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🗓 On September 19, 1943, one of the largest partisan operations of the Great Patriotic War to disrupt railway communications on Nazi-occupied territories, behind enemy lines, Operation "Concert", commenced. It became a continuation of the "Rail War", conducted in August-September 1943. The partisans were tasked to destroy as many German trains and railway lines as possible to disrupt communications and hinder the delivery of munitions and provisions to the territories occupied by the Nazis. The operation involved 193 partisan units in Belarus, the Baltics, Karelia, Crimea, Leningrad, Kalinin, Smolensk and Orel regions with the total number of 120,615 people. In over six weeks, the partisans blew up approximately 150,000 rail lines, 100 railway bridges and about 100 enemy trains, hindering the delivery of Nazi reserves and allowing the Soviet aviation to attack railway junctions, where Nazis became easy targets, more effectively. ☝️ The operation resulted in the reduction of the throughput capacity of the rail lines the Nazis used by nearly 40%. According to military experts, the partisans’ actions in the operations "Rail War" and "Concert" were more than 11 times more effective than all the raids of the Nazi aviation, which dropped more than 10,000 bombs on the railways in the Soviet rear during the same period. 🌟 Operation "Concert" greatly contributed to disrupting logistics and demoralising Nazi troops and to the preparation of the Red Army’s autumn offensive towards Smolensk and Gomel, as well as facilitated its advance towards the Dnieper and Desna rivers. #Victory79

In response to 🇨🇦GAC's post (Despite claiming that it defends the freedom of Russians..."): Despite claiming that it defends the freedom of Canadians, the Trudeau cabinet is eradicating #mediafreedom by blocking alternatives to mainstream media outlets, suppressing independent journalists, and adopting norms that restrict the sharing of objective information.

🎙 President of Russia Vladimir Putin at the Plenary Session of the IV Eurasian Women's Forum (Saint Petersburg, September 18, 2024): 💬 Dear Friends, I extend my warm greetings to the participants and guests of the fourth Eurasian Women's Forum. Welcome to Russia and to St Petersburg. Your forum is one of the most highly respected international platforms demonstrating the potential and capabilities of modern women and their truly colossal role in virtually all spheres of life. I would like to emphasise that your meetings reflect on the most crucial aspects of modern development and promote the ideas of unity for sustainable development and universal security. This is more important now than ever, and this is what millions of people across all continents desire. Humanity is facing extremely complicated issues, which can only be resolved together and based on respect for each other’s interests. The previous forums paved the way for many concrete initiatives, including stronger interaction within the framework of BRICS, APEC and W20. Incidentally, we have just now discussed these issues with the President of Brazil. I bring you best regards from Brazil. I am convinced that women’s commitment to the ideas of cooperation and peace has brought success and popularity to your forum. Each time, it brings together greater numbers of participants. This year, female leaders from 126 countries came to St Petersburg. Additionally, multimillion online audiences have joined the discussions focusing on a variety of sensitive topics. Delegations from all Russian regions which represent our multi-ethnic nation, our rich culture and centuries-old traditions are attending this forum as well. Russian women bring to light the soul of Russia, its beauty, appeal, warmth, graciousness, and magnanimity. The forum provides an opportunity to show the broad international female community that Russia is an open and hospitable country that appreciates dialogue, trust, and friendship, and that we respect the diversity and uniqueness of other countries and peoples. The great interest in the Eurasian Women’s Forum is also grounded in the fact that its agenda transcends the typical discussion of women’s role in society. The forum brings together accomplished women who have achieved top results in their professional careers. Your experience in creative, managerial, intellectual, humanitarian, and educational activities undoubtedly matters a lot for billions of people worldwide, which fact made this forum a global platform for developing proposals to address the most pressing issues. The already high international standing of the Forum continues to rise. Your voice is heard, and governments around the world heed it. Your recommendations are taken into consideration by major international organisations. To reiterate, this participation and energetic work are crucial if we want to build a multipolar, just, and genuinely free world. Everyone among us shares these ideas and does everything possible to shape a new progressive global space. This forum is devoted to matters of trust and global cooperation. As always, the female eye has captured the most important matters. Humanity is in need of a robust foundation of trust, openness, mutual understanding, and contacts across various fields in order to be able to address challenging social issues, to ensure economic prosperity and technological development, and to overcome poverty, inequality, and diseases. Most importantly, to be able to develop equal indivisible security principles that every country needs. For many years now, Russia has been urging the world to unite in order to discuss and to adopt such principles. I am convinced that you are supportive of our initiatives and will promote them in your respective countries. 📄 Read in full #EWF2024

In response to 🇨🇦GAC's post ("Putin claims that he defends..."): It’s really hard to comprehend who the addressees of such statements are. 🇷🇺Russia doesn’t care. Still, PM Trudeau’s cabinet must mind its own business instead of spending 🇨🇦Canadian taxpayers’ money on propaganda and interference into domestic affairs of other sovereign Nations.

