Donbas

“We proceed from the fact that all people are equal, all people have the same rights; the rights and freedoms of one country and one nation end where the rights and freedoms of another person of an entire state appear."

“They are throwing [Ukrainian soldiers] on our minefields, under our artillery fire, acting as if they are not their own citizens at all. It is astonishing.”

“You know those actually inflated stories about child abduction. We explain it simply: there was no kidnapping; there was an attempt and specific actions aimed at saving the children, who were taken out of the war zone.”

“The planning of strikes with precision weapons against military and terrorist infrastructure facilities of the Kiev regime is carried out on the basis of information carefully checked and confirmed through several channels, knowingly excluding the civilian facilities, as well as cultural and historical heritage sites.”

“That’s why they are closing everywhere [what is] in fact our only information resource aimed at a Western audience — that’s Russia Today (RT). They are closing it everywhere, putting obstacles in the way. They are afraid of the truth.”

“…the Russian military infrastructure has never moved toward Western Europe...”

“We [the United States] put a new government in [Ukraine] that immediately makes a civil war against the Russian population of Donbas, bans the Russian language, kills 14,000 of them...”

“A real war has once again been unleashed against our Motherland.”

“These kids are already in Russia. These are children from those regions that have recognized themselves as Russia.”

“On 12 April, ABC News fed its audience with another propaganda story borrowed from BBC.”

“We have no doubt that the United States, under the guise of ensuring global biosafety, conducted dual-use research, including the creation of biological weapons components in the immediate vicinity of the Russian borders.”

“Another Orthodox church burned down in Ukraine. This time a cruel fate befell a church of the canonical UOC in the village of Novopoltavka. The footage shows people watching in horror at the burning church, which was set on fire by either security forces or dissenters.”