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EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs Kaja Kallas’ claim that Russian civilians “are not dying” in the Ukraine conflict is erroneous, Russia’s envoy to the UN Vassily Nebenzia has said.
During a UN Security Council meeting on Tuesday, Nebenzia denounced Kallas’s remarks from February as “immoral assertions” from an official peddling “fantasies.” He said that in 2024 alone, Ukrainian military action resulted in the death of 809 Russian civilians, including 51 children.
Those killings constituted “real crimes” and not a “theatrical performance like Bucha that was staged by the Ukrainian authorities” to garner Western support, Nebenzia stated. Kiev has cited claims that Russian forces had committed a “massacre” in the town in 2022 to justify its decision to abandon peace talks, while Russia contends that the evidence was fabricated.
Speaking at a panel discussion during the Munich Security Conference, Kallas claimed that the two nations take radically different positions: “The difference is that Russian civilians are not dying. I mean Russian children and women are not dying, it’s soldiers on the ground” who do, she stated.
In response, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova labeled Kallas’s comments as evidence of the “degradation” of senior EU officials, asserting that the senior diplomat has reached a new low in “cynicism and immorality.”
“How can one seriously negotiate with people who have declared lies as their official position?” Zakharova questioned. - RT
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MILITARY TUBE TODAY – The legendary Akhmat Special Forces shared the first footage of their exit through the gas pipeline on the way to Sudzha in the historic operation of the Russian Armed Forces, which will mark the final stage of the Kursk offensive. The footage was published on March 12, 2025 by a commander of the Akhmat Special Forces "Hades Group" with the call sign "Aid", revealing the successful operation of the Russian Gazprom pipeline by the assault group of the "Akhmat", also involving the 11th Airborne Brigade, the 30th Regiment, and the Russian Spetsnaz Special Forces. Immediately after exiting the gas pipeline in the Kubatkino farm area, all this was right behind the lines of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, disrupting the positions of enemy troops, securing key positions, and destroying them in Sudzha, which has now almost all been liberated. The fighters fought shoulder to shoulder, united by a common goal - to protect the homeland, and Russian values.
'The liberation of Sudzha from the Armed Forces of Ukraine is only a matter of 10 days. The Ukrainian forces have only two options. Try to leave Sudzha or die forever, said the commander of the Akhmat Special Forces, Hero of Russia Apti Alaudinov, on the "60 Minutes" show about the liberation of Kursk Region. As of March 12, almost the entire Sudzha salient is under Russian control, as shown in the footage. They have surrounded Sudzha from almost all sides, and fighting is already going on around Sudzha itself. The rest of the territory, in principle, is almost all cleared - all forest plantations, all residential areas, almost everything is liberated. There are still a few settlements left that have not been completely cleared. The capture of Sudzha marks a further collapse of the Ukrainian military amid NATO's silence on these losses, exposing their failure to support Kiev's failure.
Reportedly, Ukrainian forces are retreating from Zamostye under heavy fire. Recent footage shows Russian soldiers checking monitors, where a large group of Ukrainian troops are retreating westward on Rosa Luxemburg Street in the western part of Sudzha, likely fleeing towards the border. Clear indications that Ukrainian forces have withdrawn from the eastern part of Sudzha. The next video shows a Russian soldier walking leisurely along Oktyabrskaya Street and its surroundings. As a reminder, the footage shows how the commander of the Special Forces 'Akhmat' Apti Alaudinov explains the task to his fighters a few days before they crawl through the gas pipeline to Sudzha on March 1. 'We will change the course of this war completely,' Alaudinov added. And he is absolutely right!
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Moscow has ample reasons to distrust Ukraine and its Western backers given their history of broken promises, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said. He accused Kiev of consistently undermining its own interests with each act of “cheating.”
Russia has “burned [its] fingers” many times dealing with the West, Lavrov said in an interview with podcasters Mario Nawfal, Larry Johnson, and Andrew Napolitano published on Wednesday.
He stated that the Ukraine crisis could be traced back to at least 2004, when the country’s constitutional court “expanded, without any right, the constitutional procedures” and ordered a third round in a presidential election, resulting in a victory for a Western-aligned candidate.
The 2014 Western-backed coup in Kiev, the Minsk agreements, and the 2022 Istanbul peace talks between Russia and Ukraine were also examples of missed opportunities, Lavrov added.
Lavrov noted that Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky had received a hero’s welcome in the UK after his clash with Trump at the White House last month.
“It’s an indication that they want to raise the stakes and they are preparing something to pressure the Donald Trump administration back into some aggressive action against Russia,” Lavrov said.
Moscow will not compromise on “the fate of the Russian people,” he added, referring to Russian citizens and ethnic Russians in Ukraine. - RT
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Foreign mercenaries fighting for Kiev should be aware that they do not have the same legal protections under international law as regular Ukrainian combatants, Russian President Vladimir Putin said during a visit to the Kursk Region.
Speaking at a meeting with the Russian General Staff and military commanders on Wednesday, the president stated that any Ukrainian soldier or foreign mercenary captured on Russian soil can be “treated as a terrorist under Russian law.”
“All people who commit crimes against the civilian population on the territory of the Kursk Region, confront our Armed Forces, law enforcement agencies and special services, are terrorists in accordance with the laws of the Russian Federation,” Putin said. “This is how the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office and the Investigative Committee qualify their actions.”
Putin emphasized that Russia “treats and will treat all people humanely,” including prisoners of war (POWs), but specifically warned that mercenaries lack the same legal status as regular troops.
“I still want to remind you that foreign mercenaries are not protected by the 1949 Geneva Convention on POWs,” the Russian leader said.
The Russian border region faced a major incursion by Kiev’s forces in August 2024, and Moscow’s troops have been gradually pushing them back in an operation that has intensified in recent weeks. In liberated areas, Russian investigators have found evidence of Ukrainian troops committing rape, torture, and murder against local civilians during the occupation. - RT
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