About the dramatic events around the attempts to seize the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra by the Kyiv regime… (English version below)

🎙 Заявление Специального представителя Министра иностранных дел Российской Федерации по вопросам сотрудничества в области обеспечения права на свободу вероисповедания, посла по особым поручениям МИД России Г.И.Аскальдовича

О драматических событиях вокруг попыток захвата киевским режимом Киево-Печерской лавры

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💬 В последние дни в Киеве разворачивается настоящая драма. Монахи и верующие стойко противостоят силовому давлению режима В.Зеленского и раскольников, которые пытаются выдавить их из Киево-Печерской лавры.

Накануне этих событий усилия по урегулированию ситуации не увенчались успехом. В.Зеленский глубоко оскорбил предстоятеля и членов Синода канонической Украинской православной церкви (#УПЦ), высокомерно отказавшись с ними встретиться и выслушать их аргументы. В Киеве проигнорировано мнение миллионов верующих, прихожан, иерархов ряда сестринских православных церквей.

❌ Несмотря на наши обращения, руководители профильных международных организаций предпочли проигнорировать творящийся на Украине беспредел вокруг Киево-Печерской лавры, что можно расценивать как потворство и попустительство политике правящего режима.

В России возмущены очередным грубым актом произвола против УПЦ, обеспокоены судьбой монахов и священников Киево-Печерской лавры, которые находятся под угрозой физической и моральной расправы. Им обещают место в Лавре, если они откажутся от своей веры и перейдут в раскольническую Православную церковь Украины (ПЦУ).

Глубоко переживаем за судьбу владыки Павла, который, как известно, находится под домашним арестом и в электронных кандалах. Его фигура приобретает для людей доброй воли образ мученика за православную веру.

❗️ Требуем немедленного освобождения митрополита Павла и предоставления ему соответствующей медицинской помощи.

👉  Своими действиями киевский режим упорно продолжает множить политику морального террора против сограждан и верующих, причём в период Великого поста.

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💬 A real drama has been unfolding in Kyiv in recent days. Monks and believers steadfastly resist the forceful pressure of the V. Zelensky regime and schismatics who are trying to squeeze them out of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra.

On the eve of these events, efforts to resolve the situation were unsuccessful. V.Zelensky deeply offended the primate and members of the Synod of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church ( #УПЦ ), arrogantly refusing to meet with them and listen to their arguments. In Kiev, the opinion of millions of believers, parishioners, hierarchs of a number of sister Orthodox churches is ignored .

❌ Despite our appeals, the leaders of relevant international organizations preferred to ignore the lawlessness that is happening in Ukraine around the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, which can be regarded as connivance and connivance with the policy of the ruling regime.

In Russia, they are outraged by another rude act of arbitrariness against the UOC, they are concerned about the fate of the monks and priests of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, who are under the threat of physical and moral reprisal . They are promised a place in the Lavra if they renounce their faith and go over to the schismatic Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU).

We deeply worry about the fate of Vladyka Pavel , who, as you know, is under house arrest and in electronic shackles. For people of good will, his figure acquires the image of a martyr for the Orthodox faith.

❗️ We demand the immediate release of Metropolitan Pavel and the provision of appropriate medical assistance to him.

👉 With its actions, the Kiev regime stubbornly continues to multiply the policy of moral terror against fellow citizens and believers, moreover, during the period of Lent.

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Medvedev on terrorism in the streets of Russia…

Terrorism is back on our streets, in our cities. But now those forces have engaged in terror, in which quite recently our sworn Western friends saw “the honor and conscience of the era.” Opponents of the “authoritarian regime”. Fearless knights of justice and the fight against corruption. The masks have been dropped. Here it is, the “color” of our non-systemic opposition – he is at war with his people, he blows up and kills. These bastards not only openly want the defeat of Russia and the death of our Motherland, now they are executing their compatriots. An unarmed journalist was killed and several dozen innocent spectators were injured at his creative meeting. They shot at a car with children who were going to the village school. They blew up a car with a female journalist and scientist in it. The circle of history is closed.

This trash has found its final place in the annals of our country.

The dumb-headed perpetrators of terrorist attacks today whiningly lament: “I was used.” This is probably true. The semi-debile expendable material used by our non-systemic opposition was lucky to survive. But this, of course, will not save the material from just punishment. Worse, so far, those main geeks who fed and financed the hired killers, who dictated plans to them, remain without retribution. See them? Yes, yes, this is our so-called irreconcilable opposition, which has been fighting against its own country for several years now with the active support of the West, where pompous films are made about it, awarded biased awards. All these stinking FBK and MBKh-media, Navalny, Volkov, Ponomarev and other Khodorkovskys have become just ordinary terrorists and murderers. They voluptuously enjoy the sight of the blood of Russian citizens. They flare their nostrils with excitement at the sight of wounded and maimed bodies. They devoutly swore allegiance to darkness and terror, along with the murderers of their native Kyiv Nazi regime.

