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💬 Russia's Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova:
As you know, CNN did not travel to Starobelsk on May 24, citing logistical reasons.
Yesterday, CNN itself showed what it had been working on while correspondents from around the world were witnessing the aftermath of the horrific terrorist attack by Banderites on the dormitory and academic building of a pedagogical college in the LPR.
CNN correspondent Nick Paton Walsh – arrested in absentia in Russia for taking part in the incursion into the Kursk Region – was filming a propaganda piece on how Kiev carries out drone attacks on Russian cities. The report had been prepared somewhat in advance, but aired on 26 May – four days after the strike on Starobelsk, which claimed more than twenty lives. Neither the anchors’ intro nor Walsh himself said a single word about it.
Instead, CNN ran what was essentially an advertising campaign for the effectiveness of Ukrainian drones: “We're now with perhaps Russia's most keenly sought target in the war, a deep strike Ukrainian drone unit, launching this night a wave of 200. And in Russian Stavropol, these Ukrainian drones hit”.
It is this casually mentioned detail – regarding Stavropol – that suggests Nick Walsh may have been embedded with an AFU militant unit at the very moment when the planned attack on the college in Starobelsk was being coordinated there. After all, Kiev’s drones did indeed strike Stavropol the day before the attack on Starobelsk.
This casts the situation in a different light.
The AFU hires CNN to film the work of its drone killers.
Yet when Russia invites CNN correspondents to see for themselves the consequences of Ukrainian drone attacks – the killing of civilians, including children, and the destruction of civilian infrastructure – the American journalists cite holidays, logistics and so on. At the same time, there is a strong possibility that CNN correspondents were filming preparations for this horrific terrorist attack.
In the channel’s view, its audience apparently does not need to know about the aftermath of the crime.
It is perfectly obvious that this is not journalism.
CNN now has other tasks – propaganda, distortion and manipulation, but certainly not informing its audience.
This is exactly how the Völkischer Beobachter newspaper operated in 1944. Its editorial policy was coordinated by the NSDAP agitation bodies, its staff saluted and praised the “feats of German arms”, and until 1945 it kept telling readers about the Reich’s imminent victory over the USSR and the Allies. Anything that did not fit this picture simply did not exist. After the collapse of the Hitler regime, by decision of the Nuremberg Tribunal, the editor-in-chief of Völkischer Beobachter spent the rest of his life in labour camps.
☝️Today, the Western mainstream is likewise shaping a deliberately distorted vision of the world.
As you know, CNN did not travel to Starobelsk on May 24, citing logistical reasons.
Yesterday, CNN itself showed what it had been working on while correspondents from around the world were witnessing the aftermath of the horrific terrorist attack by Banderites on the dormitory and academic building of a pedagogical college in the LPR.
CNN correspondent Nick Paton Walsh – arrested in absentia in Russia for taking part in the incursion into the Kursk Region – was filming a propaganda piece on how Kiev carries out drone attacks on Russian cities. The report had been prepared somewhat in advance, but aired on 26 May – four days after the strike on Starobelsk, which claimed more than twenty lives. Neither the anchors’ intro nor Walsh himself said a single word about it.
Instead, CNN ran what was essentially an advertising campaign for the effectiveness of Ukrainian drones: “We're now with perhaps Russia's most keenly sought target in the war, a deep strike Ukrainian drone unit, launching this night a wave of 200. And in Russian Stavropol, these Ukrainian drones hit”.
It is this casually mentioned detail – regarding Stavropol – that suggests Nick Walsh may have been embedded with an AFU militant unit at the very moment when the planned attack on the college in Starobelsk was being coordinated there. After all, Kiev’s drones did indeed strike Stavropol the day before the attack on Starobelsk.
This casts the situation in a different light.
The AFU hires CNN to film the work of its drone killers.
Yet when Russia invites CNN correspondents to see for themselves the consequences of Ukrainian drone attacks – the killing of civilians, including children, and the destruction of civilian infrastructure – the American journalists cite holidays, logistics and so on. At the same time, there is a strong possibility that CNN correspondents were filming preparations for this horrific terrorist attack.
In the channel’s view, its audience apparently does not need to know about the aftermath of the crime.
It is perfectly obvious that this is not journalism.
