🇷🇺 FM Sergey Lavrov:

🇨🇭 Switzerland has transformed from a neutral into an openly hostile country. Not being a part of NATO/EU, it has joined all Western sanctions.

🤷‍♂️ It's strange that Switzerland so hospitably opens its doors thinking it still enjoys reputation of a mediator.

❗ We express our extreme concern at yet another dangerous escalation in the Middle East.

We call on all parties involved in the conflict to exercise restraint. We expect them to resolve the existing problems through political and diplomatic means.

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🇷🇺 #AngaraA5 successfully launched from Vostochny Cosmodrome on April 11. A major step for Russia's space capabilities!

🚀 This eco-friendly, heavy-lift launch vehicle can deliver 24.5 tons to orbit. Its flexible design allows for future major upgrades, i.a. manned missions.

🚀 #OTD , 63 years ago, Yuri Gagarin aboard Vostok 1 ushered in a new era of space exploration for all mankind.

👨‍🚀 April 12 is now observed in Russia as Cosmonautics Day, and globally - as the International Day of Human Space Flight, in accordance with a 2011 UN GA resolution.

#Opinion by Gennady Gatilov

🇨🇭 Switzerland's plans to hold a 'peace summit on Ukraine' are an attempt to reclaim the country's reputation as an 'honest broker' and the 'center of European diplomacy'. One could say – 'better late than never', even though some things tend to happen far…

❗️ The heinous terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall on March 22, 2024, has shocked Russia and the international community.

The masterminds, organisers, and accomplices will be identified and will receive just punishment.

🔗 t.me/MFARussia/19846

🇷🇺 Russian FM Sergey #Lavrov in Beijing:

🇨🇭 Any international initiatives, which not only fail to consider Russia's position, but completely ignore it and promote the utterly futile 'Zelenskiy’s peace formula', are pointless and completely detached from reality.

🌐 At the 60th Geneva International Discussions on Security & Stability in the South Caucasus, representatives from Abkhazia, Georgia, South Ossetia, Russia & the US reaffirmed commitment to dialogue under the GID.

🔗 full: tinyurl.com/y2kfxf2k

🎙Maria #Zakharova :

⚔️ #NATO - the most aggressive military alliance in modern history - was created 75 years ago.

🔥 Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya - wherever it went, devastation, disintegrated states, poverty, humanitarian disasters and mass human casualties followed.

🇷🇺 Russia at #HRC55 :

🤐 Under Western indulgence & incitement, Zelenskiy has completely destroyed the opposition and independent media in Ukraine, declared a hunt for dissidents.

❗️ Kiev openly boasts its involvement in assasinations and acts of terrorism against journalists.

⚡️ The Federation Council of Russia strongly condemns the attempts of external interference in the preparation and organization of Presidential elections in Russia.

The interference attempts, mostly coordinated by the US, were made on several tracks 👉 shorturl.at/acmF0

💬 #Zakharova : International sports cooperation has become politicised through Western actions: global organisations are under pressure & the topic of doping is used to blackmail and vilify individual countries

This leads to the degradation of the entire world sports movement

🇷🇺 Russia at #HRC55 :

🇺🇦 Systemic discrimination against national, linguistic and religious minorities have become Ukraine’s calling card.

❌ The UN Human Rights fails to notice Kiev’s total ban on opposition, repressions and extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances,…

❗️ We resolutely condemn the attack on Iran’s Consulate in Syria.

We consider completely unacceptable any encroachments on the diplomatic and consular buildings, the immunity of which is guaranteed by the Vienna conventions.

t.me/MFARussia/19727

💬 FM Sergey #Lavrov :

The US sent us signals [regarding talks on strategic stability]. <...> We explained that it was impossible to talk about strategic stability in a situation when we were declared a strategic enemy that needed to be “strategically defeated.”

⚡️ The brutal terrorist attack committed in Krasnogorsk on March 22 is far from the first act of terrorism targeting our country in recent time.

❗️ The Russian side demands that the Kiev regime immediately cease any support for terrorist activities.

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📅 #OTD in 1814, the Russian Army captured Paris during the Foreign Campaigns.

It was one of the major highlights of the Great European War of 1812-15, during which Russia & its allies liberated Europe from the French oppression

In full 👉 t.me/MFARussia/19701

#LearnHistory

🇬🇧 Thank you for your condolences and support

🇫🇷 Merci pour vos condoléances et votre soutien

🇪🇸 Gracias por sus condolencias y apoyo

🕌 شكرًا على تعزيتكم ودعمكم

🇨🇳 感谢您的同情和支持

🇷🇺 Cпасибо за ваше сочувствие и поддержку

💬 Russian MFA Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova:

🇨🇭 Regarding the 'conference in Switzerland' and the 'peace formula'.

❌ Russia does not intend to participate in this conference, and the 'Zelenskiy formula' is alchemy.

💔 Nearly a week has passed since the dreadful terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall, but this tragedy rings fresh and continues to echo in the hearts of people from around the world.

Thank you for your sympathy and support!