Thursday, 23 February 2023

10 warga Palestina tewas, puluhan ditembak dalam serangan Tepi Barat Israel

10 warga Palestina tewas, puluhan ditembak dalam serangan Tepi Barat Israel

10 warga Palestina tewas, puluhan ditembak dalam serangan Tepi Barat Israel




Warga Palestina membawa jenazah 10 pria yang tewas dalam bentrokan dengan pasukan Israel di kota Nablus, Tepi Barat, pada 22 Februari 2023. (AP)






Tentara Israel membunuh 10 warga Palestina pada hari Rabu dalam serangan selama berjam-jam di kota Nablus Tepi Barat yang diduduki yang juga menyebabkan lebih dari 100 orang luka tembak, kata Kementerian Kesehatan Palestina.







Tentara Israel mengatakan serangan itu menargetkan tersangka militan "di sebuah apartemen persembunyian" yang dituduh melakukan penembakan di Tepi Barat. Tiga dari tersangka - dua dari kelompok militan Lion's Den dan satu dari Jihad Islam Palestina - tewas, tambahnya.


Operasi tersebut memicu kemarahan di kalangan warga Palestina yang mengumumkan pemogokan protes komprehensif yang akan diadakan di Bethlehem pada Kamis.


Di Ramallah pada hari Rabu, warga Palestina mengadakan pawai untuk mengutuk kejahatan pasukan pendudukan Israel, sementara toko-toko tutup saat orang berduka atas kematian.


Mustafa Barghouti, sekretaris Prakarsa Nasional Palestina, mengatakan kepada Arab News bahwa pembunuhan tersebut, termasuk seorang anak laki-laki dan seorang warga lanjut usia, adalah bukti bahwa pemerintah pendudukan “beroperasi berdasarkan pemahamannya dengan pihak Amerika.”


“Otoritas Palestina hanyalah kedok untuk kejahatannya,” katanya.


Barghouti mendesak PA untuk memutuskan semua bentuk kontak keamanan dan koordinasi dengan Israel, “yang hanya mengetahui bahasa kekerasan dalam berurusan dengan rakyat Palestina.”


Taysir Nasrallah, anggota Dewan Revolusi Fatah di Nablus, mengatakan kepada Arab News: "Pendudukan kriminal ini menargetkan warga sipil Palestina tanpa ragu dan pembenaran."







Kematian di Nablus menambah jumlah warga Palestina yang tewas tahun ini menjadi 61 orang, kata Kementerian Kesehatan.


Juru bicara kepresidenan Palestina Nabil Abu Rudeineh menyalahkan pemerintah Israel atas meningkatnya kekerasan.


“Kejahatan yang dilakukan oleh pasukan pendudukan di kota Nablus hari ini menegaskan kembali pentingnya permintaan kami agar komunitas internasional segera bergerak untuk menghentikan kejahatan Israel terhadap rakyat kami, tanah mereka dan kesucian mereka, dan untuk menghentikan tindakan sepihak Israel,” dia berkata.


Dia mendesak pemerintah AS untuk mengambil tindakan segera dan memberikan tekanan efektif pada Israel untuk mengakhiri kejahatan dan agresinya terhadap warga Palestina.


Gerakan Fatah Presiden Mahmoud Abbas mengatakan: “Agresi yang sedang berlangsung terhadap rakyat kami di Nablus dan seluruh tanah Palestina menegaskan bahwa pemerintah pendudukan terus memperburuk situasi melalui terorisme berdarah, yang dilakukan oleh tentara pendudukan dan milisi pemukim, menargetkan warga sipil, anak-anak, orang lanjut usia, staf medis, dan pers.”


Hussein Al-Sheikh dari Organisasi Pembebasan Palestina mengatakan "tindakan kriminal barbar, terencana dan terencana yang dilakukan pendudukan hari ini di Nablus adalah pembantaian yang menunjukkan sifat kriminalnya."


Kepemimpinan Palestina sedang mempertimbangkan untuk mengambil langkah-langkah di semua tingkatan dalam menanggapi "tindakan barbar" ini, tambahnya.







PIJ mengatakan: “Kami menegaskan bahwa darah para syuhada Nablus tidak akan sia-sia dan tujuan pendudukan di balik agresi ini akan gagal. Perlawanan berlanjut, pertempuran berlanjut dan musuh harus menunggu tanggapan perlawanan kapan saja dan dari mana saja.”


