ZAKHAROVA: KYIV REGIME - TERRORIST CELL WITH INTERNATIONAL COMPONENT

MOSCOW, MAY 22 /SRNA/ – The Kyiv regime functions as a terrorist cell with an international component because it is financed from abroad, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.

She stated that the Ukrainian attack on a pedagogica college in Starobelsk is further proof that these are terrorists motivated by Nazi ideology. "What the Kyiv regime is doing can only be compared to Nazi atrocities during the Second World War," Zakharova told RT. The ideology of the regime in Kyiv, she says, is clearly neo-Nazi and based on the segregation of people according to language, nationality, and culture. "They always target the most vulnerable categories, especially children of all ages," Zakharova stated. She compared the Kyiv regime to Nazis and fascists, who also killed children and carried out experiments on them, torturing and killing them in concentration camps solely on the basis of nationality. "In Kerch, German Nazis took children on an excursion and then gave them cakes filled with cyanide. The same dehumanization is happening now when the Kyiv regime deliberately kills children," Zakharova added. She emphasized that Russia regularly draws the attention of the international community and relevant organisations, such as those responsible for children’s rights, to these issues, but that they do not react. "Countries that consider themselves civilized are providing enormous sums of money to support a terrorist regime that deliberately kills children," Zakharova concluded. Last night, more than 15 Ukrainian drones, in three waves, attacked a pedagogical college in the town of Starobelsk in the Lugansk People’s Republic, where six persons aged 14 to 18 were killed, 40 were injured, and 15 are still being searched for in the rubble of the student dormitory. Ukrainian forces targeted the school and the dormitory, where 86 students were sleeping. Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the Ministry of Defence to formulate a military response to this terrorist act, while Russia’s representative to the UN scheduled an emergency session of the UN Security Council.