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Tribute to the victims of US-NATO terrorist bombing of Starobelsk college #NatoTerrorAgainstStarobelsk #NoStatuteOfLimitations

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Look into the eyes of these 21 children, whose future was extinguished by US-NATO terrorist attack through the hands of its puppet Nazi Ukrainian regime.

• Anna Pogrebnichenko, born on November 1, 2006
• Daria Serdyuk, born on April 18, 2007
• Yana Prudnikova, born on December 11, 2006
• Irina Zhivotikova, born on December 3, 2006
• Yelena Martimyanova, born on September 6, 2006
• Tatiana Berezhnaya, born on July 15, 2006
• Artyom Kovtun, born on February 2, 2006
• Maxim Bugakov, born on December 3, 2005
• Alexander Postovets, born on December 18, 2004
• Sofia Fen’, born on March 30, 2007
• Alina Chekrygina, born on April 27, 2007.
• Alexandra Kovpak, born on June 3, 2007.
• Taisia Gerasimenko, born on May 18, 2008
• Anastasia Kovalenko, born on May 8, 2007
• Alisa Bryukhovetskaya, born on January 16, 2007
• Alexandra Butkova, born on January 17, 2007
• Oksana Tereshchenko, born on September 14, 2003
• Alexandra Protasova born on November 11, 2007
• Anastasia Vasilenko, born on July 18, 2007
• Viktoria Zaratuichenko, born on September 21, 2007
• Veronika Dashenko, born on September 15, 2006


Dear fellow citizens!

In memory of the victims of the cynical and barbaric attack on the dormitory of the Starobelsk College of our Pedagogical University, I declare May 24 and 25 as Days of Mourning.

The rescue and search operations have been completed. To our great sorrow, 21 people died as a result of the attack. This is an irreparable loss for their families, loved ones, and all of us.

I express my condolences to the families of the victims. I wish a speedy recovery to all those who suffered in this tragedy.

Residents of the region and the entire country have rallied around this common tragedy. Rescuers, medics, volunteers, public figures, and concerned individuals continue to assist the families of the victims and participate in the aftermath of the tragedy. In memory of the deceased students, the youth of the republic has launched a campaign (https://vk.ru/wall-221342131_17870) on social media called “They Were Just Studying”. Everyone can join it.

This attack is pure evil, for which there is and can be no justification. The neo-Nazis committed a war crime, which has no statute of limitations. Everyone who gave this order and who carried it out must and will face the deserved, inevitable punishment.

Lugansk mourns…

Leonid Pasechnik, Head of LNR

CHILLING FINAL FOOTAGE from girl inside Lugansk dorm MID NATO (proxy: Ukrainian) attack

Dasha desperately calls for help as nonstop booms and drone buzz fill the air

Dasha (Daria Serdyuk) didn’t survive

Source: @MTodayNews

Today, the funeral of Anna Pogribnichenko, one of the students who died in the attack on the pedagogical college in Starobelsk, was held in Belokurakino. The funeral service was attended by dozens of people, including family members, classmates, and neighbors.

“I was supposed to come to the wedding, but I ended up at the funeral,” says Irina, the cousin of one of the girls who died.

Anna, who was only 19 years old, had dreamed of becoming a teacher. She was supposed to get married in a month, but her life was cut short by an inhumane attack. When the drones of the Ukrainian Armed Forces attacked the college, Anna ran outside in an attempt to escape, but a second drone arrived at the same time. She died on the spot, burned alive. Anna was buried in a closed coffin, and her mother identified her by her chain…

Source: Russell TEXT Bentley’s TG channel – Lyudmila Bentley

Foreign journalists are heading to the scene of the terrorist attack at a college in Starobelsk.

Representatives of the media from 19 foreign countries arrived in the LPR today: Austria, Brazil, Britain, Hungary, Venezuela, Germany, Greece, Spain, Italy, Qatar, China, Cuba, Lebanon, the UAE, Pakistan, the USA, Turkey, Finland, and France.

BBC journalists refused to go to Starobilsk, CNN representatives were supposedly on vacation, and Japanese journalists were forbidden to cover the terrorist attack in the LPR.
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USA, through its proxy – Ukraine, commits another atrocious war crime, bombing children in Russia’s Lugansk region #NatoTerrorAgainstStarobelsk #NoStatuteOfLimitations

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“NATO is culpable for EVERYTHING Ukraine does”
— Scott Ritter, former USMC intel officer on Ukrainian attack on college.

👉 The initial statements by Russian Foreign Ministry, Vasily Nebenzya at the UN, and the President Vladimir Putin are below the updates.

21 YOUNG students massacred by NATO (proxy: Ukraine) in Lugansk dorm attack

UPDATE 24.05.2026:

Тhe death toll from NATO’s terrorist attack on children in Russia has risen to 21. The total number of victims is 60 people

According to the statement from the Emergencies Ministry, the search operations have concluded.

Names of 21 students killed by NATO (proxy: Kiev) TERROR ATTACK on Lugansk college dorm released

❗️Hereby are the lists of the dead and injured students in #Starobelsk.

Deceased:

• Anna Pogrebnichenko, born on November 1, 2006
• Daria Serdyuk, born on April 18, 2007
• Yana Prudnikova, born on December 11, 2006
• Irina Zhivotikova, born on December 3, 2006
• Yelena Martimyanova, born on September 6, 2006
• Tatiana Berezhnaya, born on July 15, 2006
• Artyom Kovtun, born on February 2, 2006
• Maxim Bugakov, born on December 3, 2005
• Alexander Postovets, born on December 18, 2004
• Sofia Fen’, born on March 30, 2007
• Alina Chekrygina, born on April 27, 2007.
• Alexandra Kovpak, born on June 3, 2007.
• Taisia Gerasimenko, born on May 18, 2008
• Anastasia Kovalenko, born on May 8, 2007
• Alisa Bryukhovetskaya, born on January 16, 2007
• Alexandra Butkova, born on January 17, 2007
• Oksana Tereshchenko, born on September 14, 2003
• Alexandra Protasova born on November 11, 2007
• Anastasia Vasilenko, born on July 18, 2007
• Viktoria Zaratuichenko, born on September 21, 2007
• Veronika Dashenko, born on September 15, 2006