Don’t negotiate with terrorists. They are exterminated like rabid dogs with poisonous saliva flowing from their mouths. No extra pompous words. As soon as the opportunity arises. Even if sometimes it takes years. Forgiveness and compassion are not applicable to them. This is what the highest justice is.

Medvedev

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Statement of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in connection with the completion of the process of registration of membership 🇫🇮 of Finland in NATO…

⚡️ Statement of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in connection with the completion of the process of registration of membership 🇫🇮 of Finland in NATO

💬 On April 4, 2023, the completion of all legal procedures related to the registration of Finland’s membership in NATO was officially announced.

As we have repeatedly warned, the Russian Federation will be forced to take retaliatory measures , both of a military-technical and other nature, in order to stop the threats to our national security that arise in connection with Finland’s entry into NATO.

Concrete steps in defense construction on the northwestern borders of Russia will depend on the specific conditions for the integration of this country into the North Atlantic Alliance, including the deployment of NATO military infrastructure and strike weapons systems on its territory.

☝️ As a result of more than doubling the line of direct contact between NATO and the borders of the Russian Federation, there has been a fundamental change in the situation in the Northern European region – previously one of the most stable in the world. The North Atlantic Alliance has taken another step closer to the territory of Russia.

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By joining NATO, Finland finally renounced its self-identity and any independence, which has distinguished it in international affairs for decades. The policy of military non-alignment pursued by Helsinki has long served the Finnish national interests and has been one of the important factors for ensuring confidence in the Baltic Sea region and on the European continent as a whole. Now this is already in the past. Finland has become one of the small, undecided member countries of the alliance, having lost its special voice in international affairs.

We are convinced that the hasty step taken by Finland’s authorities without due regard for public opinion by organizing a referendum and a thorough analysis of the consequences of NATO membership will be judged by history.

❗️ Finland’s accession to NATO cannot but have a negative impact on Russian-Finnish bilateral relations.

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Too late, that train left the station. (Thy sinking ship)…

Oops, so why did everyone support weaponizing the dollar? Yes, you all did…

Florida Republican Senator Marco Rubio:

– Brazil, which is the largest country in the Western Hemisphere to the south of us, has concluded a trade agreement with China, according to which they decided to trade from now on in their national currencies. Bypassing the dollar. These countries are creating a parallel economy, completely independent of the United States. In just five years, we will no longer be able to dictate anything to anyone with sanctions, because by that time there will be so many countries trading with their own money, and not the dollar, that we simply cannot impose sanctions on all of them…

Oops and more Oops…

Too late, that train left the station…

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Ajman local nightlife at favorite walking area…

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Statement by the Russian representative at the 52nd session of the UNHRC within the framework of the “right of reply” during the dialogue on the human rights situation in Ukraine…

❗ Statement by the Russian representative at the 52nd session of the UNHRC within the framework of the “right of reply” during the dialogue on the human rights situation in Ukraine:

🤐 Europeans, British and Americans continue to deliberately turn a blind eye to the crimes of the Kiev authorities . Has anyone in this room ever heard them condemn the persecution and killings by Kiev of so-called “collaborators”, the brutal executions of Russian prisoners of war, enforced disappearances, arbitrary detentions and torture, described in the OHCHR report?

❓ Why don’t Western delegations respond to all these documented Ukrainian atrocities? Why is Kyiv’s purposeful struggle with the media hushed up under the pretext of fighting disinformation? Why has there been no response to discrimination against national minorities for years?

☦️ While the delegations of the EU countries, Great Britain and the USA in this hall are covering up the crimes of the Ukrainian authorities into the microphone, in Kiev there is an undisguised forcible seizure of the Orthodox shrine – the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra . Hundreds and thousands of parishioners, monks and clergy stood up to defend her. But what can they do against armed thugs in epaulettes and Ukrainian military uniforms? What is happening today is the apogee of Ukraine’s longstanding anti-religious policy .

‼️ Europe and its overseas partners bashfully hush up all this. Such encouragement of religious hatred on their part not only completely discredits them, but also deprives them of the moral right to snobbishly talk about freedom of religion or belief, and in general to rank themselves among the standards of democracy.

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And I thought that Russia was making weapons?