CNN now has other tasks – propaganda, distortion and manipulation, but certainly not informing its audience.
This is exactly how the Völkischer Beobachter newspaper operated in 1944. Its editorial policy was coordinated by the NSDAP agitation bodies, its staff saluted and praised the “feats of German arms”, and until 1945 it kept telling readers about the Reich’s imminent victory over the USSR and the Allies. Anything that did not fit this picture simply did not exist. After the collapse of the Hitler regime, by decision of the Nuremberg Tribunal, the editor-in-chief of Völkischer Beobachter spent the rest of his life in labour camps.
☝️Today, the Western mainstream is likewise shaping a deliberately distorted vision of the world.
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⚡️ Report by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia “On the Human Rights Situation in Ukraine” (May 2026)
Read the full report (PDF)
✍️ The report, alongside daily evidence in the media and online, exposes the scale of Ukraine’s human rights collapse.
First and foremost, the main reason for this degradation is the illegitimate neo-Nazi regime in power in Kiev, which is now quite openly and diligently copying its ideological inspiration – Nazi Germany.
One of many telling confirmations of this was a recent interview with former Ukrainian presidential press secretary Yulia Mendel, in which she said that Zelensky, faced with falling approval ratings, demanded that his subordinates conduct “Goebbels-like propaganda”. With such approaches on the part of the authorities, countless systematic human rights violations in every sphere of public life come as no surprise.
Yet in Ukraine, no one seems concerned. Kiev does not give a thought to the rights of its own citizens, or to the need to create at least some opportunities for them to exercise their lawful rights. Instead, it continues to profit from their blood and deaths.
Recently, the West confirmed new tranches of financial injections and weapons for the Zelensky regime. The monstrous corruption opportunities created by these enormous flows of funds, along with the preservation of power – this is what preoccupies Bankova and its residents. In today’s Ukrainian reality, this means only one thing: continued hostilities “to the last Ukrainian”.
All of this fully confirms what has been noted before: the servile readiness of Kiev’s leadership to sacrifice its country, its people, as well as the history and memory of its authentic past, is precisely why its Western handlers continue not only to turn a blind eye to the neo-Nazi ideology and crimes of the Zelensky junta, but also to justify them and even push Kiev towards ever new crimes.
History knows many such examples of the West nurturing openly racist and fascist regimes. Their unenviable fate is well known – and perhaps that is the only way they secure a place in history. This was discussed at length during the celebrations marking the 81st anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War.
***
Glorification of Nazism
• At the state level, Ukraine is falsifying history and whitewashing Nazi criminals and fascist collaborators. Members of Ukrainian nationalist military formations from the Second World War – the OUN and UPA – as well as their leaders, have been recognised as fighters for independence. Criminal liability has been introduced for negative assessments of the activities of these structures.
Ban on the Russian language
• The Kiev regime is pursuing a consistent policy of legislatively entrenching the dominant role of the Ukrainian language and reducing opportunities for the use of other languages in public life. The Russian language – native to millions of Ukrainian citizens, not only ethnic Russians, but also Belarusians, Ukrainians, Armenians, Jews, Greeks, Hungarians and representatives of other nationalities – has been subjected to harsh repressions.
Incitement of hatred against Russians and discrimination against them
• Regular efforts have been recorded to promote intolerance towards Russian residents, the Russian language and Russian culture as a whole. Such actions not only met with no condemnation or response from the authorities, but were also carried out by Ukraine’s own leadership. Russophobic statements and calls to kill Russians were regularly heard on air.
Persecution of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church
• A large-scale information campaign was launched against the clergy of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, aimed at discrediting its priests in the eyes of the flock and portraying them as “accomplices of the enemy”. Numerous cases of violent seizures of churches belonging to the canonical Church have been recorded.
Read the full report (PDF)
✍️ The report, alongside daily evidence in the media and online, exposes the scale of Ukraine’s human rights collapse.
First and foremost, the main reason for this degradation is the illegitimate neo-Nazi regime in power in Kiev, which is now quite openly and diligently copying its ideological inspiration – Nazi Germany.
One of many telling confirmations of this was a recent interview with former Ukrainian presidential press secretary Yulia Mendel, in which she said that Zelensky, faced with falling approval ratings, demanded that his subordinates conduct “Goebbels-like propaganda”. With such approaches on the part of the authorities, countless systematic human rights violations in every sphere of public life come as no surprise.
