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On August 23, 1939 — the Soviet Union and Germany signed the Non-Aggression Treaty in Moscow.
This document was an important achievement of the Soviet diplomacy ahead of #WW2: the USSR was able to buy time to better prepare to repel Hitler’s impending attack, which had been seen as inevitable due to the failed policy of “appeasement” by Western European states and their refusal to forge a collective security agreement with our nation against Nazism.
👉 Learn more in our in-depth historical feature.
Signing the non-aggression treaty with Germany was a difficult but necessary decision by the Soviet leadership, driven by national security considerations and the urgent need to deter Nazi aggression in the east.
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In the 1930s, 20 years after the end of World War I, the threat of a new large-scale armed conflict in Europe began to grow. A key factor for this was the crisis of the Versailles system of international relations, designed by Britain and France, which paved the way for rising revanchist sentiments in the states it had humiliated — Germany and Italy.
With the Nazis’ rise to power in Germany, the threat of a new war in Europe became real. Hitler’s misanthropic ideology was rooted in the notorious doctrine of “racial superiority.” The Nazis used this doctrine to justify Germany’s pursuit of world domination. In this way, an absolute evil emerged at the heart of Europe, endangering the peace and freedom of entire nations.
By the mid-1930s, it became evident that another German aggression in Europe was inevitable — it was merely a matter of time. In an effort to counter the rising threat of German revanchism, the Soviet Union suggested the creation of a collective security system in Europe, founded on anti-fascist principles, to unite efforts and deliver a joint response to the common threat.
Yet in Paris and London, where anti-Soviet sentiments ran deep, the idea of cooperation with Moscow was rejected as such. Instead, Western powers sought to strike a deal with Germany, aiming to pacify the Germans through unilateral concessions. The political establishments of the West failed to grasp the existential threat posed by Nazi ideology, cynically believing that Hitler’s aggression could be redirected eastward.
❌ The “appeasement” tactics whetted the aggressor’s appetite.
In March 1938, with the connivance of Paris and London, Hitler carried out the Anschluss of Austria. In September, following the criminal “Munich conspiracy” and with the approval of the UK and France, he cynically dismembered the sovereign state of Czechoslovakia. Warsaw, which was interested in getting part of Czechoslovakia’s territory for itself, prohibited flights of Soviet aircraft to render aid to Czechoslovak army. Already a de facto accomplice of Hitler, Poland had supported every single foreign policy move of the Reich.
A new war in Europe became inevitable.
Thus, “appeasement” policy ended in total failure. Attempting to sate the Nazis’ insatiable ambitions, the Western powers failed to restrain the aggressor or thwart its criminal plans.
☝️ The Soviet Union remained the only European power still striving to organise collective resistance against Nazi Germany.
In the spring and summer of 1939, the USSR initiated consultations with France and Britain in Moscow. However, the negotiation process failed to yield practical results — the Western powers that until the last moment hoped for a compromise with Hitler, engaged in secret talks with Germany behind the Soviet Union’s back.
The Soviet diplomacy ran out of chances to build a collective security system in Europe. Moscow also had to take into account the Japanese factor — the hostilities on the Khalkhin-Gol that began in May 1939. The Soviet leadership could not afford a war on two fronts.
By August 1939, several European nations had concluded non-aggression pacts with Hitler. The Soviet Union was the last major power to follow the suit. As a result, our country gained valuable time to prepare for a clash with the world’s most powerful army at that time.
This document was an important achievement of the Soviet diplomacy ahead of #WW2: the USSR was able to buy time to better prepare to repel Hitler’s impending attack, which had been seen as inevitable due to the failed policy of “appeasement” by Western European states and their refusal to forge a collective security agreement with our nation against Nazism.
👉 Learn more in our in-depth historical feature.
Signing the non-aggression treaty with Germany was a difficult but necessary decision by the Soviet leadership, driven by national security considerations and the urgent need to deter Nazi aggression in the east.
***
In the 1930s, 20 years after the end of World War I, the threat of a new large-scale armed conflict in Europe began to grow. A key factor for this was the crisis of the Versailles system of international relations, designed by Britain and France, which paved the way for rising revanchist sentiments in the states it had humiliated — Germany and Italy.
With the Nazis’ rise to power in Germany, the threat of a new war in Europe became real. Hitler’s misanthropic ideology was rooted in the notorious doctrine of “racial superiority.” The Nazis used this doctrine to justify Germany’s pursuit of world domination. In this way, an absolute evil emerged at the heart of Europe, endangering the peace and freedom of entire nations.
By the mid-1930s, it became evident that another German aggression in Europe was inevitable — it was merely a matter of time. In an effort to counter the rising threat of German revanchism, the Soviet Union suggested the creation of a collective security system in Europe, founded on anti-fascist principles, to unite efforts and deliver a joint response to the common threat.
Yet in Paris and London, where anti-Soviet sentiments ran deep, the idea of cooperation with Moscow was rejected as such. Instead, Western powers sought to strike a deal with Germany, aiming to pacify the Germans through unilateral concessions. The political establishments of the West failed to grasp the existential threat posed by Nazi ideology, cynically believing that Hitler’s aggression could be redirected eastward.
