Today, Russia’s Foreign Ministry statement marking the 10th anniversary of the hideous massacre at the Trade Union Building in Odessa, when “extreme nationalists,” brooking no opposition to the coup in Kiev, set fire and burned to death dozens of Ukrainian trade union activists. The lack of any prosecution of any individuals set the tone for the Poroshenko and Zelenskyy regimes.
Russia’s Foreign Ministry stated, according to the coverage in TASS: “Odessa was a bone in the throat of the regime, which wanted to put on their knees the residents of the city who it hated, and to drown any resistance in blood…. The radicals set the building on fire. They finished off those who jumped out trying to escape the fire.”
Further, the statement specifically condemned President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s inaction after he vowed during his election campaign in 2019 that, “under his governance, Ukrainian laws and the principle of the inevitability of punishment would be strictly upheld.”
