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Maria Vladimirovna Zakharova, who received a phone call during a briefing on Thursday, commented to RIA Novosti that there is no intrigue in this situation.

Before the briefing there were questions about contradictory materials on the Internet... I asked the experts if this was our topic. The answer came during the briefing - the Foreign Ministry does not comment. So there is no intrigue

Source: RIA Novosti
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Surprisingly, apart from experts on everything - starting from virology to nukes, professionals comment on topics which are within their sphere of competence. I know it's kind of unpleasant to receive "I don't know" or "I don't comment" as an answer, but this is life.
Everyone has own opinion on subjects, but having opinion and possessing information are very different categories of discussion.

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Sofa General Staff:

As a result of decisive actions, units of the Southern Group of Forces liberated the settlement of Dalnee in the Donetsk People's Republic, the Russian Ministry of Defense reports. 🇷🇺

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Interesting information from the Institute for the Ignition Study of War.

The thing is, that people want to live, they don't want to die for the sake of prosperity of US officials involved in this bloody business. If this was real war for independence, as the West tries to present it, there would be far more volunteers and people would have behaved differently.

I'm not trying to whitewash Ukrainians here. They are fully responsible for what is happening. But now they are simply trying to save their lives. And this shows who they, in general, hate more than the Russians.

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Very good summary by channel Пятница Z:

It has been 1000 full days since the start of the SMO.

Since an ordinary person cannot influence what is happening, I will focus only on the perception of events, and here everyone is free to understand what is happening as they wish.

1. The SMO itself began as a response to the crossing of red lines. We have been inside this reality for a long time, no new lines have appeared. Of course, for the sake of external formality, at the end of 2021, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs made an ultimatum proposal, and even negotiations were held with the West, which ended in nothing.
Naturally, the Security Council and Putin are not so stupid: everyone understood perfectly well that NATO would not go back to the 1997 borders.

2. Putin first publicly brought the entire Security Council on live TV, where they said that there were no options not to recognize the DPR and LPR, and a couple of days later he announced the start of the SMO. First he gave a lecture on the history of the creation of Ukraine, promising decommunization. It is enough to listen to/read what was said to understand that the leadership understood perfectly well what the process would lead to, and it did not change its views.

3. Ukraine (=the West) has rejected every proposal from our side, now it is no longer a question of simple autonomy for 2 regions, but of losing 4 regions forever (and I believe they will lose more). Ukraine has put too much on the line, holding too many bad cards. And when they have to be revealed, the collapse will be such as the current generations have never seen.

4. At every stage our officials regret that the negotiations have failed, but the stakes (=our geopolitical gain) are steadily growing. And again - they are not fools, and if they did not count 100%, then in any case they prepared for war, no matter how long, complex and large-scale it was. This is evident from our military-industrial superiority over the collective West: shells , tanks , missiles .

5. People always fight/suffer. But in the grand scheme of history, it is better for a few to suffer now than for us as a nation to lose ourselves over the next 50-100+ years.

6. Russia rocked the boat of Western hegemony in time and saddled the irreversible processes of shifting influence in favor of the global south.

7. After a long, hard-won war, peace will be stronger than with a quick capitulation of the enemy, where he does not consider himself defeated and is preparing for revenge.

8. War is fought so that as many people as possible survive . We have the logic of military expediency and saving people, unlike Kiev, which fights for pictures in the media.

First of all, we need to save resources, which take longer to restore: a new tank can be assembled in a week, but new fighters for it must first be born, and then raised for 18 years. And the territory will not go anywhere: it can always be recaptured: in a month, a year or a hundred. And it is precisely this approach of saving people that is winning before our eyes not only Ukraine, but the entire West. Therefore, ours will always retreat to save people, and the crests will die to the last man for unfavorable positions for the sake of headlines.

❗️Now a practical recommendation for perceiving what is happening: the SMO has been started fairly and is being conducted competently. And returning to the very beginning of the text: we cannot influence it, so we adapt our perception.
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Cannot agree more

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⚡️ Russia delivers by air yet another batch of humanitarian aid comprising 24 tonnes of food & medical supplies to assist the people in need in Lebanon.

Since the start of the humanitarian deliveries, four Russian EMERCOM's special flights have transported over 100 tonnes of food, medicines and essentials to the Republic of Lebanon. ✨️

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The remains of 732 people found at the site of the former German concentration camp "Dulag-140" in the Leningrad region were ceremoniously reburied, a TASS correspondent reports.

The remains that were raised belonged to both men and women, and one of the skeletons was a child. Only four Red Army soldiers were identified, Alexander Pershin, who led the work, told TASS.

Video and photo: Dmitry Selivanov/TASS

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▶️ Footage of Israel's attack on central Syria.

Video: TASS/Reuters

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Right on target: our military destroyed the Ukrainian Armed Forces' pontoon crossing over the Seversky Donets with a missile strike.

Source: Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation

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▶️ The Russian Navy's Pacific Fleet corvettes Gromkiy, Rezkiy, Geroy RF Aldar Tsydenzhapov and the support vessel Pechenga made a friendly call to Thailand, a TASS correspondent reports from the scene.

Video: Igor Brovarnik/TASS

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