk region.
During the day, 19 Ukrainian unmannes aeriao vehicles were destroyed near Kapitonovka, Prishib, Andreevka, Balakleya, Bulgakovo, Bezymyanoe, Gorodnya, Zgurovka, Krasnogorlovka, Mandrykino, Mariupol, Termakhovka, Tolkachi, Chernobaevka and Yakovlevka.
In addition, 5 missiles of the Ukrainian Smerch multiple launch rocket system were shot down in the air near Chernobaevka airfield, Kherson region.
During the day on March 27, operational-tactical and army aviation hit 36 military assets of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Among them: 2 command posts, 2 anti-aircraft missile systems, 1 multiple launch rocket system, 3 ammunition depots and 2 fuel depots, as well as 23 areas of military equipment concentration.
In total, 308 unmanned aerial vehicles, 1,713 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 170 multiple launch rocket systems, 715 field artillery and mortars, as well as 1,557 units of special military vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed during the operation.
eng.mil.ru...
Briefing by Russian Defence Ministry
28.03.2022 (19:00)
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation in Ukraine.
Kalibr high-precision sea-based cruise missiles destroyed large ammunition depots near Ushomir and Veselovka, Zhytomir Region, from which a group of Ukrainian troops defending Kiev's suburbs had been supplied.
On March 28, Russian aviation and air defence means shot down 3 more Ukrainian Air Force aircraft in the air: 2 Su-24s west of Korosten, Zhytomir Region and 1 Su-25 over Druzhkovka, Donetsk Region.
Ukrainian Mi-8 helicopter, which was heading for the emergency evacuation of the Azov national battalion commanders who had abandoned their subordinates, has been shot down near Mariupol, 5 kilometres from the coastline over the Sea of Azov.
In addition, 1 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle was shot down near Chernobaevka.
Operational-tactical and army aviation hit 41 military assets of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Among them: 2 multiple launch rocket system, 1 electronic warfare station, 2 field ammunition depots and 24 areas of Ukrainian military equipment concentration.
In total, 123 aircfaft and 74 helicopters, 309 unmanned aerial vehicles, 1,721 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 172 multiple launch rocket systems, 721 field artillery and mortars, as well as 1,568 units of special military vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed during the operation.
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Comment by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova on the outcomes of the European Council meeting in Brussels on March 24-25, 2022
28.03.2022 18:00
The results of the European Council’s meeting, held jointly with US leaders, reaffirmed the fact that the collective West needs Ukraine – a country that is completely controlled by Washington and in the grips of Russophobia – only as a geopolitical battering ram against Russia. This is why Ukrainian neo-Nazis are given money, weapons and ammunition which they use to kill civilians. They receive assurances of solidarity and unconditional support, and the cities destroyed by the neo-Nazis, whose residents are hiding from them in basements, are declared bastions of freedom and European values. However, the Kiev authorities’ mistaken bet is that the aggressive anti-Russian policy they are enthusiastically pursuing will hasten the day that they receive a “membership card” in the EU. Questions about Ukraine’s EU prospects are invariably answered with polite excuses.
The EU leaders’ attempts to assume the role of defenders of international law while accusing Russia of violating it are particularly inappropriate. As a reminder, in circumvention of the UN Security Council, the Western countries unleashed a series of military “humanitarian interventions” in former Yugoslavia, Iraq, Libya and Syria and have been turning a blind eye to the genocide organised by Kiev in Donbass for many years now. With regard to “war crimes,” since 2014 Russia’s Investigative Committee has opened hundreds of criminal cases against the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the national battalions for the atrocities they have committed against civilians in Donbass.
The EU calls for Russia to provide humanitarian corridors in Ukraine are part of these attempts as well. Over the past weeks, the Russian Defence Ministry has been opening, on a daily basis, humanitarian corridors going in a variety of directions for civilians and Ukrainian military who have laid down their arms.
Brussels vows to impose more sanctions on Russia if necessary, failing to mention that only the United States will benefit from them, since it is profiting from the outflow of capital from the EU and increased exports of weapons and LNG at exorbitant prices to European markets. With their actions, the bureaucrats in Brussels are, in fact, undermining the EU countries’ economies, which they poorly understand to begin with. They are dooming Europe and everyday Europeans to the demolition of the existing socially oriented economic model and way of life amid skyrocketing prices for electricity and fuel, as well as cuts in social benefits in favour of military budgets, runaway inflation and mass unemployment.
As for the decision adopted by the European Council regarding the “reconstruction of a democratic Ukraine” and the establishment of a dedicated foundation towards this end, we consider it a belated decision. As we know, Ukraine's evolution towards democracy was suspended in February 2014, when an unconstitutional coup was carried out in Kiev at the behest of Western countries. Ukraine and its neighbours have been reaping the consequences for over eight straight years already. Now is the time for decisive measures to de-Nazify and demilitarise Ukraine, which is what the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation are doing. We remain confident that once these measures have been fully implemented, the Ukrainian people will return to a peaceful and neighbourly path of development. The European Union, as well as its Western partners, has yet to realise the tragic consequences of flooding an aggressive neo-Nazi regime in central Europe with money and weapons.
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Meeting of the Joint Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response in Ukraine
28.03.2022 (21:30)
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In addition, the Joint Coordination Headquarters of the Russian Federation for Humanitarian Response in Ukraine continues to carefully record other inhumane crimes committed by nationalists against civilians.
Here are some of them for the past day:
in the suburbs of Kharkov, militants fired mortars mounted on so-called "bandermobiles" at places of mass gathering of civilians (queues at shops, ATMs, food and drinking water distribution points). As a result, three people were killed and more than 10 were injured;
the bodies of civilians with traces of brutal torture and carved neo-Nazi symbols and swastikas were found in the basements of buildings in the city of Mariupol, liberated from the nationalists. In addition, civilians rescued from the city confirm the egregious facts of how the neo-Nazis, knowing that there are women with children in the basements, deliberately threw grenades at them.
The Kiev authorities once again show their criminal and cynical nature. Terror and genocide against their own people have become the norm for Ukraine. Comprehensive support from the United States and a number of European Union countries has unleashed the hands of Nazism countrywide, only here military units with the symbols of the Third Reich operate as part of the national armed forces and military formations with the task of destroying everything that does not correspond to their inhuman concepts. The victims are old men and women, and children from an early age are subjected to harsh propaganda of the Nazi ideology to turn them into followers of Bandera.
Over the past day, the Russian Armed Forces, without the participation of the Ukrainian authorities, evacuated 12,825 people to Russia from dangerous areas of Ukraine, Donetsk and Lugansk people's republics, 2,045 of them children, and since the beginning of the special military operation, 469,683 people have already been evacuated, of which 97,345 are children.
57,026 units of personal vehicles crossed the state border of the Russian Federation, of which 1,625 units per day.
From Mariupol, without any participation of the Ukrainian side, 105,534 people have already been rescued from the lawlessness organized by the nationalists, including 3,642 people over the past day.
According to the results of daily monitoring of appeals by citizens of Ukraine to the hotline of the Joint Coordination Headquarters of the Russian Federation for humanitarian response in Ukraine, to federal executive authorities, various public organizations, as well as to the subjects of the Russian Federation, to family, friends and acquaintances living in Russia, it was established that a significant part of the population forcibly held by nationalists in Ukrainian cities, still seek any opportunity to evacuate to Russian territory.
Over the past day alone, 2,214 such appeals have been received, and there are already 2,730,671 of them in the database with specific surnames and addresses from 2,117 localities in Ukraine.
Ukrainian neo-Nazis continue to hold over 4.5 million civilians as a "human shield" in Kiev, Kharkov, Chernigov, Sumy and more than two dozen other large settlements.
In addition, 6,546 foreigners from 19 states remain hostage to the militants of territorial defence battalions.
Also, despite the efforts made by the Russian Federation, the Ukrainian side continues to block more than 60 foreign vessels in its ports.
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28.03.2022 18:00
The results of the European Council’s meeting, held jointly with US leaders, reaffirmed the fact that the collective West needs Ukraine – a country that is completely controlled by Washington and in the grips of Russophobia – only as a geopolitical battering ram against Russia. This is why Ukrainian neo-Nazis are given money, weapons and ammunition which they use to kill civilians. They receive assurances of solidarity and unconditional support, and the cities destroyed by the neo-Nazis, whose residents are hiding from them in basements, are declared bastions of freedom and European values. However, the Kiev authorities’ mistaken bet is that the aggressive anti-Russian policy they are enthusiastically pursuing will hasten the day that they receive a “membership card” in the EU. Questions about Ukraine’s EU prospects are invariably answered with polite excuses.
The EU leaders’ attempts to assume the role of defenders of international law while accusing Russia of violating it are particularly inappropriate. As a reminder, in circumvention of the UN Security Council, the Western countries unleashed a series of military “humanitarian interventions” in former Yugoslavia, Iraq, Libya and Syria and have been turning a blind eye to the genocide organised by Kiev in Donbass for many years now. With regard to “war crimes,” since 2014 Russia’s Investigative Committee has opened hundreds of criminal cases against the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the national battalions for the atrocities they have committed against civilians in Donbass.
