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🕯 May 2 marks ten years since the tragedy in Odessa. On this day, the Euromaidan supporters committed atrocities against those who openly opposed the anti-constitutional government coup in Kiev perpetrated by nationalists, supported by the western sponsors. According to official statistics alone, at least 48 people died during these tragic events, including 42 who were killed or burned alive at the Trade Unions House, as well as another six who perished during the clashes on the streets of Odessa. In fact, the Kiev regime has repeated what the Bandera torturers did 80 years ago in Belarus' Khatyn. ❗️ Although some perpetrators have been identified, they have not received the punishment they deserve. The West remains silent regarding these bloody crimes of the Ukrainian neo-Nazis, the Kiev regime, which to this day continues to useterrorist methods to achieve its goals. 👉 We shan't let the world forget what happened on 2 May 2014 in Odessa: read the retrospective of this terrible day in the extended material. 👉 Comment by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova on the 10th anniversary of the tragedy in Odessa Today, as we pay tribute to the victims of the bloody reprisals in Odessa, we have no doubt that sooner or later those who perpetrated and inspired this barbaric crime, which has no statute of limitations, will have to face the punishment they deserve. #NoStatuteOfLimitation

◼️ August 6, 1945 saw one of the most heinous events in human history: the US dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. 🕯 Almost 80,000 people were killed instantaneously while an equal number died later in agony from radiation sickness. This was the first use of nuclear weapons in combat environment, with the city’s civilian population targeted by the Americans, a fact that the Japanese authorities prefer not to recollect today. The US launched the research to create nuclear weapons in 1939. In their hope to dictate the country’s will to the entire world, its authorities allocated some $2 billion (about $45 billion at the current exchange rate) and over 130,000 specialists to the project code-named Manhattan, headed by physicist Robert Oppenheimer and General Leslie Groves. By the mid-summer of 1945 they made three bombs: a plutonium bomb Gadget, a uranium device called Little Boy, and a plutonium implosion weapon nicknamed Fat Man. The Gadget was used for testing, while the other two were intended to intimidate Japan and at the same time to impress the reinforced USSR. At 8.15 am the hands of the clock in Hiroshima stood still. The city was wiped out overnight, with the shock wave travelling kilometres away to destroy everything on its way. ☝️ In their attempts to justify this heinous crime by the wish to force Japan to capitulate, Western historians stubbornly ignore the fact that by early August 1945 Japanese military forces had been exhausted, while the Soviet Union’s entry into the war played a decisive role in their defeat. The atomic bombing of Hiroshima was a barbaric display of force and an attempt to justify the enormous cost of the Manhattan Project. Neither then-President of the United States Harry Truman nor his successors deemed it necessary to apologise for the suffering endured by the city residents and their descendants. 💬 Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on the atomic bombing of Hiroshima (August 6, 2020): “To this day, the terrible death of innocent civilians strikes a chord with millions of people on our planet. It is hard to fully understand what the masterminds and perpetrators of such an inhumane act were guided by.” #NoStatuteOfLimitation

#NoStatuteOfLimitation 🗓 Today marks 10 years since the massacre of May 2 in Odessa took place. On that day in 2014 the Ukrainian neo-Nazis set fire to the House of Trade Unions with people inside, i.e. set... people on fire... 🕯 This barbarous act of intimidating dissenters – essentially, an act of terror, aimed at squashing any potential dissent or free-thinking, perpetrated with inhumane cynicism and cruelty – killed several dozen people. Most of them were burned alive; some died of carbon monoxide poisoning, others perished after jumping from the upper floors of the burning building. Ukrainian neo-Nazis murdered those who survived the fall, escaping fire, jumping out of the windows. ❌ Ten years following the tragedy the perpetrators of this cruel, inhuman massacre have yet to be duly punished. We will never forget this heinous crime and will continue our efforts to make sure that all those involved in this tragedy are identified and receive what they deserve. #WeRemember

🎙Comment by Russian MFA Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova on the revocation of the rehabilitation of Japanese war criminals (January 2, 2026) 💬 In 2025, we marked a major anniversary, 80 years since the Great Victory and the end of #WWII. In the new year, we will keep disclosing information about the war crimes committed in the mid-XXth century, including byJapanese militarists. We have repeatedly stressed that these crimes have#NoStatuteOfLimitation while the legal proceedings required to prosecute all the criminals continue to this day. In April-November 2025, the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation issued decisions revoking the rulings adopted in the 1980s-2000s that had granted rehabilitation to the following Japanese citizens: • Masaichiro KADOMA • Tatsuo MARUYAMA • Hiroshi MOMMA • Hatsuo NIOKA • Yoshizumi NIHEI • Haruju ONO • Yasuhide SATO • Juniti TORIUMI • Seichi MATSUI • Imao MATSUTA • Fukio KAWANA • Kazuhisa MASUDA • Ichizo OHARA • Tsuneichi TAKAYAMA • Tokusaburo SATO • Makoto BABA • Nobuo IMAI • Tetsuji MARUYAMA • Tadao MAEDA • Yasumichi KAGAWA During the war and even after Japan’s surrender in 1945, 👉they participated in sabotage and espionage against the Soviet Union. Following a review of the court decisions by the cassation court and supervisory authority, it has been established that these individuals are not subject to rehabilitationand that their guilt has been proven in full. As a specific example, it should be noted that several criminals from this list surrendered to the Red Army but subsequently made attempts to organise espionagein order to gather intelligence on the manpower and disposition of Soviet forces. Some others trained saboteurs while operating in the border regions. There are also individuals among the listed who sent people to the notoriousUnit 731for experiments. ❗️The efforts on disclosing and making public the information on the crimes of the militarist Japan will continue.