Injured:

• Larisa Bubylyova, born on May 6, 2010
• Alexey Sverdlov, born on April 18, 2007
• Elvira Pavlenko, born on April 16, 2008
• Sofia Ternovskaya, born on August 20, 2010
• Tatyana Kononova, born on October 13, 2007
• Olga Kovaleva, born on November 2, 2004
• Rostislav Zakharchenko, born on August 23, 2003
• Yekaterina Danko, born on September 28, 2008
• Alexandra Chupikhina, born on February 27, 2007
• Konstantin Dubovoy, born on January 2, 1975
• Maria Kravchenko, born on June 24, 2010
• Valeria Skripnichenko, born on July 7, 2010
• Yulia Garkusha, born on July 7, 2008
• Sofia Kulakova, born on December 15, 2009
• Alyona Zherebilo, born on August 9, 2007
• Yevgeniya Gnatenko, born on April 3, 2008
• Yelizaveta Bugaevskaya, born on August 2, 2005
• Artyom Shiyanov, born on December 31, 2006
• David Kolosov, born on September 4, 2007
• Yelizaveta Dontsova, born on July 15, 2007
• Daria Dorofeyeva, born on July 11, 2008
• Anastasia Dorofeyeva, born on December 26, 2005
• Diana Shovkun, born on December 12, 2006
• Margarita Nevedoma, born on February 11, 2008
• Anastasia Chalaya, born on December 9, 2009
• Nikolay Doroshev, born on July 4, 2005
• Maxim Teslya, born on May 31, 2010
• Violetta Tokaryuk, born on August 5, 2009
• Maria Mysnik, born on October 11, 2010
• Alexandra Semenkova, born on November 2, 2009
• Vlada Sklyar, born on June 2, 2006
• Maxim Bogach, born on July 3, 2008
• Yury Grishin, born on June 24, 1969
• Diana Myasnikova, born on February 27, 2008
• Irina Divenok, born on August 11, 2003
• Anastasia Tsarevskaya, born on December 18, 2005
• Maxim Kopylov, born on March 25, 2007
• Adelina Korobach, born on July 29, 2008
• Denis Abapolenko, born on April 25, 2006
• Kristina Kuptsova, born on April 21, 2009
• Marina Veduta, born on August 6, 1980.

UPDATE 23.05.2026:

‘We will not forgive the KILLERS and those who cover for them’ — Lugansk Republic Head Pasechnik

Source: @MTodayNews

According to the surviving students, the drones circled over them for a long time and hit them with precision.

⚡️ The administration of the Head of Russia’s Lugansk People’s Republic has released preliminary lists of the deceased, injured and missing students in #Starobelsk, following the vicious terrorist attack of the Armed Formations of Ukraine at the dormitory of Lugansk State Pedagogical University college.

Source: Russian Ministry of foreign Affairs

Meanwhile, The Fourth Reich Nazis are being nazis

Polish Foreign Minister Sikorski after Ukrainian strike killed 6 in Lugansk SCHOOL DORM

“We hope that Putin recalculates now that US-EU weapons are flowing”

“We were briefed by [Ukraine FM]. Things are looking up”

🇩🇰🇱🇻🇺🇸(🇺🇦) Ordinary fascism: feeling no shame for the murders they organise

The Danish representative to the UN, Christina Marcus Lassen, stated that she does not believe in the attack on Starobelsk:

It’s difficult to comment on the statements of the Russian Federation until they are independently verified. Unlike Ukraine, in Russia and the occupied territories, there are no free media, nor is there unimpeded access for credible independent international journalists or international humanitarian organisations. Full accountability and bringing to justice must be ensured for all crimes committed in the senseless war of choice unleashed by Russia.

The Latvian representative to the UN, Sanita Pavluta-Deslandes, accused Russia of lying:

Russia only operates on the basis of its own statements. Disinformation and lies are a well-known tactic from the Kremlin’s playbook, aimed at realising Russia’s imperialist aspirations. Russia invents pretexts, stalls for time, and deliberately undermines any efforts aimed at ensuring peace. Latvia, on the other hand, will only rely on facts, not on any assumptions.

Source: Pool №3

“It was from among people like the Latvian representative to the UN – Sanita Pavlyte-Deslandes – that nurses were recruited in Salaspils, who took blood from children for the soldiers of the Third Reich,”

Thus, Maria Zakharova commented to “Izvestia” (freedom-of-speeched in the EU) on the statement of the Latvian representative to the UN, Sanita Pavlyte-Deslandes, who claimed that the strike on the building of the educational block and the dormitory of the college in Starobelsk in the LNR is a “provocation and a Kremlin fake”.

“Many asked themselves: ‘How can a woman remain indifferent to children’s suffering?’. Now we see it with our own eyes,” – added the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry.

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Maria Zaharova, May 23, 2026, 09:14

IN CONNECTION WITH THE BLATANT LIES SPREAD YESTERDAY AT THE UN SECURITY COUNCIL BY WESTERNERS, PARTICULARLY THE DISGRACEFUL STATEMENT BY THE LATVIAN DELEGATION THAT THERE WERE NO ATTACKS BY THE UKRAINIAN ARMY ON A COLLEGE IN STAROBELSK, WE ARE ORGANISING A VISIT TO THE TRAGEDY SITE FOR ACCREDITED FOREIGN CORRESPONDENTS IN MOSCOW.

I hope the BBC and CNN won’t take a vacation.

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Maria Zaharova, May 23, 2026, 11:12

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has officially refused to visit Starobelsk.

CNN is on vacation.

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🦇 BBC: Also known as the British Bullshit Corporation (https://t.me/BeornAndTheShieldmaiden/24857).

🇺🇸 Elon Musk is killing Russian children

The strike drones that attacked the Starobelsk College were controlled using Starlink, just like other long-range drones that have repeatedly attacked civilians and children in other parts of Russia.

Elon Musk cannot be unaware that Starlink is being used to kill civilians, including children.