The EU calls for Russia to provide humanitarian corridors in Ukraine are part of these attempts as well. Over the past weeks, the Russian Defence Ministry has been opening, on a daily basis, humanitarian corridors going in a variety of directions for civilians and Ukrainian military who have laid down their arms.
Brussels vows to impose more sanctions on Russia if necessary, failing to mention that only the United States will benefit from them, since it is profiting from the outflow of capital from the EU and increased exports of weapons and LNG at exorbitant prices to European markets. With their actions, the bureaucrats in Brussels are, in fact, undermining the EU countries’ economies, which they poorly understand to begin with. They are dooming Europe and everyday Europeans to the demolition of the existing socially oriented economic model and way of life amid skyrocketing prices for electricity and fuel, as well as cuts in social benefits in favour of military budgets, runaway inflation and mass unemployment.
As for the decision adopted by the European Council regarding the “reconstruction of a democratic Ukraine” and the establishment of a dedicated foundation towards this end, we consider it a belated decision. As we know, Ukraine's evolution towards democracy was suspended in February 2014, when an unconstitutional coup was carried out in Kiev at the behest of Western countries. Ukraine and its neighbours have been reaping the consequences for over eight straight years already. Now is the time for decisive measures to de-Nazify and demilitarise Ukraine, which is what the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation are doing. We remain confident that once these measures have been fully implemented, the Ukrainian people will return to a peaceful and neighbourly path of development. The European Union, as well as its Western partners, has yet to realise the tragic consequences of flooding an aggressive neo-Nazi regime in central Europe with money and weapons.
mid.ru...
Meeting of the Joint Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response in Ukraine
28.03.2022 (21:30)
..........
In addition, the Joint Coordination Headquarters of the Russian Federation for Humanitarian Response in Ukraine continues to carefully record other inhumane crimes committed by nationalists against civilians.
Here are some of them for the past day:
in the suburbs of Kharkov, militants fired mortars mounted on so-called "bandermobiles" at places of mass gathering of civilians (queues at shops, ATMs, food and drinking water distribution points). As a result, three people were killed and more than 10 were injured;
the bodies of civilians with traces of brutal torture and carved neo-Nazi symbols and swastikas were found in the basements of buildings in the city of Mariupol, liberated from the nationalists. In addition, civilians rescued from the city confirm the egregious facts of how the neo-Nazis, knowing that there are women with children in the basements, deliberately threw grenades at them.
The Kiev authorities once again show their criminal and cynical nature. Terror and genocide against their own people have become the norm for Ukraine. Comprehensive support from the United States and a number of European Union countries has unleashed the hands of Nazism countrywide, only here military units with the symbols of the Third Reich operate as part of the national armed forces and military formations with the task of destroying everything that does not correspond to their inhuman concepts. The victims are old men and women, and children from an early age are subjected to harsh propaganda of the Nazi ideology to turn them into followers of Bandera.
Over the past day, the Russian Armed Forces, without the participation of the Ukrainian authorities, evacuated 12,825 people to Russia from dangerous areas of Ukraine, Donetsk and Lugansk people's republics, 2,045 of them children, and since the beginning of the special military operation, 469,683 people have already been evacuated, of which 97,345 are children.
57,026 units of personal vehicles crossed the state border of the Russian Federation, of which 1,625 units per day.
From Mariupol, without any participation of the Ukrainian side, 105,534 people have already been rescued from the lawlessness organized by the nationalists, including 3,642 people over the past day.
According to the results of daily monitoring of appeals by citizens of Ukraine to the hotline of the Joint Coordination Headquarters of the Russian Federation for humanitarian response in Ukraine, to federal executive authorities, various public organizations, as well as to the subjects of the Russian Federation, to family, friends and acquaintances living in Russia, it was established that a significant part of the population forcibly held by nationalists in Ukrainian cities, still seek any opportunity to evacuate to Russian territory.
Over the past day alone, 2,214 such appeals have been received, and there are already 2,730,671 of them in the database with specific surnames and addresses from 2,117 localities in Ukraine.
Ukrainian neo-Nazis continue to hold over 4.5 million civilians as a "human shield" in Kiev, Kharkov, Chernigov, Sumy and more than two dozen other large settlements.
In addition, 6,546 foreigners from 19 states remain hostage to the militants of territorial defence battalions.
Also, despite the efforts made by the Russian Federation, the Ukrainian side continues to block more than 60 foreign vessels in its ports.
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Briefing by the Russian Defence Ministry
29.03.2022 (10:00)
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue to conduct a special military operation.
On the evening of March 28, high-precision air-launched cruise missiles destroyed a large fuel base near the settlement of Klevan, Rovno region. Fuel supplies for Ukrainian military equipment were carried out from this base to the suburbs of Kiev.
By means of air defence of the Russian Aerospace Forces, 3 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were destroyed overnight in the area of the settlement of Chernobayevka.
During the night, 68 military facilities of Ukraine were hit by tactical aviation.
Among them: three control points, four anti-aircraft missile systems, including three Buk–M1 and one Osa, one radar station, five multiple rocket launchers, two ammunition depots, three fuel and lubricants depots, and 19 areas of concentration of Ukrainian military equipment and strong points.
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, 123 aircraft and 74 helicopters, 311 unmanned aerial vehicles, 1,738 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 181 multiple rocket launchers, 726 field artillery and mortars, as well as 1,592 units of special military vehicles have been destroyed.
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The Russian Defence Minister held a conference call with the leadership of the Armed Forces
29.03.2022 (13:00)
A conference call with the leadership of the Armed Forces was held today in Moscow at the National Center for Defence Control. The Minister of Defence of the Russian Federation, General of the Army Sergei Shoigu, took part in it.
At the beginning of the meeting, the head of the defence department spoke about the course of a special military operation of the Russian Armed Forces on the territory of Ukraine. According to him, in general, the main tasks of the first stage of the operation have been completed. The combat potential of the Ukrainian Armed Forces has been significantly reduced, which makes it possible to focus the main attention and main efforts on achieving the main goal - the liberation of Donbass.
"Significant damage has been inflicted on the Armed Forces of Ukraine," Sergei Shoigu said. - Air supremacy has been won. The air force and the air defence system have been practically destroyed. Of the 152 aircraft that were in the Armed Forces of Ukraine before the start of the operation, 123 were destroyed, 77 out of 149 helicopters, 152 out of 180 long- and medium-range air defence systems. The naval forces of the country ceased to exist. All formations of land and airborne assault troops suffered significant losses."
"We are monitoring the statements of the leaders of individual NATO countries about their intention to supply aircraft and air defence systems to Ukraine," the minister said. – If they are implemented, we will respond adequately. We consider the position of the West, which supplies lethal weapons to Ukraine, irresponsible. Its uncontrolled distribution to the population and mercenaries only aggravates the situation and in the future may pose a threat to the Europeans themselves."
Further, Sergei Shoigu spoke about the consequences of the thoughtless use of certain weapons by the Ukrainian army manifested in various regions. Thus, a real threat to civilian shipping has been created in the Black Sea. The Turkish military has already neutralized two sea mines off the coast of Romania and the Bosphorus Strait.
Targeted actions to track and destroy foreign mercenaries are continuing. As a result of high-precision weapons strikes on mercenary training centers, as well as combat losses, a decrease in their number on the territory of Ukraine is recorded. Over the past two weeks, more than five hundred mercenaries have left the country and about six hundred more have been eliminated.
Then the head of the defence department noted that Russian servicemen during a special military operation show high professionalism, courage and dedication. By Presidential Decree, the title Guards was assigned to the 126th separate coastal defence brigade of the Southern Military District and the 155th separate marine brigade of the Pacific Fleet.
Humanitarian aid is actively provided to the population of the LPR and DPR, as well as Ukraine. 684 humanitarian actions have already been carried out. 6079 tons of cargo were delivered to 210 settlements.
"The Russian Armed Forces will continue a special military operation until the set goals are achieved," Sergei Shoigu said. - I emphasize that the planned combat training does not stop in the troops. I demand that commanders at all levels ensure strict and accurate implementation of the planned operational and combat training measures."
Then the minister focused on the issues of the spring recruitment campaign, which starts on April 1.
In accordance with the Presidential Decree, 134 and a half thousand people will be sent to the Armed Forces and other structures where military service is provided. This is less than it was drafted for in the spring of 2021. The first dispatches of conscripts to the place of service are instructed to begin in the third decade of May.
"Despite the decrease in the incidence of coronavirus, I ask you to continue the complex of anti-epidemic measures for conscripted servicemen," the minister said. "Most of the servicemen will undergo professional training in training centers for three to five months. I emphasize that conscripts will not be sent to any conflict zones. All servicemen of the spring draft of last year will be discharged into the reserve after the expiration of their service and sent to their places of residence."
Further, two thematic issues were raised at the meeting. The first concerned the creation by Vega concern of a multifunctional aviation complex of radar patrol and guidance A-100. "This aircraft," Sergei Shoigu said, "embodies the most advanced ideas in the field of radar, provides the basis for the modernization of domestic long-range radar detection systems for decades to come."