10X more production by years end…

Yes, full War Mode…

MoD of Russia put out this image…

Russia in full war mode…

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Noteworthy is the time that Zelensky and his regime chose to put pressure on the Lavra – the time of Great Lent…

⚡️ On the pressure on the leadership of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra in the midst of Lent

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❗️ In the last days of March – the first days of April, the campaign of the current Kyiv regime and the splitting and non-canonical so-called. “Orthodox Church of Ukraine”, aimed at capturing the pearl of Orthodoxy – the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra .

This action has been in the making for a long time.

On April 1, the rector of the Lavra, Metropolitan Pavel, was taken under house arrest, and neo-Nazi activists began to arrive at the location of the monastery, mocking in every possible way the services and the attempts of the brethren and prayers of the monastery to keep the Lavra in the bosom of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church.

⚠️ Noteworthy is the time that Zelensky and his regime chose to put pressure on the Lavra – the time of Great Lent.

The Kiev regime has turned its religious policy into one of the tools for promoting neo-Nazi practices. It has long been known that under the rule of Poroshenko, followed by Zelensky and others like them, Russian and world Orthodoxy suffers, the current secular authorities initiated and administratively supported a terrible, by the standards of religious life, violation of tradition – the split of churches, intervening in the sacred side life of every Orthodox believer.

It’s no secret that the Zelensky regime is not independent in its anti-clerical policy. A split in Orthodoxy, a blow to this area of life is the goal that was proclaimed long ago in Washington.

❗️ The capture of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra is an illegitimate act from a legal and immoral from a spiritual point of view of the current authorities in Kiev.

It is more indicative than many other steps of the regime and its rhetoric, it proves its criminal nature, readiness to disregard feelings and, most importantly, the rights of people, incl. citizens of Ukraine.

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MoD of Russia Report for April 4th, 2023…

⚡️Russian Defence Ministry report on the progress of the special military operation

(4 April 2023)

The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.

💥 In Kupyansk direction, aviation and artillery of the Zapad Group of Forces inflicted a fire damage on the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) close to Dvurechnaya, Sinkovka, Berestovoye (Kharkov region), and Stelmakhovka (Lugansk People’s Republic).

◽️ Up to 30 Ukrainian troops, two armoured fighting vehicles, one motor vehicle, and one D-20 howitzer were destroyed.

💥 In Krasny Liman direction, aviation, artillery, and heavy flamethrower systems of the Tsentr Group of Forces hit AFU units close to Nevskoye (Lugansk People’s Republic), Yampolovka, and Grigorovka (Donetsk People’s Republic).

◽️ The enemy has suffered losses of up to 225 Ukrainian troops, three armoured fighting vehicles, one Gvozdika self-propelled howitzer, and one D-30 howitzer in this direction in the past 24 hours.

💥 In Donetsk direction, units, aviation, and artillery of the Yug Group of Forces have eliminated more than 65 Ukrainian troops, four armoured fighting vehicles, two motor vehicles, and one D-30 howitzer during the day.

💥 In South Donetsk and Zaporozhye directions, Operational-Tactical and Army aviation, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Vostok Group of Forces inflicted a fire damage on AFU units close Ugledar, Novosyolka (Donetsk People’s Republic), and Orekhov and Shcherbaki (Zaporozhye region).

◽️ The total losses of the enemy in these directions during the day have amounted to 70 Ukrainian servicemen, two armoured fighting vehicles, and one D-20 howitzer.

💥In Kherson direction, up to 10 Ukrainian servicemen, two motor vehicles, and two D-30 howitzers have been neutralised by fire.

💥 Operational-Tactical Aviation, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Group of Forces have engaged 83 AFU artillery units at their fire positions, manpower, and military hardware in 96 areas during the day.

💥 Moreover, three AFU artillery ordnance depots were annihilated close to Ogurtsovo (Kharkov region), Kurakhovo (Donetsk People’s Republic), and Orekhov (Kherson region). An artillery ordnance depot of the Ukrainian Armed Forces has been destroyed near Konstantinovka (Donetsk People’s Republic).

💥 In addition, three HIMARS and three Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were shot down close to Krasnogorovka (Donetsk People’s Republic) and Kakhovka (Kherson region).

📊In total, 405 airplanes and 228 helicopters, 3,651 unmanned aerial vehicles, 415 air defence missile systems, 8,534 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,078 combat vehicles equipped with MLRS, 4,501 field artillery cannons and mortars, as well as 9,292 units of special military equipment have been destroyed during the special military operation.

#MoD
🔹 @mod_russia_en

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Kinda a way to look at NATO…

NATO will never stop using wannabe generals from the Waffen who love to tarnish their reputations with crimes committed against Russia…

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