Zilele acestea se împlinește un an de la eșecul negocierilor de pace dintre Federația Rusă și Ucraina, cu ultima întâlnire la Istambul. Iată, pe scurt, ce ne spune MZ (memorare):
Ukraine crisis
On March 29 a year ago, the third round of the Russia-Ukraine peace talks was held in Istanbul, as a result of which the sides reached an understanding on the parameters of possible agreements.
I would like to remind you that Kiev asked for talks very soon after the beginning of the special military operation, and Russia responded positively to that request. However, Kiev’s regime walked out of the talks when mutually acceptable agreements became possible, leaving unanswered our proposals on a draft peace agreement made on April 15, 2022. The possibility of peace obviously frightened the West, which ordered Vladimir Zelensky to derail the talks. After that, the rhetoric used by Kiev and its Western handlers became tougher. They became fixated on the idea of defeating Russia on the battlefield and categorically rejected any possibility of dialogue with Moscow. Five and a half months later, that stance was formalised on September 30, 2022, when Vladimir Zelensky signed the executive order stating that talks with the Russian authorities were “impossible.”
Immediately after the abovementioned meeting in Istanbul, Russia took measures on the ground to create favourable conditions for potential peace agreements. In response, the Ukrainian authorities staged a blatant and cynical provocation in Bucha.
I am reminding you about it for a reason. The Western media invariably mention the tragedy of Bucha when writing about the situation around Ukraine. It is the main illustration everybody uses, including public figures, journalists, political analysts and everyone else, when they want to emphasise the allegedly illegal nature of Russia’s actions. They mention Bucha every time. We will remind them about what happened there in reality, and we will keep doing this.
When Russian troops were in the town, its residents were free to move around and use their mobiles. It is a fact which any investigative journalist can easily establish. We have pointed out on numerous occasions that since mobile communications were freely available and their use was not disrupted, people could send messages or call their relatives, friends or the media and share their photos and videos. They could have texted messages about the situation in the town if anything distressing was happening there, something like we saw in the photos and videos that were posted online and broadcast by all television channels after the Ukrainian forces entered Bucha. But nothing like that was happening, and so there was nothing to report. There was no evidence of the tragedy which the West has been trying to blame on Russia for the past year. They have convinced themselves that it really happened. They regard that story as a hard fact, although it is not a fact at all. It was a frame-up, a fake story and manipulation of public opinion. And this story must be investigated.
The northward roads from Bucha to Belarus were not blocked. The Russian military delivered and distributed 452 tonnes of humanitarian aid in the Kiev Region. At the same time, the Ukrainian forces were methodically shelling the southern suburbs, including residential districts, from large-calibre guns, tanks and multiple launch rocket systems.
Next day, on March 30 a year ago, after the Istanbul round of the Russia-Ukraine talks, the Russian army pulled out of Bucha. On March 31, 2022, Bucha Mayor Anatoly Fedorchuk announced publicly that there were no Russian troops in the town. He did not mention any executed locals lying in the streets. Four days passed. What happened during that period? During those four days, they staged a cynical and brutal provocation that was very similar to what the Nazis did during WWII. It was their style. The Security Service staff and Ukrainian “journalists” started working there. It was at that time that dead bodies appeared in the streets, and it was immediately announced that they had been killed by the Russian military.
From that moment, Vladimir Zelensky’s regime and its Western patrons started spreading fake news on the mass civilian killings by the Russian army. These false allegations have been circulating ever since. Let me remind you what happened next. Bucha became an organised pilgrimage site for foreign visitors, offering a stage for boisterous propaganda campaigns. There was even an ‘assault landing’ by journalists. However, Kiev failed to make a Ukrainian Srebrenica out of Bucha. It is obvious that this provocation was engineered to pave the way to an anti-Russia sanctions package, prepared in advance, as well as to derail Russia-Ukraine talks and create a certain public narrative backed with geographical designations and these photomontages.