Next, the progress of the Far Eastern shipbuilding and ship repair centre in fulfilling the state defence order was considered. In 2021, the center's enterprises repaired and serviced 112 ships and vessels of the Navy, completed equipping the Marshal Shaposhnikov frigate with modern effective strike complexes. As a result, the specified level of technical and combat readiness of the Pacific Fleet has been provided.
This year, it is necessary to modernize the nuclear submarine missile cruiser Irkutsk, repair the large anti-submarine ship Admiral Vinogradov, and restore the technical readiness of the nuclear submarine missile cruiser Tomsk at the point of permanent deployment, permanent basing.
During the meeting, implementation of the 2022 state defence order by the centre's enterprises was discussed.
eng.mil.ru...
29.03.2022 (10:00)
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue to conduct a special military operation.
On the evening of March 28, high-precision air-launched cruise missiles destroyed a large fuel base near the settlement of Klevan, Rovno region. Fuel supplies for Ukrainian military equipment were carried out from this base to the suburbs of Kiev.
By means of air defence of the Russian Aerospace Forces, 3 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were destroyed overnight in the area of the settlement of Chernobayevka.
During the night, 68 military facilities of Ukraine were hit by tactical aviation.
Among them: three control points, four anti-aircraft missile systems, including three Buk–M1 and one Osa, one radar station, five multiple rocket launchers, two ammunition depots, three fuel and lubricants depots, and 19 areas of concentration of Ukrainian military equipment and strong points.
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, 123 aircraft and 74 helicopters, 311 unmanned aerial vehicles, 1,738 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 181 multiple rocket launchers, 726 field artillery and mortars, as well as 1,592 units of special military vehicles have been destroyed.
eng.mil.ru...
The Russian Defence Minister held a conference call with the leadership of the Armed Forces
29.03.2022 (13:00)
A conference call with the leadership of the Armed Forces was held today in Moscow at the National Center for Defence Control. The Minister of Defence of the Russian Federation, General of the Army Sergei Shoigu, took part in it.
At the beginning of the meeting, the head of the defence department spoke about the course of a special military operation of the Russian Armed Forces on the territory of Ukraine. According to him, in general, the main tasks of the first stage of the operation have been completed. The combat potential of the Ukrainian Armed Forces has been significantly reduced, which makes it possible to focus the main attention and main efforts on achieving the main goal - the liberation of Donbass.
"Significant damage has been inflicted on the Armed Forces of Ukraine," Sergei Shoigu said. - Air supremacy has been won. The air force and the air defence system have been practically destroyed. Of the 152 aircraft that were in the Armed Forces of Ukraine before the start of the operation, 123 were destroyed, 77 out of 149 helicopters, 152 out of 180 long- and medium-range air defence systems. The naval forces of the country ceased to exist. All formations of land and airborne assault troops suffered significant losses."
"We are monitoring the statements of the leaders of individual NATO countries about their intention to supply aircraft and air defence systems to Ukraine," the minister said. – If they are implemented, we will respond adequately. We consider the position of the West, which supplies lethal weapons to Ukraine, irresponsible. Its uncontrolled distribution to the population and mercenaries only aggravates the situation and in the future may pose a threat to the Europeans themselves."
Further, Sergei Shoigu spoke about the consequences of the thoughtless use of certain weapons by the Ukrainian army manifested in various regions. Thus, a real threat to civilian shipping has been created in the Black Sea. The Turkish military has already neutralized two sea mines off the coast of Romania and the Bosphorus Strait.
Targeted actions to track and destroy foreign mercenaries are continuing. As a result of high-precision weapons strikes on mercenary training centers, as well as combat losses, a decrease in their number on the territory of Ukraine is recorded. Over the past two weeks, more than five hundred mercenaries have left the country and about six hundred more have been eliminated.
Then the head of the defence department noted that Russian servicemen during a special military operation show high professionalism, courage and dedication. By Presidential Decree, the title Guards was assigned to the 126th separate coastal defence brigade of the Southern Military District and the 155th separate marine brigade of the Pacific Fleet.
Humanitarian aid is actively provided to the population of the LPR and DPR, as well as Ukraine. 684 humanitarian actions have already been carried out. 6079 tons of cargo were delivered to 210 settlements.
"The Russian Armed Forces will continue a special military operation until the set goals are achieved," Sergei Shoigu said. - I emphasize that the planned combat training does not stop in the troops. I demand that commanders at all levels ensure strict and accurate implementation of the planned operational and combat training measures."
Then the minister focused on the issues of the spring recruitment campaign, which starts on April 1.
In accordance with the Presidential Decree, 134 and a half thousand people will be sent to the Armed Forces and other structures where military service is provided. This is less than it was drafted for in the spring of 2021. The first dispatches of conscripts to the place of service are instructed to begin in the third decade of May.
"Despite the decrease in the incidence of coronavirus, I ask you to continue the complex of anti-epidemic measures for conscripted servicemen," the minister said. "Most of the servicemen will undergo professional training in training centers for three to five months. I emphasize that conscripts will not be sent to any conflict zones. All servicemen of the spring draft of last year will be discharged into the reserve after the expiration of their service and sent to their places of residence."
Further, two thematic issues were raised at the meeting. The first concerned the creation by Vega concern of a multifunctional aviation complex of radar patrol and guidance A-100. "This aircraft," Sergei Shoigu said, "embodies the most advanced ideas in the field of radar, provides the basis for the modernization of domestic long-range radar detection systems for decades to come."
Next, the progress of the Far Eastern shipbuilding and ship repair centre in fulfilling the state defence order was considered. In 2021, the center's enterprises repaired and serviced 112 ships and vessels of the Navy, completed equipping the Marshal Shaposhnikov frigate with modern effective strike complexes. As a result, the specified level of technical and combat readiness of the Pacific Fleet has been provided.
This year, it is necessary to modernize the nuclear submarine missile cruiser Irkutsk, repair the large anti-submarine ship Admiral Vinogradov, and restore the technical readiness of the nuclear submarine missile cruiser Tomsk at the point of permanent deployment, permanent basing.
During the meeting, implementation of the 2022 state defence order by the centre's enterprises was discussed.
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Foreign Ministry statement on continued cyberattack by the “collective West”
29 March 2022 12:04
In the context of the special military operation launched to defend the Donetsk and Lugansk people’s republics and to demilitarise and denazify Ukraine, the United States and its satellites are waging a large-scale cyberattack against Russia. Advanced information and communication technologies are being used almost every day to attack government agencies, media outlets, critical infrastructure and vital facilities. The Kiev regime has announced international recruitment of anti-Russia IT professionals into “offensive cyber forces.” Daily malicious attacks against Russia number hundreds of thousands.
Sophisticated cyber technologies are being used to capture the personal data of Russian citizens. A lot of fake news are posted online to disorient and demoralise Russian society, discredit the actions of the Russian Armed Forces and government agencies, encourage unlawful activities of the public, complicate the operation of our industrial sectors and sow fear and instability in the country.
The unprecedented scale of these attacks and their close coordination clearly indicate that the cyberwar waged against Russia by Ukrainian special ICT operations centres trained by US and other NATO experts is being reinforced with anonymous hackers and trolls acting on orders from the Kiev regime’s Western mentors. In fact, this cyberwar is being waged by an army of cyber mercenaries who have been given concrete combat tasks that often border on terrorism.
Concerned Russian agencies are effectively fighting back and repelling these attacks. The task of strengthening ICT security in the current conditions is becoming a priority aspect of reliably ensuring national security. Efforts will be redoubled at international venues, first of all at the UN, to promote relevant initiatives. Work will continue to strengthen the legal protection of Russian individuals and legal entities from malicious foreign cyber activities.
Nobody must have any doubt that the cyber aggression being waged against Russia will have dramatic consequences for its inspirers and operators. The sources of these attacks will be identified, and the culprits will inevitably be called to account for their activities in accordance with the law.
mid.ru...
Meeting of the Joint Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response in Ukraine
29.03.2022 (21:30)
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According to testimony from surrendered Ukrainian servicemen, nationalist battalions systematically receive instructions from the Kiev authorities to prepare staged videos of atrocities and massacres of civilians, looting and destruction of social infrastructure, allegedly committed by Russian servicemen.
What makes the nationalists particularly cynical is that they will do anything to carry out such orders, without sparing women, the elderly or children. The purpose of such materials is to create a negative information background around the conduct of a special military operation by the Russian Armed Forces. But despite this, a large part of Ukraine's population, knowing the true situation "on the ground" is looking for any opportunity to evacuate to the Russian Federation.
This is confirmed by the 1,734 requests for evacuation received by official bodies of the Russian Federation through various channels in the past 24 hours alone, with a total of 2,732,405 requests from 2,118 settlements in Ukraine already in the database.
Despite all the difficulties and obstacles imposed by the Ukrainian side, over the past day, without the participation of Kiev, 19,247 people were evacuated from dangerous areas, 4,078 of them children, and in total, since the beginning of the special military operation, 488,930 people have already been evacuated, of which 101,423 are children.
