Embassy of Russia in Ethiopia 🇷🇺

🎙 Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova’s comment regarding Kiev regime’s terrorist attacks on Russian regions 💬 On May 16 and 17, the Kiev neo-Nazi regime used fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles and unmanned speedboats to launch another massive attack on Crimea, the Krasnodar Territory and other Russian regions. Russian air defence forces destroyed and intercepted more than 100 UAVs (51 over the Crimean Peninsula, 44 over the Krasnodar Territory, six over the Belgorod Region, and one over the Kursk Region). The Black Sea Fleet naval aviation and patrol boats destroyed six unmanned speedboats. Earlier this week, Russian Defence Ministry reported the destruction of 20 US-made ATACMS operational-tactical missiles, over 130 missiles, including US-made HIMARS and Czech-made Vampire, over 20 French-made Hammer guided bombs, and four British-made Storm Shadow cruise missiles. These barbaric attacks with the use of Western-made weapons are clearly backed by the US and British curators overseeing Zelensky’s regime. They go beyond supplying it with ever longer-range missiles and heavy weapons and now authorise their use against Russia, further escalating the conflict. This Banderite clique seems to have come to believe in its own impunity amid the Western emissaries’ frequent visits to Kiev lately. ❗️ Once again, we would like to issue a stark warning to Washington, London, Brussels and other Western capitals, as well as Kiev which is controlled by them, that they are playing with fire. Russia will not leave unanswered these acts of aggression against its territory.

Vladimir Putin answered questions from the Russian media to sum up his two-day state visit to China. Here are the key takeaways: 🔹The strategic cooperation between Russia and China is not directed against anyone. Its only mission consists of facilitating the development of our countries and improving the wellbeing of their people. 🔹Russia has never rejected talks as a way to settle the Ukraine crisis. Moscow is monitoring developments around the upcoming meeting in Switzerland but does not intend to discuss any obscure formulas. 🔹Targeting third countries and economic actors with sanctions is illegitimate. These decisions create direct losses for the global economy as a whole. 🔹Russia and China have reaffirmed their interest in carrying out the Power of Siberia 2 project. China’s economy is growing and needs more energy resources, while there is nothing to match Russian supplies in terms of reliability. We will use national currencies in all our trade transactions.

🇷🇺🇨🇳 Russia's President Vladimir Putin had a conversation with Vice President of the People’s Republic of China Han Zheng. 💬 Vladimir Putin: We held extremely substantive and extensive talks with the President of China yesterday. Our meetings were informative and useful. You yourself, when you were head of the intergovernmental commission, made a valuable contribution to the development of bilateral relations. I hope that we will yet do more together to attain the goals we set to ourselves. We would be happy to see you at the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok. 🤝 North-East China and Russia share a long history of cooperation and joint struggle for independence and for strengthening sovereignty. Our comradeship – in the literal sense of the word – grew even stronger during the Second World War. It is the foundation we will use to accomplish even more together. #RussiaChina

🇷🇺🇺🇸 Ambassador Anatoly Antonov’s answer to a media question ❓: Dear Ambassador Antonov, how could you comment on the statements on May 15 during the Senate hearings made by Director of National Intelligence A.Haines that Russia poses “the most active foreign threat” to the U.S. elections? 💬 Anatoly Antonov: Such insinuations are part of the aggressive information war unleashed by the United States against the Russian Federation. 📌 In any of their own problems they are neurotically trying to find the alleged Kremlin’s hand. But the evidence base is empty. The local intelligence services do not have a single fact. At the same time, they themselves intensified hostile operations with the use of ICT technologies. 👉 The Americans have withdrawn from communicating with us. In these circumstances, good advice to Washington is to pay attention to the recent establishment, at Russia’s initiative, of a global intergovernmental points of contact directory to exchange information on cyber attacks. The purpose of this mechanism is to promote professional interaction between states to identify the sources of malicious actions in the information space, as opposed to “megaphone” diplomacy.

🇪🇹🇺🇸 Ethiopia slams US envoy's speech as "unsolicited advice" The Ethiopian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement that the US Ambassador Ervin Massinga’s speech on policy and human rights contained "allegations" and "unsolicited advice," and that it would work with the embassy to correct the "errors and inconsistencies" in his statement.

"The statement is ill advised and contains uniformed assertions. It is contrary to the historic and friendly relations between Ethiopia and the United States," the ministry said.

Massinga had said in his speech that detaining critics would not resolve Ethiopia’s outstanding issues and that "the political dialogue the Ethiopians need could be helped by releasing key political figures." Subscribe to @sputnik_africa 🔸 TikTok | Sputnik Africa |  Boost us on Telegram 🔸

🇷🇺🇨🇳In Harbin, the President attended the opening ceremony of the 8th Russia-China Expo and the 4th Russian-Chinese Forum on Interregional Cooperation

Relying on the proud traditions of neighbourliness, friendship and cooperation, we can look to the future with confidence, jointly undertaking the most challenging projects and making and implementing ambitious plans.

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☦️Vladimir Putin visited the Orthodox Church of the Intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Harbin 🇷🇺🇨🇳#RussiaChina

🎙 «Большая игра» на Первом канале. Эфир от 16 мая. О реакции Запада на визит Президента России В.В.Путина в Китай, российско-китайских отношениях, ситуации на Ближнем Востоке и в Грузии, о многом другом.

#BRICS2024 Russia will invite many heads of state and heads of regional organizations of the Global South to the BRICS Foreign Ministers' Meeting and the BRICS Summit. 💬 "One of the most important tasks is to establish a dialogue with those nations that show an interest in getting closer to #BRICS, a wide-range interest, from full membership to the establishment of working partnership relations," Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said. "There are about 30 such states, and the question of how we can strengthen the dialogue with them will be among the top political priorities of Russia's BRICS Chairmanship this year," the Russian Minister added. The 2024 BRICS Foreign Ministers' Meeting will take place in Russia's city of Nizhny Novgorod in June. In October, the city of Kazan will host the BRICS Summit.