sergei shoigu considers the successful development of hostilities in the area of ​​​​ulgedar and artemovsk , he said this at a conference call at the ministry of defense, the minister noted that the united states and its allies. they are trying to prolong the conflict as much as possible by supplying ukraine with heavy weapons, according to shoigu, this can lead to an unpredictable level of escalation.

as a result of the offensive actions of our troops in the donetsk zaporozhye direction , the settlements of solidar, klesheevka blagodatnaya lobkove and nikolaevka are currently successfully developing hostilities in areas of uglidar, artyomovsk, the united states of america, the allies are trying to drag out the conflict as much as possible. for this, they did not start deliveries of heavy offensive weapons. openly calls on ukraine to seize our territories; in fact, such steps draw nato into the conflict and can lead to an unpredictable level of its escalation. groupings of russian troops continue to grind up all the weapons and equipment supplied to kiev, both on the routes of its delivery and in combat positions. despite unprecedented military assistance from

western countries the enemy still significant losses. only for the first month of the current year. they amounted to more than 6,000,500 military personnel, 26 aircraft, seven helicopters, 280 unmanned aerial vehicles, and 341 tanks. shaigu also said that russia will continue to ensure the safety of its citizens in new regions and the protection of ukrainian residents from genocide by the kiev regime. the minister noted that kiev continues the tactics of intimidation. attacking civilians. you understand that it will not be possible to defeat russia by military means ukrainian the leadership continues to resort to criminal actions to intimidate citizens in the new regions of russia ukraine strikes at residential areas, hospitals, places of accumulation

of civilians, commits terrorist acts on state and social facilities of the avar nature, the ukrainian leadership. also evidenced by his unwillingness to cease fire for the time of orthodox christmas during this period is a cynical element of intense shelling, the enemy made over 500 artillery shelling of settlements in total. ukrainian artillery was suppressed by the return fire of russian troops, we will continue to ensure the safety of russian citizens in new regions and the protection of ukrainian residents from genocide by the kiev regime. the russian embassy in ankara has not yet received data on the death of our compatriots during the earthquake. let me remind you earlier that the news agency

reported that among the victims of a natural disaster. there is one russian woman, the total number of deaths in turkey, meanwhile, has exceeded 3,500 people, the authorities have allocated more than uh, 50 million dollars to eliminate the consequences of the zone disaster declared state of emergency one of the areas most affected by earthquakes was the province, nor yerbakyr in its administrative center works our correspondent alexander bilibov. he has the latest information. you can see behind my back that it is at this very moment that search and rescue operations are going on right now. here in the province of diyarbakary in its administrative center of the same name. it is quite large, the city has more than a million people , and according to the local authorities, only here at least 2 ten. here are such multi-apartment residential buildings destroyed to the ground. one of them was right behind me. here at this place. now here is just rough concrete

fragments of floor slabs. everything worked out. eh, it works. eh, heavy equipment periodically pauses in the qual, a few minutes ago there was a so-called minute of silence, and the motors fell silent, the people around literally fell silent. but now, uh, upstairs, on this pile of concrete, we see the rescuers, they are in uh , manually literally brick by brick sorting out the rubble the fact is that there is information that here, and there are voids under these debris, but inside. which may be, uh, survivors. uh, so announce minutes of silence are listening rescuers are screaming and waiting for some kind of response response. uh, i'll add that there are a lot of people on the street right now who are watching the rescue operation, but not because of the festive interest. don't think. the fact is that many are afraid to return to their homes. here are the houses that stand behind me and around this is the very center of the coat of arms of cyrus. and in appearance, they look quite reliable, but in fact with any hesitation possible collapse,

as it was already the day before? ah, great destruction and in terms of the infrastructure of the south-east of turkey, railway cars and air communications, therefore, and many airports here in the south-east of turkey are closed for skiing and the completely destroyed unity of the runway does not fly. uh, everything, last night this morning, planes that were literally wiped off the face of the earth. and this, by the way, is the sixth most populated city in turkey, and here and arba. volunteer rescuers are flying from all over turkey tonight when we took off from istanbul international airport we saw in the local terminal in the domestic terminal. uh, crowds of people, literally this volunteer rescuers, who fly here, and then disperse over the ground to the most affected areas, of course, are helping turkey now, and the whole world, literally russia, of course, also did not stand aside literally an hour ago, it worked the most the affected regions and provinces of the country started rescuers of the russian emergencies ministry