❌ The “appeasement” tactics whetted the aggressor’s appetite.
In March 1938, with the connivance of Paris and London, Hitler carried out the Anschluss of Austria. In September, following the criminal “Munich conspiracy” and with the approval of the UK and France, he cynically dismembered the sovereign state of Czechoslovakia. Warsaw, which was interested in getting part of Czechoslovakia’s territory for itself, prohibited flights of Soviet aircraft to render aid to Czechoslovak army. Already a de facto accomplice of Hitler, Poland had supported every single foreign policy move of the Reich.
A new war in Europe became inevitable.
Thus, “appeasement” policy ended in total failure. Attempting to sate the Nazis’ insatiable ambitions, the Western powers failed to restrain the aggressor or thwart its criminal plans.
☝️ The Soviet Union remained the only European power still striving to organise collective resistance against Nazi Germany.
In the spring and summer of 1939, the USSR initiated consultations with France and Britain in Moscow. However, the negotiation process failed to yield practical results — the Western powers that until the last moment hoped for a compromise with Hitler, engaged in secret talks with Germany behind the Soviet Union’s back.
The Soviet diplomacy ran out of chances to build a collective security system in Europe. Moscow also had to take into account the Japanese factor — the hostilities on the Khalkhin-Gol that began in May 1939. The Soviet leadership could not afford a war on two fronts.
By August 1939, several European nations had concluded non-aggression pacts with Hitler. The Soviet Union was the last major power to follow the suit. As a result, our country gained valuable time to prepare for a clash with the world’s most powerful army at that time.
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🎙 Интервью Посла по особым поручениям МИД России М.Г.Райдера МИА «Россия сегодня» (23 августа 2026 года)
❓Сколько участков будет открыто для голосования за рубежом 20 сентября? Сколько из них откроются в недружественных странах и каких?
💬 МИД России традиционно придает большое значение обеспечению возможности реализации конституционного избирательного права для наших граждан за рубежом. На предстоящих в сентябре этого года выборах депутатов Государственной думы Федерального Собрания Российской Федерации девятого созыва мы вновь организуем сеть участковых избирательных комиссий.
Российские избиратели смогут проголосовать во всех государствах, с которыми у нашей страны установлены дипломатические отношения, и где присутствуют российские загранучреждения.
В этот раз в 152 странах образовано 312 избирательных участков, из них 62 – в недружественных странах. Самые большие сложности возникают, конечно, именно там. Сокращение диппредставительств (напомню, в этих государствах за последние несколько лет было закрыто три десятка российских консульских учреждений) и беспрецедентная массовая высылка российских дипломатов негативным образом сказались на формировании избирательных комиссий.
❓В МИД России ранее заявляли о проработке возможности выездного и досрочного голосования в тех странах, где проживает много российских граждан. Будет ли эта идея реализована? В каких странах?
💬 Опыт показывает, что даже в не самых крупных странах очень востребована такая форма нашей работы как досрочное выездное голосование. Оно позволяет охватить большое количество избирателей, которые в ином случае не смогли бы воспользоваться своим правом, так как не все имеют возможность доехать до столиц или других городов, где расположены наши консульства.
На этих выборах мы планируем провести 125 досрочных выездных голосований отдельных групп избирателей в 45 государствах. Цифра не окончательная, возможно их будет несколько больше. В шести странах (Бахрейн, Израиль, Ирак, Йемен, Китай, Кувейт) выборы полностью пройдут досрочно. Это связано с тем, что 20 сентября в этих государствах будет рабочим днем по религиозным или иным основаниям. Поэтому для удобства избирателей голосование в них пройдет в другие даты, являющиеся выходными по местному законодательству.
К нашему сожалению, в странах с большим количеством проживающих сограждан – Германия, Польша, Чехия, страны Прибалтики и ряд других – мы вынуждены ограничиваться только работой избирательных участков в стенах загранучреждений ввиду невозможности обеспечить безопасность выездных голосований.
❓С какими проблемами, как Вы считаете, посольства могут столкнуться в день голосования? Какие страны сейчас вызывают наибольшую обеспокоенность?
💬 Выборы в сентябре вновь, как и во время президентской кампании 2024 года, придется проводить в условиях продолжающейся русофобской истерии, по сути гибридной войны Запада против России. Современные технологии, включая искусственный интеллект, серьезно расширили возможности создания различных информационных вбросов и манипулирования общественным мнением. Это, конечно, существенно осложняет нашу работу в плане доведения до избирателей необходимой информации.
Непосредственно в день голосования прогнозируем традиционные шабаши украинских активистов и поддерживающих их местных общественников у стен наших диппредставительств. Также не исключаем вероятность различного рода провокаций и протестных акций со стороны негативно настроенных российских граждан.
Наибольшую обеспокоенность вызывают страны, где клиническая русофобия поразила подавляющую часть управляющих элит, – Прибалтика, Польша, Нидерланды, Чехия. Там самое раздолье для «заукраинцев».