🗓 On September 17, 1939, the Red Army launched a military operation in Poland’s eastern regions, also known as the Red Army’s Polish Campaign. The academic community and media, primarily outside Russia and in the West, have adopted an excessively biased interpretation of these events seeking to equate the Third Reich and the USSR and cast Moscow as an aggressor. This approach is completely at odds with the historical truth and facts. Nazi troops invaded Poland on September 1, and by mid-September they defeated the core forces of the Polish army. On September 16, 1939, Army Group South joined Army Group North near Włodawa. They encircled the main Polish forces to the east of Warsaw. In the east, the German army reached the line which included Grajewo, Białystok, Brest, Vladimir Volynsky, Lvov and Stry. In the early hours of September 17, Poland started moving its government agencies to Romania, and the next night President Ignacy Mościcki, and Commander-in-Chief Edward Rydz-Śmigły with their staff followed down the same road. There were two options for the Soviet leaders: let the German troops reach what used to be the Soviet-Polish border, or stop them further away from it. Moscow signed the Non-Aggression Pact with Germany on August 23, 1939, all while understanding that it did nothing but delay the inevitable armed conflict with the Third Reich. Therefore, having a bigger distance between Moscow and other major cities of the Soviet Union, on the one hand, and the Wehrmacht’s advance positions, on the other hand, offered the Red Army more strategic and tactical advantages. It is also worth noting that the Soviet forces saved people in Eastern Poland, i.e., in Western Belarus and Western Ukraine, from genocide, including Jews, Ukrainians, Belarusians, Poles, Russians… The Soviet authorities enabled many Polish nationals and refugees to emigrate. As for the Republic of Poland, it ended up suffering from its own political short-sightedness and from putting its bets on working with the Nazis while hoping to make its expansionist plans come true. In March 1938, even before benefiting from the 'Munich Conspiracy' to annex part of Czechoslovakia, the Poles threatened Lithuania. In fact, the Soviet Union was the only country to stand up for Lithuania. The Red Army did not define the outcome of the September 1939 campaign by interfering in these developments. It was the German military supremacy, coupled with the fact that the Polish armed forces were ill-prepared and committed tactical missteps. Overall, statements focusing on a two-fold aggression do not hold up to scrutiny. When the Red Army crossed the border of the Republic of Poland on September 17, it was unable to resist, and the country was doomed. The Red Army did not go beyond the regions of Western Ukraine, Byelorussia and the Wileńszczyzna – all three were occupied by Poland in 1920 and 1921 following the Polish-Soviet War. The Red Army reached the so-called Curzon Line, a demarcation line designated as Poland’s eastern border by the Entente’s Supreme War Council. ☝️ Neither London, nor Paris viewed the USSR’s interference as an act of aggression. By the same token, they did not voice any formal protests against Moscow, nor declared war against the Soviet Union. It was obvious that the agreements between the USSR and Germany were not meant to last, especially since the armed forces of these two countries have taken positions along the same line of contact. It is no wonder that in Belarus September 17 is marked as the Day of Unity as it was on this date in 1939 that the people of Belarus reunited, liberated by the Red Army.

In response to 🇨🇦GAC's post ("Despite claiming that it defends the freedom of its citizens, Russia has..."): The 🇨🇦Canadian cabinet's obsession is no news (🇷🇺Russia couldn’t care less). Mr.Trudeau’s team better look into 🇨🇦Canadian domestic affairs. Its attempts to mentor other countries are unacceptable in principle (and futile, anyway 😹😹😹).

🎙 Russia's Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova: 💬 Back in March 2023, New York Times reporters Justin Scheck and Thomas Gibbons researched over 100 pages of documents from American “volunteer groups” in Ukraine and interviewed more than 30 mercenaries, fundraisers, donors to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and American and Ukrainian officials. Among the biographies of inveterate swindlers and fraudsters they compiled, they also found... Who do you think? Ryan Routh, the shooter who was lying in wait for Donald Trump at a golf club in West Palm Beach. The former construction worker from Greensboro became infected with the idea of supplying cannon fodder for the Ukrainian armed forces and began searching for recruits among former Afghan servicemen who fled from the Taliban to neighbouring countries. He was going to smuggle them to Ukraine from Iran and Pakistan, and even bragged that he was planning to buy fake passports there, since Pakistan was “a very corrupt country.” According to the notes, Routh gathered a well-suited company of his compatriots to help in his Ukrainian affairs. Well, sort of. Here's a few examples. James Vasquez. Kiev hired him as a “valuable military specialist” who fought in Iraq and Kuwait, probably because he bragged about it on social media. In fact, Vasquez was not in Kuwait, Iraq, or anywhere else. He spent some time in the United States as a private reservist and specialised in repairing fuel and electrical equipment. John McIntyre. He joined the International Legion of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. For a long time, he presented himself as a “prominent expert” in intelligence. He defected to Russia at the first chance. Malcolm Nance. An encryption specialist who served in the US Navy. It turned out that he was bullying his fellow servicepeople on social media and writing denunciations based solely on his own imagination. He fled the battlefield, taking cash with him, and later decided to make some money once again pretending to help the Kiev regime. Ben Lackey. He pretended he was a Navy SEAL veteran while in fact working as waiter at an American steakhouse. At least this one had actually taken part in bloody “showdowns,” or rather butchering. Grady Williams. A retired drug addict. He got a weapon somehow, fought a little in Ukraine and fled to Georgia, where he continues to participate in corruption schemes. He dreams of a motorcycle. There are hundreds of stories like these. And now the final flourish. Officials admitted to the journalists that they only spend 10 minutes checking the documents of a potential foreign fighter according to regulations. This means that anyone can end up in the Ukrainian armed forces, gaining access to firearms and explosives. That is why they shoot down planes with their own war prisoners as well as American F-16. This is also a reason why Russia is raising alarm trying to draw attention to the nuclear stations that are being systematically shelled by the Kiev regime. Like a magnet, Zelensky attracts not just an incompetent rabble to Ukraine, but outright scumbags to his neo-Nazi fighters. Both Western readers of The New York Times and everyone else must know what is behind the curtains of the West’s comprehensive assistance to the Ukrainian Nazis, even at the level of these “people’s activists,” and think about what these people, who have not a shred of conscience, will do in their homeland when they get bored of playing defenders of Ukraine. Those of them who survive [their mercenary tours, mentally & physically damaged] will return to the US. And they will continue doing Routh’s work — i.e. shooting at their own POWs.

