• Statement of General Apti Alaudinov
  • Foreign Ministry Statement regarding French President Emmanuel Macron’s speech

Lieutenant General Apti Alaudinov serves as Deputy Head of the Main Military-Political Directorate of the Russian Armed Forces. He is a close associate of Ramzan Kadyrov and holds widespread popularity among the Russian military & special forces and the broader public. He is not a Western politician who speaks thoughtlessly, but a very high-ranking leader who means every single word he says.

Apty Aronovich Alaudinov (born October 5, 1973, Mountain, Stavropol Territory) is a Russian-Chechen military leader. Since April 2024, he has served as Deputy Head of the Main Military-Political Administration of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and has commanded the volunteer formation “Akhmat” since 2022.

He previously held key law enforcement positions, including Head of the Department for Combating Organized Crime of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Chechen Republic (2005–2006), Head of the Department of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation in the Chechen Republic (2009), and Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs for the Chechen Republic – Police Chief (2011–2021). He was promoted to Major General of the police in 2012 and to Major General in 2022.

Alaudinov has received several high honors: Hero of the Russian Federation (2022), Hero of the LPR (2022), and Hero of the Chechen Republic (2023). By presidential decree on December 9, 2024, he was awarded the rank of Lieutenant General.

Source: KO4A TV, March 5, 2025

Translated from Russian by a friend of resistancenews.org

Peace be upon you, friends. I hope everyone’s having a good night.

Well, I am riding in my car right now and looking at the different sources of the internet. And I read what they are writing about the statement of the president of France. Which say that, no matter the financial debt, he is ready for raising the budget for the French military. And he is saying that he needs to make some decisions for the French Nuclear Forces to be ready to defend the EU – as it turns out.

Maybe it would be worthy for the French people to deeply look through their history, in order to remember the last time they came to us with a sword. To remind them of our Kutuzov, about [Suvorov’s] crossing of the Alps, and if they forget, to remind them why their cafes are called Bistro [Note: During the Battle of Paris in 1814, when Russian troops occupied the city at the end of the Napoleonic Wars, Russian soldiers, eager to be served quickly in Parisian cafés, would shout “Быстро!” (bystro!), meaning “quickly” or “hurry up” in Russian. Over time, the French adopted the word, and small, fast-service establishments became known as bistros.] The Germans, once again with their new chancellor, are thinking similarly, they need to be reminded of the Second World War.

In the end, do you know what surprises me, friends? Russia is a country of heroes. Russia is a country of heroes. We are ready to eat grass and drink from puddles, but we will go to the very end, no matter what would happen. In any case, in this war, Russia will be victorious—this is definitive. Even last year, I was saying these kind of words: I was certain that by the end of 2024, this war would be over. Well, I have a few recordings where I said either this war will be finished, or it will go into a new phase. A more serious one where all forms of weapons would be used [Note: He means that nuclear weapons could be used against Europe]. Right now, you and I are in this period of time, that either the NATO bloc will fall apart and we will be finishing off Europe [Note: He means defanging and submitting any EU country which would threaten Russia]. Or, they will stop bluffing and will go on any conditions to make peace with us. And in both such cases, we as a state, have a chance to defeat a united Europe.

Why? Because it has done everything they possibly could. And this Europe does not have the kind of quantity of weapons to where they can fight against us. Well and okay, say for example they gather together 20, 30 or how about even 50,000 frogmen [Note: He refers to French soldiers]. In what way are they going to be better than the Ukrainians we were fighting against? In reality, if we look at the troops we fought against for 3 years, Ukrainians are much stronger in spirit than any of these armies. American, French, German, all-together. The spirit of the Ukrainians is much higher than all of those ones put together. Even in this case, we see that Ukraine is now losing.

Interesting, what does the population of Europe think when they listen to all of these [politician] roosters [Note: To be called a ‘rooster’, especially by a Chechen, is THE worst possible insult. It is equivalent to the American “punk-ass b*tch”]? Have they still not figured out yet that defeating Russia on the battlefield is impossible? Never in their history had they been successful in defeating Russia on the battlefield. And right now it won’t work either, because God loves Russia. And Russia is the favorite and protected by God.

But you and I also should have more understanding, that we are the people on which lies a great and historical responsibility. And if we need, to be honest, we need to think about whether it’ll come to such a situation, where there needs to be a full mobilization, bringing together an army of a couple million people. And putting them [the Europeans] in such a pose from which they would never be able to come out from. Never. Either they shut up, otherwise they will indeed lose what they have remaining. And afterwards when they would want to clash with us, Europe and most of the European states will cease to exist as they are. And the NATO bloc will still fall apart sooner or later, because America does not need war with us anymore. They will leave this NATO bloc and will absolutely calmly work on themselves and their economy. And without America’s Military Industrial Complex, Europe, forgive me is nothing at all. Even if the US Military Industrial Complex will sell something to them, I’d like to see how long [Europe] would be in the condition to prolong it. Because America needs to restore their own resources, their bases, their storages, and are unlikely to give Europe more weapons prior to them restoring their own bases and storages first.

This is why, my friends, we need to pray and ask God to gift us victory. But if he isn’t gifting us this victory, then it means that all in all, you and I need to fortify ourselves and know that we will go forward to the very end. In our present day, there is not one country in the world that has an army which is more war-ready and war-capable than the Russian Army. Despite all of our negatives, with all of our problems, we are the most experienced army in the world which in today’s condition of war-fighting is more ready than anybody else.

This is why, friends, pray. Ask our God to have mercy on all of us. And in the end, know that we will still be victorious, because God loves us and God protects us. This is why, good luck to all, may you have many years in your life.

Akhmat is Strength, Russia is Mighty, God is One – Allahu Akbar [God is Greater].

