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⚡️ Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova’s answer to media question about improper storage of radioactive waste in Ukraine
❓ Question: There has been information that dangerous radioactive waste at the Pridneprovsky Chemical Plant is stored in breach of safety requirements and in an overall improper way. How can you comment on this?
💬 Maria Zakharova: The situation as regards storing dangerous radioactive waste in Ukraine is quite horrifying. The total volume of waste left after uranium ore processing at the Pridneprovsky Chemical Plant in Kamenskoye (former Dneprodzerzhinsk) is 42 million tonnes. There are several warehouses and shops that produce triuranium octoxide, covering an area of some 600 hectares at the plant and outside it.
This waste is a significant and dangerous source of environmental pollution. There is a high probability that some 12 million tonnes of radioactive waste may reach the Dnieper River and ground waters as a result of a possible washout of a dam at a storage facility located 800 metres from the river and its Konoplyanka tributary. Some 14 tonnes of radioactive dust are spread around annually, including over agricultural land.
According to our data, Kiev does not provide funding to ensure the environmental safety of the Pridneprovsky plant facilities, which might ultimately result in an environmental disaster not only in the territory controlled by the Kiev regime, but also beyond it.
❓ Question: There has been information that dangerous radioactive waste at the Pridneprovsky Chemical Plant is stored in breach of safety requirements and in an overall improper way. How can you comment on this?
💬 Maria Zakharova: The situation as regards storing dangerous radioactive waste in Ukraine is quite horrifying. The total volume of waste left after uranium ore processing at the Pridneprovsky Chemical Plant in Kamenskoye (former Dneprodzerzhinsk) is 42 million tonnes. There are several warehouses and shops that produce triuranium octoxide, covering an area of some 600 hectares at the plant and outside it.
This waste is a significant and dangerous source of environmental pollution. There is a high probability that some 12 million tonnes of radioactive waste may reach the Dnieper River and ground waters as a result of a possible washout of a dam at a storage facility located 800 metres from the river and its Konoplyanka tributary. Some 14 tonnes of radioactive dust are spread around annually, including over agricultural land.
According to our data, Kiev does not provide funding to ensure the environmental safety of the Pridneprovsky plant facilities, which might ultimately result in an environmental disaster not only in the territory controlled by the Kiev regime, but also beyond it.
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🎙 Briefing by Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova (Moscow, November 9, 2023)
🔹 FM Sergey Lavrov’s schedule
🔹 Palestinian-Israeli conflict
🔹 Ukrainian crisis
🔹 Rise of nationalism in the world
🔹 Antisemitism in the United States
🔹 Nord Stream terrorist attack
🔹 Treaties to which the US is not a party
🔹 Moldova
🔹 Russophobia in Latvia
🔹 Tokyo Trial
and more...
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#Ukraine
Not only have the people across the ocean opted to ignore the cruelty with which the Kiev regime has been using American weapons against civilians, but they even view this as something rather normal. We used to say that they probably failed to notice these developments. But no, they believe them to be the norm. This is the new normal for them, together with the fact that supplying more and more weapons to Ukrainian neo-Nazis causes hostilities to escalate and increasingly draws the United States into the conflict in and around Ukraine.
#MiddleEast
The Gaza Strip is under a ruthless blockade, which primarily affects the civilians. Gaza is experiencing a critical lack of fuel, food, and medications. The clean water shortage is fraught with a sharp deterioration in the sanitary and epidemiological situation.
We appreciate the initiation of the process for evacuating foreign nationals from the Gaza Strip to Egypt through the Rafah Border Crossing.
Along with addressing immediate de-escalation tasks, we consider it important to take steps to lay the foundation for relaunching a full-fledged political process in order to provide a comprehensive solution to the Palestinian issue on a recognised international legal basis.
🔹 FM Sergey Lavrov’s schedule
🔹 Palestinian-Israeli conflict
🔹 Ukrainian crisis
🔹 Rise of nationalism in the world
🔹 Antisemitism in the United States
🔹 Nord Stream terrorist attack
🔹 Treaties to which the US is not a party
🔹 Moldova
🔹 Russophobia in Latvia
🔹 Tokyo Trial
and more...
📚 Read
#Ukraine
Not only have the people across the ocean opted to ignore the cruelty with which the Kiev regime has been using American weapons against civilians, but they even view this as something rather normal. We used to say that they probably failed to notice these developments. But no, they believe them to be the norm. This is the new normal for them, together with the fact that supplying more and more weapons to Ukrainian neo-Nazis causes hostilities to escalate and increasingly draws the United States into the conflict in and around Ukraine.
#MiddleEast
The Gaza Strip is under a ruthless blockade, which primarily affects the civilians. Gaza is experiencing a critical lack of fuel, food, and medications. The clean water shortage is fraught with a sharp deterioration in the sanitary and epidemiological situation.
We appreciate the initiation of the process for evacuating foreign nationals from the Gaza Strip to Egypt through the Rafah Border Crossing.
Along with addressing immediate de-escalation tasks, we consider it important to take steps to lay the foundation for relaunching a full-fledged political process in order to provide a comprehensive solution to the Palestinian issue on a recognised international legal basis.
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🎙 Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s answers to questions from the "Moscow. Kremlin. Putin" TV programme (November 12, 2023)
❓ Question: Regarding the acceleration [of Ukraine's progress towards EU membership], our source has told us that Kiev will be required to eliminate discrimination of minorities, but that the EU did not care about the Russian language.
💬 Sergey Lavrov: When Ukraine adopted its “anti-minorities” legislation, it caused an uproar in the European Union. Ukraine amended it and said this would not affect EU languages. Judge for yourself.