several special planes flew out of moscow, and more juices of rescuers, and several units of special equipment , hyperlocators, acoustic devices in order to find survivors under the rubble, as well as canine teams with dogs that are trained to detect people under the rubble. i will add that now the situation is stable and tense , the search and rescue operation continues, but unfortunately, there are no chances to find survivors. under the rubble less and less every hour, but the turkish rescuers volunteers do not give up are doing everything possible to ensure that the counter is a victim of this terrible tragedy of this terrifying earthquake, as seismologists have already dubbed it, finally managed to stop alexander bibov and viktor prikhodko in the container port

of the city, the fire has already engulfed the entire storage area. according to the preliminary version, it is considered to be the largest ship in the country involved in the extinguishing of the turkish coast guard. during earthquake, part of the containers overturned because of this and a fire started. today russia arrived by plane and 50 rescuers arrived in the country affected by syria 3 kinelogical calculations specialists brought all the necessary equipment edward buttonovnikov with details. the board of the ministry of emergency situations delivered 50 rescuers to syria, 3 kg of logical calculation and all the equipment needed to clear the rubble immediately after unloading. they will go to the place of work, the most affected by the earthquake were the northwestern provinces, the lataki. aleppo hama, tartus of syria there are very few specialists in equipment for clearing the rubble the ministry of defense of the country announced the mobilization of all its units, volunteer associations help the emergency services, but

they are simply not able to simultaneously take apart all the rubble, there are too many of them. disperse to the most difficult sections in places. the situation is complicated by the fact that the weather is quite cool in syria and it is clear that for the people who were left without shelter - this is another test of the exact number of victims and deaths. eh, it's impossible to say right now. it changes every hour. after all, the earthquake occurred at 4:00 in the morning, when people were sleeping and many still remain under the rubble, it will obviously take a long time to sort them out eduard pudnikov alexander botkin to lead the series

day and night. vladimir putin signed a decree on awarding a prize in the field of science for a number of young scientists, the corresponding decree was published on the official portal of legal information , four people were awarded. uh, candidate of technical sciences and regmu hameddinov is awarded for the development of catalysts for enhanced oil recovery. layers of physicist, technical and mathematical sciences alexander osadchev for

the use of cynological processes. e. in the arctic, candidates of chemical sciences irina timofeeva and andrey shishov for the development of materials and methods for the chemical analysis of industrial natural and biomedical objects. rak muhammaddinov candidate of technical sciences, specialty petrochemistry senior researcher of the research laboratory in-situ combustion of the institute of geology and oil and gas technologies of the kazan volga federal university associate professor, department of development and operation of hard-to-recover hydrocarbon fields and the city of ingt, developed a unique catalyst, the introduction of which into the reservoir simultaneously with hot water vapor reduces the viscosity of oil. this allows processing to begin before production begins. now there is a live broadcast from the prayers of substantive confidential negotiations that began

today. meetings of the ministry of foreign affairs cases that will continue. uh, after this press conference, including during a reception with the president of the transitional period , mr. na semi goita, this is true. the first visit of the minister of foreign affairs of the russian federation to the republic of ali has historical significance in this sense, but much more than symbols. today , concrete actions are important to ensure fairness in international affairs , to ensure respect for the key principles, the charter of the united nations, and here we were able to be completely like-minded. including within the framework of the recently established

group of friends in new york in defense of the un charter the joint position is based on many decades friendship of mutual assistance cooperation since the days of decolonization and our mari friends remember well about these glorious pages of our history and are interested in ensuring that this lasting foundation allowed. we need to build more and more mutually beneficial promising projects, this is what our presidents are aiming at, who at the end of last year spoke several times on the phone and outlined tasks for all areas of our cooperation in trade, economic investment , military-technical humanitarian and, of course , in the countryside, foreign policy, which are priorities for our two ministries.

as mr. minister said, the president of the transitional period of the republic of mali decided to personally participate in the second russia-africa summit, which will be held in st. petersburg at the end of july, and we, of course, will be glad to see mr. president. and i hope, mr. minister, at this important event. we have agreed to continue efforts to expand opportunities in trade, economic and investment areas. our trade turnover is growing quite quickly last year by more than 20 percent, but absolutely and the numbers are not very impressive, this is our assessment. and , uh, we agreed that the development of mineral geologist reserves is also a promising area for our efforts.

