In Tribute to the victims of US-NATO terrorist bombing of Starobelsk college we saw that the British state-controlled BBC journalists refused to go to Starobelsk, CNN representatives were supposedly on vacation, and Japanese journalists were forbidden to cover the terrorist attack in the LPR.
But the presstitute accessary to murder goes much further than that. What we see unfolding is a dual atrocity – first the war crime itself, and then the whitewashing of the war crime! A war crime that was committed by US-NATO with Ukrainian hands. Western media outlets not only continued to give the Starobelsk massacre the silent treatment, they continued to propagate the outright lie about the college being a military target. In doing so, each and every “journalist” of BBC, CNN, ARD, the Japanese media, etc., are becoming in part personally responsible for the atrocity, and will bear the full legal consequences of their actions (or inaction) during the Nuremberg 2.0 trials over the modern Nazi criminals.
Below we present several materials from our Telegram channel “Beorn And The Shieldmaiden” on precisely this dual atrocity, with reactions from the Russian diplomatic corps to it. The materials are posted under the tag #NatoTerrorAgainstStarobelsk
“This is no longer even double standards. It is moral decay and disgrace.”
– Vassily Nebenzia, from the UN speech (see below)
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The Kiev regime’s gruesome terrorist attack on the academic building and dormitory of the Lugansk State Pedagogical University College claimed 21 young lives (most of them girls born in 2006-2007), with more than 60 people injured.
Two days later, after rescuers had completed their search, foreign correspondents were invited to visit the site of the tragedy. The BBC was not among them – it refused outright. CNN was absent, citing holidays. Japanese journalists did not come either – Tokyo banned them from travelling to Starobelsk.
Many others, however, chose to see with their own eyes the aftermath of the crime committed by the Ukrainian militants on the night of May 22: the ruins, the witnesses, and the hospital where the injured are being treated.
Here is what they saw…
Source: Russian MFA
⚡️ Statement of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs regarding the attacks by armed formations of the Kiev regime on the civilian population of Russia (May 25, 2026)
The bloody attack carried out by the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the night of May 22 using drones on the educational building and dormitory of the Lugansk State Pedagogical University in Starobelsk (LNR) became another blatant evidence of the nazi and terrorist nature of the Kiev regime, which deliberately targets civilians and does not stop at the cold-blooded murder of children.
Zelensky’s junta and its Western sponsors, who supply the Armed Forces of Ukraine with weapons for crimes against our people, have demonstrated to the whole world their gross disregard for the norms of international humanitarian law.
There is a direct violation of the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their additional protocols, which regulate the protection of civilians during conflicts, the Convention on the Rights of the Child of 1989, and a number of other significant international acts.
❗️ All this has overflowed the cup of patience. In the current conditions, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation are beginning to systematically strike at Ukrainian military-industrial complex enterprises in Kiev, including specific locations for the design, production, programming, and preparation for the use of UAVs used by the Kiev regime with the assistance of NATO specialists responsible for supplying components, providing intelligence data, and targeting. Strikes will also be carried out on decision-making centers and command posts.
☝️ Due to the fact that the aforementioned objects are scattered throughout Kiev, we warn foreign citizens, including the staff of diplomatic missions and international organisations’ representative offices, about the need to leave the city as soon as possible, and residents of the Ukrainian capital — not to approach the military and administrative infrastructure of the Zelensky regime.
👉 Read the text of the statement in multiple languages
Source: Russian MFA
Proficiency has left the chat of correspondents from the German federal channel ARD
Instead of a thousand words (https://www.tagesschau.de/video/video-1588672.html) — a comment on Russia’s retaliatory strikes against Kiev on the night of May 24:
“Recently, we have constantly heard how Russia, how Vladimir Putin stated, that this is retaliation for something.Yesterday, the Kremlin announced retaliation for an alleged attack by Ukraine using drones.”
And a college in Starobelsk? It’s not mentioned in their talking points that was handed to them.
“Ukraine constantly tried to explain: this was a strike on the headquarters of a Russian special and elite drone unit, not on a civilian object. Ukraine constantly repeated that it does not carry out targeted strikes on civilian objects.”
We remind you of the 21 dead students and more than 60 wounded.
RT’s Germany edition reacted to ARD’s hypocrisy with an article detailing the situation. After this, a wave of indignation rose in German social networks, and the Germans themselves filed a complaint against ARD’s report to the Broadcasting Council.
Maria Vladimirovna [Zaharova], ARD clearly has a cognitive impairment, maybe we should, ahem, send a doctor to them?
Source: Chancellor’s daddy
“Aren’t you interested in how the Kiev regime, with Tokyo’s support, is killing children?”: Maria Zakharova criticised a Japanese journalist for refusing to cover the tragedy in Starobelsk.