Faksi bersenjata kelompok itu di Gaza, Brigade Al-Qassam, mengatakan sedang menyaksikan “meningkatnya kejahatan musuh terhadap rakyat kami di Tepi Barat yang diduduki” dan memperingatkan bahwa kesabarannya hampir habis.


Sementara itu, Sekjen PBB Antonio Guterres menyerukan diakhirinya permukiman Israel di tanah Palestina yang diduduki.


“Setiap pemukiman baru adalah penghalang lain di jalan menuju perdamaian,” katanya. “Semua aktivitas permukiman adalah ilegal menurut hukum internasional. Itu harus dihentikan.”


Dia menambahkan bahwa “hasutan untuk melakukan kekerasan adalah jalan buntu. Tidak ada yang membenarkan terorisme.”





Polda Metro tangkap tiga penagih utang dan tujuh preman

Polda Metro tangkap tiga penagih utang dan tujuh preman

Polda Metro tangkap tiga penagih utang dan tujuh preman




Direktur Reserse Kriminal Umum (Dirreskrimum) Polda Metro Jaya Kombes Pol Hengki Haryadi (kiri) bersama Kabid Humas Polda Metro Jaya Kombes Pol Trunoyudo Wisnu Andiko saat melakukan konferensi pers di Jakarta, Selasa (24/1/2023). (ANTARA/Ilham Kausar)






Direktorat Reserse Kriminal Umum Polda Metro Jaya telah menangkap tiga penagih utang (debt collector) dan tujuh preman dari dua kelompok yang berbeda.







Aksi preman-preman itu viral di media sosial saat membentak seorang anggota Bhayangkara Pembina Keamanan dan Ketertiban Masyarakat (Bhabinkamtibmas) Polri.


"Komplotan preman dari dua kelompok kini menjadi tersangka, ditahan di Polda Metro Jaya," kata Direktur Reserse Kriminal Umum (Dirreskrimum) Polda Metro Jaya Kombes Pol Hengki Haryadi menurut keterangan tertulis yang diterima di Jakarta, Kamis.


Sedangkan tiga "debt collector" yang melakukan perlawanan terhadap Bhabinkamtibmas Polri kini dalam pemeriksaan di Polda Metro Jaya.


Hengki menjelaskan, penindakan ini adalah respon atas direktif Kapolda Metro Jaya bahwa tidak ada lagi bibit bibit premanisme muncul di Jakarta. Tidak boleh ada kelompok manapun yang bergerak di atas hukum.


"Negara tidak boleh kalah dengan aksi premanisme. Kita akan tangkap, kita kejar dan kita tindak tegas setiap aksi aksi premanisme di DKI Jakarta," katanya.


Menurut Hengki, "debt collector" juga tidak dibenarkan main cegat, main sikat dan rampas kendaraan di jalan. Ada mekanisme hukum yang diatur dalam undang-undang.


Dia menegaskan bahwa tidak ada lagi hak eksekutorial bagi "debt collector" apabila tidak ada kesepakatan antara debitur dan kreditur dan debitur menolak menyerahkan kendaraannya. "Oleh karenanya hal tersebut harus melalui penetapan pengadilan, dengan kata lain tidak boleh di ambil paksa," katanya.







Hengki Haryadi juga menegaskan pihaknya mengimbau kepada kelompok-kelompok preman dan penagih utang yang ada segera menghentikan aksi-aksi premanismenya.


"Kepada pelaku 'debt collector' yang terlibat perlawanan terhadap petugas, kami minta segera menyerahkan diri atau kami kejar sampai dapat," kata Hengki.


Sempat ramai di media sosial tentang video viral pada kasus penarikan mobil secara paksa yang dialami oleh selebgram TikTok Clara Shinta yang diunggah salah satunya akun Instagram @wargajakarta.id.


Dalam video berdurasi dua menit 30 detik tersebut terlihat Clara Shinta bersama seorang petugas Bhabinkamtibmas Aiptu Evin dibentak dan dimaki oleh sejumlah "debt collector".


Peristiwa tersebut juga membuat Kapolda Metro Jaya Irjen Pol Muhammad Fadil Imran merasa geram pada aksi semena-mena para "debt collector" seperti membentak dan memaki anggotanya saat menjalankan tugas.