Source: Unofficial Bazsonov

In the photo, fragments of the Starlink terminal at the site of the strike on a college dormitory in Starobilsk. The strike was carried out using Elon Musk’s American satellite network. We need more stories about Musk’s father in state media.

Source: Colonel Cassad

Starobelsk college before NATO’s bombing

The Armed Forces of Ukraine bombed the educational building and dormitory of the Starobilsk College.

– By historian Vladimir Medinsky

One of the oldest educational institutions in Donbass (first half of the 19th century). It trained kindergarten educators and primary school teachers.

After the drone attack — they hit it with precision, in three waves — everything was destroyed. 21 students were killed, and more than 40 were injured.

❗️Only the Nazis during the Great Patriotic War targeted schools, colleges, pioneer camps, and children with such precision. I can’t think of any other similar analogies. (🦇 We at BATS can think of another very recent parallell — USA’s bombing of schoolgirls in Minab, Iran)

PS. The reaction of these scumbags from Latvia and Denmark, sitting in the UN and “feeling no shame” is particularly shocking.

We are often kind-hearted, forgetful, and prone to forgiving. But just think about what these people could do to us, to our children, if they were to win.

Think about it…


Starobelsk professional college, bombed by AFU

⚡️ Russian Foreign Ministry Statement on the AFU strike on the college of Lugansk State Pedagogical University in Starobelsk

On the night of May 22, the Kiev neo-Nazi regime used four fixed-wing UAVs to carry out a gruesome terrorist attack on the academic building and dormitory of the college of Lugansk State Pedagogical University in Starobelsk, LPR.
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Black tide from US-Israeli aggression on Iran chokes Persian Gulf turtle nesting sanctuary – PressTV Reblog

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USA and it’s Israeli proxy are not only committing genocide of the Palestinian, Lebanese and Iranian peoples, they are also committing an ecocide, by targeting civilian oil installations. USA is doing this both in the Persian Gulf, and – though their Ukrainian proxy – in the Black Sea, where Tuapse oil refinery and port facilities were newly hit several times.

The article below is a re-blog of the publication by PressTV, written by Mina Mosallanejadon on May 5, 2026 about the ecological disaster created by the USA and its Zionist proxy in the Persian Gulf.

Black crude now clings to the shoreline of Shidvar Island – an uninhabited island in the Persian Gulf known for picturesque beaches and blue waters – like a second skin.

Days after US-Israeli military aggression targeted Iran’s civilian oil infrastructure on Lavan Island last month, the pale coral beaches of this protected Persian Gulf sanctuary were swallowed by a continuous band of tar as petroleum pollutants spread across its waters.

What was once an undisturbed crescent of white sand has been transformed into an oily black seam, raising urgent questions about the fate of the hawksbill turtles, migratory seabirds, and coral formations that make Shidvar one of the most ecologically sensitive islands in Iranian waters.

On this tiny, uninhabited refuge – known locally as Maro – there is still no complete accounting of what has happened beneath that black sheen.

Whether nesting turtles managed to crawl ashore to lay their eggs, whether hatchlings suffocated beneath contaminated sand, whether breeding colonies of terns abandoned their nesting grounds, or how much of Iran’s only protected coral reef ecosystem has already absorbed irreversible toxic damage – nothing is clear yet.

What is visible, however, is enough to establish one fact with brutal clarity: the consequences of the US-Israeli war of aggression did not stop at burning fuel depots and damaged refinery channels. They moved outward with the tide.

The contamination traces back to the April 8 attack on the Lavan refinery complex, one of Iran’s major civilian petroleum facilities in the Persian Gulf. Iranian officials say the strike took place even after a ceasefire had been declared, rupturing sections of oil transfer infrastructure and allowing petroleum materials to escape into adjacent marine waters.
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Remembering the Khatyn Massacre of March 22, 1943

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83 years ago, the peaceful Soviet Belarusian village of Khatyn was wiped out – nearly all of the inhabitants were burned alive and shot by the SS punitive unit Dirlewanger (Sonderkommando Dirlewanger) and the 118th Ukrainian Police Battalion.

Khatyn – a small village of just 26 households – was located 54 kilometres northwest of Minsk. (BATS note: A short node about the name of the village. There is no sound “k” in Khatyn – the first sound is “h” as in “he, home”.)

On March 22, 1943, Belarusian partisans intercepted a Nazi motor convoy in the area, inflicting casualties, including killing a German officer. In retaliation, the Hitlerites encircled Khatyn and decided to unleash their fury on defenceless civilians – women, the elderly and children.

All residents – 149 people, including 75 children – were forced into a wooden barn, locked inside and set ablaze. Those who, in desperation, tried to escape were ruthlessly shot at point-blank range.

✍️ From the interrogation record of Ostap Knap, a collaborator from the 118th Ukrainian Police Battalion, a native of the Lvov region (31 May 1986):

“The roof was thatched and immediately caught fire. Screams of horror rose from the barn as those trapped inside, facing certain death, began forcing the door. The policemen surrounding the site opened fire on them”.

Only six people managed to escape the inferno alive – five children and one adult, 56-year-old blacksmith Iosif Kaminsky. He regained consciousness late at night after the perpetrators had left the burnt village. Among the bodies of his fellow villagers, he found his son Adam, who died from his wounds in his father’s arms…

❗️ The atrocities in Khatyn were carried out by the 118th Ukrainian Police Battalion, formed in October 1942 in Kiev largely from Ukrainian nationalists and members of the Organisation of Ukrainian nationalists. Earlier, its members took part in mass executions of Jews at Babi Yar. The battalion was commanded by Konstantin Smovsky, born in the Poltava Governorate, who later fled to the US, where he died in 1960. The Supreme court of Belarus has found him guilty of genocide.

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In 1969, one of Belarus’s most revered memorial sites – the Khatyn Memorial Complex – was opened on the site of the destroyed village, a silent witness to the monstrous crimes of Nazism. At its centre stands a six-metre bronze sculpture, The Unconquered Man, depicting Iosif Kaminsky carrying his dead son in his arms. Each of the 26 burned homes is marked by a symbolic log structure with an obelisk in the shape of a chimney, bearing the names of those who perished and a bell that tolls every hour.

