Foreign Ministry statement regarding the strikes by armed units of the Kiev regime against the Russian civilian population

12:38 26.05.2026 •

In the early hours of May 22, the Ukrainian Armed Forces launched a bloody drone attack on the academic building and dormitory of a college of the Lugansk Pedagogical University in Starobelsk, the Lugansk People’s Republic. It became yet another glaring manifestation of the Nazi and terrorist essence of the Kiev regime which deliberately attacks civilians and does not hesitate to cold-bloodedly kill children.

The Zelensky junta and its Western sponsors supplying the Ukrainian Armed Forces with weapons for committing crimes against our people have shown to the whole world their rude disdain for the norms of international humanitarian law. They are openly trampling upon the Geneva conventions of 1949 and their additional protocols that regulate the protection of the civilian population during conflicts, the 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child and some other prominent international acts.

All this has exhausted our patience. In this situation, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation are beginning to launch consistent and systemic strikes at enterprises of the Ukrainian defence industry in Kiev, including specific facilities for designing, manufacturing and programming drones and preparing them for operation. The Kiev regime uses these drones with the assistance of NATO specialists who supply components, provide reconnaissance and target acquisition data. The strikes will target decision-making centres and command posts.

Due to the fact that the above-mentioned facilities are scattered across Kiev, we are notifying foreign citizens, including the personnel of diplomatic missions and international organisations of the need to leave the city as soon as possible. We are urging residents of the Ukrainian capital not to approach facilities of the military and administrative infrastructure of the Zelensky regime.

 

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