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#KievRegimeCrimes
⚡️ Ambassador-at-Large of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Rodion Miroshnik:
PHOTO FACTS & EVIDENCE of crimes committed by Ukrainian armed forces over the week of April 13 – 19, 2026:
▪️April 13 – a UAV strike targeted an ambulance in the Belovsky district of the Kursk Region. Two staff members of the Belovsky Central District Hospital were injured.
▪️April 13 – a fixed-wing UAV struck a private home in Pervomaisk, the LPR.
▪️April 15 – an FPV drone struck a civilian passenger car in Malomikhaylovka, Belgorod Region. Three civilians were injured.
▪️April 15 – a UAV strike targeted civilian freight transport in Shebekino, Belgorod Region.
▪️April 16 – a UAV struck a grocery store in Velikaya Lepetikha, Kherson Region.
▪️April 16 – residential neighbourhoods in Tuapse, Krasnodar Territory, came under a massive UAV raid. Two people were killed and five others injured.
▪️April 16 – an FPV drone struck an administrative building in Shebekino, Belgorod Region. Three female employees were injured.
▪️April 17 – a UAV struck a passenger bus in Nikolskoye, Belgorod Region.
▪️April 17 – a UAV struck a grocery store in Shebekino, Belgorod Region. A woman was injured.
⚡️ Ambassador-at-Large of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Rodion Miroshnik:
PHOTO FACTS & EVIDENCE of crimes committed by Ukrainian armed forces over the week of April 13 – 19, 2026:
▪️April 13 – a UAV strike targeted an ambulance in the Belovsky district of the Kursk Region. Two staff members of the Belovsky Central District Hospital were injured.
▪️April 13 – a fixed-wing UAV struck a private home in Pervomaisk, the LPR.
▪️April 15 – an FPV drone struck a civilian passenger car in Malomikhaylovka, Belgorod Region. Three civilians were injured.
▪️April 15 – a UAV strike targeted civilian freight transport in Shebekino, Belgorod Region.
▪️April 16 – a UAV struck a grocery store in Velikaya Lepetikha, Kherson Region.
▪️April 16 – residential neighbourhoods in Tuapse, Krasnodar Territory, came under a massive UAV raid. Two people were killed and five others injured.
▪️April 16 – an FPV drone struck an administrative building in Shebekino, Belgorod Region. Three female employees were injured.
▪️April 17 – a UAV struck a passenger bus in Nikolskoye, Belgorod Region.
▪️April 17 – a UAV struck a grocery store in Shebekino, Belgorod Region. A woman was injured.
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🎙 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks during the 9th Ministerial Meeting of Russia and Central Asia (Moscow, April 17, 2026)
💬 Sergey Lavrov: I am pleased to welcome you to Moscow. We began our joint work yesterday at the CIS Foreign Ministers Council, and today we are holding the ninth meeting of Foreign Ministers of Russia and Central Asia. This in itself underscores the relevance of this six-party dialogue mechanism. In our view, it is developing successfully and dynamically, to the benefit of all participants.
In October 2025, the Second Russia – Central Asia Summit was held in the welcoming city of Dushanbe. During the summit, our leaders approved a Joint Action Plan for 2025-2027 and put forward a number of important initiatives. Our task now is to translate these decisions into concrete steps. The Action Plan serves as a framework document, outlining the key areas of our cooperation: trade, economic and investment ties, transport, energy, healthcare, environmental protection, security, cultural and humanitarian engagement, and migration.
Specific projects and initiatives are currently being developed within the six-party working groups established by the relevant agencies of Russia and your countries. As we noted today during the #CIS meeting, our relations are grounded in equality, mutual respect, and careful consideration of each other’s interests. They truly deserve the highest recognition as an example of a modern and forward-looking model of international partnership.
Our leaders maintain close and regular communication, both bilaterally and within integration frameworks such as the #CIS, the #EAEU, the #CSTO, and the #SCO. Active contacts are also sustained among heads of government, deputy prime ministers, and the leadership of parliaments, ministries, and agencies.
