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🎙Read excerpts from the statement by Deputy Permanent Representative of Russia to the OSCE M.Buyakevich «On increasing military involvement of certain NATO and EU member States in yet more confrontation in and around Ukraine» (meeting of the OSCE PC, 24.07.2025) 💬 Amid Washington's adjustment of its approach to the Ukrainian conflict, Zelenskiy has carried out personnel reshuffles in his "government" and initiated the process of subordinating so-called anti-corruption bodies, which are instruments of external governance over Ukraine 🗓 On 23 July, another round of direct Russian-Ukrainian consultations took place in Istanbul. There has been some progress on the humanitarian "track." However, it is premature to speak of any convergence of positions on memoranda outlining the principles for a final conflict resolution: those in Kiev have long and persistently avoided working toward a political-diplomatic resolution of the conflict 📜 On the eve of the 50th anniversary of the Helsinki Final Act, which laid the foundation for the establishment of the OSCE, it is worth asking whether the OSCE mechanisms can meet the demands of the time and fulfill their original purpose ⚖️ Against the backdrop of the OSCE's anniversary, the organization must decide how it will be remembered in history: as a structure complicit in supporting NATO countries in "fueling" the Ukrainian crisis as a preparatory stage for a broader pan-European conflict — or as an Organization that facilitated its political-diplomatic resolution based on the consideration of the legitimate interests of sovereign States, including Russia