MOSCOW, November 11. /TASS/. If Chisinau introduces visa requirements for travel between Moldova and Russia, it will be its own people that suffer most, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said at a briefing.

She noted that the creation of a special sanctions office shows that the EU is hell-bent on doing harm to Russia.

The diplomat pointed out that representatives of the EU and NATO member states that had decided, on the eve of the Abu Dhabi talks on a peace settlement in Ukraine, to hold exercises rehearsing the deployment of an armed EU contingent to Ukraine simply had no place at the negotiating table "with such a flawed approach and such a flawed mindset."

TASS has compiled the spokeswoman’s key statements.

EU, NATO failings

Representatives of the EU and NATO member states that decided, on the eve of the Abu Dhabi talks on a peace settlement in Ukraine, to hold exercises rehearsing the deployment of an armed EU contingent to Ukraine simply have no place at the negotiating table "with such a flawed approach and such a flawed mindset."

Torture chambers in Ukraine

Secret torture chambers set up by the Kiev regime had become a steady source of income for those who run and protect them: "Those who end up in such dungeons are obviously a source of recruits for the Ukrainian armed forces. They are also a steady source of income for those who run and protect these torture chambers."

Nazis from Azov, which Russia has tagged as a terrorist organization and banned, are acting with impunity and committing atrocities against the Ukrainian people with Vladimir Zelensky’s knowledge: "The Kiev regime long ago gave them a free hand to commit any atrocity against the Ukrainian people. And now those very Azov members have Bankovaya Street (the Ukrainian presidential administration - TASS) in an iron grip. All this lawlessness is clearly happening with [Vladimir] Zelensky’s knowledge, and he understands exactly what is going on."

Zelensky’s regime is deliberately depriving Ukraine of its future by forcibly mobilizing young people: "Neither Kiev nor its sponsors care in the slightest that Zelensky’s regime is deliberately depriving Ukraine of its future."

Western complicity in Kiev’s atrocities

The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) is becoming complicit in the Kiev regime’s information campaign to conceal the true nature and scale of crimes against individuals, including by remaining silent about the existence of a network of torture prisons: "So now it turns out the OSCE can’t comment on this because it can’t be verified… But you comment on everything else without verifying it, don’t you? Let me remind you that when it suits them, experts at the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), for example, are quick to assign blame without checking anything. The ODIHR isn’t just dismissing us with empty answers to specific questions. They are effectively becoming accomplices in the Kiev regime’s information campaign to conceal the true nature and scale of crimes against individuals in territory it controls."

Europe used its taxpayers’ money to foster a criminal regime in Kiev that shields fraudsters who rob Europeans: "All these NATO and EU bodies in and around Brussels are taking the last pennies out of their own citizens’ pockets, squeezing them for everything they have and sending the money to Bankovaya Street. And Bankovaya Street is literally protecting gangs operating in those very countries that terrorize and intimidate, among others, their own Western European businesspeople. It’s unbelievable."

Nature of sanctions against Russia

The creation of a permanent sanctions office within the EU proves that unilateral restrictions are an end in themselves for Brussels: "The creation of some permanent unit to deal with sanctions proves that in Brussels, unilateral restrictions have become less a foreign policy tool than an end in themselves. Apparently, this is how the bureaucracy reproduces itself. They multiply by division."

Possible Moldova visa requirements

Potential visa requirements for travel between Moldova and Russia would hurt Moldovans first and foremost: "This decision would primarily hurt ordinary Moldovans and their ability to stay in touch with relatives and acquaintances who live in our country."

Destruction of cultural sites in Ukraine

Russia is paying particular attention to documenting the Kiev regime’s crimes against cultural sites and expects international bodies to respond: "All this evidence of barbaric acts by the Ukrainian armed forces will be brought to the attention of the international community. We expect an appropriate response from the relevant international organizations, above all UNESCO."

Middle East

Russia is urging Israel to take immediate steps to prevent the situation in the Gaza Strip from worsening: "We call on the Israeli authorities to take urgent steps to prevent the situation in long-suffering Gaza from deteriorating further, restore unhindered humanitarian access and ensure that everyone in need receives the necessary aid, with food being, of course, the first priority."

Moscow is extremely concerned about the difficult military and political situation in Lebanon: "We are also extremely concerned about the continuing difficulties in the military and political situation in Lebanon. The ceasefire agreement that Beirut and West Jerusalem reached in June this year eased tensions somewhat, and attacks on the Lebanese capital stopped. However, occasional clashes are still being reported in the south of the country."

Moscow views Washington’s decision to set up a special task force to stop the transit of "dual-use goods" across Iran’s borders as another escalatory and provocative step and an infringement of international law: "We view this latest escalatory and provocative step as a blatant infringement of international law and fully support the Iranian authorities’ statement that further economic pressure will fail to bring about the collapse of Iran’s economy."

The US decision to control Iran’s trade flows could spread the crisis: "We stress that ensuring the security of the Caspian region is an internal matter for the Caspian Five. Any attempt to carry out these stated, so-called tasks could spread the crisis around Iran to neighboring regions."

Moscow’s proposal to move Iranian enriched uranium to Russia for "dilution" is "still on the table."

Situation in Poland

The Foreign Ministry is urging Russian citizens to refrain from traveling to Poland, where "the social and political situation continues to deteriorate."

Russian diplomats are in touch with the relatives of a Russian woman wounded in the November 7 shooting in Krakow’s Main Market Square. "Our diplomats are in touch with the injured woman’s relatives and with the medical facility in Krakow where she is being treated. She is currently in stable condition, and her injuries are not life-threatening."