Despite the current geopolitical turbulence – which we examined in detail during today’s CIS meetings – we have succeeded in maintaining a consistently high level of trade turnover. In 2025, it continued to grow, approaching the $50 billion mark.
As I have already noted, cultural and humanitarian cooperation continues to develop. Through our joint efforts, and at the initiative of President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, the International Organisation of the Russian Language was established. The Russian language remains a key means of communication not only between Russia and the Central Asian states, but also among the peoples of the broader post-Soviet space. Our approaches to international issues are closely aligned and, in most cases, coincide.
We greatly appreciate that, despite unprecedented external pressure, the Central Asian countries remain committed to their allied obligations, thereby contributing to the dynamic development of our friendly and mutually beneficial relations, both bilaterally and within multilateral frameworks, including the Russia – Central Asia mechanism.
I hope that today we will be able to make a tangible contribution to the implementation of the decisions adopted at the second Russia – Central Asia Summit in Dushanbe.
💬 Sergey Lavrov: I am pleased to welcome you to Moscow. We began our joint work yesterday at the CIS Foreign Ministers Council, and today we are holding the ninth meeting of Foreign Ministers of Russia and Central Asia. This in itself underscores the relevance of this six-party dialogue mechanism. In our view, it is developing successfully and dynamically, to the benefit of all participants.
In October 2025, the Second Russia – Central Asia Summit was held in the welcoming city of Dushanbe. During the summit, our leaders approved a Joint Action Plan for 2025-2027 and put forward a number of important initiatives. Our task now is to translate these decisions into concrete steps. The Action Plan serves as a framework document, outlining the key areas of our cooperation: trade, economic and investment ties, transport, energy, healthcare, environmental protection, security, cultural and humanitarian engagement, and migration.
Specific projects and initiatives are currently being developed within the six-party working groups established by the relevant agencies of Russia and your countries. As we noted today during the #CIS meeting, our relations are grounded in equality, mutual respect, and careful consideration of each other’s interests. They truly deserve the highest recognition as an example of a modern and forward-looking model of international partnership.
Our leaders maintain close and regular communication, both bilaterally and within integration frameworks such as the #CIS, the #EAEU, the #CSTO, and the #SCO. Active contacts are also sustained among heads of government, deputy prime ministers, and the leadership of parliaments, ministries, and agencies.
Despite the current geopolitical turbulence – which we examined in detail during today’s CIS meetings – we have succeeded in maintaining a consistently high level of trade turnover. In 2025, it continued to grow, approaching the $50 billion mark.
As I have already noted, cultural and humanitarian cooperation continues to develop. Through our joint efforts, and at the initiative of President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, the International Organisation of the Russian Language was established. The Russian language remains a key means of communication not only between Russia and the Central Asian states, but also among the peoples of the broader post-Soviet space. Our approaches to international issues are closely aligned and, in most cases, coincide.
We greatly appreciate that, despite unprecedented external pressure, the Central Asian countries remain committed to their allied obligations, thereby contributing to the dynamic development of our friendly and mutually beneficial relations, both bilaterally and within multilateral frameworks, including the Russia – Central Asia mechanism.
I hope that today we will be able to make a tangible contribution to the implementation of the decisions adopted at the second Russia – Central Asia Summit in Dushanbe.
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#Victory81
🥇 On April 20, 1942, the Red Army emerged victorious in the Battle of Moscow – one of the most pivotal battles of the Great Patriotic War, in which Soviet troops inflicted Nazi Germany’s first major strategic defeat.
This gruelling and fierce battle lasted for 2️⃣0️⃣3️⃣ days and unfolded in three key stages: the Moscow Strategic Defensive Operation (September 30 – December 5, 1941), the Red Army’s counteroffensive (December 5, 1941 – January 7, 1942), and the general Soviet advance during the Rzhev-Vyazma Offensive Operation (January 7 – April 20, 1942).
