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Russian officials
"Russia is not a threat to any country."
Source: Russian officialsRead more...Lest we forget, the Kremlin and its surrogates for months denied plans to attack or take over Ukraine. Two weeks into Putin’s war, here’s some of what they said. -
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Kazem Gharibabadi
Secretary-General, Iran High Council for Human Rights
“Islamic Republic of Iran has made significant progresses in protecting human rights.”
Read more...Iran’s regime imposes the death penalty on political enemies and has the most executions per capita. Executions are up, and honor killings go unpunished. -
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CCTV
Chinese state television
“Donetsk civil militia leader [Denis Pushilin] said that a laptop containing intelligence information on Donbass and Crimea was found in the headquarters of the Ukrainian ‘Right Sector’ party.”
Read more...Chinese state media uncritically echo a baseless Russian conspiracy theory that NATO assisted a far-right group in eastern Ukraine. -
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"First Voice,” CGTN
Chinese state-run news media
“[I]n the Budapest Memorandum of 1994, the U.S. offered security guarantees to Ukraine in exchange for the country giving up its nuclear arsenal … [W]hen push came to shove, the U.S. ignored this commitment.”
Read more...The Budapest Memorandum offered Ukraine security assurances – not guarantees – after the breakup of the Soviet Union. In return, Ukraine gave up nuclear arms. -
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Maxim Suchkov
Professor at Moscow State Institute of International Relations
“Unconfimred (sic) reports of #Russia/n hitting 13 bio-lab munitions throughout #Ukraine, some of them underground, so it took a few strikes to destroy them. The issue of foreign powers resarch (sic) bio labs in UKR is gaining traction in RUS media - watch this space”
Read more...Suchkov’s source is Russian media, which have a history of fabricated claims about foreign “biolabs” in Ukraine. -
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Russian Embassy in Egypt
“Some things never change, including Western propaganda. But history remembers the truth, and the truth is with us.”
Read more...A bogus comparison to the Arab-Israeli war of 1956 can’t rationalize Russia’s massive and deadly invasion of a peaceful neighbor. -
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Embassy of Russia in Myanmar
"The Embassy of Russia in Myanmar noted several articles from the Myanmar media sources to be basing on inadequate information concerning the special military operation [in Ukraine].”
Read more...As Russia escalated combat in Ukraine, its embassy in Myanmar attacked local media reports with multiple fabrications. -
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Sergei Lavrov
Russian foreign minister
"Everyone understands that the Third World War can only be nuclear. But I draw your attention to the fact that nuclear war is constantly spinning in the heads of Western politicians, not in the heads of Russians."
Read more...It was Russia, not the West, that put nuclear forces on high alert after it invaded Ukraine. -
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NTV
Gazprom-Media station
“In the opinion of specialists, a VSU (Armed Forces of Ukraine) missile hit the Kharkiv administration building.”
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Igor Konashenkov
Russian Ministry of Defense press officer
“On February 26, the Armed forces of the Russian Federation made another attack on Ukrainian military infrastructure facilities with long-range high-precisions weapons, using air-and sea-based cruise missiles.”
Read more...Visual evidence confirms multiple strikes on civilian facilities by Russian long-range weapons. -
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Dmitry Rogozin
director general of Roscosmos, Russia’s space agency
“Taking the satellite group of any country offline is actually a casus belli, a reason for war.”
Read more...Russian satellites were hacked well after the Kremlin had already surrounded and attacked Ukraine. -
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Ebrahim Raisi
president of Iran
"Based on the fundamental principles of its foreign policy, the Islamic Republic of Iran opposes both hegemony and submission to hegemony, and gives its backing to the right to all nations to self-determination.”
Read more...Iran’s confusing statements on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine are explained by the anti-Western strategy it shares with Moscow.