The tragedy of Khatyn has become a symbol of the inhuman cruelty of Nazism – a living reminder of hundreds of annihilated villages and thousands of innocent civilians of the Soviet Union whose lives were shattered by Nazi perpetrators and their accomplices – a genocide of the Soviet people. Our duty is to ensure that these crimes, which have no statute of limitations, are never forgotten.

On April 19, by Presidential Decree, Russia established the Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Genocide of the Soviet People during the Great Patriotic War. According to even the most conservative estimates, 13.7 million civilians were murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators.

🕯 We mourn together with the fraternal people of Belarus.

Source: Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Russia’s Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova in an Izvestia article

✍️ Today marks the anniversary of one of the most heinous crimes committed by the Nazis and their accomplices – the destruction in 1943 of the Belarusian village of Khatyn together with all its inhabitants.

149 people, including 75 children, were burned alive.

Since 1969, a memorial complex stands on the site of the burned Khatyn, commemorating the mass murder of civilians on the occupied territory of the USSR.
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Attacks on fuel storage facilities are intentional CHEMICAL WARFARE against Iranian citizens

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In their unprovoked aggression against Iran, USA has not yet dropped nuclear boms. Yet. But they have done something equally sinister, by unleashin a chemical warfare against Iran, creating a humanitarian and ecological disaster that will touch the whole world. In this article we present several screenshots from videos that we have on our Telegram channel “Beorn And The Shieldmaiden”, and we urge our readers here to go and get acquainted with the damning evidence of USA’s crimes against humanity.

Attacks on fuel storage facilities are intentional chemical WARFARE against Iranian citizens — Iranian MFA

Esmaeil Baqaei, the Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman wrote on X:

The U.S.-Israeli criminal war against the Iranian nation has entered a dangerous new phase with deliberate strikes on Iran’s energy infrastructure. These attacks on fuel storage facilities amount to nothing less than intentional chemical warfare against the Iranian citizens

By targeting fuel depots, the aggressors are releasing hazardous materials and toxic substances into the air, poisoning civilians, devastating the environment, and endangering lives on a massive scale. The consequences of this environmental and humanitarian catastrophe will not be confined within Iran’s borders.

These strikes constitute war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide — all at once.

Images of the human catastrophe and environmental disaster unfolding in the aftermath of the U.S. strikes at Iranian oil depots in Tehran


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USA-Israeli aggressions through the eyes of the Soviet caricatures

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Here we bring three caricatures from the times of USA’s attack on Iran and Vietnam, as well as USA-Israeli war in the Middle east…

He’s sticking in his aircraft carrier nose

With the USS Abraham Lincoln lined up against Iran, let’s take a look through Soviet satire at the continuous US ‘meddling in Iranian affairs’ before returning to the latest update on the situation in the Sea of Oman.

The caricature by Yu.Cherepanov in the Soviet satirical magazine “Krokodil” issue №4 from 1979 illustrated this news:
“In the American government circles and in the Pentagon, they discuss various options for interference of the USA into the domestic affairs of Iran.”

✍️ The title of the caricature is an untranslatable pun, which forms the basis for the drawing: “Aircraft carrier” in Russian is “Avianosets”, while “nose” is “nos”, which gives an image of an “AviaNOS” — an “air-NOSE-carrier”. The word above the keyhole is “Iran”.

Source: @BeornAndTheShieldmaiden

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Update as of March 5, 2026:

USS Abraham Lincoln flees after precision strike by IRGC drones in Sea of Oman

The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Navy has successfully targeted the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier using advanced domestically-produced drones, forcing the strike group into a rapid retreat near Iranian territorial waters.

Source: @PressTV

— “Try not to miss any of these strategic objects!” says the American general.

In the circles on the map we can see the objects: School, kindergarten, museum, university, hospital, shop, market, etc…
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USA-Israeli War of Aggression against Iran

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Peaceful Iran is being attacked by the USA and its proxy, Zionist Israel in an unprovoked, full-scale War of Aggression. The emerging evidence of atrocities, war crimes and genocide following in the wake of the USA aggression are heart-breaking. And just as the peoples’ righteous fury rose like a wave in the face of the Nazi German aggression against the USSR, so does the fury rise in the face of the appalling USAryan aggression against Iran!

We keep the record at our Telegram channel Beorn And The Shieldmaiden. Here we would like to publish the call to the American people, and fragments of an insightful analysis by Brian Bertelic.

DEAR AMERICANS: Your enemies are NOT in IRAN. They are in THE EPSTEIN FILES.

The private wealth of the ruling capitalist class was created by YOU! Your task as a class is to organise against the class that grinds you down into poverty and despair and reduces you to by-standing witnesses of their debauchery and perversions.

The capitalist ruling class have stolen what rightfully belongs to the collective creators of society’s wealth: YOU! For the future of your children, rise up and take back the fruits of your labour!

Capitalism starts world wars – Socialism ends them!

We need only one Victory for all!

The 2009 Brookings “Which Path to Persia” outlines this ENTIRE operation as it has unfolded over the course of the Obama/Trump/Biden/Trump administrations.

This includes plans for US-sponsored protests and terrorism through “insurgents.”

The report openly notes this would include US support for terrorist groups designated as such by the US State Department and even guilty of previously killing Americans like MEK.
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The French-Lithuanian falsification of WWII history by SBS

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On 8 February, SBS aired the film The Anti-Soviet Fighters (French-Lithuanian co-production), which is built entirely on lies and a cynical falsification of history.

Members of the “Forest Brothers” armed gangs are portrayed as heroes who “waged a decade-long fight against Soviet control in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia”.

In fact, the core of this “movement” was composed of former military personnel of the Baltic states belonging to the territorial SS battalions. They were involved in bloody crimes against civilians. The Nuremberg Tribunal designated all persons officially admitted as members of the SS as criminals.