The state border of the Russian Federation was crossed by 59,848 vehicles, of which 2,822 per day.
On March 29, 2022, 3,135 people were evacuated from Mariupol, also without any participation of the Ukrainian side, a total of 108,802 people have already been rescued from the lawlessness organized by nationalists.
Despite the humanitarian corridors opening daily, Ukrainian nationalists continue to hold more than 4,500,000 civilians as a "human shield" in Kiev, Kharkov, Chernigov, Sumy, Mariupol and more than 20 other blocked large settlements, as well as 6,515 foreign citizens from 19 foreign states.
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More than 9,500 temporary accommodation centres continue to operate in the regions of the Russian Federation. A sufficient number of motor vehicles, including comfortable buses, are located at the checkpoints to take refugees to their chosen places of residence or to temporary accommodation facilities where medical care and hot meals are organized.
Federal executive authorities together with the subjects of Russia, various public organizations, patriotic movements have prepared more than 16.5 thousand tons of humanitarian aid.
The greatest contributors to the relief effort were:
- Ministry of the Russian Federation for Civil Defence, Emergencies and Elimination of Consequences of Natural Disasters, Federal Agency for State Reserves, Ministry of Industry and Trade of Russia, Federal Agency for Nationalities, Federal Tax Service of the Russian Federation, Federal Agency for Water Resources;
- Republics of Buryatia and Tatarstan, Moscow, Tula, Voronezh and Bryansk regions, Stavropol Territory and Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Area;
- Among political parties and non-profit organisations: United Russia, the All-Russian public organisation of veterans Boyevoe Bratstvo, the autonomous non-profit organisation supporting humanitarian programmes Russian Humanitarian Mission, the All-Russian public movement People's Front and the All-Russian public and state organisation Women's Union of Russia.
More than 20,500 tons of basic necessities, food and medicines have been prepared at the collection points.
Since March 2, 6,078.3 tons of humanitarian cargo have already been delivered to Ukraine, 684 humanitarian actions have been carried out, including 28 actions in Zaporozhye, Kiev, Chernigov, Kharkov, Sumy and Kherson regions, as well as in Donetsk and Lugansk people's republics, during which 370 tons of basic necessities, medicines and food were transferred to the civilian population of the liberated areas.
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eng.mil.ru...
29 March 2022 12:04
In the context of the special military operation launched to defend the Donetsk and Lugansk people’s republics and to demilitarise and denazify Ukraine, the United States and its satellites are waging a large-scale cyberattack against Russia. Advanced information and communication technologies are being used almost every day to attack government agencies, media outlets, critical infrastructure and vital facilities. The Kiev regime has announced international recruitment of anti-Russia IT professionals into “offensive cyber forces.” Daily malicious attacks against Russia number hundreds of thousands.
Sophisticated cyber technologies are being used to capture the personal data of Russian citizens. A lot of fake news are posted online to disorient and demoralise Russian society, discredit the actions of the Russian Armed Forces and government agencies, encourage unlawful activities of the public, complicate the operation of our industrial sectors and sow fear and instability in the country.
The unprecedented scale of these attacks and their close coordination clearly indicate that the cyberwar waged against Russia by Ukrainian special ICT operations centres trained by US and other NATO experts is being reinforced with anonymous hackers and trolls acting on orders from the Kiev regime’s Western mentors. In fact, this cyberwar is being waged by an army of cyber mercenaries who have been given concrete combat tasks that often border on terrorism.
Concerned Russian agencies are effectively fighting back and repelling these attacks. The task of strengthening ICT security in the current conditions is becoming a priority aspect of reliably ensuring national security. Efforts will be redoubled at international venues, first of all at the UN, to promote relevant initiatives. Work will continue to strengthen the legal protection of Russian individuals and legal entities from malicious foreign cyber activities.
Nobody must have any doubt that the cyber aggression being waged against Russia will have dramatic consequences for its inspirers and operators. The sources of these attacks will be identified, and the culprits will inevitably be called to account for their activities in accordance with the law.
mid.ru...
Meeting of the Joint Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response in Ukraine
29.03.2022 (21:30)
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According to testimony from surrendered Ukrainian servicemen, nationalist battalions systematically receive instructions from the Kiev authorities to prepare staged videos of atrocities and massacres of civilians, looting and destruction of social infrastructure, allegedly committed by Russian servicemen.
What makes the nationalists particularly cynical is that they will do anything to carry out such orders, without sparing women, the elderly or children. The purpose of such materials is to create a negative information background around the conduct of a special military operation by the Russian Armed Forces. But despite this, a large part of Ukraine's population, knowing the true situation "on the ground" is looking for any opportunity to evacuate to the Russian Federation.
This is confirmed by the 1,734 requests for evacuation received by official bodies of the Russian Federation through various channels in the past 24 hours alone, with a total of 2,732,405 requests from 2,118 settlements in Ukraine already in the database.
Despite all the difficulties and obstacles imposed by the Ukrainian side, over the past day, without the participation of Kiev, 19,247 people were evacuated from dangerous areas, 4,078 of them children, and in total, since the beginning of the special military operation, 488,930 people have already been evacuated, of which 101,423 are children.
The state border of the Russian Federation was crossed by 59,848 vehicles, of which 2,822 per day.
On March 29, 2022, 3,135 people were evacuated from Mariupol, also without any participation of the Ukrainian side, a total of 108,802 people have already been rescued from the lawlessness organized by nationalists.
Despite the humanitarian corridors opening daily, Ukrainian nationalists continue to hold more than 4,500,000 civilians as a "human shield" in Kiev, Kharkov, Chernigov, Sumy, Mariupol and more than 20 other blocked large settlements, as well as 6,515 foreign citizens from 19 foreign states.
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More than 9,500 temporary accommodation centres continue to operate in the regions of the Russian Federation. A sufficient number of motor vehicles, including comfortable buses, are located at the checkpoints to take refugees to their chosen places of residence or to temporary accommodation facilities where medical care and hot meals are organized.
Federal executive authorities together with the subjects of Russia, various public organizations, patriotic movements have prepared more than 16.5 thousand tons of humanitarian aid.
The greatest contributors to the relief effort were:
- Ministry of the Russian Federation for Civil Defence, Emergencies and Elimination of Consequences of Natural Disasters, Federal Agency for State Reserves, Ministry of Industry and Trade of Russia, Federal Agency for Nationalities, Federal Tax Service of the Russian Federation, Federal Agency for Water Resources;
- Republics of Buryatia and Tatarstan, Moscow, Tula, Voronezh and Bryansk regions, Stavropol Territory and Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Area;
- Among political parties and non-profit organisations: United Russia, the All-Russian public organisation of veterans Boyevoe Bratstvo, the autonomous non-profit organisation supporting humanitarian programmes Russian Humanitarian Mission, the All-Russian public movement People's Front and the All-Russian public and state organisation Women's Union of Russia.
More than 20,500 tons of basic necessities, food and medicines have been prepared at the collection points.
Since March 2, 6,078.3 tons of humanitarian cargo have already been delivered to Ukraine, 684 humanitarian actions have been carried out, including 28 actions in Zaporozhye, Kiev, Chernigov, Kharkov, Sumy and Kherson regions, as well as in Donetsk and Lugansk people's republics, during which 370 tons of basic necessities, medicines and food were transferred to the civilian population of the liberated areas.
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Briefing by Russian Defence Ministry
30.03.2022 (10:00)
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation in Ukraine.
High-precision air-based missiles have destroyed large fuel depots in Starokostantinov and Khmelnitskii districts from which fuel had been supplied to Ukrainian forces' armoured vehicles in Donbass.
Iskander operational and tactical missile system has destroyed two large missile and artillery weapons depots in Kamenka, Donetsk Region.
During an aireal battle, 1 Ukrainian Air Force Su-24 has been shot down near Tumen, Roven Region, near the Ukrainian-Belarusian border.
Air defenсe means of the Russian Aerospace Forces shot down 10 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles near Izyum, Novaya Kakhovka, Donetsk, Nikolaev, Berdyansk, Gorlovka, Lugansk and Rubezhnoe.
During the day on March 27, operational-tactical and missile troops hit 64 military assets of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Among them: 4 command posts, including the headquarters of the Ukrainian special operations forces near Bereznigovatoe, Nikolaev region, 3 anti–aircraft missile systems - 1 S–300 near Malin cuty, Zhitomir region and 2 Buk-M1 near Ugledar and Slavyansk. 3 multiple launch rocket systems, 2 artillery batteries and 49 areas of concentration of weapons and military equipment and strongholds of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were also destroyed.
In total, 124 aircfaft and 77 helicopters, 214 unmanned aerial vehicles, 321 unmanned aerial vehicles, 1,752 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 184 multiple launch rocket systems, 734 field artillery and mortars, as well as 1,640 units of special military vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed during the operation.
The Russian Defence Ministry has already repeatedly exposed the cynical lies used by the Kiev nationalist regime to maintain its power in Ukraine and mislead the international community.
On March 20, for example, President Zelensky, in a video address to the Israeli Knesset, accused Russia of allegedly targeting Uman city in Cherkasy region.
