⚡️ Russian Foreign Ministry's Ambassador-at-Large on the Kiev Regime's War Crimes Rodion Miroshnik:

💬 Today's shelling of the Sokol market in Donetsk by the Ukrainian Armed Forces claimed a horrific toll of 13 people being hit, killing three people, including two children, leaving others injured.

According to the latest data of the DNR Joint Centre of Control and Coordination, during the shelling of the Sokol market in Donetsk three people were killed: a girl born in 2011, a teenage boy born in 2009, and a man born in 1989.

Another child – a boy born in 2013 – was moderately wounded.

Another eight people also sustained injuries and wounds from the shelling: men born in 1976, 1984, 1986, 1994, 1996 and 1998, and women born in 1975 and 1988. Two of the victims are in serious condition, the other six – with injuries of moderate severity.

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🎙 President of Russia Vladimir Putin took part in the 9th Eastern Economic Forum plenary session (September 5, 2024)

Full text of the statement and answers to media questions

💬 President Putin: We have designated the development of the Far East as a national priority for the XXI century. The significance and correctness of that decision have been confirmed by life itself, the challenges we have recently encountered and, most importantly, the objective trends that are gaining momentum in the global economy, when the main business ties, trade routes and the overall development are increasingly shifting towards the East and the Global South.

Our Far Eastern regions offer direct access to these growing emerging markets, helping us overcome the barriers which some Western elites are trying to create worldwide. The most important thing, as I have already mentioned, is that the Far East is a huge area for implementing business initiatives, launching complex projects and creating whole new industries.

❗️ The Far East has become a crucial factor for strengthening Russia’s standing in the world and our flagship in the new global economic reality. The further development of the Far East will largely determine the future of our country as a whole.

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Overall, representatives of more than 75 countries and territories are taking part in the forum’s events. It is extremely important that such discussions are complemented with substantive business dialogues and result in the adoption of investment decisions and trade agreements. I would like to say that over a thousand agreements worth in total more than 10.5 trillion rubles were signed during the previous three forums.

☝️The Eastern Economic Forum has rightfully become a respected venue for establishing reliable business contacts and discussing the strategic development of the Russian Far East and the Asia-Pacific region as a whole.

Other key talking points

• Russia's economy ranks fourth in the world in terms of GDP by purchasing power parity;

• We and our BRICS partners use national currencies in 65% of trade settlements with each other;

• We did not refuse to settle in dollars, we were denied settlements, and we were simply forced to look for other options;

• More than 30 countries are willing to cooperate with BRICS, and some of them are ready to join the group;

• The new members who joined BRICS this year are self-sufficient, have rapidly growing economies and will make their contribution to the development of the grouping;

• [Kiev regime's Kursk incursion] goal of trying to make us nervous, to relocate our forces, to halt our military adavance in Donbass was not achieved. Our Armed Forces stabilised the situation and stepped up their offensive.

#EEF2024

Embassy comment on the most recent spike of the anti-Russian campaign in UK media

❗️ The Embassy has taken note of efforts by certain UK right-wing conservative forces, even though they have been relegated to the local political backstage, to persist in fuelling anti-Russian hysteria in sponsored media outlets.

On top of habitual twisted facts and fictional plots the last few days have seen the increased use of grotesque geopolitical constructs, punctuated with the obsession that Russia must be made to suffer a military defeat and collapse.

The reason for this delusional "episode" is, quite obviously, a combination of bad news for the Kiev regime and its handlers in London.

👉 Above all, the confident offensive action of the Russian Armed Forces in Donbass.

👉 The failure of the Kursk gamble, which has only revealed the terrorist inclinations of the marauding Ukrainian military.

👉 The feverish reshuffle in the Ukrainian top brass.

👉 Finally, the West's inability using sanctions traps and pseudo-judicial simulacra to hold back Russia's accelerating development and the augmentation of mutually beneficial relations between our country and its partners around the world. The Eastern Economic Forum, currently taking place in Vladivostok, provides ample evidence in this regard.

Of particular cynicism against this background are the soundbites produced by certain British politicians who bear personal responsibility for prolonging the conflict, such as former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, in support of the total mobilisation of the Ukrainian population, including its youth.

These bloodthirsty exhortations seem to illustrate the determination of the London ideologues behind the "Ukrainian project" to buy time at any cost as it approaches its inevitable finale.

☝️ We are convinced that the British people do not share the irrational Russophobia, misguided exceptionalism and the sense of impunity that encourage certain figures of the local political establishment to incite the Kiev regime to wage a self-destructive "war to the last Ukrainian".

🎙 Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s answer to a question of the Moscow.Kremlin.Putin programme (Vladivostok, September 4, 2024)

❓ Question: So far, reports are coming in only from Reuters, but often such media leaks are eventually confirmed. The United States allegedly intends to supply missiles with a range of 300−900 kilometres for F-16 fighters. How could you comment on this?

💬 Sergey Lavrov: I am tired of commenting, and nothing surprises me anymore. The Americans have already passed the “threshold” they set themselves. They are being egged on to it. Zelensky can see this, and he is taking advantage of the situation.

However, they should understand that one should not joke about our “red lines.” They know their location very well.

So far, the obsessive power struggle (when Democrats want to prove themselves “tougher” than the Republicans or vice versa) is leading towards an escalation. I am convinced that there are reasonable people exercising certain sway in the United States. I hope that the interests of the United States will be taken into account.