Fadil juga meminta kepada jajarannya agar mereka ditindak tegas sehingga ke depannya, dapat dipastikan tidak ada lagi penggunaan kekerasan dalam pekerjaannya.












Russian forces strike foreign mercenaries’ deployment site in DPR — top brass

Russian forces strike foreign mercenaries’ deployment site in DPR — top brass

Russian forces strike foreign mercenaries’ deployment site in DPR — top brass




©Alexander Reka/TASS, archive






Russian forces struck the deployment site of foreign mercenaries in the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) over the past day during the special military operation in Ukraine, Defense Ministry Spokesman Lieutenant-General Igor Konashenkov reported on Wednesday.







"In the area of the settlement of Memrik in the Donetsk People’s Republic, a temporary deployment site of a foreign mercenaries’ unit was struck," the spokesman said.


In the past 24 hours, missile troops and artillery of the Russian group of forces struck 84 Ukrainian artillery units at firing positions, manpower and military equipment in 113 areas, the general said.


"In the area of the settlement of Dobrovolye in the Donetsk People’s Republic, the command post of the Ukrainian army’s 72nd mechanized brigade was struck," the spokesman said.


Russian forces inflicted damage on Ukrainian manpower in the Kupyansk area, destroying over 40 enemy troops in the past day, Konashenkov reported.


"In the Kupyansk direction, artillery fire and active operations of units from the western battlegroup inflicted damage on the enemy manpower in areas near the settlements of Novosyolovskoye in the Lugansk People’s Republic and Masyutovka in the Kharkov Region," the spokesman said.


Russian forces destroyed enemy manpower and equipment during the battles, the general said.


"The strikes eliminated over 40 Ukrainian servicemen and two pickup trucks," Konashenkov reported.


Russian forces inflicted damage on Ukrainian manpower and equipment in the Krasny Liman area, eliminating over 135 enemy troops in the past day, he said.


"In the Krasny Liman area, offensive operations by units from the battlegroup Center, artillery and heavy flamethrower fire inflicted damage on Ukrainian manpower and equipment," the spokesman said.


"Over 135 Ukrainian personnel, an infantry fighting vehicle, four armored combat vehicles, two Gvozdika self-propelled howitzers, and a D-20 howitzer were destroyed in that area in the past 24 hours," the general specified.







The Ukrainian military suffered roughly 250 casualties in the Donetsk area over the past day as a result of successful offensive operations by Russian forces, Konashenkov reported.


"In the Donetsk area, assault volunteer teams continue their successful offensive operations with the support of units from the Tula Airborne Force formation, assault aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces and also strikes by artillery and heavy flamethrower systems of the southern battlegroup. The enemy’s losses in that area in the past 24 hours amounted to 250 Ukrainian personnel killed and wounded," the spokesman said.


Russian forces also destroyed five Ukrainian armored combat vehicles, six motor vehicles and a D-20 howitzer, the general added.


"In addition, in the area of the settlement of Katerinovka in the Donetsk People’s Republic, an ammunition depot of the Ukrainian army’s 68th infantry jaeger brigade was obliterated," Konashenkov reported.


Russian forces eliminated over 60 Ukrainian troops in the southern Donetsk area in the past day, he said.


"In the southern Donetsk area, artillery of the battlegroup East delivered a massive strike on the enemy units in areas near the settlements of Ugledar and Prechistovka in the Donetsk People’s Republic. The strike eliminated as many as 65 Ukrainian servicemen," the spokesman said.


Russian forces also destroyed a Ukrainian infantry fighting vehicle, two armored combat vehicles, two pickup trucks, a D-20 howitzer and a D-30 howitzer in that area in the past 24 hours, the general specified.


Russian forces destroyed ammunition depots of two Ukrainian brigades in the Kherson area over the past day, Konashenkov reported.


"In the Kherson area, two D-30 howitzers were destroyed in counter-battery fire. In addition, in the areas of the settlements of Antonovka and Chernobayevka in the Kherson Region, ammunition depots of the 123rd and 126th territorial defense brigades were wiped out," the spokesman said.


Russian forces also destroyed five Ukrainian armored combat vehicles, six motor vehicles and a D-20 howitzer, the general added.


