About the IV Eurasian Women’s Forum
We are pleased to welcome you to our briefing, which this time takes place on the margins of the IV Eurasian Women’s Forum. This is a landmark event that brings together bright and successful women from around the world who make their unique contribution to the development of various spheres of our lives.
Over the nine years of its existence, the Eurasian Women’s Forum has proved its relevance and significance. During this time, we have witnessed fruitful discussions on key topics of concern to women: the role of women in society, their leadership qualities, the promotion of women’s entrepreneurship, education, health care and many others.
The Eurasian Women’s Forum has successfully established itself as a business platform for sharing experience, finding new solutions, and developing joint initiatives. Within the framework of the previous forums (1, 2, 3), panel events were held to promote women’s leadership, strengthen the role of women in society, gender equality, develop effective measures of state support for women’s business, and create a favourable environment for the realisation of women’s potential in all spheres.
I would like to express my special gratitude to the Chairman of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation V.I. Matvienko, the initiator and creator of this unique project, for her great contribution to the creation of a platform for productive dialogue and discussion of the role and opportunities of women in the 21st century.
The current forum is even more ambitious. Its programme has already included various thematic and strategic sessions, meetings and discussions on contemporary challenges and threats, topical issues in the field of high technology, international cooperation, ecology and many other important areas. Yesterday was the session ‘Women in Technology: Development of Artificial Intelligence’, organised by the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, the Department of Information and Press of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia and the Ministry of Digital Economy of Russia.
Thank you to everyone who organised and participated in this large-scale forum.
On the opening of the High-Level Week of the 79th Session of the UN General Assembly
The High-Level Week of the 79th Session of the UN General Assembly will open in New York on 24 September. It will be without exaggeration one of the central international political events of the year. The Russian delegation will be headed by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.
The Minister’s working schedule will traditionally be very busy. Its centrepiece will be a speech on 28 September from the rostrum of the United Nations General Assembly. Sergey Lavrov will also take part in a number of high-level multilateral events, including those organised by the CSTO, BRICS, the Group of Twenty and the Group of Friends in Defence of the Charter of the United Nations. In addition, he is scheduled to have a series of bilateral contacts, including a conversation with UN Secretary-General Guterres.
The session will take place against the backdrop of rising global tensions. One of the determining factors in the international situation remains the crisis over Ukraine, which the Westerners are using as a ‘battering ram’ against our country. For this purpose, they continue to pump weapons and money into the Kyiv regime, put forward pseudo-peace initiatives, seek to pull as many countries as possible to their side, and have now moved to open support and implementation of terrorist acts against civilians and infrastructure.
The West’s destructive line in the context of Ukraine is an integral part of the ‘crusade’ of the ‘collective West’ against the establishment of a just multipolar world order and the emergence of new centres of political and economic influence in Asia, Africa and Latin America. These countries are demonstrating a growing desire to make a meaningful contribution to overcoming global challenges, demanding that their interests be taken into account and increasingly rejecting the neo-colonial approaches of former metropolises. They are doing so not only through rhetoric, but also through their labour, their contribution to the international agenda, and their contribution to overcoming regional and international crises. They are proving that they no longer need patronage and can play a leading role on their own.
The tectonic shifts that are taking place are directly projected onto multilateral diplomacy, primarily within the UN. Unfortunately, in recent years, the authority of the world organisation has somewhat dimmed. This is primarily due to attempts by Westerners to use all UN instruments and platforms to settle scores with ‘undesirable’ states, to impose the destructive concept of a ‘rules-based world order’ and to replace international law.
In these difficult circumstances, the main tasks of the Russian delegation at the session will be to restore and strengthen the role of the United Nations as a guarantor of regional and global security, to uphold the purposes and principles of the Charter in their entirety and interrelation, to increase coordination with the World Majority, to promote the initiative of President Vladimir Putin of the Russian Federation to build a Eurasian security architecture, and to counter the neo-colonial ambitions of Westerners.
On the situation in Lebanon
We are deeply concerned about the dangerous development of events in the Republic of Lebanon. On 19 September this year, Israeli aircraft carried out a series of massive strikes on a number of areas in southern Lebanon.
