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🎙Briefing by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova(Moscow, December 27, 2023) 🔹 FM Sergey Lavrov’s schedule 🔹 Ukrainian crisis 🔹 Situation in Serbia 🔹 OSCE 🔹 EU’s anti-Russia sanctions 🔹 EU activities in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic 🔹 Russia’s upcoming chairmanship of the CIS 📰Read in full 📺Watch #Ukraine • Fewer people are willing to take up arms and fight for the Ukrainian government, rotten as it is by pervasive corruption and nationalism. Over the past year, conscription stations sent about 40,000 people into the army, failing to offset the casualties suffered by the Ukrainian Armed Forces during their so-called counteroffensive. To achieve the required result, Ukraine decided to amend its laws by de facto designating a substantial part of its population as slaves and depriving them of any rights. They are getting ready to hunt down those who fall within the conscription age range as part of the mobilisation effort, and plan to force Ukrainian men who fled abroad to escape the war to come back in order to mobilise them into the army. Illegitimate EU#Sanctions • The introduction of even limited sanctions on Russian aluminium will inevitably raise prices, put hundreds of companies in the EU at risk of being shut down, and will have a negative impact on the industrial potential of the EU and the implementation of measures towards the green economy. <...> It is clear whose interests Brussels is serving. First, it acts against its own citizens and EU residents. Second, it serves the monopolists whose companies or interests are directly related to Washington and London.