"In addition, in the area of the settlement of Katerinovka in the Donetsk People’s Republic, an ammunition depot of the Ukrainian army’s 68th infantry jaeger brigade was obliterated," Konashenkov reported.


Russian forces eliminated over 60 Ukrainian troops in the southern Donetsk area in the past day, he said.







"In the southern Donetsk area, artillery of the battlegroup East delivered a massive strike on the enemy units in areas near the settlements of Ugledar and Prechistovka in the Donetsk People’s Republic. The strike eliminated as many as 65 Ukrainian servicemen," the spokesman said.


Russian forces also destroyed a Ukrainian infantry fighting vehicle, two armored combat vehicles, two pickup trucks, a D-20 howitzer and a D-30 howitzer in that area in the past 24 hours, the general specified.


Russian forces destroyed ammunition depots of two Ukrainian brigades in the Kherson area over the past day, Konashenkov reported.


"In the Kherson area, two D-30 howitzers were destroyed in counter-battery fire. In addition, in the areas of the settlements of Antonovka and Chernobayevka in the Kherson Region, ammunition depots of the 123rd and 126th territorial defense brigades were wiped out," the spokesman said.


Russia’s Aerospace Forces struck the workshop in the city of Sumy that produced and repaired heavy mortars and ammunition rounds for the Ukrainian army, Konashenkov reported.


"The Russian Aerospace Forces delivered a strike in the area of the city of Sumy, wiping out the workshop that produced and repaired heavy mortars and ammunition for the Ukrainian army," the spokesman said.


Russian air defense forces destroyed nine HIMARS rockets and ten Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles over the past day, Konashenkov reported.


In the past 24 hours, air defense capabilities shot down nine rockets of the HIMARS multiple launch rocket system, and also destroyed ten Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles in areas near the settlements of Antonovka in the Kherson Region, Krasnorechenskoye, Rubezhnoye, Pshenichnoye, Kremennaya, Chervonopopovka and Zaliman in the Lugansk People’s Republic, Nikolskoye and Vladimirovka in the Donetsk People’s Republic and Tokarevka in the Kharkov Region," the spokesman said.


In all, the Russian Armed Forces have destroyed 386 Ukrainian combat aircraft, 210 helicopters, 3,213 unmanned aerial vehicles, 405 surface-to-air missile systems, 7,979 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 1,037 multiple rocket launchers, 4,179 field artillery guns and mortars and 8,494 special military motor vehicles since the beginning of the special military operation in Ukraine, the general specified.


Putin visits Luzhniki stadium to attend concert honoring members of special operation

Putin visits Luzhniki stadium to attend concert honoring members of special operation

Putin visits Luzhniki stadium to attend concert honoring members of special operation




©Sergei Bobylev/TASS






Russian President Vladimir Putin visited Moscow’s Luzhniki Stadium on Wednesday, where the ‘Glory to Defenders of the Motherland’ concert honoring participants in the special military operation was being held.







Going up on stage, the president shook hands with the service members who are taking part in the special military operation in Ukraine.


Activists from youth and patriotic organizations take part in the event. The audience is expected to reach up to 200,000 people.


Putin from the Luzhniki stage congratulated the Defender of the Fatherland Day, sang the anthem together with everyone and greeted the officers




This is not the first time that Putin has attended a major concert marking milestone events. In 2022, he addressed an audience of people who had come to Red Square for a concert celebrating the new regions joining Russia. Luzhniki Stadium traditionally hosts festivities for the anniversary of Crimea’s reunification with Russia (March 18), where the president usually delivers a speech.



Special operation, February 22. Main



▪️Russian forces continue their offensive in the Donetsk direction, in the Kupyansky, Krasnolimansky, Donetsk and Yuzhno-Donetsk directions, the losses of Kyiv amounted to about 500 soldiers per day, the Russian Defense Ministry said;


▪️The head of the main intelligence department of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense, Kirill Budanov, expects that decisive battles in Ukraine will take place from mid to late spring;


▪️Adviser to the Acting Head of the DPR Denis Pushilin, Yan Gagin, said that Ukrainian troops are likely to surrender Artemovsk soon;







▪️Putin held talks with Wang Yi, including discussing the Ukrainian settlement. Wang Yi said that China appreciates the readiness of the Russian Federation to resolve the Ukrainian crisis through dialogue and negotiations, and intends to play a constructive role in the political settlement of the crisis;


▪️At the meeting between Lavrov and Wang Yi, the so-called Chinese settlement plan for Ukraine was not discussed, the Russian Foreign Ministry said. The plan will be made public in the coming days, said Zhang Jun, Permanent Representative of the People's Republic of China to the UN;


▪️Ukraine intends this week to request Turkey and the UN to start negotiations on extending the grain deal, wants to extend the agreement for at least another year and include more Ukrainian ports, Deputy Infrastructure Minister of Ukraine Yuriy Vaskov said;


▪️The EU failed to agree on another package of sanctions against Russia, negotiations on this issue will continue on Thursday, Reuters reported, citing four diplomatic sources.




