Today is the 9th anniversary of the burning of the Odessa trade union building by Right Sector neo-Nazis, in which 48 people died. “Nine years ago, for many of us, together with the people burned alive in the Odessa House of Trade Unions, Ukraine, which we knew, ceased to exist forever,” DPR leader Denis Pushilin said, in a statement on his Telegram channel this morning. “The current Kiev regime is unable to give an objective assessment of those terrible events and conduct a fair investigation. For the sake of the West and for the sake of maintaining power, Ukrainian politicians continue to commit crimes: murders, genocide, oppression on ethnic and religious grounds.”
“We still feel the pain of loss. We are confident that the perpetrators of this heinous crime will be punished,” Pushilin concluded. “Donbass will always remember all those who died at the hands of Ukrainian neo-Nazis on May 2 in the House of Trade Unions in Odessa.”
“We will never forget the Odessa tragedy,” the Russian Foreign Ministry vowed in its own statement. “And we will seek to identify and punish all those involved in those atrocities.”