energy exploration. and other infrastructure agriculture, we will direct the business circles of our countries to intensify the study of all these opportunities, including in particular, we will pay special attention to the appropriate preparations for the upcoming business forum on the eve of the russia africa summit. uh, hmm , representatives of russian and african economic structures. we continue to provide humanitarian assistance to the moth, including , first of all, bilaterally. and uh. i hope that in the very near future, supplies of wheat, fertilizers , oil products and other strategic goods will begin. ah, in addition to our bilateral steps in this area. we provide

regular humanitarian aid with supplies food through the un world food program we have a long history of cooperation in the field of education , about 10,000 mari citizens have been educated in our country. and this interaction continues starting from the current 2023-22024 academic year. we are significantly increasing the number of degrees and state degrees that are allocated to citizens of the moth from 35 to 2009. we are grateful to colleagues for detailed information about the situation in moth about the efforts that the leadership is taking to stabilize provisions for good faith implementation by all

signatories of the algiers peace agreement and preparation. and other steps to advance the tasks of the transition period. we agree that the main challenge is to pray. at this stage, security remains, and it is the solution of these issues that should create a reliable basis for further activities, including the planned elections, we and the beginning of a hybrid war against the russian federation in the asia-pacific region nato has already announced that it will responsible for and regular military exercises of nato countries which has nothing to do with the indian ocean. in this region, it has already begun to be announced that the purpose of all these

maneuvers is to contain the people's republic of china. well, this can be done, in general, in any region. find examples of actions that have rallied under the auspices of the united states of the collective west a in order to promote its own. the exclusivity of which in general, to put it simply, lies in the fact that they want to decide the fate of all the peoples of the whole world on the african continent we, as i have already said, on the example of prays, we also see relapses on the colonial. the mentality of attempts to build relationships, er, according to the old principle of the leading led, we believe, together with our mari friends with the vast majority of other african countries, that the former metropolitans must

forget, and how they seized and exploited these territories. this continent. they have to get used to the fact that the world has changed and that the declaration of decolonization is about giving the declaration of independence to the colonial countries and peoples in 1960 was not an imitation of diplomacy, as it is now fashionable in the west to call certain agreements. unanimously approved by the un general assembly and as such it is binding, therefore the former metropolises must respect the decisions made on a universal basis and, in fact, know their place in the current format

of the development of international relations. we discussed our cooperation in the un where we act in almost identical positions, we are grateful to mari friends for their support russian initiatives on many issues that are on the agenda of the world organization, which are becoming increasingly important. i mean either the inadmissibility of glorification, the inadmissibility of nazism. the transformation is the beginning. uh, the arms race in outer space is the need to abandon the deployment of weapons in space. er the task of developing a world of trust in transparency, and in the space environment, er, and many other initiatives that russia is promoting, including er in the field of arms control and they are weapons proliferation

mass destruction. and, of course, we uh see how fundamentally our mari friends approach provocative attempts to throw in with or without a reason, but without a reason, it’s a settled score, and the anti-russian resolutions are behind these attempts, but the kiev regime and those who nurtured it western curators. they have nothing to do with the desire to resolve issues that arise on a practical basis and only mean the desire to constantly politicize ideologize, and justify situations a, a through hysterical accusations against us

our own numerous war crimes, crimes against national minorities and many other crimes that, after the bloody coup d'etat of february 2014 , the kiev leadership is committing, as i said, we will continue to resolve to contribute to the solution of issues on the african continent. and we constantly consistently proceed from the fact that problems here an african solution should be decided on the basis of principles to african problems, so that the africans themselves agree on how it moved forward, and that no one from outside players. moreover, none of the former metropolitans, as before, tried to impose certain decisions on them, using, uh, the most unscrupulous methods of personal and other pressure.

uh, that's why we are in favor of giving the africans the opportunity to negotiate among themselves, and the international community , of course, should support their efforts , both morally, politically and legally, through the security council, and in material terms, increasing their defense capability, increasing their opportunities for alignment of regional e, cooperation structures open to the outside world for those countries that are ready to do business with african states on the basis of equality, mutual respect and mutual fish. this is how we work with our close partners. i invite mr. minister to continue our communication and visit russia at a convenient time. anyway. we will need to prepare ourselves for this russia africa so looking forward to meeting soon. thank you mr. minister

of foreign affairs of russia, thank you very much. now we give the floor to representatives press. let me remind you once again, please, remember that the ministers have a very busy agenda, and therefore formulate your questions clearly. you will have a microphone. let's start with ort from mari. mr. ministry put on my question concerns the prospects for military cooperation cooperation. calculate security. you said that mine

are concerned about this very issue. however, much has been done in this area. however, we are also aware that we still have a lot to do to ensure the security of our territories, we also know that they are counting on russia to pray, and therefore its next, despite the efforts, the evil has not yet been completely sincere, what else do you think to do in order to fully radiate this evil in accordance with the goals that the government has set itself. what else can be done within the framework of cooperation? thank you very much mr. minister, you will answer questions together. russian side or mari? we have a microphone

for the russian side. say that paris is losing a partner in african countries in general can be said to be colonial policy.