Biden tidak berani mengunjungi Kiev tanpa meminta jaminan keamanan Rusia terlebih dahulu — Maria Zakharova

Biden tidak berani mengunjungi Kiev tanpa meminta jaminan keamanan Rusia terlebih dahulu — Maria Zakharova

Biden tidak berani mengunjungi Kiev tanpa meminta jaminan keamanan Rusia terlebih dahulu — Maria Zakharova




Juru Bicara Kementerian Luar Negeri Rusia Maria Zakharova
©Kementerian Luar Negeri Rusia/TASS






Presiden AS Joe Biden berani melakukan kunjungan 'berani' ke Kiev hanya setelah mendapat jaminan keamanan dari Rusia, kata Juru Bicara Kementerian Luar Negeri Maria Zakharova dalam pengarahan Rabu, 22/02/2023.







"Biden tidak berani mengunjungi Kiev tanpa memperingatkan Rusia dan tanpa meminta pihak Rusia untuk memastikan keselamatannya," katanya.


Juru bicara mencatat bahwa "kunjungan pemimpin AS dipentaskan dengan drama, tetapi, pada kenyataannya, menyerupai panggung yang gagal di teater provinsi."


"Untuk memberikan beberapa drama pada momen ini, mereka bahkan membunyikan alarm serangan udara," kata Zakharova. “Meskipun, mereka mengatakan kepada orang-orang Kiev sebelumnya untuk tidak memperhatikannya, karena tidak adanya ancaman yang sebenarnya. Semua orang saling memperingatkan tetangga mereka: Biden akan datang, mereka akan meluncurkan sirene, tapi tidak apa-apa, kita bisa tetap tinggal rumah atau staf kami sendiri, karena itu adalah bagian dari pementasan (drama)."


“Jika Washington ingin memberikan contoh lain kepada sekutunya tentang bagaimana mendukung rezim Kiev, hasilnya tidak terlalu baik (gagal),” pungkas Zakharova. "Terutama di tengah klaim keras mereka bahwa mereka sepenuhnya mengendalikan situasi dan Kiev telah bertahan dan akan menang."







Sebagai tambahan : dari agresi AS ke Irak, Afganistan, Serbia, Suriah, selalu merekaya motivasi untuk mendapatkan legalitas perbuatannya. Dan gaya seperti ini adalah gaya kelicikan yahudi sejak 4000 tahun lampau, dimulai Nabi Ya'kub, Nabi Ibrahim, Nabi Isa, Nabi Muhammad SAW, perang dunia I dan II. Semua perang besar terjadi hasil dari hasutan Yahudi.



Wednesday, 22 February 2023

Seymour Hersh: US, Norway Have Cooperated on Clandestine Operations Since Vietnam War

Seymour Hersh: US, Norway Have Cooperated on Clandestine Operations Since Vietnam War

Seymour Hersh: US, Norway Have Cooperated on Clandestine Operations Since Vietnam War




©US Navy






Two weeks after his explosive account that the United States and Norway were behind the bombing of the Nord Stream pipelines last September, US investigative journalist Seymour Hersh wrote Wednesday that Norway’s navy has had a "murky history" of cooperation with American intelligence since the Vietnam War.







"The Norwegian Navy has a long and murky history of cooperation with American intelligence,” Hersh wrote in a follow-up post on Substack.


Hersh said that Norway invested in developing large armed boats to defend its 1,400 miles of Atlantic coastline after World War II, which were more powerful than US boats. Norway subsequently used these boats to assist the CIA to pressure North Vietnam's leadership during the Vietnam War.