Yet in Ukraine, no one seems concerned. Kiev does not give a thought to the rights of its own citizens, or to the need to create at least some opportunities for them to exercise their lawful rights. Instead, it continues to profit from their blood and deaths.
Recently, the West confirmed new tranches of financial injections and weapons for the Zelensky regime. The monstrous corruption opportunities created by these enormous flows of funds, along with the preservation of power – this is what preoccupies Bankova and its residents. In today’s Ukrainian reality, this means only one thing: continued hostilities “to the last Ukrainian”.
All of this fully confirms what has been noted before: the servile readiness of Kiev’s leadership to sacrifice its country, its people, as well as the history and memory of its authentic past, is precisely why its Western handlers continue not only to turn a blind eye to the neo-Nazi ideology and crimes of the Zelensky junta, but also to justify them and even push Kiev towards ever new crimes.
History knows many such examples of the West nurturing openly racist and fascist regimes. Their unenviable fate is well known – and perhaps that is the only way they secure a place in history. This was discussed at length during the celebrations marking the 81st anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War.
***
Glorification of Nazism
• At the state level, Ukraine is falsifying history and whitewashing Nazi criminals and fascist collaborators. Members of Ukrainian nationalist military formations from the Second World War – the OUN and UPA – as well as their leaders, have been recognised as fighters for independence. Criminal liability has been introduced for negative assessments of the activities of these structures.
Ban on the Russian language
• The Kiev regime is pursuing a consistent policy of legislatively entrenching the dominant role of the Ukrainian language and reducing opportunities for the use of other languages in public life. The Russian language – native to millions of Ukrainian citizens, not only ethnic Russians, but also Belarusians, Ukrainians, Armenians, Jews, Greeks, Hungarians and representatives of other nationalities – has been subjected to harsh repressions.
Incitement of hatred against Russians and discrimination against them
• Regular efforts have been recorded to promote intolerance towards Russian residents, the Russian language and Russian culture as a whole. Such actions not only met with no condemnation or response from the authorities, but were also carried out by Ukraine’s own leadership. Russophobic statements and calls to kill Russians were regularly heard on air.
Persecution of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church
• A large-scale information campaign was launched against the clergy of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, aimed at discrediting its priests in the eyes of the flock and portraying them as “accomplices of the enemy”. Numerous cases of violent seizures of churches belonging to the canonical Church have been recorded.
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⚡️ On May 28, Ambassador of Luxembourg to Russia Thomas Reisen was summoned to the Russian Foreign Ministry.
The Ambassador was issued a strong protest over the exhumation, carried out in Luxembourg on May 19, of the remains of Andrei Melnik – one of the leaders of the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists, recognised as extremist in Russia – and his wife, for their subsequent ceremonial reburial in Ukraine.
It was noted that such an event could not have taken place without the consent of Luxembourg’s competent authorities.
Under the guise of returning national “heroes” to Ukraine, the remains of a Nazi accomplice and war criminal, responsible for mass killings of civilians on ethnic grounds, were transported there.
❗️ The Russian Side regards these actions by the Luxembourg authorities as disregard for the historical memory of millions of victims of World War II and complicity in the glorification of Nazis and their collaborators.
In this context, Russia once again pointed to the neo-Nazi nature of the Kiev regime – whose existence is financed exclusively by its Western partners, including Luxembourg – and underscored the validity of the decision to conduct the special military operation.
#NoStatuteOfLimitations
The Ambassador was issued a strong protest over the exhumation, carried out in Luxembourg on May 19, of the remains of Andrei Melnik – one of the leaders of the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists, recognised as extremist in Russia – and his wife, for their subsequent ceremonial reburial in Ukraine.
It was noted that such an event could not have taken place without the consent of Luxembourg’s competent authorities.
Under the guise of returning national “heroes” to Ukraine, the remains of a Nazi accomplice and war criminal, responsible for mass killings of civilians on ethnic grounds, were transported there.
❗️ The Russian Side regards these actions by the Luxembourg authorities as disregard for the historical memory of millions of victims of World War II and complicity in the glorification of Nazis and their collaborators.
