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2022-06-22 04:30:14 Governor of the #Sakhalin Region Valery #Limarenko:

Construction of the Sakhalin oil and gas industrial park kicked off in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk on Tuesday. Creation of such an important worksite will give a new impetus to development of Russian oilfield services, which is important for sustainable operations of the oil and gas sector on the whole.

https://tass.com/economy/1469075 Open / Comment

2022-06-22 03:55:43 Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Andrey #Rudenko:

Russia stressed as unacceptable the EU’s ongoing weapons supplies to Ukrainian forces. [Russia] stressed that the weapons are being used for attacks on civilian infrastructure in Donbass localities leaving civilians and children dead.

https://tass.com/politics/1469089 Open / Comment

2022-06-22 03:39:44 On June 22, 1941, Nazi Germany & its cronies invaded the USSR with 8,5 mln troops, ~4,5k tanks, ~50k artillery, ~5k aircraft.

The Soviet Union faced world’s most powerful war machine, backed by all of Europe's industrial might.

Yet they ultimately failed. #Victory was ours! Open / Comment

2022-06-21 05:40:10 More than agreements totally worth over 5.6 trillion rubles ($99.8 bln) have been concluded at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum.

Around 14,000 people representing 130 countries participated in the Forum.

#SPIEF2022 Open / Comment

2022-06-21 04:48:12 Russia's Minister for Development of the Russian Far East and Arctic Alexei Chekunkov at the 2022 St. Petersburg International Economic Forum:

The Western nations aim to turn the Arctic into a 'battlefield', while for Russia the Arctic remains an area and territory of cooperation. This was proven by the Economic Forum held in St. Petersburg, where the Arctic agenda and its international aspects were discussed exclusively in a constructive manner - despite the emotional demarche of our northern neighbors who are trying to turn the Arctic Council into a semi-Arctic one.

#Russia4Arctic #SPIEF2022 Open / Comment

2022-06-21 04:41:55 Russian servicemen deliver around 100 tonnes of humanitarian aid to civilians in liberated settlements in Kharkov region during special military operation

#MoD #Russia #Ukraine #HumanitarianAid
@mod_russia_en Open / Comment

2022-06-20 09:28:24 Russian MFA Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova:

Kiev and its Western patrons are pursuing their disinformation campaign against our country.

In early April, they tried to accuse Russian military personnel of killing civilians in Bucha. The evidence clearly showed it was a staged performance carried out by Ukrainian and Western intelligence agencies.

But the way, what's up with Bucha? Where are the names and pictures of the people and their life stories?

A week after the incident in Bucha the Ukrainian Armed Forces hit the railway station in Kramatorsk with a Tochka U missile and again accused our country of the air strike.

Even Western journalists, who started correcting their own mistakes and then stopped covering this topic altogether, said it was a lie.

On June 13, 2022, Kiev again tried to accuse Russia of shelling the central part of Donetsk with NATO-made ammunition.

Such cynicism can neither be understood nor qualified.

(excerpt from weekly briefing of 15.06.22) Open / Comment

2022-06-20 05:01:18 FM Sergey Lavrov’s interview with the BBC TV channel

We announced a special military operation after being left with no other means to make it clear to the West that it is engaging in criminal activity by dragging Ukraine into NATO, by coddling and doting on a neo-Nazi regime, whose president Vladimir Zelensky said in September 2021 (you didn’t tell your viewers about it, did you?) that, if someone in Ukraine feels Russian, they should leave for Russia.

Today, the Ukrainian regime is attacking civilians with your Western weapons just like they did in 2014 when the putschists came to power, when the centre of Lugansk was bombed by aircraft and 50 people were burned alive in Odessa.

I think that NATO is a threat. We are told not to worry, that Ukraine’s accession to NATO wouldn’t pose a threat to the Russian Federation. With all due respect for our colleagues from the North Atlantic Alliance, I must say that Russia has the right to decide for itself what threatens its security and what does not. Open / Comment

2022-06-20 04:15:09 Russian MFA Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova speaks on #CancelCulture at a discussion panel at SPIEF-2022 (Saint-Petersburg International Economic Culture)

The scope & magnitude of cancel culture today are apocalyptical. Cancel culture is a "culture" of destruction. Open / Comment

2022-06-20 04:00:53 FM Sergey Lavrov’s interview with the NTV network

Saint-Petersburg, June 16, 2022

To attain its strategic goal, the West, first, is ready to hurt its own citizens for the sake of its geopolitical ambitions, and second, is forcing all others to act likewise through open blackmail, threats, ultimatums and other lowbrow methods and moves.

I hope that along with politicians who irresponsibly demand to supply Ukraine with whatever it wants, there are military people who realise what is at stake and understand the risks involved.

We do not have a goal to become one of the poles of a multipolar world. We are just stating an objective reality. This world is developing objectively, all by itself. All the current “labours” of the West are aimed at “containing” this objective historical process. Open / Comment