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Following its treacherous invasion of the Soviet Union, Hitler deployed vast forces in order to push towards Mosco during Operation Typhoon. For the assault on the Soviet capital, the German command concentrated 64 divisions, including 16 tank and 6 motorised divisions, with a total strength of up to 1.8 million men.
By early December 1941, in some sectors of the front, only a few dozen kilometres separated the enemy from Moscow. The Nazis intended to force a quick breakthrough, seize the city, and strike the USSR a fatal political and moral blow.
But the enemy’s plans were foiled. Through the colossal mobilization of forces and the mass heroism of soldiers and officers, militia fighters, partisans, and civilians in the rear, the Soviet command thwarted the enemy offensive and exhausted the Wehrmacht’s assault groupings.
💬 This is how Marshal of Victory Georgy Zhukov explained the reasons for the failure of the German offensive in a 1966 interview with Konstantin Simonov:
The Red Army’s December counteroffensive thwarted the enemy’s plans and removed the immediate threat to Moscow. During the Rzhev-Vyazma Offensive Operation, troops of the North-Western Front (Pavel Kurochkin), the Kalinin Front (Ivan Konev) and the Western Front (Georgy Zhukov) pushed the enemy back 80-250 kilometres in the western direction, completed the liberation of the Moscow and Tula regions, and freed a number of districts in the Kalinin and Smolensk regions.
Army Group Centre suffered a heavy defeat – 16 divisions and one brigade lost combat effectiveness, while between January 1 and March 30, 1942, the enemy lost more than 330,000 men.
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⚔️ Victory in the Battle of Moscow had, above all, enormous moral significance and implications.. It was here, at the walls of the Soviet capital, that the myth of Nazi Germany’s “invincibility” was shattered – for the first time in the Second World War, Hitler’s war machine suffered a major defeat.
The failure of Hitler’s blitzkrieg also played a major role in securing our country’s eastern frontiers, prompting militarist Japan to refrain from attacking the USSR. In turn, the US and the UK were finally convinced that the Soviet Union was capable not only of withstanding the war, but of defeating the enemy. This contributed to strengthening the anti-Hitler coalition and expanding Allied cooperation.
On May 8, 1967, the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier was unveiled by the Kremlin – the eternal resting place of those who fell in the Battle of Moscow.
🌟 Eternal memory and glory to the heroes!
#NoOneIsForgotten #NothingIsForgotten
This gruelling and fierce battle lasted for 2️⃣0️⃣3️⃣ days and unfolded in three key stages: the Moscow Strategic Defensive Operation (September 30 – December 5, 1941), the Red Army’s counteroffensive (December 5, 1941 – January 7, 1942), and the general Soviet advance during the Rzhev-Vyazma Offensive Operation (January 7 – April 20, 1942).
***
Following its treacherous invasion of the Soviet Union, Hitler deployed vast forces in order to push towards Mosco during Operation Typhoon. For the assault on the Soviet capital, the German command concentrated 64 divisions, including 16 tank and 6 motorised divisions, with a total strength of up to 1.8 million men.
By early December 1941, in some sectors of the front, only a few dozen kilometres separated the enemy from Moscow. The Nazis intended to force a quick breakthrough, seize the city, and strike the USSR a fatal political and moral blow.
But the enemy’s plans were foiled. Through the colossal mobilization of forces and the mass heroism of soldiers and officers, militia fighters, partisans, and civilians in the rear, the Soviet command thwarted the enemy offensive and exhausted the Wehrmacht’s assault groupings.
💬 This is how Marshal of Victory Georgy Zhukov explained the reasons for the failure of the German offensive in a 1966 interview with Konstantin Simonov:
Through effective intelligence, the Soviet High Command was able to determine in good time where the enemy’s main blow was being prepared in the south and where it would come in the north.
Once it became clear that the most dangerous sector was the Volokolamsk, Istra and Klin directions – that is, the sector of the 16th Army – the Soviet command prepared a deep defensive line there, particularly in terms of artillery and anti-tank defence.