To enhance the dramatic effect, Zelensky stated, and I quote, "this is a place visited by tens of thousands of Israelis every year for the pilgrimage of Tzaddik Nachman."
I would like to stress that during the special military operation, the Russian Armed Forces do not strike civilian objects. All the more so when it comes to places of worship and any other places of public worship.
It is the Kiev regime, in violation of international humanitarian law and simply moral norms, that uses such facilities as collection and transfer points for weapons and Nazis to take part in hostilities.
Today we present evidence received from a member of the Uman Jewish community of the use by the Zelensky regime for this purpose of the building of the new city synagogue, located at Shosseiny Lane 1.
Photographs taken on March 21, the day after Zelensky's speech to the Knesset, show the formation of two columns of nationalists on the synagogue grounds.
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I would like to point out that the property, weapons and ammunition stored in the synagogue building were first loaded by the nationalists into the backs of dump trucks and then disguised as bags of building rubbish.
At the same time, buses painted as school vehicles with appropriate "Children" signs are being used to transport nationalists and foreign mercenaries from western regions of Ukraine, as can be clearly seen in the photos.
Thus, the building of the Jewish cult in Uman is being deliberately used by the Kiev nationalist regime for military purposes. To provoke conflict and political pressure on Russia by Jewish religious organisations in the event of a strike on it.
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Briefing by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, Moscow, March 29, 2022
29 March 2022 18:04
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Question:
Can you comment on the Strategic Compass, the EU’s new military and political doctrine approved on March 25?
Maria Zakharova:
The EU’s doctrinal document on security and defence, which Brussels calls the Strategic Compass, and which was approved on March 25, is not, in all fairness, up to the level of an independent strategy and cannot serve as a true and reliable navigator in an increasingly complex geopolitical situation.
This is yet another indication of the EU’s unwillingness to carry out an unbiased analysis of why the European security situation has deteriorated and to identify ways of normalising it.
Its very first lines declare the intention to build up confrontation with Russia whose international actions have been branded as a long-term and direct threat to European security. Even this formula is far removed from the realities. We are Europe. Look at the map, at the part of Russia that is European by comparison with the territory occupied by the EU countries? This is where they should start. The EU is trying yet again to shift the blame to our country for the majority of challenges and problems it is facing. They don’t think it necessary to do justice to Russia’s place and role on the European continent or to recognise the legitimacy of our security interests. They have distorted beyond recognition the circumstances of Mikhail Saakashvili’s military adventure in attacking South Ossetia in August 2008. They are hushing up the facts of the unconstitutional coup in Kiev and the subsequent democratic vote in Crimea in support of its reunification with Russia in 2014. It is just a false mirror. They are dismissing the stabilising role of Russian peacekeepers in Transnistria. But Brussels is not ashamed to cover up for its Kiev clients, who spent eight years sabotaging the Minsk Package of Measures for settlement in Donbass and who were nurturing plans to “mop it up” by force.
There is a trend towards the EU’s militarisation and its coalescence with the United States and NATO (if earlier we said that they were twins, today NATO has “gobbled up” the EU ideologically by politicising its agenda, although the EU has been created as an economic community). The Compass describes the two as the most important and reliable strategic partners of Brussels. Thereby they have made yet another step towards devaluing the ambition to enhance the EU’s own “strategic autonomy,” an ambition its leaders have repeatedly stated. The discrepancy between this claim and the EU’s real-life obedience to Washington with regard to the majority of regional agendas outlined by the document is just one of many contradictions the Compass abounds in. Brussels declares that there is no room for the use of force in the 21st century but simultaneously has a stake in rushing lethal weapons to third countries and creating a EU combat potential to carry out military interventions elsewhere. They reject the spheres of influence concept, but at the same time set the goal of strengthening their presence in eastern and southern neighbourhood countries lest “others take their place.” They declare a commitment to free choice of means to ensure states’ own security and yet deny that right to Russia’s ally, Belarus.
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30.03.2022 (10:00)
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation in Ukraine.
High-precision air-based missiles have destroyed large fuel depots in Starokostantinov and Khmelnitskii districts from which fuel had been supplied to Ukrainian forces' armoured vehicles in Donbass.
Iskander operational and tactical missile system has destroyed two large missile and artillery weapons depots in Kamenka, Donetsk Region.
During an aireal battle, 1 Ukrainian Air Force Su-24 has been shot down near Tumen, Roven Region, near the Ukrainian-Belarusian border.
Air defenсe means of the Russian Aerospace Forces shot down 10 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles near Izyum, Novaya Kakhovka, Donetsk, Nikolaev, Berdyansk, Gorlovka, Lugansk and Rubezhnoe.
During the day on March 27, operational-tactical and missile troops hit 64 military assets of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Among them: 4 command posts, including the headquarters of the Ukrainian special operations forces near Bereznigovatoe, Nikolaev region, 3 anti–aircraft missile systems - 1 S–300 near Malin cuty, Zhitomir region and 2 Buk-M1 near Ugledar and Slavyansk. 3 multiple launch rocket systems, 2 artillery batteries and 49 areas of concentration of weapons and military equipment and strongholds of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were also destroyed.
In total, 124 aircfaft and 77 helicopters, 214 unmanned aerial vehicles, 321 unmanned aerial vehicles, 1,752 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 184 multiple launch rocket systems, 734 field artillery and mortars, as well as 1,640 units of special military vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed during the operation.
The Russian Defence Ministry has already repeatedly exposed the cynical lies used by the Kiev nationalist regime to maintain its power in Ukraine and mislead the international community.
On March 20, for example, President Zelensky, in a video address to the Israeli Knesset, accused Russia of allegedly targeting Uman city in Cherkasy region.
To enhance the dramatic effect, Zelensky stated, and I quote, "this is a place visited by tens of thousands of Israelis every year for the pilgrimage of Tzaddik Nachman."
I would like to stress that during the special military operation, the Russian Armed Forces do not strike civilian objects. All the more so when it comes to places of worship and any other places of public worship.
It is the Kiev regime, in violation of international humanitarian law and simply moral norms, that uses such facilities as collection and transfer points for weapons and Nazis to take part in hostilities.
Today we present evidence received from a member of the Uman Jewish community of the use by the Zelensky regime for this purpose of the building of the new city synagogue, located at Shosseiny Lane 1.
Photographs taken on March 21, the day after Zelensky's speech to the Knesset, show the formation of two columns of nationalists on the synagogue grounds.
https://мультимедиа.минобороны.рф/multimedia/photo/gallery.htm?id=110522@cmsPhotoGallery
https://мультимедиа.минобороны.рф/multimedia/photo/gallery.htm?id=110523@cmsPhotoGallery
I would like to point out that the property, weapons and ammunition stored in the synagogue building were first loaded by the nationalists into the backs of dump trucks and then disguised as bags of building rubbish.
At the same time, buses painted as school vehicles with appropriate "Children" signs are being used to transport nationalists and foreign mercenaries from western regions of Ukraine, as can be clearly seen in the photos.
Thus, the building of the Jewish cult in Uman is being deliberately used by the Kiev nationalist regime for military purposes. To provoke conflict and political pressure on Russia by Jewish religious organisations in the event of a strike on it.
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Briefing by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, Moscow, March 29, 2022
29 March 2022 18:04
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Question:
Can you comment on the Strategic Compass, the EU’s new military and political doctrine approved on March 25?
Maria Zakharova:
The EU’s doctrinal document on security and defence, which Brussels calls the Strategic Compass, and which was approved on March 25, is not, in all fairness, up to the level of an independent strategy and cannot serve as a true and reliable navigator in an increasingly complex geopolitical situation.
This is yet another indication of the EU’s unwillingness to carry out an unbiased analysis of why the European security situation has deteriorated and to identify ways of normalising it.
Its very first lines declare the intention to build up confrontation with Russia whose international actions have been branded as a long-term and direct threat to European security. Even this formula is far removed from the realities. We are Europe. Look at the map, at the part of Russia that is European by comparison with the territory occupied by the EU countries? This is where they should start. The EU is trying yet again to shift the blame to our country for the majority of challenges and problems it is facing. They don’t think it necessary to do justice to Russia’s place and role on the European continent or to recognise the legitimacy of our security interests. They have distorted beyond recognition the circumstances of Mikhail Saakashvili’s military adventure in attacking South Ossetia in August 2008. They are hushing up the facts of the unconstitutional coup in Kiev and the subsequent democratic vote in Crimea in support of its reunification with Russia in 2014. It is just a false mirror. They are dismissing the stabilising role of Russian peacekeepers in Transnistria. But Brussels is not ashamed to cover up for its Kiev clients, who spent eight years sabotaging the Minsk Package of Measures for settlement in Donbass and who were nurturing plans to “mop it up” by force.