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❓Сколько участков будет открыто для голосования за рубежом 20 сентября? Сколько из них откроются в недружественных странах и каких?
💬 МИД России традиционно придает большое значение обеспечению возможности реализации конституционного избирательного права для наших граждан за рубежом. На предстоящих в сентябре этого года выборах депутатов Государственной думы Федерального Собрания Российской Федерации девятого созыва мы вновь организуем сеть участковых избирательных комиссий.
Российские избиратели смогут проголосовать во всех государствах, с которыми у нашей страны установлены дипломатические отношения, и где присутствуют российские загранучреждения.
В этот раз в 152 странах образовано 312 избирательных участков, из них 62 – в недружественных странах. Самые большие сложности возникают, конечно, именно там. Сокращение диппредставительств (напомню, в этих государствах за последние несколько лет было закрыто три десятка российских консульских учреждений) и беспрецедентная массовая высылка российских дипломатов негативным образом сказались на формировании избирательных комиссий.
❓В МИД России ранее заявляли о проработке возможности выездного и досрочного голосования в тех странах, где проживает много российских граждан. Будет ли эта идея реализована? В каких странах?
💬 Опыт показывает, что даже в не самых крупных странах очень востребована такая форма нашей работы как досрочное выездное голосование. Оно позволяет охватить большое количество избирателей, которые в ином случае не смогли бы воспользоваться своим правом, так как не все имеют возможность доехать до столиц или других городов, где расположены наши консульства.
На этих выборах мы планируем провести 125 досрочных выездных голосований отдельных групп избирателей в 45 государствах. Цифра не окончательная, возможно их будет несколько больше. В шести странах (Бахрейн, Израиль, Ирак, Йемен, Китай, Кувейт) выборы полностью пройдут досрочно. Это связано с тем, что 20 сентября в этих государствах будет рабочим днем по религиозным или иным основаниям. Поэтому для удобства избирателей голосование в них пройдет в другие даты, являющиеся выходными по местному законодательству.
К нашему сожалению, в странах с большим количеством проживающих сограждан – Германия, Польша, Чехия, страны Прибалтики и ряд других – мы вынуждены ограничиваться только работой избирательных участков в стенах загранучреждений ввиду невозможности обеспечить безопасность выездных голосований.
❓С какими проблемами, как Вы считаете, посольства могут столкнуться в день голосования? Какие страны сейчас вызывают наибольшую обеспокоенность?
💬 Выборы в сентябре вновь, как и во время президентской кампании 2024 года, придется проводить в условиях продолжающейся русофобской истерии, по сути гибридной войны Запада против России. Современные технологии, включая искусственный интеллект, серьезно расширили возможности создания различных информационных вбросов и манипулирования общественным мнением. Это, конечно, существенно осложняет нашу работу в плане доведения до избирателей необходимой информации.
Непосредственно в день голосования прогнозируем традиционные шабаши украинских активистов и поддерживающих их местных общественников у стен наших диппредставительств. Также не исключаем вероятность различного рода провокаций и протестных акций со стороны негативно настроенных российских граждан.
Наибольшую обеспокоенность вызывают страны, где клиническая русофобия поразила подавляющую часть управляющих элит, – Прибалтика, Польша, Нидерланды, Чехия. Там самое раздолье для «заукраинцев».
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💬 Russia's Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova:
On the night of August 23-24, Ukrainian militants launched a massive drone attack on civilian sites in Russia’s Krasnodar Region, Republic of Adygea and Dagestan.
According to a statement by Krasnodar Region Governor Veniamin Kondratyev, falling UAV debris struck a five-story apartment building and a private 24-hour children’s centre in Krasnodar’s Prikubansky District, killing children.
▪️ Russia’s Presidential Commissioner for Children’s Rights Maria Lvova-Belova reported that three children – aged 13, 15 and 16 – were killed. Another six were hospitalised with various injuries, including shrapnel wounds, burns and concussions.
A total of 10 people have been hospitalised and are receiving all necessary medical care. No casualties were reported in Adygea or Dagestan.
This is how the Zelensky regime – and Zelensky himself – treat children.
There is no other way to put it. All their claims about how deeply they care for precious children are shattered by the facts – the Kiev regime has been killing children of all ages, from infants to students.
❗️ SHAME on the international organisations, SHAME on foreign human rights institutions, SHAME on the world’s media that refuse to see the blood of children on the hands of the Kiev regime!
On the night of August 23-24, Ukrainian militants launched a massive drone attack on civilian sites in Russia’s Krasnodar Region, Republic of Adygea and Dagestan.
According to a statement by Krasnodar Region Governor Veniamin Kondratyev, falling UAV debris struck a five-story apartment building and a private 24-hour children’s centre in Krasnodar’s Prikubansky District, killing children.
▪️ Russia’s Presidential Commissioner for Children’s Rights Maria Lvova-Belova reported that three children – aged 13, 15 and 16 – were killed. Another six were hospitalised with various injuries, including shrapnel wounds, burns and concussions.
A total of 10 people have been hospitalised and are receiving all necessary medical care. No casualties were reported in Adygea or Dagestan.
