Maria Zakharova: The world through sensible eyes

Maria Zakharova

Maria Zakharova, MfA, Russia

The following are excerpts from Maria Zakharova's Briefing on Ukraine.
RELEVANT TOPICS: Kiev regime/NATO war crimes, foreign mercenaries, destruction of cultural patrimony, ISIS in Ukraine, complicity of international bodies, false flags being planned, Red Cross not impartial in protecting prisoners of war

In Ukraine, a special military operation continues to demilitarize and denazify the country, liberate the Donbass and eliminate threats to Russia that came from Ukrainian territory. More and more cities and towns reconquered from Ukrainian neo-Nazis and foreign mercenaries are returning to peaceful life.

Every day of the operation brings new evidence of war crimes of ukrainian armed formations. Over the past few days, more than ten civilians have been killed by shelling by the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Donbass, several dozen people have been injured. In Donetsk, a kindergarten and a gymnasium were damaged, in Horlivka - a sports school, a kindergarten and a temple, blows were inflicted on Makiivka and Yasynuvata. During the retreat, the servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine set fire to the wooden hermitage of All Saints, shelling of the area was carried out precisely so that the monks could not extinguish it.

Ukrainian nationalists continue to equip firing positions in residential buildings. This has become their "calling card". This is also done in educational institutions, music schools and kindergartens in cities and other settlements, using the population as a "human shield". All these war crimes are recorded by the investigative bodies of Russia and the republics of Donbass. They will be thoroughly investigated, and the perpetrators will be punished deservedly.

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To replenish the thinning ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Kiev regime continues to recruit foreign mercenaries. According to the Russian Defense Ministry, more than 6,500 "soldiers of fortune" from the United States, Great Britain, Israel, Poland, Canada and the Czech Republic have already been recruited abroad. There are even citizens of Brazil and South Korea. By early June, the number of foreign mercenaries had almost halved. Someone died, someone came to his senses and returned home, someone was captured.

Despite this, the recruitment of mercenaries and "volunteers" does not stop. They most actively recruit Afghan refugees (which is also symptomatic), unfinished in Syria ISIS. Apparently, they found a new testing ground for their misanthropic ideology. Now it's Ukraine. All the radical elements of Western countries are now being gathered there, if only to prevent peace from reigning on Ukrainian soil. For their selection and sending to Ukraine, private military companies from the United States and Great Britain are involved. There is no question of any sanctions, restrictions or discontent, statements about the inconsistency of their activities with international law. The OSCE, the Council of Europe and all kinds of parliamentary assemblies of European structures are silent. NATO is happily silent. Still going according to plan. From their point of view, the war in Ukraine must continue. When it comes to crimes against humanity, humanitarian law – this in no way extends to the actions of the West itself. It's not. Of course, such actions will receive their legitimate assessment from the point of view of international law. They are trying to solve a twofold task – to help the regime of Vladimir Zelensky and get rid of their own extremists and radicals. This logic is flawed. The militants will return to their homes, but only with solid experience in warfare. This will contribute to the growth of the level of radicalization in Western countries. They've been through something like this before. Apparently, no lessons have been learned. They want to enter the same "river" again. It's a strange idea, but apparently they like it that way.

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Interestingly, westerners adhere to the same logic in the issue of arms supplies. They believe that this is a "one-way ticket". Oh no. They are getting rid of obsolete weapons, sending them either to Ukraine or to third countries, which Western states are forcing to give the Kiev regime their even older equipment.