According to official figures, between 1944 and 1956, the “Forest Brothers” killed more than 25’000 people in Lithuania, including over 1’000 children (52 of them were under the age of two), more than 2’000 in Latvia and 800 in Estonia. The overwhelming majority of the victims were local common people who supported the Soviet authorities or simply refused to assist underground bandit formations.

❗️This film is an attempt to brainwash the SBS audience, revise the outcomes of the Nuremberg Tribunal and glorify murderers depicting them as “freedom fighters”.

Rewriting the history of the Second World War is a dangerous path to revival of Nazism and to tragedies which must never be repeated.

From: Russian Embassy in Australia

Firebombing of Königsberg by the British Air Force in 1944

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We present a translation of an extensive historiographic article “Why the British bombed Königsberg asunder?” by Stanislav Pahotin. Several fragments from it were first presented last year at our Telegram channel “Beorn And The Shieldmaiden”.

Read also: “Accidental” bombing and sinking of ships with KZ prisoners by the British Royal Air Force. With new testimonies, declassified by the Russian FSB!

On the night of August 27 and 30, 1944, the British Air Force carried out a raid on Königsberg, which resulted in the deaths of over 6,000 civilians and the destruction of the city’s historic center. These raids have sparked much debate among historians and experts, who have raised questions about the effectiveness of the carpet bombing of Königsberg, the Hintertraugheim district, and the Rosgarten district.

Questions without answers

On the night of August 26-27 and August 29-30, 1944, the British Royal Air Force carried out bombing raids on Königsberg. There are bombings during the Second World War that are known all over the world, such as the bombing of Stalingrad and Dresden. The bombing raids on Königsberg, on the contrary, remain little known to the general public. If you ask the question of why the Royal Air Force bombed Königsberg, then it will not be difficult to answer it. The Second World War was unleashed by Germany. Britain fought against Germany, led by the National Socialists, and was an ally of the Soviet Union, the United States, and other countries. There is no doubt that the struggle was against a misanthropic ideology. Based on this, we can answer the question “Why?”. Because it was a German city, because Germany was under Nazi rule and Britain was fighting against the Nazis.

But why did the British Air Force bomb only the historical center of Königsberg, and not train stations, barracks, port facilities and other military installations? Why were the raids carried out at a time when the Red Army was already on the outskirts of the borders of East Prussia?

480 tons of aerial bombs

Let’s turn to the well-known facts. The first bombing raid on Königsberg took place on the night of August 26-27, targeting the northeastern parts of the city, including Hintertraugheim and Rosgarten. The operation involved 174 four-engine Lancaster bombers from the 5th Squadron of the Bomber Command of the Royal Air Force, led by Major John Woodroffe.

Approximately 480 tons of ammunition were dropped, with one-third being fragmentation bombs and two-thirds being incendiary bombs. The Supreme Commander of Bomber Command, Sir Arthur Harris, considered this ratio necessary in order to arrange a real fire tornado in the city and thus destroy the maximum number of inhabitants. He is often referred to as Bomber Harris, but the pilots nicknamed him differently: Butcher Harris, perhaps because they realised the consequences of his orders.

During the first bombing, about a thousand Königsbergers died. The second raid, which involved 175 Lancaster bombers and dropped 480 tons of ammunition, took place on the night of August 29-30 and resulted in the destruction of the entire central part of Königsberg, including its historic neighbourhoods. These include Altstadt, Kneiphof, and Lebenicht, the Royal Castle, the Cathedral with its Wallenrod Library and many cultural treasures, the old warehouse districts of Lastadie, the beautiful Baroque churches of Königsberg, the old university, its new building on Paradeplatz, the opera house, the famous Grafe und Unzer bookstore, the city’s historical museum, which housed many exhibits related to Kant (displayed in four rooms), and the state library with its valuable first editions. It was all destroyed. About 5,000 people were killed in the raid, but the exact number of deaths has never been determined.

‼️ Konigsberg is just one of 131 German cities that were destroyed by British aircraft in a similar way between March 1942 and April 1945.

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Battle for Donbass – a documentary to the song ‘Kukushka’

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A documentary, created by Aleksey Korablin, to the song by Victor Tsoi “Kukushka”, performed by Polina Gagarina. First published at our Telegram channel “Beorn And The Shieldmaiden”.


Backup on Rumble.
Video source on YouTube

The footage is from 2015 – 2016, when Ukraine, after the US-sponsored Nazi coup of 2014, was in full swing in their genocide of the Eastern Ukrainian (Russian) population of Donbass.

Watch this footage and let the hypocrisy in Macron’s words, spoken ten years later, in November of 2025, sink in!

“Russia itself chose the path of war, nothing justified this war, not a single real threat, only fakes. All this is in complete disregard of the truth, influenced by the reflexes and instincts of a state that cannot reconcile with its history”

Ukrainian terrorist attack on Kherson on January 1, 2026

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In the first hours of 2026, during the New Year celebrations the Kiev regime committed yet another terrorist act against civilians in Russia’s regions.

For more than 70 residents the New Year became a tragedy: the Neo-Nazis attacked a café and a hotel in the Kherson region of Russia using UAVs.

24 people were killed (28 dead, including 2 children as of January 2), over 50 were wounded and have been hospitalised. Among those affected — six kids from the age of 6 to 17, one child was killed.

There is literally zero doubt that the attack was preplanned as the drones were directed to a place where civilians celebrated the New Year.

First photos of this heinous war crime were published by the media on-site.

Source: Russian MFA

Three Ukrainian drones hit a cafe and a hotel on the Black Sea coast in the Kherson region. The attack was carried with the help of a reconnaissance drone and took place almost at the stroke of midnight, as people were celebrating. A massive fire broke out, contributing to more deaths.

28 people were killed, more than 50 were injured.

One of the drones carried an incendiary mixture, which started the massive fire burning people alive. There’s a child among the victims.

This crime is essentially on a par with the Odessa House of Trade Unions.

Source: РИА Новости via Putinger’s Cat

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

💬 In the very first minutes of the New Year, the Kiev regime stained it with blood, leaving dozens of civilians killed and wounded in Russia’s Kherson Region.