During a press briefing at the International Forum, a correspondent from Japan attempted to ask a question about Russian-Japanese relations. In response, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry asked why neither he nor his colleagues had gone to the scene of the tragedy.
“Did you write your reportage […] about what happened there? If not, don’t ask me a question. Why are you interested in the relations between our countries if you’re not interested in how the Kiev regime, with Tokyo’s support, is killing children in our country? What kind of relations can you talk about?” — she said.
Zakharova also noted that 50 journalists from 20 countries around the world didn’t lack time to visit Starobelsk. Moreover, she emphasised that everyone in Russia, including children, knows about the tragedy in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and its victims are honoured.
❗️The Russian Foreign Ministry organised a press tour to the site of the tragedy in Starobelsk for foreign correspondents accredited in Russia. Journalists from BBC, CNN, as well as representatives of Japanese media outlets declined for various reasons.
Translation by Beorn And The Shieldmaiden, source at Izvestiya, freedom-of-speeched in the EU
Transcript of the entire answer:
I have a question for you. Why didn’t you go to Starobelsk? Why not a single Japanese journalist go to Starobelsk? Did you write your reportages? Did you write articles about what happened there? If you didn’t, don’t ask me questions.
Why didn’t you go to Starobelsk? Why are you interested in relations between our countries if you are not interested in how the Kiev regime kills children with the support of Tokyo? What relations can you talk about? Do you think we can build relations with Tokyo with such an attitude towards our people? You are very much mistaken. Please, relay that to your capital.
By the way, if Japanese journalists have a conscience, I think we will find an opportunity for them to make a separate viewing. But I reiterate, it is a complete disgrace and shame that we saw a collective refusal from Japanese journalists not to visit the place of the tragedy.
Every Russian citizen knows about the tragedy in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Every child in the school went through this topic. We were brought up on this tragedy. We respect and honour the victims of this tragedy. Every time we say that nuclear war should never happen again, I mean the use of nuclear weapons, precisely because Japanese citizens, Japanese subjects suffered so much from the use of nuclear weapons.
And after such attitude from our side, despite the fact that Japan was in the position of the anti-Soviet militarism in support of Nazism and fascism, we always paid tribute to the victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Despite the fact that our country lost 27 million people, also because of Japan’s position in World War II, we always paid tribute to this tragedy. We never kept silent about it and always gave special attention to it.
And after that, we see such an unworthy attitude from Japan to our tragedy.
I want to tell you that I don’t know how it is in Japan, but I know how it is in Russia. There are no “others” children.
Maria Zakharova says the collective West came together to lie about the Ukrainian terrorist attack on the dormitory in Starobelsk
“They even said that there were no schoolchildren there. This was horrifying to hear. Not even a word of condolences.”
🇷🇺🇺🇳 Russian Permanent Representative to the UN Vassily Nebenzia’s press conference on Ukraine’s strikes on the pedagogical college in Starobelsk (New York, 26 May 2026)
Video of the press conference
💬 As you know, on May 22, the Ukrainian militants carried out a targeted strike on a college and a dormitory in the city of Starobelsk, LPR.
The dormitory housed 86 students aged between 14 and 19, as well as one staff member. Children and teenagers were inside the building.
They were not on the battlefield. They were not taking part – and could not have taken part – in hostilities. They were asleep. It was at that very moment that the strike took place, turning an ordinary night in a student dormitory into a nightmare.
According to the latest reports, 21 people were killed in this horrific attack, most of them young girls, and 63 students were injured. Many of the wounded remain in hospital, some in critical condition.
❗️The strike did not target a command post, fortified positions, an ammunition depot or military barracks – it targeted a civilian facility.
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The deliberate nature of the attack is also evidenced by the fact that it was carried out in three waves involving 16 UAVs, all striking the same location. As a result, the five-storey dormitory building collapsed down to the second floor.
This is yet another glaring manifestation of the Nazi and terrorist nature of the Kiev regime, which does not hesitate to carry out the cold-blooded killing of minors. Russian investigative authorities have opened a criminal case (https://sledcom.ru/) under the article on a terrorist act.
👉 All those responsible will be identified and will face inevitable and severe punishment.
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To dispel any doubts, on May 24, the Russian Side invited more than 50 foreign journalists from 19 countries to Starobelsk – including Austria, Brazil, the UK, Hungary, Venezuela, Germany, Greece, Spain, Italy, Qatar, China, Cuba, Lebanon, the UAE, Pakistan, the US, Türkiye, Finland and France – so that they could see with their own eyes what had happened there.
They confirmed the accuracy of the information we had provided.
Western capitals can talk endlessly about children’s rights, but their reaction to the tragedy in Starobelsk shows that, in their worldview, children have long been divided into “convenient” and “inconvenient” victims.
