US national Trevor Reed, sentenced to nine years’ jail in Russia in 2020, has been exchanged for Russian pilot Konstantin Yaroshenko, who had been serving a 20-year sentence in a US prison since 2010, Russia’s Foreign Ministry announced on Wednesday. Russian diplomats told journalists that the swap was the result …
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The policy pursued by the West and the “Kiev regime” it controls may ultimately result in Ukraine falling apart and ceasing to exist as a unified state, the secretary of Russia’s Security Council, Nikolay Patrushev, has predicted. “Finding no positive ways to win Ukrainians over to its side, Washington, long …
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There is a belief in Moscow that Washington, London and other Western capitals – not Kiev – are the real decision-makers when it comes to Ukraine, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in an interview on Monday. He said that Kiev’s negotiators backtracked on the tentative understanding reached last month in …
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Ukrainian authorities and their foreign handlers are planning false-flag attacks involving weapons of mass destruction, Russia’s deputy permanent representative to the UN, Dmitry Polyansky said on Monday. For that purpose, instructors of the notorious Syria-based White Helmets group have already been deployed to Ukraine, the official told reporters. The diplomat …
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Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) claimed on Monday that it detained a group of “neo-Nazis” instructed by Kiev to kill popular Russian TV host and journalist Vladimir Solovyov. According to the FSB, the hit was ordered by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU). “The members of the criminal group are …
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Russia has accused the US of planning to use weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in Ukraine in order to frame Moscow. The US is preparing “a provocation aimed at accusing the Russian armed forces of using chemical, biological, or tactical nuclear weapons,” Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, the head of the …
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The accelerating inflation in most developed nations has come as a result of the irresponsible actions of Western financial authorities during the pandemic, worsened by a sanctions campaign against Moscow, according to Russia’s Minister of Finance Anton Siluanov. “The scale of inflationary pressure is unprecedented in the context of recent …
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Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has rejected claims that Moscow could resort to the use of tactical nuclear weapons in Ukraine.Lavrov was questioned on the issue during an extensive interview with India Today in Moscow on Tuesday. When the journalist mentioned that “President Zelensky said that Russia plans to use …
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The Russian Defense Ministry said on Monday that Kiev, with Western backing, is planning to shell churches, during Orthodox Easter celebrations in southern and eastern Ukraine, and then pin the blame on Moscow. “Nationalist battalions will form more than 70 mobile groups equipped with mortars with the goal to shell …
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The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has declared 18 employees of the EU Delegation ‘persona non grata’ as a response to the “unfriendly actions” of the European Union. On Friday, the ministry summoned the head of the Delegation of the European Union, Markus Ederer, to express his “strong objection” to …
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