In this context, Russia once again pointed to the neo-Nazi nature of the Kiev regime – whose existence is financed exclusively by its Western partners, including Luxembourg – and underscored the validity of the decision to conduct the special military operation.
#NoStatuteOfLimitations
Since its establishment in 2014, the EAEU has proven to be a successful project of regional integration based on equality and mutual accommodation of the economic interests of the Union members. The EAEU has become an independent and self-sufficient centre of an emerging multipolar world.
The member states of the Union — the #EAEU "Five" — Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Russia — have achieved significant progress in functioning and improving of the common market. Mutual trade is demonstrating sustainable growth, cooperation is becoming closer in such areas as transportation, logistics, industry, agriculture, energy and food security.
The Eurasian Economic Union has firmly established itself as a major actor in global economic affairs with an extensive network of partnerships. Today, free trade agreements of the EAEU with Vietnam, Iran, and Serbia are already in force, two non-preferential agreements have been signed with China. The EAEU maintains close cooperation with the Union's observer states, such as Uzbekistan and Cuba.
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📅 С подписания 29 мая 2014 г. Договора о ЕАЭС Союз всегда шел и продолжает идти в ногу со временем, выстраивая интеграцию на благо населения и бизнеса всех государств – членов объединения.
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Активно развивается сеть международных контактов ЕАЭС, включающая в себя соглашения о свободной торговле с 🇻🇳 Вьетнамом, 🇷🇸 Сербией, 🇮🇷 Ираном, 🇦🇪 ОАЭ, 🇲🇳 Монголией и 🇮🇩 Индонезией, а также торговое соглашение с 🇨🇳 Китаем.
📊 Результатом проведённой работы стал уверенный рост ключевых макроэкономических показателей объединения, а также объёмов взаимной и внешней торговли.
🎊 С Днем ЕАЭС! Дальше – больше 💪
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📅 С подписания 29 мая 2014 г. Договора о ЕАЭС Союз всегда шел и продолжает идти в ногу со временем, выстраивая интеграцию на благо населения и бизнеса всех государств – членов объединения.
🤝 В этих целях странами объединения обеспечивается беспрепятственное перемещение товаров, услуг, капитала и рабочей силы; принимаются меры по укреплению единого таможенного пространства, наращивания промышленной кооперации, повышению уровня самообеспеченности ключевой сельскохозяйственной продукцией.
Активно развивается сеть международных контактов ЕАЭС, включающая в себя соглашения о свободной торговле с 🇻🇳 Вьетнамом, 🇷🇸 Сербией, 🇮🇷 Ираном, 🇦🇪 ОАЭ, 🇲🇳 Монголией и 🇮🇩 Индонезией, а также торговое соглашение с 🇨🇳 Китаем.
📊 Результатом проведённой работы стал уверенный рост ключевых макроэкономических показателей объединения, а также объёмов взаимной и внешней торговли.
🎊 С Днем ЕАЭС! Дальше – больше 💪
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✈️🧳Начался отпускной сезон, во время которого многие жители нашей страны отправляются на отдых в иностранные государства, а соотечественники, проживающие за рубежом, и иностранные граждане посещают Россию. Чтобы отдых и встреча с родными и друзьями не были омрачены проблемами с пересечением российской границы, следует помнить о таможенных правилах Российской Федерации и Евразийского экономического союза, участницей которого является Россия.
На сайте Федеральной таможенной службы размещена «Памятка путешественника», посвященная ключевым аспектам ввоза товаров, предметов личного пользования, денежных средств и домашних животных в Российскую Федерацию, а также их вывоза за рубеж. В памятке содержатся, в числе прочего, действующие в стране нормы провоза товаров и правила прохождения таможенного контроля через «зеленый» и «красный» коридоры.
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На сайте Федеральной таможенной службы размещена «Памятка путешественника», посвященная ключевым аспектам ввоза товаров, предметов личного пользования, денежных средств и домашних животных в Российскую Федерацию, а также их вывоза за рубеж. В памятке содержатся, в числе прочего, действующие в стране нормы провоза товаров и правила прохождения таможенного контроля через «зеленый» и «красный» коридоры.
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🎙 Statement by President of Russia Vladimir Putin at the expanded meeting of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council (Astana, May 29, 2026)
💬 It is indeed symbolic that exactly 12 years ago, On May 29, 2014, the founding Treaty on the Eurasian Economic Union was signed here in Astana.
