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🎥 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with the Prensa Latina Cuban news agency (Moscow, March 30, 2023)
#SpecialMilitaryOperation
We are fighting for our country’s security, <...> for the people whom the Kiev regime declared terrorists and publicly threatened to destroy.
#Sanctions
Three-quarters of the countries around the world, primarily in Asia, Latin America, and Africa, have not joined the sanctions. They are being constantly blackmailed and threatened with severing access to funding or creating problems with the IMF or World Bank loans. I can’t even recall anything like that happening during the Cold War.
Now together with all our friends and partners we are working on new approaches to establishing supply chains, financing, and banking operations that will not depend in any way on the whims of the United States.
#RussiaEU
Europe is losing its competitive edge as a continent that has been forced to give up cheap Russian gas. It is on the verge of de-industrialisation as European businesses are fleeing to the United States. A reappraisal of everything that is going on, including in the minds of European politicians, has begun.
#RussiaCuba
The nature of our relationship is described as a strategic partnership. But this is a formal characteristic. Our relations go deeper, are rooted in people-to-people ties, in the sympathy our people feel for each other. <...> Our cooperation goes back many decades, despite sanctions and various difficulties, when our relations were hindered in every possible way. We have already developed mechanisms and the ability to achieve results, regardless of the restrictive measures imposed by the West.
#CELAC
We welcome the revival of the CELAC spirit of regional solidarity. This organisation resumed its role of a priority group which is seen by the Latin American and Caribbean countries as a key tool for advancing their collective interests as part of the emerging multipolar world.
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#SpecialMilitaryOperation
We are fighting for our country’s security, <...> for the people whom the Kiev regime declared terrorists and publicly threatened to destroy.
#Sanctions
Three-quarters of the countries around the world, primarily in Asia, Latin America, and Africa, have not joined the sanctions. They are being constantly blackmailed and threatened with severing access to funding or creating problems with the IMF or World Bank loans. I can’t even recall anything like that happening during the Cold War.
Now together with all our friends and partners we are working on new approaches to establishing supply chains, financing, and banking operations that will not depend in any way on the whims of the United States.
#RussiaEU
Europe is losing its competitive edge as a continent that has been forced to give up cheap Russian gas. It is on the verge of de-industrialisation as European businesses are fleeing to the United States. A reappraisal of everything that is going on, including in the minds of European politicians, has begun.
#RussiaCuba
The nature of our relationship is described as a strategic partnership. But this is a formal characteristic. Our relations go deeper, are rooted in people-to-people ties, in the sympathy our people feel for each other. <...> Our cooperation goes back many decades, despite sanctions and various difficulties, when our relations were hindered in every possible way. We have already developed mechanisms and the ability to achieve results, regardless of the restrictive measures imposed by the West.
#CELAC
We welcome the revival of the CELAC spirit of regional solidarity. This organisation resumed its role of a priority group which is seen by the Latin American and Caribbean countries as a key tool for advancing their collective interests as part of the emerging multipolar world.
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🇷🇺 🇩🇿 President of Russia Vladimir Putin and President of the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria Abdelmadjid Tebboune participated in the plenary session of the St Petersburg International Economic Forum (June 16, 2023)
⚡ Part I⚡
Key topics:
#SpecialMilitaryOperation
📌 They came to the first line in the Zaporozhye direction and lost several tanks. A battle is ongoing there now. I think the Armed Forces of Ukraine have no chance here and won’t have a chance here like in other areas. I have no doubt about this.
⁉️The attempt to damage the Kremlin, which is the residence of the President of the Russian Federation, attacks on the Belgorod Region and neighbouring regions of Russia are attempts to provoke us into taking response measures. Listen, we have destroyed five Patriot air defence systems near Kiev. Do you think it is hard for us to destroy any building or structure in the centre of Kiev? It is not. We are not doing it for several reasons. here are many reasons, but I will tell you about them later.
❌ We have never refused to talk. It was them who decided to stop talking with us. If they do not want to talk with us, they are free not to do so. A day will come when they will want to do it, and then we will see when and what we can talk about with them.
📌 If these attacks on our adjacent territories continue, we will consider the possibility of creating a buffer zone in the Ukrainian territory.
#Zelensky #Bandera #NeoNazism
❗️ I have had many Jewish friends since childhood. They say: #Zelensky is not a Jew but a disgrace to the Jewish people.
‼️This is not a joke or irony. Do you understand? After all, neo-Nazis, followers of Hitler, have been raised on pedestals as today’s heroes in Ukraine. The #Holocaust means killing 6 million Jews, one and a half million of which were killed in Ukraine, and primarily at the hands of Bandera followers.
☝️We keep saying the same thing over and over again. Bandera was an anti-Semite and a neo-Nazi. But no one appears to want to hear that because Zelensky has Jewish blood. But he is covering for these freaks, these neo-Nazis, with his actions.