When the battle began, the Germans were bled white without achieving their objectives. That was where the German generals miscalculated.
They overestimated their own strength, assuming they would be able to carry out this operation just as easily as they had elsewhere.easily as they had elsewhere. But their calculation proved false. The German army simply did not have the strength to break resistance on the most crucial sector.
The Red Army’s December counteroffensive thwarted the enemy’s plans and removed the immediate threat to Moscow. During the Rzhev-Vyazma Offensive Operation, troops of the North-Western Front (Pavel Kurochkin), the Kalinin Front (Ivan Konev) and the Western Front (Georgy Zhukov) pushed the enemy back 80-250 kilometres in the western direction, completed the liberation of the Moscow and Tula regions, and freed a number of districts in the Kalinin and Smolensk regions.
Army Group Centre suffered a heavy defeat – 16 divisions and one brigade lost combat effectiveness, while between January 1 and March 30, 1942, the enemy lost more than 330,000 men.
***
⚔️ Victory in the Battle of Moscow had, above all, enormous moral significance and implications.. It was here, at the walls of the Soviet capital, that the myth of Nazi Germany’s “invincibility” was shattered – for the first time in the Second World War, Hitler’s war machine suffered a major defeat.
The failure of Hitler’s blitzkrieg also played a major role in securing our country’s eastern frontiers, prompting militarist Japan to refrain from attacking the USSR. In turn, the US and the UK were finally convinced that the Soviet Union was capable not only of withstanding the war, but of defeating the enemy. This contributed to strengthening the anti-Hitler coalition and expanding Allied cooperation.
On May 8, 1967, the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier was unveiled by the Kremlin – the eternal resting place of those who fell in the Battle of Moscow.
#NoOneIsForgotten #NothingIsForgotten
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🕯 April 19 marked, for the first time, the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Genocide of the Soviet People committed by the Nazis and their accomplices during the Great Patriotic War.
The National Center for Historical Memory under the President of the Russian Federation has prepared an online exhibition, “No Statute of Limitations: The Genocide of the Soviet People.”
Before launching their war against the USSR, the Nazis devised sweeping plans to dismantle Soviet statehood, colonize its territories, seize its resources, and exterminate and enslave the population.
The occupiers developed the Generalplan Ost, which envisaged the deportation and destruction of 50 million people in the USSR; the enslavement of 14 million; and the forced Germanization of 1 million.
They also planned to starve the population through the so-called Hunger Plan (Backe Plan), aimed at extracting as much food as possible for Germany while drastically restricting rations for Soviet citizens.
📑 From the Directive on the Administration of the Economy in the Occupied “Eastern Territories” (June 1941):
Following Nazi Germany’s treacherous invasion of the USSR in June 1941 and the occupation of parts of its territory, German forces operated in coordination with units formed in Belgium, Italy, Spain, and Finland, as well as individual volunteers from Austria, Latvia, Poland, France, and the Czech lands.
Through collaborationist and auxiliary police battalions (Estonian, Latvian, Ukrainian, and others), Nazi occupiers carried out punitive operations against the civilian population. Baltic units, in particular, committed hundreds of atrocities in northwestern Russia and Soviet Belarus, killing at least 3'000 people aged from 2-3 months to 60 years. In Karelia, Finnish occupiers placed those they deemed “non-native” into concentration camps (14 in total across the region).
👉 These facts may point to the international nature of the crimes committed during the genocide of the Soviet people by Nazi perpetrators and their European collaborators.
The systematic extermination of Soviet civilians and the large-scale destruction of entire settlements in the occupied USSR were carried out not only by Wehrmacht units, but also by SS formations, police units, and various collaborators.
Across the Soviet Union, the Nazi occupiers established a vast network of concentration camps and detention sites for civilians and Red Army prisoners of war (more than 528 camps in the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic alone), where tens of thousands perished — including children, women, the elderly, and countless wounded and sick soldiers captured by the enemy.