We reiterate that in order to get to the bottom of this issue, an honest, impartial and independent investigation must be carried out with a focus on finding answers to four questions: identification of the corpses, the time and cause of deaths, and the traces of possible movement of bodies. I would like to remind you that Russia submitted a request to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to provide us with a full list of Bucha residents who died during this period. We are still waiting for a reply. I have heard multiple members of the UN Secretariat saying that all this information is available online and on social media. All this has been published somewhere at a certain point. However, when it comes to Bucha and these facts, we would like to rely on official materials. Never before have we seen as many fakes as there are today online and unfortunately in the media, including mainstream titles which have been here for quite a while. Never before have we seen so many fakes spreading so rapidly. History has not witnessed anything of this kind in terms of the technological capabilities to manipulate public opinion so swiftly and extensively. Searching for and comparing some lists online is useless. The Kiev regime must submit them officially to the UN Secretariat, as long as this topic is still viewed as something that can be produced as evidence against us.
It is telling that as early as in late April 2022, The Guardian, a UK newspaper, reported that pathologists discovered metal flechettes, or metal darts, in the bodies found in Bucha. These flechettes are used to fill 122 mm shells. The newspaper wrote that Bucha came under artillery strikes when it was under Russia’s control. This begs a conclusion that the Russian military could not possibly have shelled themselves.
We have come across such discourse many times. Do you remember the story with the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant? When we asked who was shelling it, we heard that we were, of course. They wanted to tell us that we had the station under our control, while also shelling it. What an interesting logic. Unfortunately, this is not the first and not the last time when they resort to this distorted vision and present information this way.
It is not surprising that almost one year after all these events, and despite our calls, neither the official lists of the people whose bodies were shown lying on the streets, nor the forensic examination results were released. Vladimir Zelensky’s regime has something to hide. This is just one of the examples. There has been no progress in the investigation of the 2014 Maidan snipers’ case. I remember how the public opinion responded back then, including in Ukraine itself, let alone internationally. Everyone said: those who started shooting, those who commanded these snipers and managed them, those who acted, they are the ones who are guilty, they are the ones who must be held accountable, they are the ones who embody this evil. We remember this well. So where are the culprits, and was there an investigation of what caused Ukraine to find itself in its current state? Nothing. No one even tried to find them. They took all the evidence they could and buried it deep underground to make sure that the truth never resurfaces. However, by seeking to bury the facts these ideologues committed a grave mistake. History knows otherwise. The most terrible and complex mysteries and secrets, which seemed to be swept under the carpet for good, invariably re-emerge in broad daylight.
At the same time, there is also the flipside of the coin. The Kiev regime seeks to hide everything whenever documents or facts are involved, while proactively spreading the myth of the so-called heavenly hundred. They made a real cult out of it. It turns out, it includes people who died from natural causes and had nothing to do with what happened on Maidan. But who cares, as long as this myth lives on? They made a movie out of it, published a multitude of photos and videos, and wrote books, let alone all the infographics, slogans, memes, what-have-you, which appear on the fly.
I would like to recall the bloody provocation staged by the Ukrainian armed forces on April 8, 2022, in Kramatorsk, when a Tochka-U missile hit a railway station, killing dozens of civilians. Kiev and Western countries tried to blame Russia for this, as they always do, and many political observers and journalists still stick to this narrative. However, this incident quickly fell into oblivion. Once irrefutable evidence was presented showing that the Russian armed forces were not involved, they quickly switched on the silent mode. This has become a popular verb in the 21st century – it turns out you can silence topics at a global, extensive scale, as it happened with the Kramatorsk incident.
On March 26, 2018, the people’s tribunal set up to investigate the Ukrainian war crimes in the Donetsk and Lugansk people’s republics held its first meeting. Today, the Russian investigative authorities are working painstakingly to document the Kiev regime’s crimes. There is no doubt that all those implicated in these crimes will be called to account.
Now, the Kiev regime continues its attack on canonical Orthodoxy. Zelensky and other Ukrainian enemies of God have no interest in faith, values, morality or reality. They are guided exclusively by the interests of greed and personal enrichment and a desire to keep hold of everything they have stolen from the people. They will stop at nothing, including the use of force. In some regions of Ukraine, the clergy and believers have been locked out of the churches of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, and religious sites are set on fire. They use smoke canisters, spray chemical agents and use special substances, beat up, humiliate and intimidate people, record their names and demand IDs for entering churches. All of this is not being done for security reasons but to take revenge, intimidate and crack down on these people.