There is a trend towards the EU’s militarisation and its coalescence with the United States and NATO (if earlier we said that they were twins, today NATO has “gobbled up” the EU ideologically by politicising its agenda, although the EU has been created as an economic community). The Compass describes the two as the most important and reliable strategic partners of Brussels. Thereby they have made yet another step towards devaluing the ambition to enhance the EU’s own “strategic autonomy,” an ambition its leaders have repeatedly stated. The discrepancy between this claim and the EU’s real-life obedience to Washington with regard to the majority of regional agendas outlined by the document is just one of many contradictions the Compass abounds in. Brussels declares that there is no room for the use of force in the 21st century but simultaneously has a stake in rushing lethal weapons to third countries and creating a EU combat potential to carry out military interventions elsewhere. They reject the spheres of influence concept, but at the same time set the goal of strengthening their presence in eastern and southern neighbourhood countries lest “others take their place.” They declare a commitment to free choice of means to ensure states’ own security and yet deny that right to Russia’s ally, Belarus.
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Briefing by Russian Defence Ministry
30.03.2022 (18:00)
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, developing an offensive, have broken through the heavily fortified defences of the enemy, crossed the Shaitanka River and are fighting with units of the 53rd Mechanised Brigade on the approaches to Velikaya Novoselka.
A mop-up of nationalist formations is underway in Zolotaya Niva. The advance was 8 kilometers. Up to 50 personnel, 3 tanks, 5 IFVs and 8 vehicles of various purposes were destroyed in this area.
Units of the Lugansk People's Republic continue their offensive on Severodonetsk. Fighting to mop-up Zhytlovka settlement is underway.
Ukrainian nationalist battalions in Severodonetsk direction suffer serious losses. As a result of the disruption of transport links, possibilities to replenish them are blocked. During the day, over 50 nationalists, 2 tanks, 3 IFVs and 2 missile and artillery depots were destroyed in this area.
Planned regrouping of troops in Kiev and Chernigov directions is underway.
The first stage of the special military operation conducted by the Russian Armed Forces in Donbas and Ukraine was planned to force the enemy to concentrate its forces, means, resources and military equipment to hold on to high populated areas in these directions, including Kiev. To bring them down on the battlefield and, without storming these cities to avoid civilian casualties, inflict such a defeat on the armed formations of the Kiev regime that it would not be able to use these forces in the main direction of our Armed Forces in Donbass.
All these goals have been met.
At the same time, the Russian army also solved another task, namely - in the absence of an inflow of fresh enemy forces from the western and central regions of Ukraine, through professional military action, using the absolute air dominance it had gained, also using modern high-precision weapons - to create all the necessary conditions for the final stage of the operation to liberate the People's Republics of Donbass.
To this end, the long-term defensive fortifications created by the Kiev regime over eight years have been, and continue to be, continuously targeted. All major lines of communication, supply and reserve approach are taken under full control. Ukraine's air defence systems, airfield infrastructure, major military depots, training and mercenary concentration centres have been destroyed. Work on them continues.
Thus, all the main tasks of the Russian Armed Forces in Kiev and Chernigov directions have been completed.
The objective of the regrouping of the Russian Armed Forces is to intensify action in priority areas and, above all, to complete the operation for the total liberation of Donbass.
Over the past day, air defenсe means of the Russian Aerospace Forces shot down 2 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles near Balakleya and Verkhnetoretskoe.
Operational-tactical and army aviation hit 69 military assets of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Among them: 3 command posts, 2 multiple launch rocket system, 8 ammunition and missile-artillery weapons depots and 52 areas of military equipment concentration.
In total, 124 aircfaft and 77 helicopters, 214 unmanned aerial vehicles, 323 unmanned aerial vehicles, 1,767 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 186 multiple launch rocket systems, 741 field artillery and mortars, as well as 1,657 units of special military vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed during the operation.
The Russian Defence Ministry continues to study documents received from employees of Ukrainian laboratories about secret military biological activities of the United States in Ukraine.
A study of the new material by Russian experts of the Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Protection Troops identified specific officials who had been involved in the creation of the biological weapons components.
These are the heads of units and staff of the US Department of Defense, as well as its main contracting companies. As the ongoing journalistic investigations in the Western press show, these campaigns were directly linked to the son of the current US president, Hunter Biden.
As a result of the special military operation, research in a number of Ukrainian bio-laboratories, where work with strains of particularly dangerous pathogens was being carried out on behalf of the Pentagon, has been stopped.
A number of documents obtained from these laboratories, however, reveal the concealment of the test subjects' identities and the serious risk to their lives.
Of particular interest are documents indicating the Kiev regime's plans to use drones capable of carrying and dispersing lethal substances.
The revealed facts prove that the Kiev regime was seriously considering the use of biological weapons against the population of Donbass, and the Russian Federation.
We will provide more details on the results of the analysis of the documents received and the facts revealed at a special briefing in the near future.
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Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova’s answer to a media question about a video depicting how the Ukrainian military is humiliating Russian POWs
29 March 2022 18:34
Question:
There are video clips on the internet showing how fighters from the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) humiliate Russian POWs and they record their murder.
What do the defenders of human rights in the Council of Europe and the OSCE ODIHR say about this?
Maria Zakharova:
They remain silent. They don’t react in any way to these war crimes and flagrant violations of international humanitarian law. Russophobia blinds them. The same is true of high-ranking EU officials. They do not want to “offend” their underlings in Kiev.
Nobody in Strasbourg has raised the issue of expelling Ukraine from the Council of Europe even though there are plenty reasons to do so. ODIHR Director Matteo Mecacci is focusing his anger on Russia alone. Moral and ethical principles and political integrity have been lost. What can we discuss with these institutions?
This silence means complicity in the committed atrocities. Complicity is also a crime.
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30.03.2022 (18:00)
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, developing an offensive, have broken through the heavily fortified defences of the enemy, crossed the Shaitanka River and are fighting with units of the 53rd Mechanised Brigade on the approaches to Velikaya Novoselka.
A mop-up of nationalist formations is underway in Zolotaya Niva. The advance was 8 kilometers. Up to 50 personnel, 3 tanks, 5 IFVs and 8 vehicles of various purposes were destroyed in this area.
Units of the Lugansk People's Republic continue their offensive on Severodonetsk. Fighting to mop-up Zhytlovka settlement is underway.
Ukrainian nationalist battalions in Severodonetsk direction suffer serious losses. As a result of the disruption of transport links, possibilities to replenish them are blocked. During the day, over 50 nationalists, 2 tanks, 3 IFVs and 2 missile and artillery depots were destroyed in this area.
Planned regrouping of troops in Kiev and Chernigov directions is underway.
The first stage of the special military operation conducted by the Russian Armed Forces in Donbas and Ukraine was planned to force the enemy to concentrate its forces, means, resources and military equipment to hold on to high populated areas in these directions, including Kiev. To bring them down on the battlefield and, without storming these cities to avoid civilian casualties, inflict such a defeat on the armed formations of the Kiev regime that it would not be able to use these forces in the main direction of our Armed Forces in Donbass.
All these goals have been met.
At the same time, the Russian army also solved another task, namely - in the absence of an inflow of fresh enemy forces from the western and central regions of Ukraine, through professional military action, using the absolute air dominance it had gained, also using modern high-precision weapons - to create all the necessary conditions for the final stage of the operation to liberate the People's Republics of Donbass.
To this end, the long-term defensive fortifications created by the Kiev regime over eight years have been, and continue to be, continuously targeted. All major lines of communication, supply and reserve approach are taken under full control. Ukraine's air defence systems, airfield infrastructure, major military depots, training and mercenary concentration centres have been destroyed. Work on them continues.
Thus, all the main tasks of the Russian Armed Forces in Kiev and Chernigov directions have been completed.
The objective of the regrouping of the Russian Armed Forces is to intensify action in priority areas and, above all, to complete the operation for the total liberation of Donbass.
Over the past day, air defenсe means of the Russian Aerospace Forces shot down 2 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles near Balakleya and Verkhnetoretskoe.
Operational-tactical and army aviation hit 69 military assets of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Among them: 3 command posts, 2 multiple launch rocket system, 8 ammunition and missile-artillery weapons depots and 52 areas of military equipment concentration.
In total, 124 aircfaft and 77 helicopters, 214 unmanned aerial vehicles, 323 unmanned aerial vehicles, 1,767 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 186 multiple launch rocket systems, 741 field artillery and mortars, as well as 1,657 units of special military vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed during the operation.
The Russian Defence Ministry continues to study documents received from employees of Ukrainian laboratories about secret military biological activities of the United States in Ukraine.
A study of the new material by Russian experts of the Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Protection Troops identified specific officials who had been involved in the creation of the biological weapons components.
These are the heads of units and staff of the US Department of Defense, as well as its main contracting companies. As the ongoing journalistic investigations in the Western press show, these campaigns were directly linked to the son of the current US president, Hunter Biden.
As a result of the special military operation, research in a number of Ukrainian bio-laboratories, where work with strains of particularly dangerous pathogens was being carried out on behalf of the Pentagon, has been stopped.
A number of documents obtained from these laboratories, however, reveal the concealment of the test subjects' identities and the serious risk to their lives.
Of particular interest are documents indicating the Kiev regime's plans to use drones capable of carrying and dispersing lethal substances.
The revealed facts prove that the Kiev regime was seriously considering the use of biological weapons against the population of Donbass, and the Russian Federation.