The consistent and painstaking joint work carried out by our states to implement this document has made it possible to create a truly effective integration association. The assessments voiced by our colleagues – both positive and critical – clearly show that the Eurasian Economic Union is functioning successfully overall and continues to develop further.
I would like to particularly emphasise that, given the specifics of the current situation, close Eurasian integration brings real benefits to each member state of our Association. It helps increase business revenues and improve the quality of life and well-being of our countries’ citizens.
📈 The key macroeconomic indicators of our “five” show a stable positive dynamic, and this speaks for itself. Total industrial production in the Eurasian Union increased by 1.6%, agricultural production by 4.6%, and construction by 4.2%. Growth is also being recorded in most sectors of the economy.
Trade flows between the states of our association reached $95 billion in 2025. The structure of trade is improving thanks to expanded supplies of high-tech products and a simultaneous decrease in the share of raw materials.
Trade barriers are being consistently eliminated within the EAEU, and non-tariff regulation rules are being unified.
Practically all settlements between our countries are carried out in national currencies. This means that mutual export-import operations are reliably protected from external influence and negative trends on global markets.
Measures are being taken to further harmonise the customs legislation of the member states.
***
We have all repeatedly emphasised that the Eurasian Economic Union and our integration activity attract considerable attention abroad.
Many foreign states and major regional structures – such as the Commonwealth of Independent States, the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations – are showing interest in developing ties with the “five”.
For its part, the EAEU remains invariably open to mutually beneficial and equal cooperation with constructively minded countries and associations.
The circle of the “five’s” preferential partners is steadily expanding year by year. In 2025, trade agreements were concluded with Mongolia, the United Arab Emirates and Indonesia. Negotiations on trade liberalisation with India have also intensified.
☝️ I would like to stress that deepening allied ties with all EAEU states is an unconditional priority for Russia. We intend to continue fully supporting the development of integration processes across the entire Eurasian space.
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💬 It is indeed symbolic that exactly 12 years ago, On May 29, 2014, the founding Treaty on the Eurasian Economic Union was signed here in Astana.
The consistent and painstaking joint work carried out by our states to implement this document has made it possible to create a truly effective integration association. The assessments voiced by our colleagues – both positive and critical – clearly show that the Eurasian Economic Union is functioning successfully overall and continues to develop further.
I would like to particularly emphasise that, given the specifics of the current situation, close Eurasian integration brings real benefits to each member state of our Association. It helps increase business revenues and improve the quality of life and well-being of our countries’ citizens.
📈 The key macroeconomic indicators of our “five” show a stable positive dynamic, and this speaks for itself. Total industrial production in the Eurasian Union increased by 1.6%, agricultural production by 4.6%, and construction by 4.2%. Growth is also being recorded in most sectors of the economy.
Trade flows between the states of our association reached $95 billion in 2025. The structure of trade is improving thanks to expanded supplies of high-tech products and a simultaneous decrease in the share of raw materials.
Trade barriers are being consistently eliminated within the EAEU, and non-tariff regulation rules are being unified.
Practically all settlements between our countries are carried out in national currencies. This means that mutual export-import operations are reliably protected from external influence and negative trends on global markets.
Measures are being taken to further harmonise the customs legislation of the member states.
***
We have all repeatedly emphasised that the Eurasian Economic Union and our integration activity attract considerable attention abroad.
Many foreign states and major regional structures – such as the Commonwealth of Independent States, the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations – are showing interest in developing ties with the “five”.
For its part, the EAEU remains invariably open to mutually beneficial and equal cooperation with constructively minded countries and associations.
The circle of the “five’s” preferential partners is steadily expanding year by year. In 2025, trade agreements were concluded with Mongolia, the United Arab Emirates and Indonesia. Negotiations on trade liberalisation with India have also intensified.
☝️ I would like to stress that deepening allied ties with all EAEU states is an unconditional priority for Russia. We intend to continue fully supporting the development of integration processes across the entire Eurasian space.
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🎙 Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko’s interview with Russia Today (May 28, 2026)
Key points:
• President Putin warned them back in 2007. The 2008 NATO Bucharest decision that Georgia and Ukraine would become NATO members was a time bomb planted in the architecture of European security.