Prior to that, for two consecutive days on 17 and 18 September, Lebanon was subjected to unprecedented terrorist cyberattacks, killing dozens of people, including children, and affecting thousands of people. This is unprecedented in the history of the world community. It has never happened before. Yes, there have been terrorist attacks that, unfortunately, have claimed more lives. But this is a completely new kind of terrorism, which combines both scale and the use of new civilian technologies, but used for terrorist purposes. We extend our condolences to the families of the victims and wish a speedy recovery to the injured. We once again emphasise the importance of establishing all the circumstances of what happened.
We express solidarity with Lebanon and strongly condemn the terrorist acts of armed aggression committed against that country and its citizens, which have resulted in the deaths of civilians and the destruction of social infrastructure. Of particular concern are the risks of a full-scale armed confrontation in the Middle East, which have sharply increased against the background of these events.
We have drawn attention to the statements made in Israel ‘about a new phase of the military campaign with a shift in focus to the northern direction’. We are convinced that the beginning of a large-scale military operation in Lebanon would have the most devastating consequences for the security of the entire Middle East. Such a catastrophic scenario must be avoided.
Once again, we urge the parties involved to exercise maximum restraint and to cease hostilities. We are ready to work closely with regional and international partners to reduce tensions and stabilise the military and political situation.
On the Ukrainian crisis
The Kyiv regime and its Western patrons continue to harp on the extremely dangerous topic of Ukraine obtaining NATO permission to use Western long-range missile weapons to launch attacks deep into Russian territory.
Judging by public statements, this issue was raised again by Zelensky’s gang on 11 September this year during a meeting of their allies in Kyiv under the guise of the ‘Crimean Platform’. Now this most dangerous venture was supported by the outgoing NATO Secretary General J. Stoltenberg in an interview with The Times on 17 September this year. According to him, Ukraine’s use of long-range missiles will not draw the alliance into a conflict with Russia. At the same time, Stoltenberg believes that each NATO country will authorise the use of weapons supplied to Ukraine ‘independently’, not at the behest of the alliance. These decisions, he says, are ‘not without risk’, but there is no such thing as ‘war without risk’.
In my opinion, such a statement can be made by a person who is absolutely not independent, who is pressured to such an extent that he utters any nonsense, or by a person who is really not aware of the consequences of such steps and has no connection to the responsible behaviour of the structure on behalf of which he speaks. He is leaving NATO, so, apparently, he can say any worst ‘gibberish’ for the last time. But he will not be held accountable for these words. Although he was not responsible before, given that all the ‘speeches’, strategies and concepts in NATO are written by Americans.
We would like once again to remind the ‘hawks’ on both sides of the Atlantic that they are playing with fire and have lost their sense of reality. As the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin noted, ‘This is their [NATO countries, the US and European countries] direct involvement, and this, of course, changes the very essence, the very nature of the conflict. It will mean that NATO countries, the US and European countries are at war with Russia. And if that is the case, then, bearing in mind the change in the very essence of this conflict, we will take appropriate decisions based on the threats that will be posed to us. The conflict unleashed through the fault of the West risks acquiring completely different dimensions fraught with dangerous consequences for the entire world. J. Stoltenberg himself and those who wrote this to him cannot but realise what such statements can lead to.
For a long time we have been talking about the terrorist nature of the Kyiv regime. More and more evidence is now emerging not only of its involvement, but also of its direct commission of terrorist acts. This is a fact. There is more and more evidence of the direct involvement of the Kyiv regime in the international terrorist movement.
We have drawn attention to the recent reports by the Turkish and Syrian newspapers Aydınlık and Al-Watan that Ukrainian emissaries, including personally the head of the State Intelligence Service of the Ministry of Defence, K. Budanov, were negotiating with the terrorist organisation Hayat Tahrir al-Sham on the recruitment of fighters in the Syrian province of Idlib to jointly prepare attacks on Russia. According to reports received by the media from Syrian sources, 250 AFU instructors recently arrived in Idlib to train terrorists from the aforementioned group.
The Ukrainian terrorist osprey is expanding, wasting both Ukrainians and mercenaries, while threatening the security of the entire world. The lives of the mercenaries are of little concern – they are criminals of all stripes. But they are hitting civilians. Having analysed the social networks of the detained R. Ruth, who attempted to assassinate D. Trump, journalists came to the conclusion that he was most likely involved by representatives of the Kiev regime in recruiting foreigners, including those from Afghanistan, to join the brigades of the Ukrainian armed forces.