🎙 Briefing by Russia's Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova (Moscow, September 11, 2024) 🔹 79th UN General Assembly 🔹 Ukrainian crisis 🔹 September 11 attacks 🔹 Anti-Russia statements by MI6 chief Moore and CIA Director Burns 🔹 Russian Foreign Ministry's annual Report titled 'Situation with the Glorification of Nazism' 🔹 Current situation in Moldova 🔹 Unilateral anti-Russian "sanctions" imposed by the Republic of Korea 🔹 President of Finland’s anti-Russia statements 🔹 Militarisation of the Spitsbergen Archipelago 🔹 Russia’s relationship with the Arab world 📰 Read 📺 Watch *** #UNGA79 On September 10, the 79th Session of the UN General Assembly commenced. The Russian delegation is led by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. On September 28, he is scheduled to deliver remarks during the high-level General Debate, to be held on September 24−30. Just as our partners in the Global Majority, we are committed to upholding the primacy of the goals and principles of the UN Charter in their entirety and interconnectivity. We will carry on our coordinated efforts against the West’s neo-colonial practices. #Ukraine #KievRegimeCrimes I cannot say that these crimes are on the conscience of the Kiev regime because they don’t have a conscience, just like their Western patrons. They are responsible for these crimes. What we should talk about in this case is not conscience but terrorism. The Russian law enforcement agencies register every crime, and those who commit them will be punished to the fullest extent of the law. We call on the relevant international organisations to face up to these and other crimes committed by the Kiev regime, including terrorist attacks, and to respond to them appropriately. #RussiaChina Modern Russian-Chinese relations are a more advanced form of interstate ties compared to the military-political alliances of the Cold War era. There is no bloc or confrontational focus in them; they are not directed at third countries. This is really important. We regard each other as priority foreign policy partners. Moscow and Beijing’s positions on the fundamental aspects of the modern world order and key international issues coincide or are very similar.

🇷🇺🇪🇬 Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s opening remarks during talks with Foreign Minister of the Arab Republic of Egypt Badr Abdelatty (Moscow, September 16, 2024) 💬 We are pleased to welcome you and would like to take this opportunity to personally congratulate you on your appointment as the Foreign Minister of the Arab Republic of Egypt. We know you as someone who is always focused on achieving results, and we share that same commitment. I am confident that, with your assistance, we will continue to strengthen Russian-Egyptian relations in line with the agreements already made and those yet to be realised by our Presidents. We appreciate your acceptance of our invitation and your prompt arrival in the Russian Federation following your appointment. I look forward to discussing the full spectrum of our bilateral relations today, in line with the Comprehensive Partnership and Strategic Cooperation Agreement that entered into force in 2021. As always, our agenda is packed with topics covering both international and regional issues, including the situation in the Gaza Strip, Syria, Libya, Sudan, and the Horn of Africa. Read in full #RussiaEgypt

✉️ Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s greetings to organisers, participants and guests of the 22nd 'Amur Autumn' International Film and Theatre Festival ✍️ I would like to extend warm greetings to the organisers, participants and guests of the 22nd Amur Autumn International Film and Theatre Festival. Over more than two decades of its existence, your festival has garnered well-deserved acclaim as one of the key cultural events in the Russian Far East. It has become a popular platform for promoting the Russian cinema and theatre industry. I am delighted to note that the programme of the Amur Autumn festival is becoming more diverse, involving an increasing number of participants and expanding its geographical reach. This year, the festival will host the first international contest of short and full-length feature films, featuring representatives of Asian and CIS countries. This year’s festival holds special significance in the context of the cross years of culture between Russia and China, as well as the celebrations of the 75th anniversary of diplomatic relations between our countries. I am convinced that this event will make a meaningful contribution to the development of Russian-Chinese cultural and humanitarian cooperation and to strengthening the friendship and neighbourly relations between our nations. 🤝 I wish the organisers and participants continued success in reaching new creative heights, and the audience an unforgettable and inspiring experience.