▪️ The largest camps on Soviet territory included: Dulag-130 (Roslavl, Smolensk Region; 130,000 dead), Stalag-372 (later Dulag-376, Porkhov, Pskov Region; 75,000 dead), camps in Gatchina (Leningrad Region; 80,000 dead), Dulag-142 or the “Bryansk Buchenwald” (40,000 dead), the “Krasny” camp (Simferopol, Crimea; 15,000 dead), and Finnish camps in Karelia (Petrozavodsk; over 8,000 dead, including around 2,000 children).
During World War II, the Nazis widely practiced the deportation of people from occupied Soviet territories to Germany for forced labor. In East Prussia alone, more than 200'000 Soviet citizens were subjected to slave labor under inhumane conditions at major military-industrial enterprises of the Third Reich.
📖 More:
• More on the genocide of the Soviet people and its key aspects
• Video address by Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov
• A dedicated section on the genocide of the Soviet people at the Russian MFA's website
The National Center for Historical Memory under the President of the Russian Federation has prepared an online exhibition, “No Statute of Limitations: The Genocide of the Soviet People.”
Before launching their war against the USSR, the Nazis devised sweeping plans to dismantle Soviet statehood, colonize its territories, seize its resources, and exterminate and enslave the population.
The occupiers developed the Generalplan Ost, which envisaged the deportation and destruction of 50 million people in the USSR; the enslavement of 14 million; and the forced Germanization of 1 million.
They also planned to starve the population through the so-called Hunger Plan (Backe Plan), aimed at extracting as much food as possible for Germany while drastically restricting rations for Soviet citizens.
📑 From the Directive on the Administration of the Economy in the Occupied “Eastern Territories” (June 1941):
“It is necessary <…> to organize the exploitation of natural resources (oil, coal, ores, etc.) in the interests of the German war economy <…>”
Following Nazi Germany’s treacherous invasion of the USSR in June 1941 and the occupation of parts of its territory, German forces operated in coordination with units formed in Belgium, Italy, Spain, and Finland, as well as individual volunteers from Austria, Latvia, Poland, France, and the Czech lands.
Through collaborationist and auxiliary police battalions (Estonian, Latvian, Ukrainian, and others), Nazi occupiers carried out punitive operations against the civilian population. Baltic units, in particular, committed hundreds of atrocities in northwestern Russia and Soviet Belarus, killing at least 3'000 people aged from 2-3 months to 60 years. In Karelia, Finnish occupiers placed those they deemed “non-native” into concentration camps (14 in total across the region).
👉 These facts may point to the international nature of the crimes committed during the genocide of the Soviet people by Nazi perpetrators and their European collaborators.
The systematic extermination of Soviet civilians and the large-scale destruction of entire settlements in the occupied USSR were carried out not only by Wehrmacht units, but also by SS formations, police units, and various collaborators.
Across the Soviet Union, the Nazi occupiers established a vast network of concentration camps and detention sites for civilians and Red Army prisoners of war (more than 528 camps in the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic alone), where tens of thousands perished — including children, women, the elderly, and countless wounded and sick soldiers captured by the enemy.
▪️ The largest camps on Soviet territory included: Dulag-130 (Roslavl, Smolensk Region; 130,000 dead), Stalag-372 (later Dulag-376, Porkhov, Pskov Region; 75,000 dead), camps in Gatchina (Leningrad Region; 80,000 dead), Dulag-142 or the “Bryansk Buchenwald” (40,000 dead), the “Krasny” camp (Simferopol, Crimea; 15,000 dead), and Finnish camps in Karelia (Petrozavodsk; over 8,000 dead, including around 2,000 children).
During World War II, the Nazis widely practiced the deportation of people from occupied Soviet territories to Germany for forced labor. In East Prussia alone, more than 200'000 Soviet citizens were subjected to slave labor under inhumane conditions at major military-industrial enterprises of the Third Reich.
📖 More:
• More on the genocide of the Soviet people and its key aspects
• Video address by Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov
• A dedicated section on the genocide of the Soviet people at the Russian MFA's website