This eventually culminated in a confrontation on August 2, 1964 between three North Vietnamese gunships and two American destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin. The leader of one of the US destroyers initially cabled a false alarm that he was under attack and later rescinded his report. However, President Lyndon Johnson claimed to the US public that North Vietnam had attacked a US destroyer, creating a pretext for the US to bomb the North. Congress also passed the Tonkin Gulf Resolution to allow Johnson to deploy US military force as he saw fit in South Vietnam.


Hersh said that Norway stayed quiet all along about its assistance to the US and even went on to sell 18 more of their boats to the US Navy. Citing a US intelligence source, Hersh said that the first batch of such boats used in the CIA’s “secret war within a secret war” against North Vietnam numbered six and landed in early 1964 at a naval base in Danang.


These boats had Norwegian captains and crews to train US and Vietnamese sailors to use them in a long-running series of secret coastal attacks directed by the CIA and controlled by the Joint Chiefs of Staff in Washington, Hersh said.


Earlier this month, Hersh, a Pulitzer Prize-winning US investigative journalist, published a report detailing how US Navy divers had planted explosives under the Nord Stream pipelines, which Norway activated three months later at the order of President Joe Biden.







Hersh wrote that cheap Russian gas had been a boon for the German economy, fueling its post-war rise to prosperity while diminishing Europe's dependence on the United States. He cited a source with direct knowledge of the US operational planning as saying that Norway played a key role in helping the US organize the attack and keep the Swedish and Danish navies in the dark.


Both the United States and Norway dismissed the investigation as a lie. Russia, for its part, said it was no surprise that Hersh's report was largely overlooked by Western mainstream media despite Biden and Undersecretary of State Victoria Nuland outright warning Russia months before the attack that the pipeline would be dealt with if it launched a military operation in Ukraine.


On September 26, 2022, blasts occurred at three of the four strings of Nord Stream 1 and 2 underwater pipelines built to carry a combined 110 billion cubic meters of Russian gas to Europe annually. The incidents halted gas deliveries to Germany ahead of the cold season, prompting a gas price hike and a scramble for alternative sources in the European Union.





Putin confirms Russia expects to receive Xi Jinping

Putin confirms Russia expects to receive Xi Jinping

Putin confirms Russia expects to receive Xi Jinping




©Anton Novoderezhkin/TASS






Russian President Vladimir Putin has confirmed that Russia is awaiting the visit of his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping.







"We are expecting the president of the People's Republic of China to visit Russia. We agreed on this earlier," Putin said as he welcomed Director of the Office of the Central Foreign Affairs Commission of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and member of the CCP Politburo Wang Yi in the Kremlin on Wednesday.


"We understand that [China] has a domestic political agenda, but we assume that as we tackle all the issues related to this agenda - with the National People's Congress, which is made up of Chinese deputies, who must also resolve serious personnel issues - we will implement our plans for personal meetings as well, which will give an additional impetus to our relations," the Russian president noted.


As it was previously reported, sessions of the highest deliberative and legislative bodies of China - the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and the National People's Congress - will kick off in Beijing on March 4 and 5.


Deputies will discuss socio-economic achievements and prospects for the country's further development and approve new projects. At the same time, a series of reshuffles in key positions and government positions in China is planned. In particular, Chinese President Xi Jinping is expected to be re-elected to another term. In addition, a new Premier of the State Council will be elected.



China committed to relations with Russia amid volatile global situation — Wang Yi



China remains committed to the development of relations with Russia amid the volatile situation in the world, the Director of the Office of the Central Foreign Affairs Commission of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), member of the CCP Politburo Wang Yi said at talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Moscow on Wednesday.







"No matter how the international situation may change, China remains committed to maintaining positive trends in the development of relations [with Russia]," he said.


Wang added that he would continue efforts to develop relations between Russia and China.


Director of the Office of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the Chinese Communist Party Wang Yi and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov © Alexander Nemenov/Pool Photo via AP


"Thanks to the strategic guidelines set by President Xi Jinping and President [Russian Vladimir] Putin, the Sino-Russian relations of comprehensive partnership and strategic cooperation in the new era maintain a high momentum," he said.


"We are always committed to multipolarity and firmly oppose unilateral action and hegemony. We invariably seek the development path for our countries to follow in accordance with national characteristics, as well as protect the sovereignty and security of our development. We also constantly tap the potential of multifaceted cooperation between China and Russia," Wang concluded.