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Foreign Ministry Statement regarding French President Emmanuel Macron’s speech, March 6, 2023

Source: Russian MFA

In the run-up to the EU summit dedicated to Ukraine crisis and confrontation with Russia, and clearly trying to set the tone for the upcoming gathering, French President Macron made an extremely aggressive anti-Russia speech calling our country, as he did on multiple previous occasions, a “threat to France and Europe.” Without providing any evidence, as he usually does, he accused our country of all the deadly sins from cyber attacks and interference in elections to our alleged plans to attack other countries in Europe.

We have heard him come up with similar fabrications and provocative claims before as well. Perhaps, this was the first time he laid them out in such an intense and irreconcilable manner which made them sound like a catechism for the Russophobic action programme.

Notably, the French leader has repeatedly made public his plans to call President Putin on the telephone to discuss ways to achieve peaceful settlement in Ukraine and to ensure security in Europe. The Russian side has always been open to discuss these matters. However, Macron, this time again, confined himself to clamorous public rhetoric.

The French President is trying hard to convince the French citizens of an “existential threat” coming from Russia. In fact, Russia has never threatened France, but, instead, helped it defend its independence and sovereignty in two world wars. However, Macron’s statements, in fact, pose a threat to Russia.

The French leader evokes his country’s foreign policy traditions, but his rhetoric runs counter to them and the ideological legacy of Gaullism. He cannot be unaware of the fact that France’s high standing in the international arena has for decades relied on his predecessors’ push to play a balancing role in international affairs and to contribute to alleviating tensions between Russia and the West. Back in the day, de Gaulle put forward the concept of indivisible security from the Atlantic to the Urals which relied on building consensus and being mindful of the opinions and interests of all countries on our continent. As opposed to that, we are witnessing official Paris depart from these fundamental principles of French foreign policy.

President Macron’s speech is all about providing security guarantees for Ukraine. Not a word, however, was said about security guarantees for Russia. Notably, the lack of such guarantees and the West’s never-ending attempts to create threats to our country, primarily through unbridled expansion of NATO, which ran counter to promises that were made to us, as well as the push to turn Ukraine into an anti-Russian bridgehead, has led to the current crisis. We have repeatedly and over many years notified Western leaders, including Mr Macron, about it. This is yet another instance that reiterates our conviction that Paris remains unwilling to reckon with our country’s vital interests and is focused on “forcing” us into compliance with the decisions that suit the West. Rest assured that this will never happen.

As we react to what Mr Macron had to say in his speech, we are compelled to once again remind everyone that the tragedy of Ukraine dates back to 2014, when, following a coup, openly neo-Nazi forces grabbed power in that country with the West’s connivance and support. These forces set out to discriminate against the Russian and Russian-speaking population and to eradicate the Russian language, culture and canonical Orthodoxy, which led to a bloody civil conflict in Donbass.

The excessively forward assertions claiming that Russia had violated the Minsk agreements do not hold water and look like an attempt to shift the blame on us. Our country pushed for strict compliance with these agreements, while Kiev, with the tacit consent and incitement of its Western curators, sabotaged its commitments in every possible way. Former leaders of France, Germany and Ukraine have repeatedly admitted in public that they merely took advantage of these agreements to get ready for war.

What is the French leader’s idea of the “path to peace?” It’s the same old one of flooding Ukraine with Western-made weapons and continuing hostilities, and the EU and NATO engaging in unprecedented expansion of military spending. In this context, accusing Russia of ramping up its military allocations and the numerical strength of its armed forces looks absurd. After all, NATO countries’ aggregate military budget is double that of the defence spending of the rest of the world combined, and the EU military budget is multiples of what Russia is spending on defence. It is likewise notable that Russia’s military construction programme is a forced reaction to NATO’s aggressive policy, including Sweden and Finland’s expedited NATO membership.

With regard to Mr Macron’s idea of deploying Western military contingents in Ukraine under the guise of peacekeeping forces, we have repeatedly made it clear that this is unacceptable. This, what essentially represents an occupation of Ukraine, would inevitably lead to an extremely dangerous escalation.

President Macron’s statement clearly conveys undertones of a nuclear blackmail. Paris’s ambitions to become Europe’s nuclear “patron” by providing it with its “nuclear umbrella,” almost replacing the American one, have come to the surface. Needless to say, this will do nothing to strengthen the security of France or its allies. Besides, the French nuclear capability cannot be compared with that of the United States. France has only 56 nuclear warhead carriers, while the United States has 898 of them. The total capacity of the nuclear component of the French armed forces amounts to 67.2 megatons, while the United States boasts a whopping 1,814 megatons. Without a doubt, Russia will take the French President’s remarks into consideration when it plans its defence strategy.

The speech leaves one feeling bad for President Macron, who is seeking to portray himself as a new leader of the “free world.” It really tells a story if you want to see the current low level of embittered European elites for what it is. The looming Russia-US normalisation that has just begun to take shape, and the first steps towards peaceful resolution of the Ukraine crisis are causing genuine panic among them. One would think that the Europeans, who were in the thick of the confrontation between the superpowers during the Cold War, should be interested more than anyone in seeing the trajectory of Russia-US relations change, tensions defuse, and a constructive dialogue between Moscow and Washington begin.

Needless to say, the French president’s emphatic militarism is dictated by the domestic agenda as well. Military rhetoric is a way to divert his own population from aggravating socioeconomic problems in France and the EU, to shift the people’s attention to external pseudo-threats, and to somehow fortify his rocky political position, which has taken a blow or two over the past year.

Macron’s speech caused whatever was left of the masks to come off and showed who’s leading the “party of war.” It also showed who’s really opposing the ceasefire and betting on continuing and escalating the Ukraine conflict.

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