The Russian Foreign Ministry issued a statement yesterday which pointed the finger directly at NATO countries for their role in what they described as the “barbaric” attack on the Starobelsk trade school in the Lugansk People’s Republic, killing 18 adolescents and wounding dozens more as they slept in their dormitories in the early hours of May 22. “It was a targeted strike against civilians – straight out of the German Nazi playbook,” the statement read. “No one in that building was involved in hostilities, nor could they have been. There are no military facilities anywhere near the college.”
“These strikes use long-range weapons supplied to the Kiev regime by NATO countries, including drones, and are being carried out with the technical assistance of foreign specialists from well-known NATO member states. We have reliable information that Western capitals are feeding intelligence to the Ukrainian armed forces and helping with targeting.”
The Foreign Ministry called for an emergency session of the UN Security Council to discuss the matter, and demanded that all “international organisations, national governments, and the global community to… to resolutely condemn the brutal terrorist attack in Starobelsk… Silence would be tantamount to complicity in the bloody acts of the Kiev terrorists and indifference to the fate of the innocent children who have been killed and injured.”