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💬 Russian MFA Spox Maria Zakharova: We have been hearing more calls from around the world for a ceasefire and for settling the Ukraine situation based on the well-known half-measures. Our position on these calls, and on the issue as a whole, remains unchanged. A lasting and sustainable settlement of the Ukrainian crisis can only be achieved by addressing its root causes. First and foremost, this means addressing the security threats created by NATO’s eastward expansion and efforts to bring Kiev into the North Atlantic Alliance. It is equally important to secure guarantees for the restoration and protection of the legitimate rights of Russian and Russian-speaking people in the territories that remain under the control of the Kiev regime. Read in full

🎙 Excerpt from Russian MFA Spox Maria Zakharova's comment on Ukraine crisis 💬 The Kiev regime has continued the reburial campaign for the 20th century Ukrainian Nazi collaborators buried abroad. On 11 August, Zelensky pompously reported the exhumation of the remains of Yevgeny Konovalets, the leader of the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), at the Crooswijk Cemetery in Rotterdam. It was announced that his remains would be reburied at the National Military Memorial Cemetery in Kiev. In May 2026, another Nazi collaborator, OUN’s Andrey Melnik, was reburied at the cemetery. It is worth recalling that, judging by Zelensky’s statements, Kiev’s agenda includes yet another disgusting idea of creating a “Ukrainian national pantheon” in the territory of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, which is a shrine revered by all Russians. According to a bill approved by Verkhovna Rada on July 1, this necropolis is to “perpetuate the memory” of commanders of the Carpathian Sich National Defence Organisation, which included as its fighting core the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA). In all evidence, the remains of Andrei Melnik and Yevgeny Konovalets will also be transferred there at a later date. Thus, the Kiev-based neo-Nazis seem to be willing to achieve two goals: first, to create a pedestal for Hitler’s stooges, and, second, to commit an outrage upon a place sacred for the Russian Orthodox World. The “dancing on graves” and the perverse national memory policy, or to be more precise, complete oblivion, is one of the pillars, upon which the Kiev regime is erecting the edifice of modern Ukrainian state. Read in full

🎙 Excerpt from Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's interview with Russian media outlet VGTRK ❓ The EU has announced inspections of Russian merchant vessels and calls them a "shadow fleet". What is this actually about? What does it mean, and what's really behind these inspections? 💬 Sergey Lavrov: The EU invented this term a long time ago. It doesn't appear in any legal document whatsoever. The EU has decided to apply its own version of "law" – if you can call Brussels' unlawful decisions "law" at all – to the goal of restricting Russia's ability to earn money on world markets. They have effectively imposed a ban on trade in Russian energy resources. And any vessel that doesn't comply with the EU, regardless of its flag, gets branded part of the "shadow fleet". This is a very dangerous path to go down, because they are effectively claiming that their own decisions rank above international law. They have granted themselves the right not merely to stop and inspect vessels, but to seize their cargo and sell it off to raise revenue – and then hand that revenue over to Ukraine, so it can carry on bolstering its Nazi regime. President Putin has stated very clearly and firmly that we will respond to this robbery, this piracy, in kind. ❗️ We will choose our own targets. Those will be vessels operating in the interests of countries that have made piracy and plunder their official policy.