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⚡️ Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria #Zakharova’s comment on the incoming reports alleging that the Kiev regime is preparing provocations against the Russian Federation’s nuclear facilities 💬 According to incoming reports, the Kiev regime has launched preparations for an attack targeting the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant. Russia calls on international organisations, especially the United Nations and the IAEA, to immediately condemn the provocations by the Kiev regime and take action to prevent any threat that would compromise nuclear safety and security of the Kursk NPP, which could lead to a major man-made disaster in Europe. Moreover, by taking such actions, Kiev not only poses a direct and immediate threat to nuclear stations, but also undermines the IAEA’s tenets regarding nuclear safety and security as articulated by the agency’s head, Rafael Grossi, in 2022. ❗️ The international community must recognise the danger the neo-Nazi Kiev regime poses to the European continent. Together, we must demonstrate firmness and resolve to thwart any attempts to intimidate and terrorise entire regions and the international community at large. 🔗https://vk.cc/czvc0h

💬 Maria #Zakharova: When the US State Department says again that Evan Gershkovich is a journalist and not a spy, think about The Summing Up, the literary memoir of British writer Somerset Maugham (Of Human Bondage, The Moon and Sixpence, Theatre, and The Painted Veil). He was quite outspoken in it about his secret missions: “I returned to America and shortly afterwards was sent on a mission to Petrograd. I was diffident of accepting the post, which seemed to demand capacities that I did not think I possessed; but there seemed to be no one more competent available at the moment and my being a writer was very good ‘cover’ for what I was asked to do... But I could not miss the opportunity of spending certainly a considerable time in the country of Tolstoi, Dostoievski and Chekov; I had a notion that in the intervals of the work I was being sent to do I could get something for myself that would be of value; so, I set my foot hard on the loud pedal of patriotism and persuaded the physician I consulted that under the tragic circumstances of the moment I was taking no undue risk. I set off in high spirits with unlimited money at my disposal and four devoted Czechs to act as liaison officers between me and Professor Masaryk who had under his control in various parts of Russia something like sixty thousand of his compatriots. I was exhilarated by the responsibility of my position. I went as a private agent, who could be disavowed if necessary, with instructions to get in touch with parties hostile to the government and devise a scheme that would keep Russia in the war and prevent the Bolsheviks, supported by the Central Powers, from seizing power. It is not necessary for me to inform the reader that in this I failed lamentably and I do not ask him to believe me when I state that it seems to me at least possible that if I had been sent six months before I might quite well have succeeded. Three months after my arrival in Petrograd the crash came and put an end to all my plans. I returned to England. I had had some interesting experiences and had got to know fairly well one of the most extraordinary men I have ever met. This was Boris Savinkov, the terrorist who had assassinated Trepov and the Grand Duke Sergius...” Maugham wrote openly that he was a British agent sent to Russia to interfere in its internal affairs and to influence the Russian government. It was in 1917, when Russia was amid revolutionary turmoil, and Maugham was sent there as a correspondent of The Daily Telegraph. He is not the only Anglo-Saxon who worked for British secret services under the guise of a journalist or a writer. Here are some of the others: - Christopher Marlowe (Doctor Faustus) – and informer and a secret agent for Sir Francis Walsingham, who created Britain’s professional secret service. - Daniel Defoe (Robinson Crusoe) – a pro-Union spy in Scotland. - A. A. Milne (Winnie-the-Pooh) – a propaganda writer for MI7, an office of the Directorate of Military Intelligence with responsibilities for press liaison and propaganda, in 1916-1918. - Graham Greene (The Quiet American) – from 1941 to 1944, he worked for MI6 as a member of the Foreign Office in Sierra Leone and Portugal. After WWII, he was a correspondent of the magazine The New Republic in Indochina. - Ian Fleming (James Bond) – an officer in the Royal Navy’s Naval Intelligence Department during WWII. - John le Carré (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy) – in 1959, he was transferred to MI6 and spent the next five years working under diplomatic cover in West Germany, first as Second Secretary at the British Embassy in Bonn and later as a political consul in Hamburg. - Stella Rimington (Dead Line) – Director General of MI5 from 1992 to 1996. The others who worked at or for Britain’s War Propaganda Bureau, commonly known as Wellington House, in 1914-1918 are H. G. Wells (The War of the Worlds), Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes), and Rudyard Kipling (The Jungle Book), as well as many newspaper editors.

🎙 Russian MFA Spokeswoman Maria #Zakharova on Kiev regime's crimes: 💬The Kiev regime continues terrorist attacks targeting Russia’s civilian population and infrastructure. ▪️ On April 15-22 alone, the Armed Forces of Ukraine carried out over 160 attacks on Gorlovka, Donetsk, Avdeyevka and other communities in the DPR, killing two people and injuring 20. ▪️ On April 20, a pregnant woman was fatally wounded and four other civilians received injuries during the shelling of Novaya Tavolzhanka, a village in the Belgorod Region. ▪️ The Neo-Nazis continue to terrorise medical workers, and attack premises and vehicles used by medical institutions. On April 18, they targeted a blood transfusion station with people inside and city hospital No. 2 in Gorlovka with HIMARS, injuring 14 people, including a five-year-old girl and six health workers. The buildings were severely damaged. Predictably, none of the Western media outlets mentioned any of this. ▪️ On April 19, Ukrainian armed forces deliberately opened fire on an ambulance in Kakhovka, which arrived to help a man injured by shelling. The vehicle was damaged. ▪️ The Bandera’s followers make active use of drones to hunt civilians. An outrageous incident occurred on April 19 in the village of Poroz, Belgorod Region, where two local residents were burned alive in a private house, which caught fire after two explosive devices were dropped from an UAV – a bedridden elderly woman with a hip fracture and a man who provided care for her. ▪️ On April 23, a man received shrapnel wounds to the chest and shoulder in Shebekino, Belgorod Region, as a result of a kamikaze drone attack. On the same day, the Armed Forces of Ukraine attacked a civilian car with an FPV drone, killing four people. ☝️Western media consistently turn a blind eye to these crimes. Worse still, they engage in open propaganda of Ukrainian terrorism. 📰On April 17, The Washington Post published an interview with the chief of the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine, Kirill Budanov, who commented on preparations for new raids by the so-called Russian Volunteer Corps and “mass-scale drone attacks” on targets in Russia. 📑The Russian law enforcement agencies have been carefully recording the crimes perpetrated by the Ukrainian neo-Nazis. Not a single atrocity committed by the Kiev regime will be overlooked. All those implicated are being identified and brought to justice. 🔗https://mid.ru/en/press_service/spokesman/briefings/1946180/

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