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Russia Today
24-05-2025
- Politics
- Russia Today
Kiev's Western backers to blame for massive drone strikes on civilians
Kiev's Western backers, including the EU and the UK, bear responsibility for the latest series of Ukrainian drone strikes targeting Russian civilians, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has told a Q&A session in Moscow. Western nations want to disrupt the renewed peace talks between Russia and Ukraine as they pursue their narrow political goals, he said. The minister was referring to a series of large-scale drone raids launched by Kiev's forces this week. According to the Russian military, 776 drones and 12 missiles were intercepted above the country's territory between Tuesday and Friday morning, while 12 drones hit their targets. On Saturday morning, the Russian Defense Ministry reported that another 104 UAVs had been intercepted inside Russia overnight. Kiev's aggressive actions are due to the support that 'some European nations led by the UK, France, Germany, and the EU leadership' lend to the 'Ukrainian Nazis,' Lavrov said on Friday. 'We are convinced that they bear their share of responsibility for these crimes,' he stated, adding that Moscow would seek to 'put an end to this policy.' Lavrov said the goal of Kiev's backers was to disrupt the peace talks that were renewed in Istanbul last week after President Vladimir Putin offered to resume negotiations without any preconditions. Russia is currently 'actively working' on a draft peace proposal and will be ready to present it to the Ukrainian side following a major prisoner exchange being carried out by Moscow and Kiev over the weekend, he said. Moscow is committed to peace 'despite any provocations,' the minister stated. The EU and the UK are only 'fueling' the conflict and encouraging Ukraine's Vladimir Zelensky and his government to continue the bloodshed, Russia's top diplomat said. Even their calls for an immediate and unconditional ceasefire are a disguise for a desire to continue pumping Ukraine with weapons, Lavrov believes. 'They've bet their reputation on dragging Europe into a war against Russia to facilitate the militarization of Europe,' the minister warned, adding that Western governments plan to allocate 'huge sums' of money to that goal. 'There is certainly Europe's responsibility' in prolonging the Ukraine conflict, Lavrov said. He added that EU leaders would 'find it hard to shed this responsibility.'
Russia Today
04-03-2025
- Politics
- Russia Today
New evidence of Ukrainian war crimes emerges
Several more bodies of civilians have been discovered in Russkoye Porechnoye, a village in Kursk Region, a Telegram channel affiliated with the Russian military has reported. Russia's Investigative Committee previously opened a case into the deaths of dozens of locals at the hands of Kiev's troops that had been occupying the village before its liberation in January. The bodies were found on the outskirts of the village, the 'Severny Veter' ('Northern Wind') Telegram channel reported on Monday. Russian troops were only able to scout the area after neutralizing Ukrainian firing positions in the neighboring village of Cherkasskoye Porechnoye, the channel said. 'We are deeply sorry [to say] that bodies of locals that were brutally murdered by Ukrainian Nazis were discovered in the area,' said the channel. It did not specify the exact number of bodies found, but said that the information has already been handed over to Russia's investigative authorities. 'Severny Veter' also published a video from the scene showing at least two bodies, with one lying in the yard of a private house and another discovered in what appears to be a cellar or a room of a building filled with debris and rubble. The Russian Investigative Committee has not commented on these developments so far. Russkoye Porechnoye was liberated in early January following months of occupation. Ukrainian troops launched a major cross-border incursion into Kursk Region last August, marking the largest attack on internationally recognized Russian territory since the escalation of hostilities between Moscow and Kiev in February 2022. The area under Ukrainian control has been steadily shrinking, with the Russian military retaking the occupied territories. Last month, the Russian General Staff reported that around two thirds of the territory that had initially been captured by the Ukrainian military during the incursion has been liberated. Following the liberation of Russkoye Porechnoye, Russian investigators alleged that Kiev's troops had raped, tortured, and murdered the local inhabitants. They published gruesome videos of bodies piled in cellars in some of the homes inside the community. Several captured Ukrainian servicemen acknowledged committing the crimes while being interrogated, saying they had been acting on the orders of their commanders. A total of 22 civilians were killed in the village, the Investigative Committee said in January, adding that the Ukrainian soldiers had also raped at least eight local women before killing them. According to Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, Kiev's troops had turned the cellars of the local homes into 'torture chambers.'
