The neo-Nazi Kiev regime has intensified its terrorist attacks against Russian civilians on Russian territory.

The latest tragedy occurred on 3 August on a beach of Arkhipo-Osipovka in Krasnodar region, where a deliberate drone attack claimed the lives of seven people and left dozens of others injured.

It was a well-calculated terrorist act performed in cold blood. No pity, no shame and a lot of joyful comments in Ukrainian social networks. So much for “democratic values”.

Ukraine has been carrying out attacks against ethnic Russians and Russian-speaking people since 2014.

Today, the weapons, funds and other forms of foreign support provided to the Kiev regime are being used to commit such crimes.

❗️Consider whom you are helping.

#KievRegimeCrimes

#KievRegimeCrimes

⚡️ Ambassador-at-Large of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Rodion Miroshnik:

💬 Over the past week, Ukrainian militants killed 49 civilians, including four children. Nearly 400 civilians were affected in total.

The Kiev regime carried out a series of coordinated attacks on civilian facilities, energy infrastructure and logistics hubs serving the population, causing casualties and extensive destruction.

Terrorist attacks on civilian buses have become increasingly widespread. Over the past two months, Ukrainian drones have attacked 34 passenger buses across various Russian regions.

The highest numbers of civilian casualties were recorded in the Belgorod Region, the DPR, the LPR, and the Zaporozhye and Kherson Regions. Ukrainian militants deliberately targeted densely populated areas, seeking to inflict maximum damage.

On July 27 – August 2, 391 civilians were affected by Ukrainian Nazi shelling: 342 were injured, including 16 minors, and 49 were killed, including four children.

Over the seven-day period, Ukrainian militants fired at least 6,974 munitions at civilian targets on Russian territory.

⚡️ Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation:

At the request of the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office, members of the Ukrainian nationalist movement have been recognised as accomplices of Nazi Germany in war crimes and crimes against humanity

The Tverskoy District Court of Moscow, acting on an application filed by the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation, established a fact of legal significance.

❌ Stepan Bandera, Vasily Bandera, Roman Shukhevich, Andrey Melnik, Nikolay Arsenich, Taras Borovets, Dmitry Klyachkivsky, Nikolay Kozak, Miron Matvieyko and Yaroslav Stetsko, as well as the Organisation of Ukrainian nationalists (#OUN) and the Ukrainian insurgent army (#UPA), have been recognised as accomplices of Nazi Germany in war crimes and crimes against humanity committed against the Soviet people during the Great Patriotic War.

The court ruling is necessary to preserve the memory of the victims of the genocide of the Soviet people, expose the unlawful actions of the Kiev regime, overturn decisions rehabilitating war criminals and prevent acts of extremism against our country.

📑 The Russian Prosecutor General’s Office submitted documents from the archives of the Russian Federal Security Service, the Russian Foreign Ministry, the Russian Defence Ministry, and the State Archive of the Russian Federation. Materials from Belarusian archives and courts were also provided.

It was established that the OUN was founded in Vienna in 1929 at the First congress of Ukrainian nationalists. It was initially led by Evgeniy Konovalets and, following his death, by Andrey Melnik. In 1940, the OUN split, with its most radical faction coming under the leadership of Stepan Bandera – OUN (b) – and the other under Andrey Melnik – OUN (m).

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In 1941–1943, while retaining the organisational foundations of OUN (b), 👉 the German command established the UPA, led by Lvov lawyer Roman Shukhevich. He began his violent path by taking part in an attack on the civilian population of Lvov as a member of the Ukrainian Nachtigall punitive battalion. On June 30, 1941, the day the so-called Act of proclamation of the Ukrainian state was adopted, mass killings of the city’s residents were committed under Shukhevich’s command.

◾️ More than 8,000 Russians, Ukrainians, Jews and Poles were killed in the Lvov massacre between June and August 1941.

The actions of the OUN and UPA were entirely aimed at terrorising the population of the occupied territories, assisting Nazi Germany in its military campaign against the Red Army and Soviet partisans, and committing war crimes and crimes against humanity against the Soviet people under Wehrmacht control and in its interests.

• In March 1943, the 118th Ukrainian auxiliary police battalion, composed of OUN and UPA members, burned down the village of Khatyn in the Minsk Region of Belarus. The punitive forces killed 147 villagers, including 75 children.

• Between February and August 1943, the OUN and UPA carried out a mass slaughter of the Polish population of Volhynia and Galicia, known as the Volhynia Massacre. It peaked on July 11-12 – “Black Sunday”. At least 120,000 people were killed by Ukrainian nationalists.

• The mass killing of civilians by Ukrainian nationalists during the punitive operations Swamp Fever, Triangle, Cottbus and others has also been documented.

Meanwhile, for more than 12 years, the authorities of modern-day Ukraine have pursued a deliberate state policy aimed at distorting the role of the Soviet Union and its people in the Great Patriotic War and World War II. Collaborators and organisations associated with Nazi criminals are being glorified. Western countries openly exploit these actions in their efforts to obstruct the special military operation in Ukraine.

❗️ In view of the above, the court granted the application filed by the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office in full and recognised these individuals and organisations as accomplices of Nazi Germany in war crimes and crimes against humanity.

#NoStatuteOfLimitations

🇷🇺 Exactly 30 years ago, on August 5, 1996, Russia approved the official symbols of presidential authority – attributes used during the inauguration of the newly elected head of state.