The New Year address of the Ukrainian dictator was broadcast at the very moment when dozens of peaceful residents were dying as a result of a strike carried out on his direct orders.
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Finland’s Dirty Secret: From “Neutral” Ally to Hitler’s Partner – Dispelling the Finnish Myths

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We translated this very informative series of posts from a German Telegram channel FKT – Geschichte der Sowjetunion (History of the Soviet Union) and published it on our Telegram channel Beorn And The Shieldmaiden. Here we present the series in the form of one consecutive article.

👉 Read also: The new Finnish doctrine: Ignorance, deception, and ingratitude. An Article by Dmitry Medvedev, “Kill the Russians.” 105 years ago, the Finnish army staged the massacre in Vyborg. The truth must come out!, and many other materials at the blog, bearing the Finland tag.

Finland’s Dirty Secret: From “Neutral” Ally to Hitler’s Partner

Today, Finland likes to play the victim card and acts as if it had nothing to do with the siege of Leningrad. The argument goes:

“We did not attack the city, Mannerheim refused to bomb it, we just stood by and took care of our own affairs.”

A nice story. Too bad it’s pure fiction.

The reality is different: Finnish troops sat for three years at the gates of Leningrad. They did not drink coffee and were not “neutral.” They held a third of the blockade line. Without Finland’s involvement, the Germans would not have been able to completely seal off the city. Together they closed the ring that starved one million people, including 400,000 children.

And Mannerheim, the “savior”?

His order was to bomb the Road of Life (which was actually not a road but a frozen lake), the only route over which food was transported across Lake Ladoga.

On June 25, 1941, Mannerheim ordered the Finnish army to commence hostilities against the USSR:

“I call you to a holy war against the enemy of our nation. Together with the mighty forces of Germany, as brothers in arms, we resolutely embark on a crusade against the enemy to secure a safe future for Finland.”

Finland dreamed of expansion and had concrete plans. On the dream map of “Greater Finland,” Russian cities like Murmansk, Leningrad, and Kandalaksha are marked as Finnish.

Let’s Get to Know Mannerheim

Before we come to Finland’s well-known war against the USSR on Hitler’s side, we need to turn back the clock a bit and look at the context. Finland as a state emerged within Russia. Before the Russo-Swedish War, these territories were simply the eastern part of Sweden. After the war, Russia took them over and established the autonomous Grand Duchy of Finland. It remained part of the Russian Empire until the 1917 revolution.

Now let’s get to know Mannerheim – a military and political figure who came from poor Swedish-Finnish noble backgrounds but rose to become a general in the Russian army and an officer of the Imperial Guard, close to Nicholas II himself and part of the empire’s military elite. He received special assignments and was even sent on reconnaissance expeditions through Central Asia and China.

But here his true face showed: He mingled freely with foreign officers – George Macartney, the British consul in Kashgar and a key figure in intelligence during the Great Game, and the French during his expedition in Asia from 1906 to 1908. Later, he was even suspected of having connections to Masonic circles. All this suggests that his loyalty was never fully aligned with Russia.

After the empire’s collapse, he wasted no time. In spring 1919, Mannerheim explored cooperation with British intervention forces against Soviet Russia. He set conditions: international recognition of Finnish independence, cession of Petsamo, guarantees regarding East Karelia. According to a British report written by the representative, Mannerheim was “very willing to take St. Petersburg and destroy the Bolsheviks there” in February 1919.

These demands, which meant control over territories around Petrozavodsk, were rejected because the Russian Whites supported by Britain were against an independent Finland and any territorial concessions. Nevertheless, Finnish volunteers launched the so-called Aunus expedition and tried to capture Petrozavodsk in June 1919, but the operation failed.

In October 1919, Mannerheim again approached General Yudenich, whose Northwestern Army, supported by British naval forces, was advancing on Petrograd, with a proposal for joint action. His terms were rejected again. Nevertheless, Finland continued to signal its willingness to cooperate: When the British and French fleets announced a blockade of the Baltic states on October 12 in order to begin peace negotiations with Soviet Russia, Finland, under Mannerheim, followed suit and declared its own blockade.

Finland’s Relations with Hitler in the 1930s

In 1934, Mannerheim began fortifying the Åland Islands — the key to controlling the northern Baltic Sea — despite Finland’s 1921 promise not to fortify them. In 1935, he approached Germany and participated in a secret conference with Hermann Göring, Hungarian Prime Minister Gömbös, and the chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Polish Parliament to discuss joint measures against the USSR. Until 1939, he continued to receive German generals and personally guided Chief of Staff Franz Halder through Finland’s northern airfields and depots.
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The atrocities of the Romanians shocked even the Germans: what was the Nazi occupation of Moldavia like

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Continuing the topic of Romania and Moldavia, we present a translation of an article by Maxim Kemerrer, which was published in RuBaltic on July 17, 2022.

The atrocities of the Romanians shocked even the Germans: what was the Nazi occupation of Moldavia like

81 years have passed since the entry of Romanian troops into the capital of the Moldavian SSR, Chisinau. Today’s leaders in Chisinau and Bucharest call the events of the initial stage of the Great Patriotic War for another reunification of Romania and Moldavia. In fact, it was another occupation of Moldavia by Romania, which resulted in the terror of the civilian population and the destruction of the peoples of the multinational Moldavian SSR by the Romanian occupiers.

The state of Romania arose largely due to the support of Britain and France, who sought to create their own vassal near the southern borders of the Russian Empire, which could be used against Russia. (BATS note: yet, as we saw from the publication How Russia created Romania, it was done at the expense of Russia, and with Russian arms.) From the very beginning of its existence, Romania began to fulfil precisely this task, making territorial claims to Bessarabia.

However, it never wanted to go to war with Russia, and therefore, at that time, limited itself to cultural and ideological expansion, declaring that one people lived on the two banks of the Prut.

At the same time, the fact that the population of Bessarabia has always been multinational, with a certain dominance of Moldavians, was completely ignored.

