#Opinion by Russian MFA Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova

Nuclear DisInfo (Read in full)

Mechanisms for information attacks with a new thesis that target the public space have been launched in the West at the highest level in a transboundary and trans-format manner. The premise is primitive and completely horrifying: the Russians are threatening a nuclear war, and the Russians are waving the nuclear stick.

⁉️ Do I even need to say that this thesis is absolutely incorrect and false? Apparently, I do.

They are pushing this exact thesis because it plays on basic human fears, the experience of the older generation, which throughout the second half of the 20th century was bracing for the Third World War against global communism, and Western youth, for which their respective governments have come up with a new mechanism called “cancel culture” (cancelling everything Russian this time). Moreover, the West absolutely does not care what Moscow really says, and the meaning of words is distorted and outwardly perverted.

Let’s consider the specifics.

Two days ago, in his answer to a question by Dimitri Simes during an interview, Sergey Lavrov said literally the following 👉 full quote

What are the takeaways?

1. It was Russia that, with great difficulty, convinced the United States during lengthy talks to reaffirm the Gorbachev-Reagan formula that a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought.

2. It was Russia that persuaded the group of five nuclear nations to adopt a statement with the same content.

3. There are risks; they should not be blown out of proportion or underestimated.

We did everything possible to prevent a nuclear war, to create all the necessary obstacles on the way to slipping into this scenario (fortunately, they justified themselves during the Cold War and are working today), because we understand the real risks and threats posed by irresponsible behaviour in this area. We cannot allow the very thought of a nuclear war.

Now acting in the worst traditions of disinformation, Western officials are feeding the media, in a coordinated effort, fake news about Moscow’s alleged nuclear threats. The foreign ministries from the NATO countries started convincing the people in their countries that the Russians were “rattling their weapons.”

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Notice how clumsy this was in terms of media work. First, all the put-up quotes against our country were repeated by the journalist, and then they were again mentioned by Ned Price. A presentation designed for a not too sophisticated public. No one even paid attention to what the Foreign Minister said about the risks and Russia’s attempts to prevent the unthinkable.

It’s unthinkable to us, but, mindful of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it is, unfortunately, possible for our colleagues from overseas.

The next day, the media started mass brainwashing. The British tabloids (the Daily Mail and others) and the high-quality analytical US press, French television and German tabloid magazines started talking with one voice that Moscow was threatening with a Third World Nuclear War. And this was already being discussed in Europe; French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said that the Russian Foreign Minister’s words were the “rhetoric of intimidation.”

I would like to ask this Frenchman whether he at least saw what Sergey Lavrov said? We have translated the interview.

Our country is against any nuclear war, and this is exactly what the Russian Minister said, and this is what guides our diplomacy in its work.

Could it be that the Western capitals read the interviews as presented by the Western media? This is the only thing that can justify their words. To avoid that, one should simply DON'T turn off alternative sources of information, and listen to what Russia has to say close to the original text, rather than as interpreted by your media under NATO guidelines.

🎙 FM Sergey Lavrov following talks with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres:

📍Moscow, April 26, 2022

All these years, the entire Russian-speaking population, not only in Donbass and the two proclaimed republics, but also in Ukraine as a whole, was sternly oppressed. Everything is in the statistics. Look at the laws that were passed with respect to the Russian language and the media. Moreover, not only Russian channels were banned, but also Ukrainian ones if they were in the hands of a parliamentary, legitimate, legal but opposition party. Then decisions were eventually made to ban the Russian language in everyday life. Nazi ideology and practices were imposed. Everyone was bashfully "hiding their head in the sand" – both inside and outside the Normandy format.

The critical cause was the line of our American colleagues and their allies for the unlimited expansion of NATO and the establishment of a unipolar world.

Yeni Zelanda Eski Dışişleri Bakan Yardımcısı Matt Robson:

"Dünyanın dört bir yanındaki insanlar Rusya ve Çin'in ne olduğu konusundaki anlayışlarını yitirdiler. Onların dünyanın en büyük saldırganları olduklarını söylemek saçmalıktır. NATO her zaman Rusya ve Çin'i çevrelemek istemiştir. Şimdi İttifak Ukrayna'daki çatışmayı finanse ediyor.”

👤Экс-замглавы МИД Новой Зеландии Мэт Робсон поблагодарил Россию за отпор НАТО.

"Люди по всему миру потеряли понимание того, что такое Россия и Китай. Это нонсенс говорить, что они — главные мировые агрессоры"

НАТО всегда хотел окружить Россию и Китай. Сейчас Альянс спонсирует конфликт на Украине, подчеркнул он.

@izvestia

💬 #Lavrov: Halihazırda en önemli çıkarımı yaptık: Özellikle ekonomi, teknoloji, gıda ve stratejik olan diğer günlük ihtiyaç alanlarında Batı'ya hiçbir şey için güvenemeyiz.

https://t.iss.one/MID_Russia/20049

Ramazan Bayramınızı en kalbi duygularımızla kutluyoruz!

Сердечно поздравляем всех мусульман с праздником Ураза-байрам!

◼️ May 2 marks eight years since the tragedy in Odessa. On this day in 2014, Ukraine’s Nazi thugs massacred those who had stood up against the Maidan coup d'etat, Kiev’s new policies, and unhinged nationalistic aggression. People were corralled into Odessa's House of Trade Unions and burned alive. Others were finished off as they tried to escape.

🕯 Forty-eight people were burned alive, died from carbon monoxide poisoning, or fell to their death from the upper floors of the House of Trade Unions, which was set on fire by the nationalists.