• The atmosphere of political psychosis in the West began taking shape even before 2013. We already felt it somewhere around 2010, 2011, 2012, when both NATO and the EU radically shifted their approach towards Russia. NATO cannot exist in peaceful conditions – it is like a fish out of water. And after the fiasco in Afghanistan, NATO needed the image of a major enemy.
• Russia had no hostile intentions toward the West. On the contrary, we invested in constructive relations with the EU, NATO and the OSCE.
• European leaders demand a place at the negotiating table and speak about security guarantees for Ukraine. Yet none of them speaks about security guarantees for Russia. Creating security against Russia is nonsense. Real security can exist only with Russia’s participation.
• The key question is how to ensure that Ukraine can never be used against Russia’s legitimate interests. Any action taken against those interests means Russia will defend itself.
• Russia raised the Starobelsk terrorist attack committed by the Kiev regime militants not only at the UN Security Council, but also within the OSCE. Armed with the facts, our Ambassadors spoke about this horrific crime, which from the standpoint of international law is unquestionably a war crime, for which there can be no forgiveness or justification.
• The West’s reaction – or, more accurately, its silence – came as no surprise to us. The West has long unleashed a hybrid war against Russia, and the information and propaganda campaign is one of its central components. These horrific events became yet another example of Western hypocrisy.
• This is hardly the first time the West has turned reality upside down – calling black white and white black. We saw the same pattern of Western propaganda trying to shift the blame for Ukrainian crimes onto Russia: the Mariupol drama theatre, Kramatorsk railway station, sabotage of Nord Stream pipelines, etc.
• The Odessa tragedy in 2014 remains one of the most shocking examples of the West turning a blind eye to Ukrainian atrocities – 50 people were burned alive in the Trade Unions House, and no one has been punished.
• The Baltic Sea region used to be probably the calmest region in Europe. There were no frozen conflicts, no simmering conflicts and no military-political tensions. A broad network of confidence-building measures, transparency mechanisms, regional institutions and cross-border cooperation formats existed there.
• Before the Baltic states joined NATO, no one was saying Russia was about to attack them. After joining NATO in 2004, they immediately began speaking of vulnerability and the need for protection. The Baltics are now an example of how aggressive policies can turn a peaceful region into a source of confrontation.
• NATO has made superiority in all operational environments its priority – on land, at sea, in the air, in cyberspace and in outer space. In line with these concepts, the Baltic Sea is being turned into an arena of confrontation.
• I believe that people in NATO, especially in the military circles, understand very well that any attempts to isolate or take over Kaliningrad would have 👉 the most severe consequences for those who harbor such plans.
Key points:
• President Putin warned them back in 2007. The 2008 NATO Bucharest decision that Georgia and Ukraine would become NATO members was a time bomb planted in the architecture of European security.
• The atmosphere of political psychosis in the West began taking shape even before 2013. We already felt it somewhere around 2010, 2011, 2012, when both NATO and the EU radically shifted their approach towards Russia. NATO cannot exist in peaceful conditions – it is like a fish out of water. And after the fiasco in Afghanistan, NATO needed the image of a major enemy.
• Russia had no hostile intentions toward the West. On the contrary, we invested in constructive relations with the EU, NATO and the OSCE.
• European leaders demand a place at the negotiating table and speak about security guarantees for Ukraine. Yet none of them speaks about security guarantees for Russia. Creating security against Russia is nonsense. Real security can exist only with Russia’s participation.
• The key question is how to ensure that Ukraine can never be used against Russia’s legitimate interests. Any action taken against those interests means Russia will defend itself.
• Russia raised the Starobelsk terrorist attack committed by the Kiev regime militants not only at the UN Security Council, but also within the OSCE. Armed with the facts, our Ambassadors spoke about this horrific crime, which from the standpoint of international law is unquestionably a war crime, for which there can be no forgiveness or justification.
• The West’s reaction – or, more accurately, its silence – came as no surprise to us. The West has long unleashed a hybrid war against Russia, and the information and propaganda campaign is one of its central components. These horrific events became yet another example of Western hypocrisy.