Besides them, Malorossians lived compactly in the north and east of this territory, a significant part of the south of Bessarabia was compactly populated by Gagauz and Bulgarians, and the introduction of the pale of settlement in the Russian Empire led to a large number of Jews coming to Bessarabia. Thus, according to the census results of the late 19th century, Jews made up up to a third of the population of Chisinau, and many county centers of the country were simply large Jewish townships.

Romania’s desire to seise Bessarabia came true only in 1918, when the Moldavian People’s Republic was established after the Great October Socialist Revolution. On December 7, 1917, under the pretext of purchasing food, two regiments of the Romanian army crossed the Prut River, occupied Leovo and several border villages. Soon, on March 27, 1918, the parliament, called the Sfatul Tserii (Council of the Country), surrounded by Romanian soldiers with machine guns, voted for the “annexation” of Bessarabia to Romania; representatives of the Romanian military command were also present in the voting hall. After that, the parliament was dispersed by the Romanian military.

A commentary

A commentary from Moldavian parliament deputy from Beltsy, Alexander Nesterovsky, published in Bloknot Moldova. The commentary was made in 2018 with regard to the initiative from the Moladvian “Party of National Unity” to organise the so-caleld “Day of unity” in Beltsy:

“In the very first days after the Romanian troops entered the territory of the Moldavian Democratic Republic, the punishers shot 45 peasant delegates of the 3rd Bessarabian Provincial Peasant Congress, held in Chisinau. Then 58 members of the Sfatul Tserii, who opposed the annexation of Bessarabia to Romania, were arrested. Some of them were shot. Their place in the hall was taken by supporters of the Romanian authorities. The decision of Sfatul Tserii to join Romania on April 9, 1918, was made at gunpoint, but even after that, almost half of the delegates – 47% – voted against joining.”

As a result, Bessarabia was under Romanian occupation until June 28, 1940; throughout this period, the territory between the Dniester and the Prut remained in fact in the status of a colony and was the region of Romania with the lowest standard of living.

During the 22 years of the Romanian occupation, Bessarabia took the first place in Europe in terms of population mortality, over 500,000 people left it, tens of thousands of local residents who opposed the occupation were shot, and about 200,000 died of starvation.

The Romanian occupation ended in 1940, when Soviet troops occupied Bessarabia. By this time, the Moldavian Autonomous Republic (MASSR) had already existed in the USSR for 16 years, established on the lands of the Ukrainian SSR and the Left Bank of the Dniester (modern Transnistria).

Unfortunately, the period after the liberation of Bessarabia was short — less than a year later, on June 22, 1941, the Great Patriotic War began, in which Romania became an ally of Hitler, and on July 16, Romanian occupation forces again entered the territory of Bessarabia.
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Genocide: Justice Will Prevail – RT Documentary. Thoughts by Zotov on “Generalplan Ost”

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The Third Reich war against USSR was never just about territory or resources.


Video at Rumble.

It was a campaign to clear ‘living space’. Under the Hunger Plan, grain would be stripped from southern Soviet lands, condemning 30 million people to starvation.

Mass killings of civilians was a part of Nazi strategy. Under the guise of ‘anti-partisan operations’, the Nazis wiped entire villages off the map across Soviet lands. They set up brutal death camps for POWs. Over 380,000 people were murdered in Rostov Region, while in Pskov Region, more than 600,000 civilians were exterminated.

One of the most horrifying episodes in this genocide was the siege of Leningrad. For 872 days, citizens endured unimaginable hunger, cold, and suffering. Recent estimates place the death toll at over 1,093,000 people.

Our film brings together historians, search teams, prosecutors, and forensic experts to reveal the scale of Nazi atrocities across the country: mass executions at a brick factory in Salsk, the murder of 54 children in a sanatorium in Teberda… These are just a few chapters in one vast, systematic crime called ‘genocide’.

The word ‘genocide’ didn’t even enter international law until 1948, after the main Nuremberg trials had already ended. At Nuremberg, Nazi crimes against civilians were recognised as crimes against humanity, and the guilt of the accused was firmly established.

But today, 80 years later, there are efforts in the West to rewrite that history and deny the scale of suffering inflicted on the Soviet people. That’s why it’s become necessary to formally and legally establish the full extent of Nazi crimes.

Over the past 5 years, Russian courts have reviewed archival records, examined new evidence, conducted modern forensic investigations, and gathered testimony from witnesses. Based on the total body of evidence, the courts have concluded: the Nazis’ actions constituted genocide.

🎦 Watch the new film by Vitaly (https://rtdoc.tv/author/70-vitaly-buzuev) Buzuev and Ekaterina (https://en.rtdoc.tv/author/205-ekaterina-kitaitseva) Kitaytseva ‘Genocide: Justice Will Prevail’.

Source: MTdocumentary

‼️ Read also our newly-translated article The European Genocide of the Russian People

Following is a Telegram post by Georgy Zotov, translated by “Siberian Matrëshka”:

Once upon a time, Germany developed a master plan called “Ost” (“East”)

It was initiated in 1940 by Reichsfuehrer SS Heinrich Himmler. At first, Jews and Poles were taken into account, but after June 22, 1941, the main focus became the fate of the Soviet Union and the Slavic nationalities inhabiting it.
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“Accidental” bombing and sinking of ships with KZ prisoners by the British Royal Air Force. With new testimonies, declassified by the Russian FSB!

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USA has Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Dresden on their consciousness; for Britain it is the sinking of the ships filled with Soviet POWs. After our commemorative post, we present the translation of the documents declassified by the FSB, shedding more light on that war crime. We also include the ORC’ed source text. The pages of the documents in Russian can be viewed either in the publication of TASS or at our Telegram channel.

Introduction by “Beorn And The Shieldmaiden”

On May 3rd 1945, 7,700 KZ prisoners (possibly up to 12,000) died in the world’s biggest ship disaster.

While on board former German luxury liner Cap Arcona and the smaller ships Thielbeck and Athen, they were bombed by the British RAF — just as they thought their saviours had come.

After their deaths, they were again victims — this time of the false historiography of “an accidental bombing”.