We will provide more details on the results of the analysis of the documents received and the facts revealed at a special briefing in the near future.
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Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova’s answer to a media question about a video depicting how the Ukrainian military is humiliating Russian POWs
29 March 2022 18:34
Question:
There are video clips on the internet showing how fighters from the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) humiliate Russian POWs and they record their murder.
What do the defenders of human rights in the Council of Europe and the OSCE ODIHR say about this?
Maria Zakharova:
They remain silent. They don’t react in any way to these war crimes and flagrant violations of international humanitarian law. Russophobia blinds them. The same is true of high-ranking EU officials. They do not want to “offend” their underlings in Kiev.
Nobody in Strasbourg has raised the issue of expelling Ukraine from the Council of Europe even though there are plenty reasons to do so. ODIHR Director Matteo Mecacci is focusing his anger on Russia alone. Moral and ethical principles and political integrity have been lost. What can we discuss with these institutions?
This silence means complicity in the committed atrocities. Complicity is also a crime.
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Briefing by Russian Defence Ministry
31.03.2022 (10:15)
The units of the Russian Armed Forces, continuing their offensive, took complete control of Zolotaya Niva, crossed Kashlagach River and occupied an advantageous position.
The advance was 6 kilometers. Up to 60 Ukrainian nationalists, 2 tanks, 4 infantry fighting vehicles, 9 vehicles for various purposes were destroyed.
Units of the Lugansk People's Republic, having completed the mopping-up of Zhitlovka, have advanced 5 kilometers and are fighting with nationalists on the outskirts of Kremennaya.
On the evening of March 30, high-precision air-based cruise missiles destroyed large fuel bases in Dnepropetrovsk, Lisichansk, Chuguev and Novomoskovsk, from which fuel was supplied to the Ukrainian military grouping in Donbass.
During the day, operational-tactical and army aviation hit 52 military assets of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Among them: 4 command posts, 1 S-300 anti-aircraft missile system south of Izyum and 1 Buk-M1 near Kurakhovo, 2 multiple aunch rocket systems, 1 ammunition and missile-artillery weapons depot, 2 fuel depots and 38 strong points and areas of military equipment concentration.
Russian air defence means shot down 18 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles in the area of Balakleya, Verbovoye, Verhnetoretskoe, Dokuchaevsk, Korolevka, Komarin, Opytnoe, Pavlovka, Repki, Chernigov, Chernobyl and Shchors, including 1 Bayraktar-TB2 near Bezymyannoe.
In total, 124 aircfaft and 77 helicopters, 216 unmanned aerial vehicles, 341 unmanned aerial vehicles, 1,815 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 195 multiple launch rocket systems, 762 field artillery and mortars, as well as 1,689 units of special military vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed during the operation.
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Comment by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova on US Senator Robert Menendez’s letter to IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi
30 March 2022 17:48
On March 28, Chairman of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee Robert Menendez sent a letter to IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi in which he demanded that the head of this reputable international organisation take urgent steps (including in the UN Security Council) to prevent the subversion of Ukraine’s energy infrastructure by the Armed Forces of Russia. This is a most drastic example of interference in the affairs of the IAEA. Its charter clearly states that in performing his duties, the Director General cannot receive instructions from any source outside the agency. Moreover, each member “undertakes to respect the international character of the responsibilities of the Director General and the staff and shall not seek to influence them in the discharge of their duties.” Who, if not the head of the relevant Senate committee, should know this basic precept?
Menendez made an absurd call to the IAEA to prevent the transport of nuclear fuel from Ukraine and the dismantling of equipment for delivery to Russia. We will explain this expressly for the senator and his aides: it is Russia that sends nuclear fuel to Ukraine (the last time Russia sent it was for the Rovno Nuclear Power Plant in late February). The four Russians that accompanied the delivery are still being held illegally in Ukraine. They are compelled to read out, before a camera, anti-Russia statements that have been written for them. At present, they are still being held as hostages, and we are working for their release.
We have repeatedly reported to the international public that the Russian military has taken under its protection the Chernobyl and the Zaporozhiye nuclear power plants with the express purpose of preventing terrorist attacks. A group of Ukrainian subversives made an abortive attempt to attack the Zaporozhiye NPP on March 4. Ukrainian operators continue working at these plants and no one is interfering in their work. We support the efforts of the IAEA Director General to ensure physical nuclear safety at the above facilities. We are doing this in practice, as distinct from the hollow statements by US Senator Menendez.
It seems the Russophobic hysteria that has swept Capitol Hill has deprived US lawmakers of the ability to see reality. This is the only explanation for their endless calls for anti-Russia actions in authoritative multilateral agencies. These calls are designed to undermine the foundations of international organisations and turn them into appendages for the US’ destructive policy. It is in this context that we view Senator Menendez’s outrageous attempt to exert pressure on the IAEA.
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Statement by Russian Defence Ministry
31.03.2022 (14:15)
As part of a tour through Western parliaments to collect weapons for 'defending Europe and democracy', Zelensky, speaking to Norwegian Storting MPs on March 30, accused Russia of allegedly 'mining the sea' and blocking foreign ships in Ukrainian ports.
Given Zelensky's ignorance of the real situation outside Kiev and the activities of his own subordinates, we officially inform.
Between February 25 and March 4, the remnants of the Ukrainian navy's mine clearing forces planted about 420 sea anchor mines of the YaM-1 type in the waters of Black and Azov seas, 370 in the Black Sea and 50 in the Azov Sea.
As a result of stormy conditions in the Black Sea and due to poor technical condition, about 10 Ukrainian mines have had their bottom anchor wires broken.
Since then, under the influence of wind and surface flows, the Ukrainian mines have drifted freely southwards in the western part of the Black Sea.
One Ukrainian mine was recently discovered and neutralised by Turkish sailors. The second Ukrainian mine is neutralised in Romanian territorial waters.
No one can know where the remaining Ukrainian mines are drifting today. The leadership of the Kiev nationalist regime, which by its criminal actions has created a direct mine threat to the transport and cargo ships of all Black Sea countries, is even more so.
As for Zelensky's lie about allegedly blocking around 100 foreign ships in Ukrainian ports, we explain.
Ukrainian authorities are currently forcibly detaining 68 vessels belonging to Turkey, China, Switzerland, Greece, Malta Panama, Marshall Islands, Sierra Leone, Comoros, Belize, Liberia, Cayman Islands, Denmark, Syria in Chernomorsk, Odessa and Nikolaev ports .
At the same time, the Russian Federation daily from 08:00 to 19:00 Moscow time opens a safe corridor of 80 nautical miles wide for these vessels to leave the territorial waters of Ukraine in the south-western direction.
However, the crews of the ships in question told us in radio conversations that any departure of a foreign vessel from Ukrainian ports was forbidden by the Ukrainian authorities under threat of immediate sinking.
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31.03.2022 (10:15)
The units of the Russian Armed Forces, continuing their offensive, took complete control of Zolotaya Niva, crossed Kashlagach River and occupied an advantageous position.
The advance was 6 kilometers. Up to 60 Ukrainian nationalists, 2 tanks, 4 infantry fighting vehicles, 9 vehicles for various purposes were destroyed.
Units of the Lugansk People's Republic, having completed the mopping-up of Zhitlovka, have advanced 5 kilometers and are fighting with nationalists on the outskirts of Kremennaya.
On the evening of March 30, high-precision air-based cruise missiles destroyed large fuel bases in Dnepropetrovsk, Lisichansk, Chuguev and Novomoskovsk, from which fuel was supplied to the Ukrainian military grouping in Donbass.
During the day, operational-tactical and army aviation hit 52 military assets of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Among them: 4 command posts, 1 S-300 anti-aircraft missile system south of Izyum and 1 Buk-M1 near Kurakhovo, 2 multiple aunch rocket systems, 1 ammunition and missile-artillery weapons depot, 2 fuel depots and 38 strong points and areas of military equipment concentration.
Russian air defence means shot down 18 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles in the area of Balakleya, Verbovoye, Verhnetoretskoe, Dokuchaevsk, Korolevka, Komarin, Opytnoe, Pavlovka, Repki, Chernigov, Chernobyl and Shchors, including 1 Bayraktar-TB2 near Bezymyannoe.
In total, 124 aircfaft and 77 helicopters, 216 unmanned aerial vehicles, 341 unmanned aerial vehicles, 1,815 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 195 multiple launch rocket systems, 762 field artillery and mortars, as well as 1,689 units of special military vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed during the operation.
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Comment by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova on US Senator Robert Menendez’s letter to IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi
30 March 2022 17:48
On March 28, Chairman of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee Robert Menendez sent a letter to IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi in which he demanded that the head of this reputable international organisation take urgent steps (including in the UN Security Council) to prevent the subversion of Ukraine’s energy infrastructure by the Armed Forces of Russia. This is a most drastic example of interference in the affairs of the IAEA. Its charter clearly states that in performing his duties, the Director General cannot receive instructions from any source outside the agency. Moreover, each member “undertakes to respect the international character of the responsibilities of the Director General and the staff and shall not seek to influence them in the discharge of their duties.” Who, if not the head of the relevant Senate committee, should know this basic precept?