• This is hardly the first time the West has turned reality upside down – calling black white and white black. We saw the same pattern of Western propaganda trying to shift the blame for Ukrainian crimes onto Russia: the Mariupol drama theatre, Kramatorsk railway station, sabotage of Nord Stream pipelines, etc.
• The Odessa tragedy in 2014 remains one of the most shocking examples of the West turning a blind eye to Ukrainian atrocities – 50 people were burned alive in the Trade Unions House, and no one has been punished.
• The Baltic Sea region used to be probably the calmest region in Europe. There were no frozen conflicts, no simmering conflicts and no military-political tensions. A broad network of confidence-building measures, transparency mechanisms, regional institutions and cross-border cooperation formats existed there.
• Before the Baltic states joined NATO, no one was saying Russia was about to attack them. After joining NATO in 2004, they immediately began speaking of vulnerability and the need for protection. The Baltics are now an example of how aggressive policies can turn a peaceful region into a source of confrontation.
• NATO has made superiority in all operational environments its priority – on land, at sea, in the air, in cyberspace and in outer space. In line with these concepts, the Baltic Sea is being turned into an arena of confrontation.
• I believe that people in NATO, especially in the military circles, understand very well that any attempts to isolate or take over Kaliningrad would have 👉 the most severe consequences for those who harbor such plans.
Forwarded from Russian MFA 🇷🇺
🎙 Statement by Vassily Nebenzia at a UN Security Council meeting on Ukraine (New York, May 28, 2026)
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💬 What is particularly striking is the hypocrisy and cynical reaction of European delegations, which are usually quick to level accusations against Russia whenever politically convenient, but in this case chose to effectively ignore the tragedy in Starobelsk and shift the blame onto Moscow.
But we were not surprised then, and we are not surprised now. What human compassion can we expect from them when the blood of the children of Starobelsk is on their hands as well?
⚠️ For many years, their countries have been supplying the terrorist Zelensky regime with money, intelligence, weapons and ammunition, encouraging it to commit new crimes against civilians, and then shielding it by portraying it as a victim.
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The UN Secretariat, so prompt in some cases, has unfortunately once again limited itself to general rhetoric and the vaguest possible wording, avoiding a direct assessment of Kiev’s actions. It claims there is no access to the site of the tragedy and no possibility to verify the data.
We have repeatedly stated that UN representatives can visit the DPR, LPR, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions via Russian territory. Yet UN officials do not make use of these opportunities.
❓ Why does the UN Secretariat so easily find the words when it needs to support the Western version of events, yet struggle so painfully to choose its wording when it must call a Ukrainian strike on children a crime?
Why do some victims deserve immediate compassion, while others do not? Why does the death of minors in one place prompt loud statements and condemnations, while the deaths of children in Starobelsk are met with silence?
☝️ Here is yet another glaring manifestation of the West’s double standards and hypocrisy.
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The events of the past week have clearly shown that neither the leader of the Kiev regime nor his sponsors seek any substantive dialogue with our country on the prospects for a peaceful settlement. On the contrary, they are doing everything to escalate the confrontation.
❗️ Routine calls for an unconditional ceasefire are merely a cover for Kiev to continue its terror.
The so-called leaders of Europe are only encouraging Zelensky’s already reckless and suicidal mindset. The tone of their comments leaves no doubt that they have finally and irreversibly written Ukraine off, once again trying to buy time for their insane preparations for “war with Russia”.
***
The Western propaganda machine works day and night for one purpose only – to shift responsibility for the latest actions of “civilised” states in Ukraine onto our country.
Let me say this at once: they will not get away with it. They will inevitably be held accountable for their reckless and predatory actions against both Russia and Ukraine.
👉 It is obvious that without military pressure, no calls for real diplomacy will work. Russia's Armed Forces will continue fulfilling the objectives of the special military operation to denazify and demilitarise Ukraine until the security threats emanating from its territory are fully eliminated.
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Watch the full meeting
💬 What is particularly striking is the hypocrisy and cynical reaction of European delegations, which are usually quick to level accusations against Russia whenever politically convenient, but in this case chose to effectively ignore the tragedy in Starobelsk and shift the blame onto Moscow.
But we were not surprised then, and we are not surprised now. What human compassion can we expect from them when the blood of the children of Starobelsk is on their hands as well?
