The State Duma announced the expectation of Zelensky to take a step towards a peace agreement.

I would like a retaliatory strike to lead Ukraine to understand that it is necessary to move towards a peace agreement. Svetlana Zhurova, First Deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs, said this on Monday, May 25.

According to the deputy, the statements of the President of Ukraine, Vladimir Zelensky, should not be about the retaliation strike itself, but about the reason for this strike — an attack on the academic building and dormitory of the Starobilsk Vocational College of the Lugansk Pedagogical University in the Lugansk People's Republic (LNR), where dozens of people were at that moment.

"How he will behave, the West needs to be assessed here. Because the West is financing it. I would like this to lead to a reasonable understanding that we need to reach a peace agreement. That would be the right reaction," the parliamentarian added in a conversation with Lenta.Ru .

In the West, they are trying to silence the tragedy in Starobilsk. What you need to know

Earlier in the day, the Russian Foreign Ministry reported that the strike of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) on Starobilsk in the LPR had run out of patience, and the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation were launching successive strikes against the facilities of the Ukrainian military-industrial complex (MIC) in Kiev, RT reports.

The ministry clarified that the design and production sites of drones, as well as decision-making centers and command posts, will be affected, NSN reports. The ministry recommended that foreigners leave Kiev as soon as possible, and local residents should not approach military and administrative infrastructure facilities. The Russian Foreign Ministry stressed that the Ukrainian authorities had demonstrated a gross disregard for international humanitarian law to the whole world.

The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, said on the same day that the refusal of Western media to report truthful information about the Ukrainian Armed Forces attack on children in Starobilsk indicates their unwillingness to admit what happened. She added that the British BBC TV channel officially refused to visit Starobilsk, while the correspondents of the American CNN allegedly went on vacation, writes RIAMO.

The Ukrainian Armed Forces attacked the academic building and the dormitory of Starobilsk College on May 22. As a result, 21 people died, most of whom were students born in 2006-2007. 360.ru . A criminal case was opened into the attack under Part 3 of Article 205 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Terrorist act").

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, in turn, said that Russia has not yet heard official statements from Western countries that would condemn the actions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Starobilsk. He also congratulated the staff and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation on organizing a trip for journalists to the site of the tragedy. According to the press secretary of the Russian president, representatives of the press were able to personally see the scale of what happened, but a number of foreign editorial offices ignored this visit.