? Briefing by Deputy Director of the Foreign Ministry's Information and Press Department Andrey Nastasin (Moscow, July 3, 2024)

?Ukrainian crisis
? Kiev regime’s war crimes
? Situation in Moldova
? Independence Day of Belarus
? London and its loyalists
? UN General Assembly resolution on World Swahili Language Day
? World Olympic Day and the decline of the Olympic Movement
? Results of the meeting of NATO defence ministers

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#Ukraine

• On June 28, Zelensky extended greetings to Ukrainians on Constitution Day. It looked like a blatant mockery of the country’s citizens as well as its basic law. There is no way a person who has usurped power could be considered a guarantor of the Constitution in a democratic and law-based state.

*❗️The road to Europe, which Zelensky covered in his “congratulations” much more extensively than the Constitution itself, is paved with dead Ukrainian citizens. <...> Condolences*, not congratulations, are a far more suitable choice given the circumstances.

#Moldova

• The European Council has adopted a time-serving and totally politicised decision to open accession negotiations with Moldova on June 25. The Moldovan authorities saw this as the approval of their anti-Russia policy and a free hand to continue turning the republic into a “European dictatorship” under the guise of fighting the non-existent Russian “hybrid threats.”

☝️ Chisinau’s persecution campaigns and arbitrary acts are promoting an increasingly negative reaction in society.

#UnionState #RussiaBelarus #WWII

• Today, 80 years after the liberation of Belarus from the invaders, joint search teams and law enforcement agencies of the Union State of Russia and Belarus discover new crimes against humanity committed by the Nazi invaders and their collaborators.

? The enormous amount of work done by the two countries’ lawyers, historians and prosecutor’s offices made it possible to officially recognise the Nazi extermination policy during the war as a full-scale genocide of the Soviet people.

Some facts about BRICS

? BRICS was established in 2009 as a cooperation platform for the largest emerging economies, uniting Brazil ??, Russia ??, India ?? and China ??. South Africa ?? joined the group in 2010.

6️⃣ new full-fledged members joined as of January 1, 2024: Egypt ??, Ethiopia ??, Iran ??, the United Arab Emirates ?? and Saudi Arabia ??.

?BRICS is seen as one of the pillars of a more fair, just and multipolar world order. It unites new centers of economic growth and global decision-making arising in Eurasia, Asia-Pacific, the Middle East, Africa and Latin America.

?The expanded group comprises a combined population of about 3.5 billion, or 45% of the world's inhabitants.

?With the new members BRICS boosted its share in the global economy to around 37% of world GDP, surpassing the G7 (30.3%) and the EU (14.5 %).

?BRICS countries produce about 44% of the world's crude oil.

?More than 30 countries have expressed their desire to join BRICS either as a full-fledged member or as a partner country.

They include, i.a. Azerbaijan, Algeria, Bangladesh, Bahrain, Belarus, Bolivia, Venezuela, Vietnam, Honduras, Zimbabwe, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Cuba, Kuwait, Morocco, Nigeria, Nicaragua, Palestine (as an observer state or dialogue partner), Pakistan, Senegal, Syria, Thailand, Turkiye, Uganda, Chad, Sri Lanka, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea and South Sudan.

*⚡️ Comment *by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova on the Ukraine conference in Switzerland

? The other day, Burgenstock, Switzerland, hosted the so-called Ukraine peace summit.

Kiev and Western capitals did their best to present it as a universal event. However, this wishful thinking has ended in a complete fiasco. Contrary to the attempts of Zelensky and his Anglo-Saxon masters, almost half of the 160 invited guests refused to engage in political tourism. A striving to involve as many countries of the Global South as possible has failed. <...>

The failure of the Swiss “gathering” was quite predictable. This was bound to happen because the Nazi Kiev regime and its Western masters did not intend to search for ways of resolving the Ukraine crisis by peaceful means from the very beginning. They are not interested in peace in Ukraine, they need further confrontation, escalation and expanded hostilities to implement their unrealisable dream of inflicting a “strategic defeat” on Russia. According to well-informed sources, Andrey Yermak, Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, discussed with foreign delegations in Burgenstock additional weapons deliveries for the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

The Anglo-Saxons and their Ukrainian puppets are trying to camouflage their aggressive intentions by using the completely bankrupt “Zelensky formula.” Its authors in the United States and on Bankovaya Street are trying to portray it as the only foundation for a peace settlement. They are insistently imposing it on the international community, while disregarding the opinion of other parties and their desire to make their own contribution to resolving the crisis. The same happened in Switzerland.

Cynical manipulations with seemingly nice-sounding (but absolutely inappropriate for the Burgenstock meeting) provisions of the “Zelensky formula,” including nuclear security, for obtaining support from Asian, African and Latin American countries, failed to help the organisers of the “summit.” This substandard ploy and open quackery highlight the real intentions of the West and the pro-Bandera regime in Kiev once again.

The lack of consensus among participants also confirms the zero result of the Alpine “get-together.” Far from all delegates agreed to support the openly anti-Russia concluding communique. At first, 12 delegations refused to sign it, and later their number reached 14 [now 15], including India, Indonesia, Jordan, Iraq, Mexico, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Thailand, the Republic of South Africa and other influential states. Quite possibly, the number of these countries will increase.

❗️ It has become completely obvious that the Global Majority rejects the options of Kiev and the West for resolving the Ukraine crisis. It perceives their far from peaceful essence and does not want to be guided by the United States and its satellites.

We are confident that the world will continue to realise more clearly that the peace initiative, voiced by President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin in his June 14 remarks at the Russian Foreign Ministry, shows a real way towards a sustainable peace settlement.

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The West and Kiev should stop their eyewash and trickery that aim to channel the discussion along false lines by misleading the international public and tampering with and misplacing the cause and effect of the Ukraine crisis. They have to understand that there is no reasonable alternative to the Russian President’s peace plan. The sooner they comprehend this, the faster the real process of resolving the conflict and ending hostilities will begin.

☝️ Otherwise, the terms for launching talks will be much worse for them.

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Events similar to the Burgenstock “gathering” cannot create favourable conditions for truly serious dialogue to attain a truly comprehensive, sustainable and equitable peace; nor can they serve as a platform for such dialogue.

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⚡️Today, as a result of another targeted attack by the armed formations of the Kiev regime, employees of the NTV film crew were seriously injured. The channel's correspondent Alexey Ivliev is in serious condition, and cameraman Valery Kozhin died in the hospital.

? We do not expect an adequate assessment of this tragedy from the current leadership of the OSCE. The humanitarian component of the Organization has been devalued. The Office of the Representative for Freedom of the Media has once again gone bankrupt. 

❗️We will make efforts to ensure that this situation is corrected under the new leadership team.