This is how the Zelensky regime – and Zelensky himself – treat children.
There is no other way to put it. All their claims about how deeply they care for precious children are shattered by the facts – the Kiev regime has been killing children of all ages, from infants to students.
❗️ SHAME on the international organisations, SHAME on foreign human rights institutions, SHAME on the world’s media that refuse to see the blood of children on the hands of the Kiev regime!
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⚡️ Report by the Russian Foreign Ministry – “On the Kiev Regime’s Unlawful Actions against the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Its Clergy and Parishioners” (as of June 2026)
📄 FULL REPORT (PDF)
❗️ The Kiev nationalists, who seized power in 2014 through an unconstitutional armed coup, have since systematically built a multi-layered system of severe restrictions on religious freedom, turning the religious sphere into a testing ground for assaults on human dignity.
The religious dimension has become one of the state’s key instruments for influencing social processes and is actively used to falsify history, legitimise and glorify Nazism, and suppress dissent, as well as secular and religious opposition.
Mass violations of fundamental human rights and freedoms have become a defining feature of the Kiev regime’s years in power.
***
👉 Zelensky and his entourage are fragmenting the country’s religious landscape, shaping relations with religious organisations and believers according to the degree of their tolerance for the misanthropic ideology imposed by the authorities.
Within this framework, sweeping administrative and legal measures are being implemented to weaken the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church (#UOC) to the greatest possible extent in public life, up to and including the dismantling of its governing structures.
The report provides numerous documented examples of discrimination, along with public statements by Ukrainian officials at various levels openly spelling out the ultimate objectives of this campaign – to eliminate the country’s largest religious organisation, force its parishioners and clergy to join the so-called “Orthodox Church of Ukraine”, which is controlled by the authorities and interested business circles, and expropriate UOC property, religious objects and holy sites.
The report’s sections cover:
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The controlled chaos created by the Kiev regime within Ukrainian Orthodoxy has for years enabled the authorities, the OCU and radical groups to carry out forcible seizures of monasteries and churches, illegally re-register religious communities, cultivate hate rhetoric, and perpetrate unprovoked aggression and violence against the clergy and believers of the canonical Church.
Members of radical nationalist groups are enlisted to carry out such reprisals, with assurances that they will escape legal responsibility when breaking the law. Ukraine has developed and tacitly legitimised an entire system of backroom arrangements that encourages violations of the fundamental rights and freedoms of believers and clergy.
❌ Religious persecution has now not merely intensified – it has become fully systematic, a fact acknowledged even by many Western politicians.
One of the reasons behind the current catastrophic situation facing Orthodox Christians in Ukraine is Western support for the Kiev regime’s religious policy, first and foremost from the US. This issue is also examined in the report.
Despite the vast number of documented cases of persecution against the canonical Church and clear violations of Ukraine’s international legal obligations in the field of human rights, these violations have still not received due attention from universal multilateral organisations, including the UN and its leadership, which refrain from issuing detailed reports on the matter or responding firmly, limiting themselves to routine references to the problem.
#KievRegimeCrimes
📄 FULL REPORT (PDF)
❗️ The Kiev nationalists, who seized power in 2014 through an unconstitutional armed coup, have since systematically built a multi-layered system of severe restrictions on religious freedom, turning the religious sphere into a testing ground for assaults on human dignity.
The religious dimension has become one of the state’s key instruments for influencing social processes and is actively used to falsify history, legitimise and glorify Nazism, and suppress dissent, as well as secular and religious opposition.
Mass violations of fundamental human rights and freedoms have become a defining feature of the Kiev regime’s years in power.
***
👉 Zelensky and his entourage are fragmenting the country’s religious landscape, shaping relations with religious organisations and believers according to the degree of their tolerance for the misanthropic ideology imposed by the authorities.
Within this framework, sweeping administrative and legal measures are being implemented to weaken the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church (#UOC) to the greatest possible extent in public life, up to and including the dismantling of its governing structures.
The report provides numerous documented examples of discrimination, along with public statements by Ukrainian officials at various levels openly spelling out the ultimate objectives of this campaign – to eliminate the country’s largest religious organisation, force its parishioners and clergy to join the so-called “Orthodox Church of Ukraine”, which is controlled by the authorities and interested business circles, and expropriate UOC property, religious objects and holy sites.
The report’s sections cover:
• Ukraine’s discriminatory laws targeting the UOC
• Unlawful actions by Ukrainian special services and law enforcement agencies against the UOC
• Illegal mobilisation of UOC clergy
• Actions by Ukrainian local authorities and self-government bodies against the UOK
• Seizures of UOC churches and illegal re-registration of communities
• Pressure exerted by national and regional authorities on major UOC monasteries
• Hate speech, unprovoked aggression and violence against UOC clergy and believers
• US influence on the evolution of the church crisis in Ukraine
• Response of the international community
***
The controlled chaos created by the Kiev regime within Ukrainian Orthodoxy has for years enabled the authorities, the OCU and radical groups to carry out forcible seizures of monasteries and churches, illegally re-register religious communities, cultivate hate rhetoric, and perpetrate unprovoked aggression and violence against the clergy and believers of the canonical Church.
