Military
Monday 16 September 2019
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Press TV
Iranian State-Owned Media Outlet
“In 2009, independent research conducted by a team of international scientists discovered, after analyzing some dust samples from the debris in the area where the skyscrapers collapsed, that they all contained a red layer of active thermitic material, incorporating nanotechnology.”
Read more...The claim was debunked years ago. The “research” cited in the article did not actually find “thermitic material,” and thermite and similar compounds are not used – and, in fact, cannot be used -- in controlled demolitions. -
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Maria Zakharova
Spokesperson, Russian Foreign Ministry
“By declaring that the Red Army brought so-called repressions, Bulgaria is engaged in rewriting history. This is a dangerous trend, because it is illegal.”
Read more...Zakharova disputed as illegal a statement by Bulgaria’s Foreign Ministry, which fully complies with Bulgaria’s Law on Declaring the Criminal Nature of the Communist Regime in Bulgaria. -
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Vladimir Putin
President of the Russian Federation
“We are not responsible for the Ukraine’s crisis. We did not support the unconstitutional coup in Ukraine, and we did not provoke the reaction of part of the country’s population to these actions... ...as for Crimea, the Crimean people made a decision, voted. The question is closed as a matter of history, there is no going back to the previous system, absolutely not.”
Read more...Putin’s claims have been proved false, repeatedly. We cite seven fact checks, already conducted, by Polygraph.info. -
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Russian Defense Ministry
Russian Government Ministry
“There are numerous casualties and destruction in the settlements subjected to the American strike.”
Read more...While Russian and Syrian government air and artillery strikes regularly pound civilian targets in Idlib, the U.S. strike, while questionable, hit a training camp used by an Al-Qaeda-affiliated group. -
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Sergei Lavrov
Russian Foreign Minister
“In these circumstances, the Soviet Union had to go it alone to ensure its national security and sign a non-aggression pact with Germany. This forced move made it possible to better prepare for the coming war with the aggressor. Today, it is worth reminding everyone that our country made a decisive contribution to defeating the Hitler war machine and liberating Europe and the world from Nazism. Had the efforts been joined in the pre-war period, the many victims could have been avoided.”
Read more...Lavrov is partially correct about Anglo-French reluctance to enter into a collective security pact with the USSR, but he leaves out the extent of Moscow’s cooperation with Hitler and its increasing economic transactions with Nazi Germany after the signing the Molotov-Ribbentrop Agreement. -
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Ramzan Kadyrov
Head of Chechen Republic
“I am on every existing sanctions list in the world, and I cannot travel anywhere. Why? Only because I am defending the rights of Muslims. Their morals, customs, traditions – that is the only reason I am on these lists, nothing else.”
Read more...Ramzan Kadyrov has been blacklisted for atrocities against civilians that, according to Human Rights Watch, are “so widespread and systematic, they constitute crimes against humanity.” Based on data from well-documented human rights cases, the absolute majority of Kadyrov’s victims are Muslims. -
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Dmitry Peskov
Russian Presidential spokesman
“The Kremlin is not responsible for stations transmitting radiation signals.”
Read more...Following reports that a nuclear-powered “Skyfall” cruise missile test in northern Russia went south, two Russian nuclear monitoring stations closest to the test site went offline. Amid fears of nuclear fallout, the Kremlin claims it is not responsible for the facilities. -
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Zakhar Prilepin
Russian novelist, TV presenter
"By the results rarely anybody could compete with my battalion. All we had been doing was simply a pure mayhem. And this especially makes me laugh because of the attacks on me, especially the ones about how I'm a 'fake field commander.' No one, not one field commander, has got such results as I have. I can’t even talk about it, but one day the documents will surface and everybody will learn at which locations there were most human losses and that my battalion was there."
Read more...Zakhar Prilepin was deputy commander of a "battalion" formed in 2016, well after the last major combat operations in Donbas. He spent much of his time in Donetsk hosting a TV show. A former battalion leader claimed it was not a combat unit. -
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Times of India
Indian news outlet
“Russia has endorsed India's move of abrogating Article 370 and bifurcating the state of Jammu & Kashmir, saying the exercise was ‘carried out within the framework of the Constitution of the Republic of India.’”
Read more...No reference to this subject is found in the Russian Foreign Ministry’s briefing of August 9, the date cited in the article. No such quote can be found on the foreign ministry’s website, and ministry has not responded to a question on the quote. -
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RIA Novosti
Russian state news agency
"On August 15, Norway offered help in the rescue operation. The offer was accepted by the Ministry of Defense."
Read more...Nineteen years after the Kursk submarine disaster, Russian state media present a misleading chronicle of the events -- omitting key facts deemed damaging to Vladimir Putin’s reputation. -
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Russian Defense Ministry
"There were no emissions of harmful substances into the atmosphere, background radiation is normal."
"There were no emissions of harmful substances into the atmosphere, background radiation is normal."
Read more...The Russian Defense Ministry statement was contradicted by the local mayor’s office, which reported a “brief” rise in radiation levels, and some victims of the accident are apparently being treated for radiation exposure. Rosatom later said they were working with nuclear material. -
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Nikolai Patrushev
Russian Security Council Secretary
"I am unable to mention a single instance [of a violation] or piece of evidence they [the US] presented to us. There has been nothing of the sort."
Read more...The U.S. has raised Russia’s INF violations in more than 30 bilateral meetings over the past six years. Russian military commanders have inadvertently disclosed that the Novator 9M729 is capable of exceeding the 500 km threshold of the INF Treaty.
