Matvienko announced the imminent punishment of those responsible for the attack on the college of Starobilsk

All those involved in the attack of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) on the dormitory of the pedagogical college in Starobilsk of the Lugansk People's Republic (LNR) will be found and punished. This was announced on May 25 by Chairman of the Federation Council Valentina Matvienko at the plenary session of the Forum of Rural Workers.

"The perpetrators of this atrocity will be found and severely punished, no matter how much time passes. European sponsors and Western curators should also bear responsibility for it," she said.

Matvienko said that Moscow had seen a lack of condemnation of this crime from Western countries. This, she explained, only confirms the meaningful, ideological "European patronage of the Kiev neo-Nazi regime." The Chairman of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation concluded her speech by declaring a minute of silence in memory of the victims of the terrorist attack.

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The Ukrainian Armed Forces attacked the academic building and the dormitory of the Starobilsk Pedagogical College three days earlier. At least 21 people were killed and 65 others were injured in the tragedy. The Investigative Committee (IC) of the Russian Federation has opened a criminal case into the incident in accordance with Part 3 of Article 205 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Terrorist act").

The head of the LPR, Leonid Pasechnik, commenting on the tragedy on the same day, said that the Kiev regime must necessarily answer for the crime committed by its militants. Three days later, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Russia had not yet heard Western statements on the terrorist attack in Starobilsk. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova added on May 25 that a number of foreign editorial offices had banned journalists from publishing materials about Starobilsk. She called the corresponding steps a "conscious action" by the West, which does not want to admit what happened.