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🎙 Briefing by Russia's Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova(February 27, 2025) 🔹 Russia-US meeting in Istanbul 🔹 Ukrainian crisis 🔹 Kiev regime crimes 🔹 Bosnia and Herzegovina 🔹 Third Caspian Economic Forum 🔹 Russia’s UNGA resolution on combatting glorification of Nazism 🔹 55th Anniversary of the Treaty on Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons entering into force 🔹35th Anniversary of diplomatic relations between the USSR and the Vatican 📰Read 📺Watch *** #RussiaUSA In furtherance of a series of bilateral contacts at the top and high levels, an expert-level meeting took place in Istanbul to explore pathways for resolving numerous irritants that persist in bilateral dialogue due to the groundwork laid by the destructive actions of previous US administrations. We have consistently affirmed that the deterioration of Russian-American relations was not our choice. It is anticipated that the meeting will serve as the first in a sequence of such expert consultations, which may advance progress towards resolving differences with the American side and reinforcing confidence-building measures. #Ukraine Ukraine’s NATO membership would provoke abrupt and uncontrollable escalation of the conflict, with grave repercussions for global security. We reiterate that a just and durable resolution of the conflict remains unattainable without the complete and irreversible eradication of the conflict’s root causes. Foremost among these is the West’s breach of its pledge to refrain from NATO’s expansion and the alliance’s absorption of geopolitical space up to Russia’s borders. The situation with the armed forces of Ukraine continues to worsen. Under pressure from the West, the Kiev regime is exploring measures to expand its mobilisation base by conscripting youths aged 18–25. #BosniaAndHerzegovina We share the justified indignation of the general public in the Balkans at the absurd conviction in the fabricated case of President Milorad Dodik of the Republika Srpska (Bosnia and Herzegovina) by a court in Bosnia and Herzegovina on February 26. This is yet another instance where politics has triumphed over the law. The verdict in this case is manifestly unjust and cannot entail legal consequences. Clearly, it is aimed solely at eliminating from the political scene the leader of the Serbian populace of Bosnia and Herzegovina, whose principled patriotic position contradicts the Euro-Atlantic guidelines imposed by the West. #West#Sanctions Russia firmly opposes and refuses to accept any unilateral measures designed to exert pressure on us, including in the energy sector. The Western sanctions policy boils down to neo-colonial-style attempts to use unfair competitive practices to gain an economic edge and get rid of any other players on the global energy market. #NPT March 5 marks the 55th Anniversary of the entry into force of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT). Throughout this time, the NPT has served as the foundation of the nuclear non-proliferation regime and a key element of the international security system. As a State Party to the NPT and one of its depositaries, Russia is firmly committed to the letter and spirit of the Treaty and strictly fulfils its obligations with regard to non-proliferation, disarmament and the peaceful use of atomic energy. The Treaty was adopted in full awareness of the need to prevent a nuclear conflict. In this regard, it is particularly important that the five nuclear states have reached an understanding that there can be no winners in a nuclear war and that it must never be unleashed.

🎙 Briefing by Russia's Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova(January 23, 2025) 🔹 Ukrainian crisis 🔹 Kiev regime crimes 🔹 NATO Military Committee session 🔹 NATO buildup in the Baltic Sea 🔹 Violations of the rights of indigenous people in Greenland by Denmark and the USA 🔹 Violations of the Serbs’ rights in Kosovo 🔹 Anniversary of breaking the Siege of Leningrad 🔹 80th Anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp by the Red Army 📰Read 📺Watch *** #KievRegimeCrimes On January 17, the Russian soldiers liberating Russkoye Porechnoye, a village in the Kursk Region, discovered a torture chambers in the basements of residential houses, arranged there by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. They found the mutilated bodies of at least seven local residents of different ages with traces of abuse in those basements. As the Banderites were retreating, they showered those people with grenades. A detailed comment on this account was posted on the Foreign Ministry website on January 19. • Videos of interrogations of two captured Ukrainian fighters who killed a civilian woman in the Kursk Region’s border area have been posted on social media. What these monsters are doing is beyond comprehension. This is worse than terrorism and worse than crime. • The Kiev regime continues its assault on the historical, cultural, and moral codes of Ukrainians and their fraternal peoples. The battle waged by Ukrainian hardcore nationalists against the Ukrainian Orthodox Church is taking increasingly absurd forms. #West#Ukraine • At Davos Zelensky said that what happened in the spring of 2022 cannot be called a negotiating process or talks, because allegedly “wrong” things were discussed there in the “wrong” way. Why has he been silent all this time? After all, he was the one who asked for them. He sent delegates there, who took a bullet on their way back to Ukraine. • Supporters of the “party of war” on both sides of the Atlantic have become seriously worried by the current US government’s plans to achieve a speedy end to the conflict because peace is not part of their plan. • British Prime Minister Keir Starmer briefly visited Kiev on January 16. Many experts agreed that it was an attempt by the globalists to keep the situation the way they want and to prevent a peaceful scenario from playing out. It is high time London realised that appeasing Nazis is not only criminal but counterproductive, leading to results contrary to those intended. • Michael Waltz, the US President’s National Security Adviser, remarked in an interview with ABC News on January 12 that Ukrainians could fix the issue of the personnel shortfall in the Armed Forces of Ukraine by reducing the mobilisation age to 18. Kiev has already taken heed of this suggestion and is seemingly compliant. It is merely a matter of time. The Zelensky regime will not hesitate to sacrifice hundreds of thousands of young Ukrainians for its self-preservation. #NATO • NATO, as a power instrument of the collective West, has never ceased not only preparing for wars but, more crucially, fuelling conflicts globally. • The alliance is striving to maintain its global hegemony and to prevent the emergence of alternative centres of power and development. They entice countries from other regions into their orbit by promising financial aid and support, subsequently turning them into satellites. • Such partner assistance concludes in interference in internal affairs and alteration of foreign policy direction, imposition of their pseudo-values and the dictate of coalition guidelines. #Serbia#Kosovo • A merciless campaign of cleansing the Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija from Serbs is ongoing. The self-proclaimed Pristina “authorities” are carrying out a forced Albanisation and wiping out any forms of the Serbian community’s autonomy in a bid to deprive it of everything down to the attributes of its national and religious identity. • The responsibility for the campaign of terror unleashed by Albin Kurti rests squarely with the Western countries.