The cooperation of the Kiev junta with the international terrorist ‘syndicate’ was confirmed on 9 September this year to the French publication ‘Contre-Poison’ by M. Ramadan, a representative of the Malian group ‘Strategic Alliance for the Protection of the People of Azawad’, who admitted joining forces with the Kiev regime against Russia.
The Bankova regime has long been betting on terrorism, threatening the entire world with unpredictable and extremely dangerous consequences. Judging by the photographs of the Kursk nuclear power plant published on Ukrainian resources, taken from a distance of several kilometres from an AFU reconnaissance drone, Kyiv has not given up the idea of striking this civilian infrastructure facility.
All such facts convincingly testify to the real essence of Zelensky’s regime, the absence of the slightest attachment to democracy, legality, legality. They have moved from nationalist agenda, dictatorship to direct terrorist activity. The United States and Britain are behind all the crimes of the Kiev regime, first of all.
The other day, the US Defence Department’s Office of Inspector General published a report on its oversight of security assistance in Ukraine. It claims that the Pentagon trained an AFU unit that ‘may have committed gross human rights violations.’ If the Pentagon admits to this, you can imagine what its trainers were actually doing. This led to a violation of the Leahy Law, which prohibits the U.S. State Department and DOD from providing military assistance to foreign military and police units that do not respect human rights. It’s unclear why we had to wait for this report, because only a madman doesn’t know about human rights abuses in Ukraine. For ten years, the whole world has been observing there not human rights violations, but a collapse of ideas about the legality and morality of the behaviour of the Kiev regime. Suddenly, the Pentagon has had an ‘epiphany’. The report does not say which Ukrainian unit we are talking about, but it does not matter. The Ukrainian armed forces have long ago turned into a Nazi army committing heinous crimes against civilians.
Russian law enforcement agencies continue to receive information about cases in which Bandera members have forcibly taken to Ukraine residents of the Kursk region who had not had time to evacuate – a typical practice of the Nazi occupiers who enslaved Soviet people. The same handwriting. There are also numerous eyewitness accounts, collected by the headquarters of the Russian Red Cross in Kursk, of the creation by AFU fighters in the Russian border region of a kind of concentration camps, where they put local residents at gunpoint who, for various reasons, were unable to leave unsafe areas. One of the Ukrainian prisoners of war reported an attack on a passenger train in the Kursk region that the Banderites were preparing. More and more facts of the shooting and ill-treatment of civilians by Ukronazis in the Kursk region are being documented.
The number of facts of the use by the Ukrainian armed forces in Kursk region of Nazi symbols and inscriptions found on the helmets, daggers and patches of fighters who fled the battlefield, died or were taken prisoner, as well as on military equipment, is also increasing. The relevant evidence was also recorded by foreign journalists who illegally entered Russian territory.
It is regrettable that the media and non-governmental organisations respected in the West are blind to the many documented facts about the presence of neo-Nazi symbols in the ranks of the Ukrainian armed forces on our territory and the atrocities they are committing. No matter how much they would like to, it is impossible to obscure them. The truth (especially on such a scale) cannot be concealed. The Banderites continue to brag in front of the cameras of Western reporters, showing their adoration for their ideological idols from the Third Reich in every possible way and defiantly displaying the chevrons of Hitler’s punishers.
The Kyiv regime does not cease its terror against the peaceful population of the Russian regions.
On 11 September, the media obtained footage taken by a reconnaissance drone of the Russian armed forces of an AFU BMP firing on civilians in the Kursk region who were trying to escape from the Ukronazis through the fields.
Our military recorded the fact that the AFU shot two civilians from the village of Zhuravli in the Kursk region, who were trying to evacuate on foot, and a dog. This is a complete degradation of ideas about human morality and the essence of the world. I am not talking about morality at all. On the received footage of objective surveillance, made by a Russian drone, you can see the blood-drenched bodies of women on the road, next to them a dead animal and a cart with luggage.
The first quarter of the 21st century is coming to an end: there are mobile phones, people are travelling by plane from one point of the planet to another, they have learned how to go down into the depths of the world’s oceans. It is possible to store information in huge quantities. We have learnt how people lived thousands of years ago. And yet we see how those who claimed to be the leaders of the planet, just like centuries ago, are turning life on the planet into a real hell with alien hands, under an alien flag. This is dehumanisation.