Members of radical nationalist groups are enlisted to carry out such reprisals, with assurances that they will escape legal responsibility when breaking the law. Ukraine has developed and tacitly legitimised an entire system of backroom arrangements that encourages violations of the fundamental rights and freedoms of believers and clergy.
❌ Religious persecution has now not merely intensified – it has become fully systematic, a fact acknowledged even by many Western politicians.
One of the reasons behind the current catastrophic situation facing Orthodox Christians in Ukraine is Western support for the Kiev regime’s religious policy, first and foremost from the US. This issue is also examined in the report.
Despite the vast number of documented cases of persecution against the canonical Church and clear violations of Ukraine’s international legal obligations in the field of human rights, these violations have still not received due attention from universal multilateral organisations, including the UN and its leadership, which refrain from issuing detailed reports on the matter or responding firmly, limiting themselves to routine references to the problem.
#KievRegimeCrimes
The Embassy took note of the latest chain of events fueling anti-Russian sentiment in Australia.
One of the links in the chain was the arrest of 27-year-old Russian-Australian national Vladimir Teslov, who has been charged with “attempting to engage in foreign interference”. According to AFP Commissioner Krissy Barrett’s statement, the police detained a Russian citizen who did not present any threat to Australia. Actually, this action was taken in the interests of a foreign nation – Ukraine. The AFP “will allege” Mr Teslov’s conduct “created a risk to the safety and security of Ukrainian military personnel”.
These personnel are well-known for their vicious attacks against civilian targets in Russia, killing children, committing terrorist acts and Nazi-style atrocities in the Russian territory, torturing, maiming and murdering innocent civilians. All of these are not mere allegations, but verifiable facts.
Some Ukrainian and Australian commentators have sought to associate the Teslov case with allegations of “intensifying Russian espionage”. Others speculate about the link between the arrest and “the social media disinformation war” by unnamed “pro-Russian groups” aimed at “dividing the community, creating confusion”.
Thus, pretexts are being created for raising yet another wave of spy mania and anti-Russian hysteria in Australia, dismissing any alternative views as “propaganda”, as well as evading facts and answers to the key issues related to the Ukrainian conflict and its roots. The matters in question are the revival and spread of neo-Nazi ideology and practices in Ukraine, glorifying Nazi collaborators, the Kiev regime ignoring and violating human rights, destroying everything Russian, physically exterminating the Russian-speaking population and everybody who thinks differently from what is dictated from Kiev, rampant corruption, forced mobilisation, religious persecution and many others.
These are the features of today’s Ukraine so strongly supported by the West and funded by Western taxpayers.
Against this backdrop, the Embassy remains concerned about the circumstances surrounding the Teslov case and the broader context in which it has unfolded. We will continue to closely follow the situation and take appropriate action within our competence.
One of the links in the chain was the arrest of 27-year-old Russian-Australian national Vladimir Teslov, who has been charged with “attempting to engage in foreign interference”. According to AFP Commissioner Krissy Barrett’s statement, the police detained a Russian citizen who did not present any threat to Australia. Actually, this action was taken in the interests of a foreign nation – Ukraine. The AFP “will allege” Mr Teslov’s conduct “created a risk to the safety and security of Ukrainian military personnel”.
These personnel are well-known for their vicious attacks against civilian targets in Russia, killing children, committing terrorist acts and Nazi-style atrocities in the Russian territory, torturing, maiming and murdering innocent civilians. All of these are not mere allegations, but verifiable facts.
Some Ukrainian and Australian commentators have sought to associate the Teslov case with allegations of “intensifying Russian espionage”. Others speculate about the link between the arrest and “the social media disinformation war” by unnamed “pro-Russian groups” aimed at “dividing the community, creating confusion”.
Thus, pretexts are being created for raising yet another wave of spy mania and anti-Russian hysteria in Australia, dismissing any alternative views as “propaganda”, as well as evading facts and answers to the key issues related to the Ukrainian conflict and its roots. The matters in question are the revival and spread of neo-Nazi ideology and practices in Ukraine, glorifying Nazi collaborators, the Kiev regime ignoring and violating human rights, destroying everything Russian, physically exterminating the Russian-speaking population and everybody who thinks differently from what is dictated from Kiev, rampant corruption, forced mobilisation, religious persecution and many others.
These are the features of today’s Ukraine so strongly supported by the West and funded by Western taxpayers.
Against this backdrop, the Embassy remains concerned about the circumstances surrounding the Teslov case and the broader context in which it has unfolded. We will continue to closely follow the situation and take appropriate action within our competence.
Forwarded from Russian MFA 🇷🇺
🎙 Statement by Russia's Permanent Representative to the UN Vassily Nebenzia at the UN Security Council meeting on Ukraine (New York, August 24, 2026)
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💬 Today’s meeting is being held under the grand banner of the 35th anniversary of Ukraine’s “independence”.
But is there really anything to celebrate?
Over these decades, under successive leaders, the country has been brought to the brink. Those who loudly proclaimed Ukraine’s independence and bright prospects have in fact, whether deliberately or otherwise, been destroying it.