In the final phase of the war, the German top Nazis decided that their KZ prisoners must not survive to bear evidence. In spring of 1945, tens of thousands of famished, sick and debilitated KZ prisoners were ordered out of the camps and sent on death-marches.

In late April, prisoners from three KZ camps, Neuengamme, Mittelbau-Dora and Stutthof, were marched to the German Baltic coast, the majority of prisoners were Soviet POWs and Jews.

Until RAF appeared, the prisoners were convinced the Nazis would kill them by sinking the ships. But then, out of the blue came the rescue! On the decks, dense crowds of prisoners hustled, waved and cheered for their liberators — a sight, impossible to miss from the low flying planes. And then, RAF opened fire, bombed and sank the ships.

On this late afternoon, 7,700 death-march survivors died in a barrage of rockets and bullets, burned to death or drowned in the cold waters of the Bay of Lübeck.

The few who miraculously managed to swim ashore were shot by the SS. Not many survived.

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Descendents at a flower ceremony held at the exact site of Thielbeck’s sinking on May 3rd 2022.

From The Shieldmaiden’s family’s history in the resistance community, we know of one such survivor: a young Ukrainian Red Army soldier, who was found and hidden by a local German boy.

In 2005, at the 60th anniversary memorial ceremony, an old man was seen standing alone at the water’s edge, silently crying as he slowly kneeled down and touched the water his wet hands seeking up to cover his eyes. Like that he stood until a fellow survivor from KZ Neuengamme approached him and a long silent embrace was shared. He then told the story of his rescue.

He had managed to escape the burning ship and swim ashore, and a young boy had found him barely conscious on the beach. The boy had covered him, thus saving him from the SS who murdered the survivors, and later after dark brought him to his nearby home. The family then hid him in the church loft where he stayed for two days. 2005 was his first return to the site.

The conclusion of the article at “RT in Russian”, telling about the documents and the massacre, sums it best:

“Civilian vessels flying the white flag were bombed. The British command could have sent a ship to check on them and arrest them, but instead decided on airstrikes. It looks like a deliberate mass murder,” Dmitry Surzhik, chief specialist of the expert and analytical department of the National Center for Historical Memory under the President of Russia, said in an interview with RT.

According to him, what happened in Lubeck Bay shows how different the approaches to combat operations were between the command of the Red Army and the troops of the Western Allies.

“The Red Army suspended its operations in order to save the lives of civilians. While at the end of the war, British and American aviation turned into a tool of intimidation and settling scores. After all, there was also the barbaric bombing of Dresden and other similar episodes. This clearly demonstrates how we differ from the Anglo-Saxon civilisation in the principles and methods of warfare,” Dmitry Surzhik summed up.

The FSB declassified data on the sinking of ships with Soviet prisoners of war by England

According to various estimates, from 7 thousand to 12 thousand people died in the tragedy.

MOSCOW, May 3. /tass/. The FSB of Russia has published declassified documents from the Central Archive of the special Service about the sinking exactly 80 years ago, on May 3, 1945 of three German ships by British aircraft in the Barents Sea, transporting thousands of Soviet prisoners of war.

“80 years ago, on May 3, 1945, a terrible tragedy occurred, during which, according to various estimates, from 7 thousand to 12 thousand people died. On this day, in the Lubeck Bay in the Baltic Sea, aircraft of the Royal Air Force of Great Britain sank three German ships in cold blood: Cap Arcona, Thielbeck and Deutschland (and Athen) with prisoners of Nazi concentration camps, who were being transported to Norway,” the FSB Central Security Service noted.

Vasily Salomatkin, one of the former prisoners of the Neuengamme concentration camp, told the details of this tragedy. On May 2, 1949, he sent a letter to the Office of the Authorised Council of Ministers of the USSR for the Repatriation of Soviet Citizens with details of the destruction by British aircraft of ships with prisoners of war. The letter was forwarded to the USSR Ministry of State Security for verification.

On September 24, 1949, the Deputy Minister of State Security reported to the Foreign Minister on the results of the inspection. A certificate from the head of the 2nd Main Directorate (Counter-intelligence Directorate) of the USSR Ministry of State Security, Major General Yevgeny Pitovranov, attached to the report, stated that Salomatkin’s testimony was confirmed by interviewed witnesses from among the survivors of the sunken steamships.

Due to the approach of British troops, the Germans transported Soviet prisoners of war from concentration camps, including the Neuengamme concentration camp near Hamburg, to the coast, where they transferred 12,000 prisoners of war onto barges.

The sinking of the Cap Arcona

The sinking of the former cruise ship Cap Arcona (named after Cape Arcona on the German island of Rügen in the Baltic Sea, which was transferred to the German Navy in 1940) was one of the biggest tragedies at sea in World War II, the FSB Central Security Service recalled. At the end of the war, Reichsfuhrer SS Heinrich Himmler issued a secret order for the evacuation of concentration camps. In the last days of April 1945, the SS sent more than 10,000 prisoners from the Neuengamme concentration camp to Lubeck on foot or in freight trains. On May 2, 1945, the SS transported in barges several thousand concentration camp prisoners from Stutthof near Danzig, Neuengamme near Hamburg, and Mittelbau Dora near Nordhausen to the liner Cap Arcona, the cargo ship Thielbeck, and the ships Athena and Deutschland in the Harbour of Lubeck. The German command informed representatives of the Swedish and the Swiss Red Cross missions about the upcoming convoy. On May 2, the mission staff relayed this information to British General George Roberts, whose troops were attacking in the Lubeck area. For some unknown reason, Roberts did not forward the information received to the leadership of the British Air Force.

Translation of the declassified documents

MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF THE USSR – Comrade GROMYKO A.A.
On II 42/DPU dated 16.VI-I949.

According to your request, I am sending you a certificate on the results of the investigation of the statement by repatriate SOLOMATIN about the sinking of German steamships with Soviet prisoners of war by British aircraft on May 3, 1945, and copies of the interrogation protocols of witnesses KOZUL, AMVROSIEV, PANKIN, and STRANDBERG.

DEPUTY MINISTER OF STATE SECURITY OF THE USSR, OGOLTSOV
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