❗️Key takeaways from Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova’s briefing: ▪️EU and NATO representatives, who decided to hold exercises on deploying EU troops in Ukraine ahead of the Abu Dhabi talks, simply have nothing to do at the negotiating table “with such a flawed approach and such a flawed mentality” ▪️Secret torture sites created by the Kiev regime have become a source of stable income for those who maintain and patronize them ▪️The Kiev regime is deliberately depriving Ukraine of its future by forcibly mobilizing young people ▪️The Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) is becoming an accomplice in the Kiev regime’s information campaign to hide the true nature and scale of crimes against the person, including by hushing up the existence of a network of torture prisons ▪️The establishment of the permanent EU Sanctions Office proves that unilateral restrictions are viewed as an end in themselves in Brussels ▪️Moldova’s possible decision to introduce a visa regime with Russia will hit the republic’s own people first and foremost ▪️Moscow’s proposal to transport Iranian enriched uranium to Russian territory for “dilution” remains on the table ▪️Moscow views Washington’s decision to establish special forces to intercept the transit of “dual-use goods” across Iran’s borders as another escalation and provocation and an infringement of international law ▪️Washington’s provocative and escalatory decision to establish special forces to intercept the transit of “dual-use goods” across Iran’s borders risks expanding the Iran crisis to neighboring regions if implemented ▪️Russia calls on Israel to take urgent measures to prevent further deterioration of the situation in Gaza ▪️Moscow is extremely concerned about the difficult military and political situation in Lebanon