***
Having failed to achieve its objectives on the battlefield, the Kiev regime has now descended into outright terror against Russia’s civilian population.
Its Western patrons, not to mention Zelensky himself, still cling to the dangerous illusion that further escalation, strikes deep inside our territory and terror against civilians will force us to accept an ultimatum disguised as “peace”.
👉 The negotiating demands being put to us are, to say the least, strange.
***
❗️ There will be no agreements at the expense of Russia’s security interests.
Any attempt to impose a freeze on the conflict under the guise of a ceasefire, merely to give Kiev a temporary respite to regroup and rearm, is doomed to fail.
As long as we are addressed in the language of ultimatums, terror and threats, while realities on the ground are ignored, there will be no basis for political and diplomatic dialogue.
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💬 Today’s meeting is being held under the grand banner of the 35th anniversary of Ukraine’s “independence”.
But is there really anything to celebrate?
Over these decades, under successive leaders, the country has been brought to the brink. Those who loudly proclaimed Ukraine’s independence and bright prospects have in fact, whether deliberately or otherwise, been destroying it.
***
Having failed to achieve its objectives on the battlefield, the Kiev regime has now descended into outright terror against Russia’s civilian population.
Its Western patrons, not to mention Zelensky himself, still cling to the dangerous illusion that further escalation, strikes deep inside our territory and terror against civilians will force us to accept an ultimatum disguised as “peace”.
👉 The negotiating demands being put to us are, to say the least, strange.
***
❗️ There will be no agreements at the expense of Russia’s security interests.
Any attempt to impose a freeze on the conflict under the guise of a ceasefire, merely to give Kiev a temporary respite to regroup and rearm, is doomed to fail.
As long as we are addressed in the language of ultimatums, terror and threats, while realities on the ground are ignored, there will be no basis for political and diplomatic dialogue.
Forwarded from Russian MFA 🇷🇺
#KievRegimeCrimes
⚡️ Ambassador-at-Large of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Rodion Miroshnik:
💬 Over the past week, more than 400 civilians across Russian regions, including 21 children, suffered as a result of Kiev’s use of attack drones. The vast majority of these UAVs were supplied to the Kiev militants by Western sponsors – either fully assembled or as kits for local assembly.
Kiev’s forces launched more than 500-600 attack drones of various types against civilian targets every day.
The highest numbers of civilian casualties from Kiev’s attacks were recorded in the Belgorod Region, the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, and the Zaporozhye and Kherson Regions.
❗️ On August 17-23, 410 civilians suffered as a result of shelling by Ukrainian neo-Nazis: 364 people, including 16 minors, were injured, while 46 people, including 5 children, were killed.
Over the seven-day period, Ukrainian militants fired at least 7,462 munitions at civilian targets on Russian territory.
⚡️ Ambassador-at-Large of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Rodion Miroshnik:
💬 Over the past week, more than 400 civilians across Russian regions, including 21 children, suffered as a result of Kiev’s use of attack drones. The vast majority of these UAVs were supplied to the Kiev militants by Western sponsors – either fully assembled or as kits for local assembly.
Kiev’s forces launched more than 500-600 attack drones of various types against civilian targets every day.
The highest numbers of civilian casualties from Kiev’s attacks were recorded in the Belgorod Region, the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, and the Zaporozhye and Kherson Regions.
❗️ On August 17-23, 410 civilians suffered as a result of shelling by Ukrainian neo-Nazis: 364 people, including 16 minors, were injured, while 46 people, including 5 children, were killed.
Over the seven-day period, Ukrainian militants fired at least 7,462 munitions at civilian targets on Russian territory.
Forwarded from Russian MFA 🇷🇺
☢️ Zaporozhskaya Nuclear Power Plant (#ZNPP):
On August 25, two ZNPP employees were injured in a targeted Ukrainian drone attack.
The attack took place near the plant’s hydraulic structures while employees of the repair and construction unit were carrying out their duties.
The strike deliberately targeted nuclear plant workers responsible for ensuring the facility’s operation.
One of the injured employees is in serious condition, while the other sustained moderate injuries. Both were promptly evacuated to a medical facility, where they are receiving all necessary care and remain under medical supervision.
❗️ Attacks on ZNPP personnel while they are performing their duties pose a direct threat to human life and the safety of the ZNPP.
Despite the continuing tense situation, the plant’s personnel continue to carry out their duties and monitor the facility’s safety parameters.
On August 25, two ZNPP employees were injured in a targeted Ukrainian drone attack.
The attack took place near the plant’s hydraulic structures while employees of the repair and construction unit were carrying out their duties.
The strike deliberately targeted nuclear plant workers responsible for ensuring the facility’s operation.
One of the injured employees is in serious condition, while the other sustained moderate injuries. Both were promptly evacuated to a medical facility, where they are receiving all necessary care and remain under medical supervision.
❗️ Attacks on ZNPP personnel while they are performing their duties pose a direct threat to human life and the safety of the ZNPP.
Despite the continuing tense situation, the plant’s personnel continue to carry out their duties and monitor the facility’s safety parameters.