Menendez made an absurd call to the IAEA to prevent the transport of nuclear fuel from Ukraine and the dismantling of equipment for delivery to Russia. We will explain this expressly for the senator and his aides: it is Russia that sends nuclear fuel to Ukraine (the last time Russia sent it was for the Rovno Nuclear Power Plant in late February). The four Russians that accompanied the delivery are still being held illegally in Ukraine. They are compelled to read out, before a camera, anti-Russia statements that have been written for them. At present, they are still being held as hostages, and we are working for their release.
We have repeatedly reported to the international public that the Russian military has taken under its protection the Chernobyl and the Zaporozhiye nuclear power plants with the express purpose of preventing terrorist attacks. A group of Ukrainian subversives made an abortive attempt to attack the Zaporozhiye NPP on March 4. Ukrainian operators continue working at these plants and no one is interfering in their work. We support the efforts of the IAEA Director General to ensure physical nuclear safety at the above facilities. We are doing this in practice, as distinct from the hollow statements by US Senator Menendez.
It seems the Russophobic hysteria that has swept Capitol Hill has deprived US lawmakers of the ability to see reality. This is the only explanation for their endless calls for anti-Russia actions in authoritative multilateral agencies. These calls are designed to undermine the foundations of international organisations and turn them into appendages for the US’ destructive policy. It is in this context that we view Senator Menendez’s outrageous attempt to exert pressure on the IAEA.
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Statement by Russian Defence Ministry
31.03.2022 (14:15)
As part of a tour through Western parliaments to collect weapons for 'defending Europe and democracy', Zelensky, speaking to Norwegian Storting MPs on March 30, accused Russia of allegedly 'mining the sea' and blocking foreign ships in Ukrainian ports.
Given Zelensky's ignorance of the real situation outside Kiev and the activities of his own subordinates, we officially inform.
Between February 25 and March 4, the remnants of the Ukrainian navy's mine clearing forces planted about 420 sea anchor mines of the YaM-1 type in the waters of Black and Azov seas, 370 in the Black Sea and 50 in the Azov Sea.
As a result of stormy conditions in the Black Sea and due to poor technical condition, about 10 Ukrainian mines have had their bottom anchor wires broken.
Since then, under the influence of wind and surface flows, the Ukrainian mines have drifted freely southwards in the western part of the Black Sea.
One Ukrainian mine was recently discovered and neutralised by Turkish sailors. The second Ukrainian mine is neutralised in Romanian territorial waters.
No one can know where the remaining Ukrainian mines are drifting today. The leadership of the Kiev nationalist regime, which by its criminal actions has created a direct mine threat to the transport and cargo ships of all Black Sea countries, is even more so.
As for Zelensky's lie about allegedly blocking around 100 foreign ships in Ukrainian ports, we explain.
Ukrainian authorities are currently forcibly detaining 68 vessels belonging to Turkey, China, Switzerland, Greece, Malta Panama, Marshall Islands, Sierra Leone, Comoros, Belize, Liberia, Cayman Islands, Denmark, Syria in Chernomorsk, Odessa and Nikolaev ports .
At the same time, the Russian Federation daily from 08:00 to 19:00 Moscow time opens a safe corridor of 80 nautical miles wide for these vessels to leave the territorial waters of Ukraine in the south-western direction.
However, the crews of the ships in question told us in radio conversations that any departure of a foreign vessel from Ukrainian ports was forbidden by the Ukrainian authorities under threat of immediate sinking.
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Statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation in response to EU sanctions
31 March 2022 18:01
The EU policy of sanctions against Russia oversteps all limits. Following the launch of the special military operation in Ukraine Brussels is arbitrarily imposing unilateral restrictions against numerous Russian citizens and companies. Their personal data is being openly released in contravention of every international legal norm currently in force. Absurd and unlawful “criteria” are hastily being cooked up in order to add more names to the list.
While attempting to portray Russia as the perpetrator of the systemic crisis of European security, Brussels officials refuse to admit that they themselves have over many years connived at the hardening of Russophobic and neo-Nazi sentiments in Ukraine as well as its militarization and alignment with NATO efforts to militarily contain our country. In spite of our repeated pleas, they indulged the Kiev regime’s sabotage of the Minsk “Package of Measures” and its stifling of the Russian language in Ukraine. They turned a blind eye to the methodical extermination of peaceful residents of Donbass.
Now, instead of drawing lessons from what happened Brussels is drifting by inertia towards an impasse by imposing restrictive measures against Russia. Moreover, it seeks to involve other sovereign countries against their national interests into these pointless and illegal efforts, fraught with further escalation in Europe and the wider world. Impose unprecedented pressure and blackmail upon them.
Just as in many other aspects of the “hybrid war” declared by the West against Russia, its citizens, Russian-speakers abroad as well as leading Russian companies, the EU’s intention is evident – to force Russia to renounce its vital interests. This is part and parcel of the collective West’s policy to contain Russia, to subjugate our development to the Western goal of reestablishing its unchallenged global domination, to prevent Russia from ensuring its national security and deny it the right to promote its own constructive agenda on the world stage.
The events of recent weeks demonstrate the futility of these efforts.
The EU’s actions are not only driving the relationship with Russia into a deadlock, but are similarly jeopardizing the well-being and security of its own citizens, as well as the stability of the global financial and economic system.
In response to the unilateral sanctions of the European Union, the Russian side, acting on the basis of reciprocity, which is fundamental for international law, is expanding significantly the list of representatives of EU Member States and institutions who will be denied entry to the Russian Federation in accordance with Federal Law No.114-FZ on the Procedure of Exiting and Entering the Russian Federation of 15 August 1996.
The restrictions apply to the top leadership of the EU, a number of European commissioners and heads of EU military bodies, as well as the overwhelming majority of members of the European Parliament that have advanced anti-Russian policies. The reciprocal Russian blacklist also includes high-level officials including government and parliament members of some EU Member States, public and media figures who are personally responsible for promoting illegal anti-Russian sanctions, inflaming Russophobic sentiments and infringing on the rights and freedoms of Russian-speakers.
The relevant note by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation has been transmitted to the Delegation of the European Union in Moscow in due order, notifying them of measure undertaken.
We reaffirm that any further unfriendly action by the EU and its Member States will inevitably be met with a forceful response.
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31 March 2022 18:01
The EU policy of sanctions against Russia oversteps all limits. Following the launch of the special military operation in Ukraine Brussels is arbitrarily imposing unilateral restrictions against numerous Russian citizens and companies. Their personal data is being openly released in contravention of every international legal norm currently in force. Absurd and unlawful “criteria” are hastily being cooked up in order to add more names to the list.
While attempting to portray Russia as the perpetrator of the systemic crisis of European security, Brussels officials refuse to admit that they themselves have over many years connived at the hardening of Russophobic and neo-Nazi sentiments in Ukraine as well as its militarization and alignment with NATO efforts to militarily contain our country. In spite of our repeated pleas, they indulged the Kiev regime’s sabotage of the Minsk “Package of Measures” and its stifling of the Russian language in Ukraine. They turned a blind eye to the methodical extermination of peaceful residents of Donbass.
Now, instead of drawing lessons from what happened Brussels is drifting by inertia towards an impasse by imposing restrictive measures against Russia. Moreover, it seeks to involve other sovereign countries against their national interests into these pointless and illegal efforts, fraught with further escalation in Europe and the wider world. Impose unprecedented pressure and blackmail upon them.
Just as in many other aspects of the “hybrid war” declared by the West against Russia, its citizens, Russian-speakers abroad as well as leading Russian companies, the EU’s intention is evident – to force Russia to renounce its vital interests. This is part and parcel of the collective West’s policy to contain Russia, to subjugate our development to the Western goal of reestablishing its unchallenged global domination, to prevent Russia from ensuring its national security and deny it the right to promote its own constructive agenda on the world stage.
The events of recent weeks demonstrate the futility of these efforts.
The EU’s actions are not only driving the relationship with Russia into a deadlock, but are similarly jeopardizing the well-being and security of its own citizens, as well as the stability of the global financial and economic system.
In response to the unilateral sanctions of the European Union, the Russian side, acting on the basis of reciprocity, which is fundamental for international law, is expanding significantly the list of representatives of EU Member States and institutions who will be denied entry to the Russian Federation in accordance with Federal Law No.114-FZ on the Procedure of Exiting and Entering the Russian Federation of 15 August 1996.
The restrictions apply to the top leadership of the EU, a number of European commissioners and heads of EU military bodies, as well as the overwhelming majority of members of the European Parliament that have advanced anti-Russian policies. The reciprocal Russian blacklist also includes high-level officials including government and parliament members of some EU Member States, public and media figures who are personally responsible for promoting illegal anti-Russian sanctions, inflaming Russophobic sentiments and infringing on the rights and freedoms of Russian-speakers.
The relevant note by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation has been transmitted to the Delegation of the European Union in Moscow in due order, notifying them of measure undertaken.
We reaffirm that any further unfriendly action by the EU and its Member States will inevitably be met with a forceful response.
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