On 14 September, Russian investigators documented evidence of a horrific war crime in the village of Goncharovka, Kursk region – AFU fighters raped and shot a woman working at the local school after learning that her son was a military man.
On 15 September, in the village of Vesyoloye, Kursk region, Ukrainian terrorists wiped out a local school with an American aerial bomb, describing it in their resources as revenge for Russia’s destruction of the military communications institute in Poltava. In other words, in response to a strike on a military target, the Kyiv neo-Nazis are prepared to destroy purely civilian objects.
On 13 September, the Ukronazis purposefully used an unmanned aerial vehicle against a passenger car in Zaporizhzhya Region. A 22-year-old resident of the village of Tarasivka was injured. While transporting him to a medical facility, the drone attack was repeated, resulting in his death. Similar strikes in Vasilievka killed one civilian and wounded three others.
On 14 September, a woman was killed in the village of Bezlyudovka, Belgorod region, by a direct hit from a shell in a house, and in the village of Voznesenovka, a drone carrying explosives flew into the window of a private house, causing a mine blast wound and contusions to a civilian. On the same day, three people were wounded by shelling on the Shebekino-Belgorod road. On 16 September, ten civilians were wounded as a result of strikes on residential houses and civilian cars in Belgorod, one of the victims is in extremely serious condition.
All these crimes are in the hands of the Kiev junta and its Western masters. Russian law enforcement agencies are recording each and every one of them. All those involved will certainly answer to the full extent of the law.
Russian law enforcement agencies are continuing their work to bring war criminals, including mercenaries fighting as part of the Ukrainian armed forces, to criminal responsibility.
The Russian Investigative Committee has opened a criminal case against soldiers of the 61st separate motorised rifle brigade of the Ukrainian armed forces V. Panchenko and I. Dmitrakov for terror, the abduction of three civilians and looting in the Kursk region. Both defendants were captured and handed over to the investigating authorities. Criminal proceedings were launched against AFU Major-General D.Krasilnikov for war crimes committed under his leadership in Kursk Region. He is accused of giving orders to launch missile strikes, blowing up houses, civilian infrastructure and vehicles with the use of UAVs, and mined evacuation routes. As a result of these actions, a significant number of civilians were killed and injured. D. Krasilnikov is wanted.
S. Taranyuk, the commander of the airborne assault company of the 36th separate brigade of the AFU Marines, was sentenced to 29 years’ imprisonment, under whose orders three civilians of Mariupol were shot in March 2022. His fellow soldier – the commander of the first platoon of the sniper company of the same brigade, A. Malovychko, received 24 years in prison for the murder of a civilian in Mariupol on 14 March 2022.
Nazis of the operational battalion of the Azov regiment E. Nazarovskyy, A. Sinelnyk and M. Sukhanyuk, who in March 2022, in order to intimidate the civilian population, fired mortars at residential buildings in Mariupol, killing four people, each received 27 years in prison.
None of the Ukrainian criminals and their henchmen will be able to escape punishment.
These facts confirm the relevance of the objectives of the special military operation to denazify and demilitarise Ukraine and to eliminate the threats emanating from its territory. All these tasks will certainly be fulfilled.
On the report ‘The atrocities of the Kiev neo-Nazi regime in the Kursk region’
On 23 September, the International Public Tribunal for the Crimes of Ukrainian Neo-Nazis will present its report ‘The Atrocities of the Kiev Neo-Nazi Regime in Kursk Region’ at the Rossiya Segodnya International Multimedia Press Centre.
The International Public Tribunal on the crimes of Ukrainian neo-Nazis and their accomplices was established on 1 March 2022 at an international conference in the Public Chamber of Russia on the initiative of foreign and Russian public figures and journalists. During its work it has recorded a significant flow of information on war crimes by Ukrainian neo-Nazis and their accomplices. Now the Kursk region of our country is also in the focus of his attention.
The report has been prepared on the basis of testimonies of victims collected in Kursk region and will be available in Russian and English.
to be continued….
Source
https://www.mid.ru/ru/foreign_policy/news/1970474/