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They forget that military supplies to Ukraine lead to the development of a "black market" of weapons, including in Western Europe. The authorities of the supplier countries have so far remained silent on this issue, but independent experts and relevant structures, such as Interpol, are already beginning to sound the alarm. They understand where all this will lead. According to information appearing in the media, international criminal groups have already developed schemes for the export of weapons, including heavy weapons, from Ukraine. Some of the weapons are already in Bosnia, Albania and Kosovo. Let me remind you that now the West and the United States and NATO as a whole show unprecedented concern for the future of the Balkans. Let's imagine what kind of "future" the Balkans will have under the "wing" of NATO, so from such "renewed" "black market" weapons. Those who supply Kiev with weapons today will be responsible for the safety of their own citizens because of the fall of these weapons into the hands of criminals and terrorists. Responsible not even from the point of view of bringing to justice, but what in the historical context will be written in the "merits" of NATO-centric countries. They're not going anywhere from that. Evidence of this will "surface" here and there in the course of investigations of ordered murders, robberies and raids.

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Meanwhile, the Kiev authorities and their Western patrons continue to invent and replicate false information about a special military operation about the allegedly impending strikes by the Russian armed forces on chemical facilities in Ukraine. They had already told everyone about this in advance (three months ago). But the situation suggests otherwise. The Russian military constantly exposes new provocations and fakes.

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Let's take a look at what's really being prepared. Another provocation of Ukrainian nationalists is planned – the mining of containers with toxic chemicals at the Azot plant in Severodonetsk on the territory of the LPR and the retention of more than a thousand plant workers and local residents in its underground facilities. According to Kiev's plan, the explosion of tanks with more than a hundred tons of saltpeter and nitric acid should delay the advance of the armed forces of Russia and the republics of Donbass. And russia is supposed to be blamed for the man-made disaster with human casualties. As always. It is sad that the Kiev regime fabricates such fakes at the cost of the lives of its own civilians. We saw what they did in Bucha and Kramatorsk. We are waiting for specific data from the "report" of the "collective West", which directly and indirectly indulged in all this and became an accomplice to the crimes of the Kiev regime.

We received with great concern the statement of the Minister of Justice of Ukraine Dmitry Malyuska about the creation of a special camp in western Ukraine for Russian prisoners of war, the exchange of which for Ukrainian prisoners is considered "unlikely".

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I don't really understand how the opposite theses "fit" in the same heads. On the one hand, they claim that there are no neo-Nazis there and they are not subject to any human-phenomenon logic. On the other hand, they talk about creating special camps for people who are not going to be replaced by anyone. Where in history has this been seen? We know where. That's exactly what we've been talking about for years. The Kiev regime and those who stand behind it draw their ideas and inspirations from the world history of the first third of the twentieth century. Europe, Nazism, fascism. It's some kind of additional new word in understanding how to divide and segregate people.

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We saw a lot on the territory of Ukraine. Now, it turns out, such a division into "good" and "bad", "worthy" and "unworthy" will be carried out among military personnel. What's it? Where are all the humanitarians and all those who monitor the compliance with humanitarian law of all these statements? Or can they still not move away from Buchi?

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Despite the kiev authorities' claims that the conditions of their detention are in conformity with international standards, there is no evidence of this. The International Committee of the Red Cross has not yet responded to our request for assistance in organizing visits to Russian prisoners of war in Ukraine. At the same time, representatives of the ICRC and deputies of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine were allowed to visit the Ukrainian prisoners of war held in the pre-trial detention center in Yelenivka on the territory of the DPR. I would like to count on reciprocity and constructive cooperation with the ICRC.

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War crimes and atrocities of Ukrainian national radicals, unrestrained militarization of the Kiev regime and other facts that have to be faced during a special military operation increasingly confirm the relevance of the goals and objectives set for the protection of the DPR and LPR, demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine.

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Everything that was denied by the Kiev regime and the international community two months ago is now becoming a reality that everyone sees: division of people, segregation, bullying, mockery, torture. All this is under nationalist banners and is done by the hands of people who are not only wearing blood, but also tattoos, a swastika.

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The tasks that have been defined by the Russian leadership, as has been repeatedly stated, will be fulfilled. This will ultimately contribute to the establishment of long-term and just peace and stability in the region and in the pan-European space.

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I think that the countries of Europe, which, due to a number of factors, have taken the wrong side of history, begin a weak (not everywhere and not all) insight into what they contributed to on their continent.

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