Today, these are the Standard (Flag) and the Emblem of the President of the Russian Federation.

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– The Presidential Standard is the Russian tricolor with a golden image of the State Emblem in the center. During the inauguration, the Standard is presented to the newly elected head of state. After the oath of office is taken, it is placed in the President’s office.

Duplicates of the Standard are flown over presidential residences while the head of state is present and displayed on presidential vehicles.

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– The Presidential Emblem exists in a single copy. It is an equal-armed cross with flared ends and an image of the Russian State Emblem in the center. On the reverse is a medallion bearing the motto: “Benefit, Honor and Glory”.

The chain consists of 17 links, nine of which depict the Russian State Emblem. Plates on the reverse of the links are engraved with the full name of each President of Russia and the year they assumed office.

After the oath of office is taken, the Insignia is kept at the President’s residence in the Moscow Kremlin.

#Victory81

8️⃣5️⃣ years ago, on August 5, 1941, the heroic defence of Odessa commenced — a joint operation by the Red Army and the Soviet Black Sea Fleet to defend the city against the Nazi invaders.

Odessa found itself on the front line almost immediately after Nazi Germany’s treacherous attack on the Soviet Union. By early August, the city was already encircled by the enemy troops.

The Nazis aimed to break through the Soviet defences on the Dniester, cross the Dniester Estuary, and capture Odessa. The first assault, launched by Romanian and German troops (17 divisions and seven brigades), came on August 20, 1941, but the enemy offensive was halted just 10-14 kilometres from the city.

❗️ Around 100'000 people took part in defending Odessa from Nazis.

Every day, civilian workers, including women and teenagers, were involved in defence preparations — digging trenches, laying barbed wire, and installing barricades. Nearly 38'000 residents of Odessa withdrew into the city’s catacombs and organised underground resistance behind enemy lines. The partisans killed 5'000 enemy soldiers and officers, derailed 27 military supply trains, and destroyed 248 vehicles.

Despite being outnumbered by almost ten to one, Odessa’s defenders heroically held back the Nazi offensive for two months.

By the end of September, the Soviet command was able to redeploy armies to defend #Crimea and #Sevastopol — the main base of the Black Sea Fleet.

During the #BattleOfOdessa, enemy losses amounted to around 160'000 soldiers and officers, about 200 aircraft and 100 tanks, significantly slowing the advance of the Nazi army group 'South' towards the east.

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Odessa was fully liberated on April 10, 1944, during the Odessa offensive operation, carried out by the Red Army’s 3rd Ukrainian Front.

🎙 The report by Sovinformburo on the expulsion of the Nazi troops from Odessa read, in part:

Today, April 10, the forces of the 3rd Ukrainian Front, following a skilfully executed flanking manoeuvre by cavalry and mechanised units, combined with a frontal assault, captured Odessa — an important economic and political centre of the country, a regional capital in Ukraine, and a major Black Sea port.

Odessa had been a powerful stronghold, occupied by Nazis, covering the approaches to the central regions of Romania…

🎖 On May 1, 1945, Odessa became one of the first Soviet cities awarded the title of Hero City — alongside Leningrad, Stalingrad and Sevastopol.

#WeRemember

💬 Director of the Russian Foreign Ministry’s Department for Multilateral Human Rights Cooperation Grigory Lukiyantsev:

🤔 If one were asked – how our Western “partners” seek to falsify history and revise the outcomes of World War II at the UN – the clearest example would be their statements and conduct during the negotiations on, and adoption of, Russia’s annual UN General Assembly resolution, “Combating the Glorification of Nazism, Neo-Nazism and Other Practices That Contribute to Fueling Contemporary Forms of Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance”.

If their statements could be recorded and made public, I am certain they would cause a genuine a media storm. However, UN procedures do not allow this.

Nothing, however, prevents us from recounting, without naming individual countries, some of the arguments voiced by our “colleagues” over the years on this key Russian foreign policy initiative. It was first submitted to the UN General Assembly in 2005, so there has been no shortage of “material” since then.

👉 Here are just some of the claims we have heard over the years from our Western colleagues, including former Allies of the anti-Hitler coalition:

• The Soviet Union and Nazi Germany bear equal responsibility for unleashing the Second World War.

• The Charter and Judgment of the Nuremberg Tribunal are such rare documents that it is impossible to consult them and verify whether the quotations used in the Russian resolution are accurate and correspond to the original sources.

• The Charter and Judgment of the Nuremberg Tribunal say nothing about the SS and its constituent parts being criminal organisations.

• The Nuremberg documents contain no reference to the Waffen-SS.

• Waffen-SS units merely guarded “labour camps” and committed no war crimes or crimes against humanity, let alone punitive operations.

• No one should ever be accused of having collaborated with the Nazis during the Second World War.

• Nazi ideology and Nazi ideas may be immoral, but disseminating them amounts to nothing more than exercising the right to freedom of expression.

• There is no clarity as to what the anti-Hitler coalition was or which countries belonged to it.

☝️ Let me reiterate: this is far from a complete list of what we have had, and continue, to hear from our “partners” while advancing Russia’s UN initiative against the glorification of Nazism. Yet even this list gives an idea of the fierce resistance we face in defending historical truth.

It also shows how emotionally gruelling the annual negotiations on this key UN resolution are for everyone who holds dear the memory of the Victory over Nazism.

#UNCharterIsOurRules
#NoStatuteOfLimitations