I would like to note a statement by National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby who said that one should be very careful about expanding support for Ukraine, so as not to start World War III because one would feel sorry for Europe. In effect, their genetic code tells them that no one will dare touch them. This destroys all principles on which Soviet-US agreements on strategic stability hinged; these agreements were later reaffirmed and developed with the Russian Federation. For some reason, their feeling of mutual deterrence is becoming eroded, and this is dangerous.

❓ Question: What are they counting on then? They will supply weapons all the time. Certainly, they should realise that it is impossible to defeat Russia.

💬 Sergey Lavrov: You should ask them.

I do not know what they are counting on. They believe that this “tough” stand on Russia is another argument for obtaining extra votes in the context of the logic of American exceptionalism. Such logic implies that they can do what they want, and no one will dare to offend them. This is what we are seeing today. However, no one, including me, knows what’s on their mind.

You should go to New York City, or tell your colleagues to ask these questions.

🎙 Russian MFA Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova's interview with RT at the 2024 Eastern Economic Forum.

Key points

• NATO doesn’t care about Ukraine. NATO countries are only interested in a “strategic defeat of Russia”, not the safety or security of the region;

• Sanctions against RT is another step towards freedom of speech destruction by the US, a sign of a deep crisis in the US democratic system;

• Durov's detention in France should be a sobering example for those who believed that freedom of speech matters [it doesn't] to the West.

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🤝 Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov holds a meeting with the Secretary-General of the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf Jasem Mohamed AlBudaiwi

📍Riyadh, September 9, 2024

🤝 Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov takes part in the ministerial meeting of the Russia-Gulf Cooperation Council Strategic Dialogue

📍Riyadh, September 9, 2024

🤝 On September 9, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov met with Organisation for Islamic Cooperation Secretary-General Hissein Brahim Taha on the sidelines of the 7th Ministerial Meeting of the Strategic Dialogue Russia – Gulf Cooperation Council.

During their conversation, the Sides focused on the situation in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict zone. They called for ending hostilities in the Gaza Strip as soon as possible and launching serious talks to attain a comprehensive Middle East peace settlement in accordance with UN and UN Security Council resolutions.

✅ They reaffirmed their mutual commitment to expanding and strengthening collaboration between Russia and the OIC in various fields still further.

#RussiaOIC

🎙 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s address at the 7th Ministerial Meeting of the Russia-Gulf Cooperation Council Strategic Dialogue

📍 Riyadh, September 9, 2024

💬 Sergey Lavrov: I am glad to have the opportunity to be here on the hospitable Saudi land to hold the 7th Ministerial Meeting of the Russia-Gulf Cooperation Council Strategic Dialogue. As our Chairman said we met in Moscow in 2023.

Riyadh, where the #GCC is headquartered, is hosting our event for the third time. The strategic dialogue at the level of Foreign Ministers was launched 13 years ago.

🌐 The world has changed a great deal since that time. We can state that the centuries-long hegemony of the West, which the United States and its allies are trying to preserve by all means, is going to be a thing of the past. <...> No doubt that the GCC is becoming a major independent centre in the developing multipolar international order.

The role of the Gulf Cooperation Council will be growing also because of the numerous crises still preserved in the Middle East. <...>

At the previous meeting in Moscow, we said that the achievement of genuine stability in the Middle East is impossible without settling the oldest regional problem – the Palestine-Israeli conflict through establishing a Palestinian state in compliance with UN resolutions. <...>

Together with our Arab friends, GCC countries inclusive, we have succeeded in securing, despite US resistance, the adoption of several Security Council and UN General Assembly resolutions demanding a ceasefire. <...>

The confrontation between Israel and Iran has reached a new dangerous level.

⚠️ The Middle East is again on the brink of a big regional war. To prevent it is our common responsibility. We are working on normalising the situation with all sides. We closely coordinate our actions in the United Nations and on other platforms with our friends from the Gulf Cooperation Council.

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🎙 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s statement and answers to media questions during a news conference following the 7th Russia-GCC Ministerial Meeting for Strategic Dialogue

📍 Riyadh, September 9, 2024

💬 Sergey Lavrov: We had a candid, useful and result-oriented discussion. We reviewed the status of implementation of the 2023-2028 Joint Action Plan which was approved at the last meeting of the Strategic Dialogue in Moscow in July 2023.

We discussed prospects for Russia’s cooperation with the countries of the region in the economy, investment, cultural ties and information exchanges.

We focused specifically on the international situation, primarily, the situation in the Middle East, with a focus on the tragedy unfolding in the Palestinian territories, namely, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank of the Jordan River. We share a common stance on the importance of urgently putting an end to violence, settling humanitarian issues and starting serious practical work to implement UN resolutions on creating a Palestinian state that will coexist with Israel in peace and security.

We covered other regional issues, including the Syria settlement, the situation in Yemen, the Red Sea, Libya, and a number of other issues.

☝️ We underscored our appreciation for the balanced position adopted by all GCC countries on the Ukraine crisis. Many of them, including Saudi Arabia, are providing assistance in resolving humanitarian issues not only in the context of what is happening in Ukraine, but in a broader context as well. I’m referring to our relations with the United States and Europe and the recent exchange of prisoners which took place with the direct involvement of the Saudi leaders. <...>

🌐 In addition to the bilateral agenda, we discussed current international issues and reaffirmed our commitment to the objective process of forming a new multipolar world order without hegemons or dictators, where the key principle of the UN Charter - the sovereign equality of all states - will be respected.

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