⚠️ For many years, their countries have been supplying the terrorist Zelensky regime with money, intelligence, weapons and ammunition, encouraging it to commit new crimes against civilians, and then shielding it by portraying it as a victim.
***
The UN Secretariat, so prompt in some cases, has unfortunately once again limited itself to general rhetoric and the vaguest possible wording, avoiding a direct assessment of Kiev’s actions. It claims there is no access to the site of the tragedy and no possibility to verify the data.
We have repeatedly stated that UN representatives can visit the DPR, LPR, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions via Russian territory. Yet UN officials do not make use of these opportunities.
❓ Why does the UN Secretariat so easily find the words when it needs to support the Western version of events, yet struggle so painfully to choose its wording when it must call a Ukrainian strike on children a crime?
Why do some victims deserve immediate compassion, while others do not? Why does the death of minors in one place prompt loud statements and condemnations, while the deaths of children in Starobelsk are met with silence?
☝️ Here is yet another glaring manifestation of the West’s double standards and hypocrisy.
***
The events of the past week have clearly shown that neither the leader of the Kiev regime nor his sponsors seek any substantive dialogue with our country on the prospects for a peaceful settlement. On the contrary, they are doing everything to escalate the confrontation.
❗️ Routine calls for an unconditional ceasefire are merely a cover for Kiev to continue its terror.
The so-called leaders of Europe are only encouraging Zelensky’s already reckless and suicidal mindset. The tone of their comments leaves no doubt that they have finally and irreversibly written Ukraine off, once again trying to buy time for their insane preparations for “war with Russia”.
***
The Western propaganda machine works day and night for one purpose only – to shift responsibility for the latest actions of “civilised” states in Ukraine onto our country.
Let me say this at once: they will not get away with it. They will inevitably be held accountable for their reckless and predatory actions against both Russia and Ukraine.
👉 It is obvious that without military pressure, no calls for real diplomacy will work. Russia's Armed Forces will continue fulfilling the objectives of the special military operation to denazify and demilitarise Ukraine until the security threats emanating from its territory are fully eliminated.
Forwarded from МИД России 🇷🇺
#ПреступленияКиевскогоРежима
▪️ В ночь на 22 мая нацистский режим с помощью четырёх БПЛА самолётного типа совершил кровавую террористическую атаку на учебный корпус и общежитие колледжа Луганского государственного педагогического университета в Старобельске (ЛНР).
В результате теракта оборвалась 21 юная жизнь. Ещё вчера ребята строили планы, учились, мечтали, думали о будущем. Сегодня от них остались только фотографии, воспоминания и боль, которую невозможно выразить словами.
#БезСрокаДавности: Посмотрите в их глаза. Это лица обычных студентов, у которых впереди была целая жизнь. Но они были УБИТЫ В СТАРОБЕЛЬСКЕ.
Удар не был случайностью или сбоем. Это был осознанный, целенаправленный акт нечеловеческой жестокости против мирного населения.
💬 М.В.Захарова:
(Из брифинга М.В.Захаровой от 28 мая 2026 года)
▪️ В ночь на 22 мая нацистский режим с помощью четырёх БПЛА самолётного типа совершил кровавую террористическую атаку на учебный корпус и общежитие колледжа Луганского государственного педагогического университета в Старобельске (ЛНР).
В результате теракта оборвалась 21 юная жизнь. Ещё вчера ребята строили планы, учились, мечтали, думали о будущем. Сегодня от них остались только фотографии, воспоминания и боль, которую невозможно выразить словами.
#БезСрокаДавности: Посмотрите в их глаза. Это лица обычных студентов, у которых впереди была целая жизнь. Но они были УБИТЫ В СТАРОБЕЛЬСКЕ.
Удар не был случайностью или сбоем. Это был осознанный, целенаправленный акт нечеловеческой жестокости против мирного населения.
💬 М.В.Захарова:
Ребята мечтали стать учителями, передавать знания следующим поколениям. У них вся жизнь была впереди. Посмотрите на фотографии погибших ребят, взгляните в их глаза... Вот по ним наносил удар киевский режим.
Киевские неонацисты вероломно отобрали жизнь и мечты этих ребят и, по сути, всех их близких тоже.
(Из брифинга М.В.Захаровой от 28 мая 2026 года)