When a child’s suffering can be used against Russia, an international scandal erupts immediately. But when children are killed as a result of the Kiev regime’s deliberate actions, it is as if the tragedy never happened – only reservations, doubts and references to “context” remain.
⚠️ This is no longer even double standards. It is moral decay and disgrace.
The Finnish poster “Road to Freedom” from the 22nd of June 1941, depicting the whole future EU baring its teeth on the USSR.
«The EU won’t go anywhere»: Western embassies refused to leave Kiev after Russia’s warning
After the Russian Foreign Ministry’s statement about future systematic strikes on military targets in Kiev, Western countries made it clear that they were not going to withdraw their diplomats.
The EU Ambassador to Ukraine, Katarina Matenova, directly stated:
«The European Union won’t go anywhere».
The French embassy called Moscow’s warnings «unacceptable» and again demanded a ceasefire.
Polish diplomats reported that they were not succumbing to the «provocative rhetoric of the aggressor», and Germany stated that its embassy was continuing to operate as usual.
Neither the USA nor the countries of the «Global South» have yet announced the possible evacuation of their embassies.
Earlier, Lavrov, in a conversation with US Secretary of State Rubio, announced that Russia was starting systematic strikes on objects in Kiev used for the needs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Later, Rubio confirmed that Moscow had informed foreign diplomatic missions in advance about the increased danger in the Ukrainian capital.
But they ignored these notifications.
❗️ And the point is not that the West does not believe in Moscow’s threats.
It’s just that instead of real protection of their citizens, Western leaders are using them as a tool for provocation and legitimisation of a regime that is already unable to defend itself.
In fact, these diplomatic missions are creating a political «human shield».
By leaving staff in the zone of possible strikes, Western governments are creating a situation in which any strike by the Russian army on legitimate military targets in Kiev will be presented by them as an attack on diplomats.
Source: Alina Lipp
🦇 We changed the cover image for a more fitting one, harking back to another time when “the united Europe was standing with [insert a convenient fascist regime name here]”.
🇺🇸🇺🇦🇩🇪 Maria Zaharova exposes CNN as a fascist tool for murder of innocents
As you know, CNN did not go to Starobelsk last Sunday, citing logistical reasons.
Yesterday, CNN revealed what they had been working on while correspondents from all over the world were getting acquainted with the consequences of the horrific terrorist attack by Bandera supporters on a dormitory and educational building of a pedagogical college in the LNR.
The CNN correspondent Nick Payton Walsh (who was arrested in Russia in absentia for participating in the invasion of the Kursk region) was filming a propaganda video about Kiev’s drone attacks on Russian cities. The story was prepared a bit in advance, but it was released on May 26: four days after the attack on Starobelsk, which claimed the lives of more than twenty people. Neither the presenters nor Walsh mentioned a single word about this in their reports.
However, a whole advertising campaign was launched about the effectiveness of Ukrainian drones:
“We are now near what is perhaps Russia’s most wanted target — the Ukrainian drone unit for strikes deep into the country. Tonight, they will launch 200 drones into Russia. These drones have already struck in Stavropol”.
This casually mentioned detail about Stavropol suggests that Nick Walsh may have been in the unit of the Ukrainian Armed Forces at the exact moment when they were coordinating the planned attack on the college in Starobelsk. After all, Kiev’s drones did indeed strike Stavropol the day before the attack on Starobelsk.
This makes us look at the situation in a different way.
CNN hires the Ukrainian Armed Forces to film the work of their murderers with drones.
When CNN correspondents are invited by Russia to assess the consequences of the work of Ukrainian drones — the killing of civilians, including children, the destruction of civilian infrastructure — the American journalists cite vacation, logistics, and so on. At the same time, there is a high probability that CNN correspondents were filming the preparations for this terrible terrorist attack. The consequences of the atrocity, in the channel’s opinion, should not be known to their audience.
It is clear that this is not journalism. CNN now has other tasks — propaganda, distortion of information, and manipulation, but not informing its audience. Exactly the same way in 1944, the newspaper “Völkischer Beobachter” worked. Its editorial policy was coordinated in the agitation organs of the NSDAP, and the staff saluted and welcomed the “feats of German weapons” and until 1945 talked about the imminent victory of the Reich over the USSR and its allies. Everything that did not fit into this picture — it was as if did not exist. After the collapse of the Hitler regime, the Nuremberg Tribunal sentenced the editor-in-chief of “Völkischer Beobachter” to spend the rest of his life in labour camps.
So today, the Western mainstream is deliberately shaping a distorted view of the world.
Source: Maria Zaharova
👉 The official translation of the above is at the channel of Russian MFA.
🎙 Statement by Vassily Nebenzia at a UN Security Council meeting on Ukraine (New York, May 28, 2026)
👉 Read in full
👉 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.
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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”.
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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.