📌 They tore down a monument to Lenin. I spoke with journalists recently, ok, it is your own business, although he is the founder of modern Ukraine, never mind. But why are you putting Nazis on this pedestal?
📌 This is Bandera and his minions. These are the people who today are the heroes of Ukraine, whom the current Ukrainian government is defending, both as individuals and their ideology. How can you not fight this? We must fight this. Russia was the country hardest hit by the war against Nazism. We will never forget this.
📌 How can you not fight it? If this is not the current edition of neo-Nazism, then what is it? We have every right to believe that our goal of denazifying Ukraine is one of the key goals.
#Economics
📌 Any non-market restrictions in global trade regardless of the sector are counter-productive and detrimental to the entire world economy, for the entire global trade, which means they are damaging for those who initiate such restrictions as well.
📌 We did not begin to shift our focus to the Asian markets, to Africa and to Latin America just yesterday. We started this process long before the tragic events in Ukraine, way before them. Why? Because global economic trends are changing, and leaders are changing, and new ones are coming to the fore.
📌 When I hear someone say that we will become dependent on China, my question is what about you? You became dependent on it a long time ago. Do you see my point? They became dependent long ago. So, it seems it is okay for them to become dependent.
⁉️ In today’s world it is hard to make other countries mindlessly tow to somebody’s interests; it is practically impossible sometimes. How can you force a country with a multimillion population to say: “Don’t buy Russian grain, starve, let your people die of starvation!” Who could say this?
📌 The current crisis in Ukraine is beneficial for them (the West).
Key topics:
#SpecialMilitaryOperation
📌 They came to the first line in the Zaporozhye direction and lost several tanks. A battle is ongoing there now. I think the Armed Forces of Ukraine have no chance here and won’t have a chance here like in other areas. I have no doubt about this.
⁉️The attempt to damage the Kremlin, which is the residence of the President of the Russian Federation, attacks on the Belgorod Region and neighbouring regions of Russia are attempts to provoke us into taking response measures. Listen, we have destroyed five Patriot air defence systems near Kiev. Do you think it is hard for us to destroy any building or structure in the centre of Kiev? It is not. We are not doing it for several reasons. here are many reasons, but I will tell you about them later.
❌ We have never refused to talk. It was them who decided to stop talking with us. If they do not want to talk with us, they are free not to do so. A day will come when they will want to do it, and then we will see when and what we can talk about with them.
📌 If these attacks on our adjacent territories continue, we will consider the possibility of creating a buffer zone in the Ukrainian territory.
#Zelensky #Bandera #NeoNazism
❗️ I have had many Jewish friends since childhood. They say: #Zelensky is not a Jew but a disgrace to the Jewish people.
‼️This is not a joke or irony. Do you understand? After all, neo-Nazis, followers of Hitler, have been raised on pedestals as today’s heroes in Ukraine. The #Holocaust means killing 6 million Jews, one and a half million of which were killed in Ukraine, and primarily at the hands of Bandera followers.
☝️We keep saying the same thing over and over again. Bandera was an anti-Semite and a neo-Nazi. But no one appears to want to hear that because Zelensky has Jewish blood. But he is covering for these freaks, these neo-Nazis, with his actions.
📌 They tore down a monument to Lenin. I spoke with journalists recently, ok, it is your own business, although he is the founder of modern Ukraine, never mind. But why are you putting Nazis on this pedestal?
📌 This is Bandera and his minions. These are the people who today are the heroes of Ukraine, whom the current Ukrainian government is defending, both as individuals and their ideology. How can you not fight this? We must fight this. Russia was the country hardest hit by the war against Nazism. We will never forget this.
📌 How can you not fight it? If this is not the current edition of neo-Nazism, then what is it? We have every right to believe that our goal of denazifying Ukraine is one of the key goals.
#Economics
📌 Any non-market restrictions in global trade regardless of the sector are counter-productive and detrimental to the entire world economy, for the entire global trade, which means they are damaging for those who initiate such restrictions as well.
📌 We did not begin to shift our focus to the Asian markets, to Africa and to Latin America just yesterday. We started this process long before the tragic events in Ukraine, way before them. Why? Because global economic trends are changing, and leaders are changing, and new ones are coming to the fore.
📌 When I hear someone say that we will become dependent on China, my question is what about you? You became dependent on it a long time ago. Do you see my point? They became dependent long ago. So, it seems it is okay for them to become dependent.
⁉️ In today’s world it is hard to make other countries mindlessly tow to somebody’s interests; it is practically impossible sometimes. How can you force a country with a multimillion population to say: “Don’t buy Russian grain, starve, let your people die of starvation!” Who could say this?
📌 The current crisis in Ukraine is beneficial for them (the West).
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Plenary session of the St Petersburg International Economic Forum
Vladimir Putin took part in the plenary session of the 26th St Petersburg International Economic Forum.