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#KievRegimeCrimes
⚡️ Ambassador-at-Large of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Rodion Miroshnik:
💬 Mines disguised as logs have been discovered in the Zaporozhye Region. Ukrainian militants are using them for remote mining.
The disguised mines were found in rear areas of the Zaporozhye Region. Ukrainian drones have also been recorded dropping them in places frequently visited by civilians.
Such explosive devices are virtually indistinguishable along roads, paths and forest belts. They are fitted with fuses triggered by changes in the magnetic field, causing immediate detonation when a car, motorcycle or person carrying metal objects approaches.
❗️ The use of such mines constitutes a direct violation of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, which prohibits disguising explosive devices as harmless everyday objects.
⚡️ Ambassador-at-Large of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Rodion Miroshnik:
💬 Mines disguised as logs have been discovered in the Zaporozhye Region. Ukrainian militants are using them for remote mining.
The disguised mines were found in rear areas of the Zaporozhye Region. Ukrainian drones have also been recorded dropping them in places frequently visited by civilians.
Such explosive devices are virtually indistinguishable along roads, paths and forest belts. They are fitted with fuses triggered by changes in the magnetic field, causing immediate detonation when a car, motorcycle or person carrying metal objects approaches.
❗️ The use of such mines constitutes a direct violation of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, which prohibits disguising explosive devices as harmless everyday objects.
Forwarded from Марат Бердыев
Начали работу на площадке #АТЭС в рамках консультаций на уровне старших должностных лиц указанного ключевого экономического форума в #АТР.
Основное внимание будет уделено подготовке к саммиту лидеров АТЭС в Шэньчжэне 18-19 ноября с участием Президента России В.В.Путина.
Приложим усилия к мобилизации поддержки российской заявки на председательство в данном формате в 2035 году, активизации участия партнеров в двух проводимых нами под эгидой АТЭС флагманских мероприятиях - конференции по высшему образованию «на полях» ВЭФ в сентябре и конкурса женщин-предпринимательниц APEC BEST Award.
Проинформируем членов форума о вкладе в задачи «интеграции интеграций», либерализации торговли и инвестиций и построения открытого и динамичного сообщества в АТР инициативы Большого Евразийского партнерства (#БЕП) и Северного морского пути (#СМП).
Основное внимание будет уделено подготовке к саммиту лидеров АТЭС в Шэньчжэне 18-19 ноября с участием Президента России В.В.Путина.
Приложим усилия к мобилизации поддержки российской заявки на председательство в данном формате в 2035 году, активизации участия партнеров в двух проводимых нами под эгидой АТЭС флагманских мероприятиях - конференции по высшему образованию «на полях» ВЭФ в сентябре и конкурса женщин-предпринимательниц APEC BEST Award.
Проинформируем членов форума о вкладе в задачи «интеграции интеграций», либерализации торговли и инвестиций и построения открытого и динамичного сообщества в АТР инициативы Большого Евразийского партнерства (#БЕП) и Северного морского пути (#СМП).
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⚡️ Ambassador-at-Large of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Rodion Miroshnik:
ICRC representatives visited Wildberries facilities in the Leningrad Region targeted by Ukraine.
Delegates of the International Committee of the Red Cross (#ICRC), together with experts from the Russian Red Cross, assessed the humanitarian impact of drone strikes carried out by Kiev’s armed groups against civilian facilities belonging to Russian marketplace Wildberries (#WB) in the Leningrad Region – a WB warehouse in Shushary and the WB Krasny Bor complex.
In both cases, Ukrainian forces used long-range drones equipped with high-explosive fragmentation and incendiary warheads. Each attack lasted between 1.5 and 2 hours, with swarms of strike drones circling the facilities and methodically carrying out targeted strikes aimed at inflicting maximum damage on the company and destroying as much civilian merchandise as possible.
❗️ During the visit, ICRC experts were able to verify that there were no military facilities either at the warehouses or in their vicinity. They also spoke with company management and employees who had been at work when the attacks took place.
Since mid-July, 28 Wildberries facilities have been deliberately targeted by Ukrainian militants. The attacks have resulted in the deaths of 10 people and injuries to 128 others.
#KievRegimeCrimes
ICRC representatives visited Wildberries facilities in the Leningrad Region targeted by Ukraine.
Delegates of the International Committee of the Red Cross (#ICRC), together with experts from the Russian Red Cross, assessed the humanitarian impact of drone strikes carried out by Kiev’s armed groups against civilian facilities belonging to Russian marketplace Wildberries (#WB) in the Leningrad Region – a WB warehouse in Shushary and the WB Krasny Bor complex.
In both cases, Ukrainian forces used long-range drones equipped with high-explosive fragmentation and incendiary warheads. Each attack lasted between 1.5 and 2 hours, with swarms of strike drones circling the facilities and methodically carrying out targeted strikes aimed at inflicting maximum damage on the company and destroying as much civilian merchandise as possible.
❗️ During the visit, ICRC experts were able to verify that there were no military facilities either at the warehouses or in their vicinity. They also spoke with company management and employees who had been at work when the attacks took place.