🔹 This barbaric act of egregious cynicism and brutality sent shockwaves around the world. Yet the “civilised” West kept silent in an uncivilised manner. Perpetrators roam freely. Moreover, Ukraine’s law enforcement persecuted those who managed to survive (!) what the fascist thugs had done.

❗️ We will never forget this heinous crime and will work to identify and bring to justice those responsible.

👉 https://vk.cc/cddDho

#NoStatuteOfLimitation

#Анонс

📅 С 3 по 8 мая, ежедневно после 23:00, на канале «Россия-24» пройдут приуроченные ко Дню Победы премьерные показы фильмов-расследований о нацистских преступлениях в рамках проекта #БезСрокаДавности.

🎥 Фильмы сняты фондом национального кино «Патриот» (художественный руководитель А.Звягинцев; авторы сценариев: А.Звягинцев, А.Павлова, О.Булле; режиссёр М.Елкин).

📺 График показа:

3️⃣ мая — «Без срока давности. Карелия. Жизнь за колючей проволокой»

4️⃣ мая — «Без срока давности. Рабы с востока»

5️⃣ мая — «Без срока давности. Жертвоприношение. Дети»

6️⃣ мая — «Без срока давности. Адский колодец»

7️⃣ мая — «Без срока давности. Брянский Бухенвальд»

8️⃣ мая — «Без срока давности. Уцелевшие»

Сегодня, 3️⃣ мая, в 23:05 будет показан первый фильм — «Карелия. Жизнь за колючей проволокой», повествующий о геноциде русского населения Карелии и узниках финских концлагерей.

🇺🇦 Azovstal’daki Naziler, sivilleri yiyecek ile takas etmeyi teklif etti

Mariupol'deki Azovstal demir çelik tesisinde bulunan Ukraynalı militanların yanlarındaki sivilleri gıda ve ilaç karşılığında takas etmeyi teklif ettiği öğrenildi.

‘İşletmeyi kurtarma’ operasyonu kapsamında kurulan karargahtan bir temsilcinin Sputnik’e aktardığı bilgiye göre Azovstal’deki militanlar, yanlarındaki sivilleri gıda ve ilaç karşılığında takas etmeyi teklif etti.

Temsilci, “Müzakereler sırasında bize sivil rehineleri gıda ve ilaç karşılığında takas etmeyi teklif ettiler. Anlaşmanın şartları, bir ton gıda ve ilaç karşılığında 15 rehine. Artık hiç kimsenin Ukrayna'ya gitmesine izin vermeyecekleri konusunda uyardılar, bundan böyle sadece takas edecekler” diye konuştu.

🇷🇺 🇺🇦 Kremlin Sözcüsü Dmitriy Peskov ise bugünkü basın toplantısında Azovstal’deki aşırı milliyetçilerin takas önerisinin Suriye’deki teröristlerin taleplerini andırdığını söyledi.

Peskov, ilgili soruya, “Fabrikadaki yeraltı mahallerinde sığınan aşırı milliyetçilerin taleplerine gelince, onlar elbette daha önce Suriye'de ve başka yerlerde teröristler tarafından dile getirilen taleplere çok benziyor” yanıtını verdi.

🕯 An Orthodox priest Father Parfeniy (Parthnenis), the head of the church in Mikhailovka, who gained renown for his humanitarian efforts as well as sheltering refugees, was killed in a shelling by the Ukrainian Army.

A caring and pious ecclesiastic, he died from a shrapnel wound while the settlement was under fire from Ukranian MLRS on May 3.

This is what he told the media in an interview not long before his demise 👇

💬 Apparently, they [Ukrainian military and nationalists] intended not to defend the city, but to destroy it.

And they did so deliberately, with quite the success.

There is simply no other explanation.

They were shelling the city from Metyolkino. There were no Russian troops or any Lugansk militia there at the time.

So the shelling can be regarded as a sort of gunning down the entire city.

I think their priority is to destroy the infrastructure, so that’s why they’re targeting schools.

#See4Yourself & #Think4Yourself

“Araçlarla geldiler, ne var ne yok yüklediler, her şeyi Azovstal tesisine götürdüler”

Mariupol sakini Azov Taburu’ndan militanların yiyecek depolarını, elektronik eşya, mücevher ve giyim mağazalarını nasıl soyduğunu anlattı.

Владимир Путин: «Мы по праву гордимся тысячелетней историей нашей страны, в которой немало событий и достижений огромного нравственного смысла и общечеловеческого значения. И особое место здесь принадлежит Великой Победе над нацизмом. Она была одержана благодаря мужеству, воле и единству советского народа.»

Vladimir Putin: “Evrensel öneme sahip birçok olay ve başarının bulunduğu ülkemizin bin yıllık tarihi ile haklı olarak gurur duyuyoruz. Nazizm'e karşı kazanılan Büyük Zaferin özel bir yeri bulunuyor. Bu zafer Sovyet halkının cesareti, iradesi ve birliği sayesinde kazanıldı.”

В преддверии Дня Победы ученики театральной студии Русского дома в Анкаре почтили память погибших в Великой Отечественной войне стихотворением Расула Гамзатова «Нас 20 миллионов».
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Zafer Bayramı yaklaşırken Ankara Rus Evi bünyesindeki tiyatro stüdyosunun öğrencileri, Büyük Anavatan Savaşı'nda ölenlerin anısına Resul #Gamzatov'un 'Biz 20 milyonuz' adlı şiirini okudular.