At that time, we talked with Hungary and other EU members who had compatriots living in Ukraine and said we hoped they would not just fight for exemptions for their own cultures, but will defend all the principles of international law concerning national minorities. So far, we have not seen that happening.
❓ Question: European leaders have stepped up their rhetoric insisting Ukraine should be admitted to the European Union as a matter of urgency. What does this indicate?
💬 Sergey Lavrov: I have no clue. Most of these statements have been made by Head of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen. They are preparing some recommendations, but they also admit that Ukraine has not fulfilled a significant part of the criteria. Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba says the EU should forget all about those criteria and admit Ukraine without conditions.
I have difficulty wrapping my head around this. It looks like some game, or an extension of the EU’s old policy. When the Soviet Union collapsed, they suddenly dropped all criteria and took the decisions to admit the Baltic States into the European Union for purely political reasons. They never fully met the conditions, but political expediency prevailed.
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❓ Question: Regarding the acceleration [of Ukraine's progress towards EU membership], our source has told us that Kiev will be required to eliminate discrimination of minorities, but that the EU did not care about the Russian language.
💬 Sergey Lavrov: When Ukraine adopted its “anti-minorities” legislation, it caused an uproar in the European Union. Ukraine amended it and said this would not affect EU languages. Judge for yourself.
At that time, we talked with Hungary and other EU members who had compatriots living in Ukraine and said we hoped they would not just fight for exemptions for their own cultures, but will defend all the principles of international law concerning national minorities. So far, we have not seen that happening.
❓ Question: European leaders have stepped up their rhetoric insisting Ukraine should be admitted to the European Union as a matter of urgency. What does this indicate?
💬 Sergey Lavrov: I have no clue. Most of these statements have been made by Head of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen. They are preparing some recommendations, but they also admit that Ukraine has not fulfilled a significant part of the criteria. Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba says the EU should forget all about those criteria and admit Ukraine without conditions.
I have difficulty wrapping my head around this. It looks like some game, or an extension of the EU’s old policy. When the Soviet Union collapsed, they suddenly dropped all criteria and took the decisions to admit the Baltic States into the European Union for purely political reasons. They never fully met the conditions, but political expediency prevailed.
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🔴 #LIVE: Briefing by Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria #Zakharova on topical foreign policy issues
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🎙 Excerpts from Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview for the RT channel (Moscow, November 15, 2023)
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💬 We have never, during the last 30 years, tried to underestimate the importance of good relations with Israel and the importance of good relations with Israel’s Arab neighbors. And we played a role promoting peace on the basis of the final solution of this Middle East issue in accordance with the United Nations’ resolutions and decisions.
We have been a member of the Quartet of International Mediators from the very beginning of the functioning of this structure. The only structure recognized officially by the Security Council as having the mandate to mediate.
There were so many opportunities missed. There were so many attempts when a deal seemed to be close, so many attempts to replay the game.
☝️ But we keep our relations with both parties. <...> And we will continue to push for the immediate goal – the cessation of hostilities for humanitarian purposes.
👉 After that we all must take a deep breath and think how we restore Gaza, how we make sure that no one is expelled from Gaza. That there is no movement into Egypt and into Jordan of all those who used to live in Gaza, because this is what worries our Egyptian and Jordanian friends. And this would of course ruin all the resolutions of the Security Council that Gaza is Palestine, together with the West Bank.
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💬 We have never, during the last 30 years, tried to underestimate the importance of good relations with Israel and the importance of good relations with Israel’s Arab neighbors. And we played a role promoting peace on the basis of the final solution of this Middle East issue in accordance with the United Nations’ resolutions and decisions.
We have been a member of the Quartet of International Mediators from the very beginning of the functioning of this structure. The only structure recognized officially by the Security Council as having the mandate to mediate.
There were so many opportunities missed. There were so many attempts when a deal seemed to be close, so many attempts to replay the game.
☝️ But we keep our relations with both parties. <...> And we will continue to push for the immediate goal – the cessation of hostilities for humanitarian purposes.
👉 After that we all must take a deep breath and think how we restore Gaza, how we make sure that no one is expelled from Gaza. That there is no movement into Egypt and into Jordan of all those who used to live in Gaza, because this is what worries our Egyptian and Jordanian friends. And this would of course ruin all the resolutions of the Security Council that Gaza is Palestine, together with the West Bank.
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🇷🇺 Russia's Ministry of Civil Defence, Emergencies and Disaster Relief (EMERCOM):
Russia's EMERCOM delivered 21 tonnes of humanitarian aid – food and medical supplies as well as generators – to the people of Gaza via Egypt, assisted by the Egyptian Red Crescent Society.
📸 Russian Embassy in Egypt / Russian MFA
#RussiaHelps
Russia's EMERCOM delivered 21 tonnes of humanitarian aid – food and medical supplies as well as generators – to the people of Gaza via Egypt, assisted by the Egyptian Red Crescent Society.
📸 Russian Embassy in Egypt / Russian MFA
#RussiaHelps
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🛬 120 passengers, mostly Russian citizens and their family members, evacuated from the Gaza Strip arrived in Russia aboard the EMERCOM’s special flight.
Having completed all the necessary procedures, part of the evacuees is now heading to the town of Klin to the children's health camp “Horizon”.
Having completed all the necessary procedures, part of the evacuees is now heading to the town of Klin to the children's health camp “Horizon”.
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🔴 #LIVE: The UN Security Council holds a meeting to discuss Kiev regime's persecution of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church
🔗 https://media.un.org/en/webtv
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