Since mid-July, 28 Wildberries facilities have been deliberately targeted by Ukrainian militants. The attacks have resulted in the deaths of 10 people and injuries to 128 others.
#KievRegimeCrimes
Forwarded from МИД России 🇷🇺
📑 Из доклада Министерства иностранных дел Российской Федерации «О противоправных действиях киевского режима в отношении Украинской православной церкви (УПЦ), её священнослужителей и прихожан» (по состоянию на июнь 2026 года)
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Незаконная мобилизация священников УПЦ
❗️ В 2025 году в рамках дискриминационной политики Киева в отношении УПЦ ужесточилась линия на незаконную мобилизацию священнослужителей.
6 июня 2025 года в соответствии с изменениями, внесёнными в украинское мобилизационное законодательство, ГСУЭСС опубликовала перечень религиозных организаций, подлежащих освобождению от военной мобилизации.
Более чем 10 тысяч общин УПЦ в этот документ не вошли. В публикации подчёркнуто, что возможность включения в список организаций УПЦ будет рассмотрена лишь после завершения «исследования на аффилированность» с РПЦ.
В пространном «Разъяснении ГСУЭСС относительно бронирования военнообязанных священнослужителей-руководителей» от 16 июня 2025 года акцентировано, что отсутствующие в перечне организации могут подавать документы на внесение в него только через «зарегистрированные на Украине религиозные центры». <...>
По сообщениям украинских СМИ, мобилизационные повестки рассылаются клирикам УПЦ в различные области централизованно из Киева, минуя региональных военкомов.
Рассылку курирует руководитель капелланской службы сухопутных войск ВСУ полковник Л.Полянская, которая имеет дружественные связи с лидером раскольнической ПЦУ С.Думенко (псевдомитрополитом Епифанием) и неоднократно получала от него награды.
В случае неявки клирика в ТЦК его немедленно объявляют в розыск. Подобная нейтрализация настоятелей храмов в свою очередь способствует захватам приходов.
В ходе принудительной мобилизации на священнослужителей УПЦ оказывается давление со стороны сотрудников ТЦК: изымают мобильные телефоны, избивают, лишают пищи и питья, принуждают к тяжёлым работам, а также вымогают крупные денежные средства.
Предъявляемые документы на законную отсрочку (например, ввиду инвалидности или многодетности священнослужителя, наличия недееспособных на иждивении) сотрудниками ТЦК игнорируются или даже уничтожаются.
☝️ За последние годы мобилизованы и принуждены к несению военной службы вопреки религиозным убеждениям десятки священнослужителей УПЦ.
Имеют место задержания и попытки мобилизации ключевых лиц епархиального управления УПЦ.
👉 Список подвергшихся принудительной мобилизации клириков
#ПреступленияКиевскогоРежима
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Незаконная мобилизация священников УПЦ
❗️ В 2025 году в рамках дискриминационной политики Киева в отношении УПЦ ужесточилась линия на незаконную мобилизацию священнослужителей.
6 июня 2025 года в соответствии с изменениями, внесёнными в украинское мобилизационное законодательство, ГСУЭСС опубликовала перечень религиозных организаций, подлежащих освобождению от военной мобилизации.
Более чем 10 тысяч общин УПЦ в этот документ не вошли. В публикации подчёркнуто, что возможность включения в список организаций УПЦ будет рассмотрена лишь после завершения «исследования на аффилированность» с РПЦ.
В пространном «Разъяснении ГСУЭСС относительно бронирования военнообязанных священнослужителей-руководителей» от 16 июня 2025 года акцентировано, что отсутствующие в перечне организации могут подавать документы на внесение в него только через «зарегистрированные на Украине религиозные центры». <...>
По сообщениям украинских СМИ, мобилизационные повестки рассылаются клирикам УПЦ в различные области централизованно из Киева, минуя региональных военкомов.
Рассылку курирует руководитель капелланской службы сухопутных войск ВСУ полковник Л.Полянская, которая имеет дружественные связи с лидером раскольнической ПЦУ С.Думенко (псевдомитрополитом Епифанием) и неоднократно получала от него награды.
В случае неявки клирика в ТЦК его немедленно объявляют в розыск. Подобная нейтрализация настоятелей храмов в свою очередь способствует захватам приходов.
В ходе принудительной мобилизации на священнослужителей УПЦ оказывается давление со стороны сотрудников ТЦК: изымают мобильные телефоны, избивают, лишают пищи и питья, принуждают к тяжёлым работам, а также вымогают крупные денежные средства.
Предъявляемые документы на законную отсрочку (например, ввиду инвалидности или многодетности священнослужителя, наличия недееспособных на иждивении) сотрудниками ТЦК игнорируются или даже уничтожаются.
☝️ За последние годы мобилизованы и принуждены к несению военной службы вопреки религиозным убеждениям десятки священнослужителей УПЦ.
Имеют место задержания и попытки мобилизации ключевых лиц епархиального управления УПЦ.
👉 Список подвергшихся принудительной мобилизации клириков
#ПреступленияКиевскогоРежима