In addition to the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, the Ukrainian neo-Nazis want to take over the second largest monastery, the Pochayev Lavra. These lawless actions are supported by the United States and the Constantinople Patriarchate. They are pushing Ukraine further back into the Middle Ages, a period for which the Catholic Church expressed regret and repented. What we see happening now is incredible and shameful, but it has been approved by those whom the people gave the right to rule their country in the best interests of the state and the people.
This is a crime committed by the Kiev regime against its own people. We often speak about what it is doing against our country and its citizens. I believe that what the Kiev regime led by Zelensky has done to the citizens of Ukraine is the worst crime possible, because the people believed him and voted for him. They delegated their powers to him. Simply put, they allowed him to decide their future for them. The worst thing possible in terms of the law, morals and conscience is when you deceive those who put their trust in you.
It is notable that the report of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights about the Kiev regime’s discrimination against the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, published on March 24, 2023, has caused an extremely nervous reaction in Kiev. Zelensky and his team don’t like it when something goes against their grain. They only demand money, weapons and impunity, that is, an indulgence. Moreover, they want to be paid for it. According to the Western philosophic, religious and Catholic standards, an indulgence is the forgiveness of guilt, sin or any other action that calls for repentance. In other words, “indulgence” in Western culture is giving absolution of sins without repentance. Zelensky has gone a step further. He not only demands an indulgence but also money for everything he is doing. We are living in strange times when such things can happen.
We again call on the concerned international organisations and the global community, first of all Orthodox believers, to take an unbiased stance on Kiev’s actions against the Ukrainian Orthodox Church and to demand an end to this inhumane and soulless outrage and these criminal actions.
We have taken note of a petition published on the Ukrainian president’s website to prohibit the use of depleted uranium rounds by the Ukrainian armed forces. This is logical, because the Kiev regime has not told its citizens what would happen to those who live in the territory where such rounds will be used, regardless of the targets they are fired at or hit. The petition must be signed by at last 25,000 people to be considered by Zelensky, but we know that there is no guarantee that it will be acted upon even in this case. The Ukrainian authorities shelved public appeals against attacks on the Russian language and the media. We have seen such appeals, and many of them have been disregarded contrary to Ukrainian laws.
David Arakhamia, head of the Servant of the People political party in the Verkhovna Rada, has announced increased mobilisation. According to media reports, Kiev is considering an option and is drafting a law to almost by force return Ukrainian citizens from Europe in order to send them into battle. A former adviser to Zelensky’s office has said that a Ukrainian offensive will lead to a sea of blood and huge losses if the West does not send long-range missiles and aircraft to Ukraine. And what will happen if the West does? It is an absurd logic. Have they brainwashed their people to believe any nonsense they hear without pondering the possible consequences? There is no other explanation. Just think about it: if the West des not send weapons to Kiev, this will lead to a sea of blood. And what will happen if the West provides these weapons? Will this bring about peace, tranquillity and prosperity? All this goes to show that the Kiev authorities will not stop at anything but will pursue their criminal plans even if this calls for sacrificing the lives and future of their citizens. They did not, do not and will not care about the suffering of the people they represent simply because they voted for them.
Their Western handlers do not allow them to back down either, because they live according to the same criminal logic. They demand that Kiev act resolutely; they want to see that all the money they have invested in the Kiev regime has not been wasted, even though many people have died, and many Ukrainian citizens have fallen victim to this criminal gamble of the West and Zelensky. They can’t bear the thought of a ceasefire. I fear that people will be executed in Ukraine soon for considering this option. It will not come as a surprise if harsh punishment is approved in Ukraine and Washington for those who propose ending this bloodshed. The West and Zelensky are destroying the Ukrainian people. Isn’t it obvious? I think it is. On March 28, 2023, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken openly said that calls for a ceasefire could be “a very cynical trap.” According to Washington, sending weapons and allocating billions of dollars for the war is not a cynical trap but an effective plan. In fact, the Washington handlers are leading the Ukrainian army to the slaughter, and it will continue until the last Ukrainian soldier.
These actions by the Ukrainian authorities and their Western handlers show that all the
irgoals and tasks have been formulated in the context of modern reality and must be achieved.
Este de remarcat că ultimul paragraf este o traducere eronată. În originalul în rusă:
Все эти действия украинских властей и их западных покровителей свидетельствуют о том, что все обозначенные цели и задачи были сформулированы в контексте реалий и должны быть выполнены.