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🇷🇺 Today #Russia and all its many peoples celebrate national #UnityDay! This day symbolizes the unity of our multiethnic nation, celebrates true diversity, honours the unerring ultimate devotion to the Motherland. ❗️ Happy #UnityDay! #UnityDay2026

🎙 Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova’s answer to a media question on the situation on the Korean Peninsula (November 3, 2026) ❓ Question: Tensions on the Korean Peninsula, including around the Demilitarised Zone, have escalated sharply, and Seoul is once again trying to shift the blame onto Pyongyang. How do you see the situation in this subregion developing? 💬 Maria Zakharova: Regrettably, the situation on the Korean Peninsula shows no sign of stabilising and continues to deteriorate. Of particular concern is that the situation is deteriorating amid ongoing large-scale military exercises conducted by the US and the Republic of Korea near the DPRK border. These manoeuvres are overtly provocative. By the participants’ own admission, they are designed to rehearse pre-emptive strikes against the DPRK, including with nuclear weapons. ☝️ These exercises are growing in frequency and scale and now extend across land, air, maritime and cyber domains. For example, October saw the US-ROK Iron Mace command-post exercise, which involved rehearsing scenarios for the deployment of US strategic assets to the Korean Peninsula; the ROK Armed Forces’ Hoguk exercise; US military training in airborne operations behind the lines of a simulated adversary; and the second round this year of the joint US-ROK Freedom Flag air exercise, which is scheduled to continue until November 6. In addition, Seoul, Washington and Tokyo practised combat interoperability during the trilateral, multidomain Freedom Edge exercises held in September. ❗️ In these circumstances, we regard the measures Pyongyang is taking to strengthen its security and defence capabilities as entirely lawful and justified, in full accordance with the right to self-defence enshrined in the UN Charter. We urge Seoul to immediately cease its dangerous military games and provocations, particularly in the Demilitarised Zone, rather than seeking far-fetched pretexts for accusing the DPRK or making empty declarations about peace, and to respect Pyongyang’s sovereign right to ensure its own security by all means available.

☢️ Zaporozhskaya Nuclear Power Plant (#ZNPP): ⚡️ On November 3, a Ukrainian drone attacked a moving civilian car, killing two people. One of those killed was an employee of the Zaporozhskaya NPP. She became the third plant employee killed in the past two weeks and the thirteenth since April this year. Behind every such loss are family members, loved ones and colleagues. Our entire team shares this pain. ❗️ Attacks on civilian cars and the killing of civilians are deliberate acts of terrorism. Civilians must not be targeted. #KievRegimeCrimes

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🎙 Remarks by Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov at the High-Level Plenary Session of the Fourth Minsk International Conference on Eurasian Security (Minsk, November 3, 2026) Key points: • Honest, open discussions on ensuring reliable and lasting Eurasian security – an issue of importance to us all – are more vital today than ever. This is particularly true given the #GlobalMajority’s clear demand for a new model of world order. • Russia supports the emergence of a just system of international relations based on #Multipolarity. It must reflect the cultural and civilisational diversity of the modern world and its peoples, recognising each people’s right to determine their own destiny. • We are consistently working to advance President Vladimir Putin’s initiative to establish a Greater Eurasian Partnership, put forward back at the First #RussiaASEAN Summit, by building ties between integration associations across Eurasia. This process is already underway, involving the #EAEU, #SCO and #ASEAN. • Attempts to ensure the practical implementation of the principle of equal and indivisible security within the Euro-Atlantic – specifically Euro-Atlantic, rather than Eurasian – security framework have failed. The West proved unwilling to cooperate on an honest and equal footing. • The OSCE’s current state is frankly deplorable. This is the result of the same confrontational logic of bloc mentality pursued by Western countries. • Does the OSCE have a future when its history symbolises the failure of the Euro-Atlantic security model? Rooted in the illusions of the late Cold War era, this model requires a fundamental overhaul if it is to remain viable. Yet what we hear from Brussels are calls to build a system of “European security” without Russia and Belarus – or, frankly speaking, directed against our two countries. • Today, we call for indivisible security through the development of a pan-Eurasian, rather than Euro-Atlantic, architecture, open to all countries and associations on the continent and reflecting the realities of a #MultipolarWorld. • Commitment to the principles of indivisible security, openness and equality means that countries harbour no hostile intentions towards one another or towards third countries. This could involve developing a system of mutual and cross-cutting security guarantees at both bilateral and multilateral levels. • We believe that the framework document – the Eurasian Charter of Diversity and Multipolarity in the 21st Century – should help consolidate a continent-wide consensus on the foundations of such cooperation. Read in full

⚡️ On October 30, the UN Security Council failed to extend the mandate of the UN Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (#MINURSO). ❌ The Russian delegation was compelled to vote against the relevant draft resolution prepared by the US. China, Pakistan and Somalia abstained. Apparently, the authors assumed that we would not block the extension of a UN operation headed by a Russian national and included provisions unacceptable to us and several other UN Security Council members. These provisions sought to enshrine a single option for resolving the Western Sahara issue, denying the people of Western Sahara the right to choose their own future and that of the land they have inhabited since the end of Spanish colonial rule in North Africa. 👉 Such an outcome would run counter to the principles and purposes of the UN Charter, including the principle of self-determination. The Russian Federation does not support solutions imposed from outside through ultimatums. Any plans for a Western Sahara settlement must be developed through negotiations aimed at reaching mutually acceptable agreements, based on the relevant UN Security Council resolutions. We are disappointed that US diplomats failed to distinguish between their own national position recognising Western Sahara as part of Morocco and their role as the informal lead on the Western Sahara file in the UN Security Council, which requires them to act as an “honest broker”. Recognising the importance of MINURSO’s work, we submitted an alternative short draft resolution to the Security Council that would have extended the Mission’s mandate for one year without any changes, including to the parameters of the Western Sahara settlement. Unfortunately, only China and Somalia supported our draft. The US voted against it, while the remaining members abstained. ☝️ As a result, our proposal was not adopted. We believe that full responsibility for winding down the UN presence in Western Sahara, which has long had a stabilising effect on the situation in the region, lies with the US and the countries that sided with it.

🤝 Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Foreign Minister of Belarus Maxim Ryzhenkov hold talks on the sidelines of the Fourth Minsk (IV) International Conference on Eurasian Security. 📍 Minsk, November 3 🇷🇺🇧🇾 #RussiaBelarus

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