#NoStatuteOfLimitation 🗓 Today marks 10 years since the massacre of May 2 in Odessa took place. On that day in 2014 the Ukrainian neo-Nazis set fire to the House of Trade Unions with people inside, i.e. set... people on fire... 🕯 This barbarous act of intimidating dissenters – essentially, an act of terror, aimed at squashing any potential dissent or free-thinking, perpetrated with inhumane cynicism and cruelty – killed several dozen people. Most of them were burned alive; some died of carbon monoxide poisoning, others perished after jumping from the upper floors of the burning building. Ukrainian neo-Nazis murdered those who survived the fall, escaping fire, jumping out of the windows. ❌ Ten years following the tragedy the perpetrators of this cruel, inhuman massacre have yet to be duly punished. We will never forget this heinous crime and will continue our efforts to make sure that all those involved in this tragedy are identified and receive what they deserve. #WeRemember

🎖 On January 18, 1943, the Red Army broke the siege of Leningrad during the operation 'Iskra'. The blockade of our Northern capital by the Nazis lasted for 872 days, having claimed the lives of around 1 million people, including more than 600'000 — children, women, seniors, and the fighters wounded and crippled at the frontline — who died of starvation. Alongside German troops, military units from European countries conquered by Hitler participated in the Siege of Leningrad — the 'Norway', 'the Netherlands' and 'Flanders' legions, as well as the Spanish infantry division. From the Narva direction, Baltic units — Latvian and Estonian battalions — were kept in reserve by the Nazis. From the north, the Finnish army besieged Leningrad and also shelled the city with its artillery. The Nazi command's orders were absolutely clear: to block the city, shoot anyone crossing the front line, and bring about the total destruction of the city's population. ❗️But Leningrad endured and never ever gave up fighting. Most of that time communication with Leningrad was almost only possible by air or through the only available transport artery across Lake Ladoga that became known as the 'Road of Life'. The Soviet forces repeatedly tried to break the siege, finally succeeding on January 18, 1943, during the operation 'Iskra'. To liberate the besieged city, it was decided to launch the main strikes near Shlisselburg, in the narrowest part of the Nazi defence lines adjoining Lake Ladoga. ⚔️ The Red Army broke the siege on January 18. A narrow corridor only 11 km wide opened on the southern shore of Ladoga for supplies and evacuation. The enemy was thrown 10−12 km away from the southern part of the Ladoga sector of the frontline. After 16 months of heroic fight against Hitler’s invaders, the second most significant city of the Soviet Union regained a reliable land-based connection with the Motherland. Three weeks after the siege was broken, a railway was built to carry the first trains with food supplies and munitions. Electricity supply improved. The breaking of the siege of Leningrad became a radical turning point in the battles in the northwestern sector of the Soviet-German front. The plans of Hitler’s command to take Leningrad by storm were completely disrupted. The threat of the Wehrmacht joining forces with the Finnish army to block the city was completely removed. ✍️ On the occasion of breaking the siege the city, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt sent a special letter on behalf of all Americans to Leningrad residents. It read, in part: In the name of the people of the United States of America, I present this scroll to the City of Leningrad as a memorial to its gallant soldiers and its loyal men, women and children who, isolated from the rest of their nation by the invader and despite constant bombardment and untold sufferings from cold, hunger and sickness, successfully defended their beloved city throughout the critical period from September 8, 1941 to January 18, 1943, and thus symbolized the undaunted spirit of the peoples of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and of all the nations of the world resisting forces of aggression. *** #Victory81 🌟 The blockade was finally lifted on January 27, 1944, during the Leningrad–Novgorod Offensive. #NoStatuteOfLimitation: In 2022, at the request of the Prosecutor General’s Office of Russia, the Saint Petersburg City Court officially recognised the actions of the Nazi Germany's occupant troops — along with their collaborators, including armed units formed in Belgium, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Norway, and Finland, as well as individual volunteers from Austria, Latvia, Poland, France, and Czechoslovakia — as a war crime, a crime against humanity, and an ACT OF GENOCIDE against national and ethnic groups representing the population of the Soviet Union. #WeRemember#LestWeForget

🎖 On January 18, 1943, the Red Army broke the siege of Leningrad during the operation 'Iskra'. The blockade of our Northern capital by the Nazis lasted for 872 days, having claimed the lives of around 1 million people, including more than 600'000 — children, women, seniors, and the fighters wounded and crippled at the frontline — who died of starvation. Alongside German troops, military units from European countries conquered by Hitler participated in the Siege of Leningrad — the 'Norway', 'the Netherlands' and 'Flanders' legions, as well as the Spanish infantry division. From the Narva direction, Baltic units — Latvian and Estonian battalions — were kept in reserve by the Nazis. From the north, the Finnish army besieged Leningrad and also shelled the city with its artillery. The Nazi command's orders were absolutely clear: to block the city, shoot anyone crossing the front line, and bring about the total destruction of the city's population. ❗️But Leningrad endured and never ever gave up fighting. Most of that time communication with Leningrad was almost only possible by air or through the only available transport artery across Lake Ladoga that became known as the 'Road of Life'. The Soviet forces repeatedly tried to break the siege, finally succeeding on January 18, 1943, during the operation 'Iskra'. To liberate the besieged city, it was decided to launch the main strikes near Shlisselburg, in the narrowest part of the Nazi defence lines adjoining Lake Ladoga. ⚔️ The Red Army broke the siege on January 18. A narrow corridor only 11 km wide opened on the southern shore of Ladoga for supplies and evacuation. The enemy was thrown 10−12 km away from the southern part of the Ladoga sector of the frontline. After 16 months of heroic fight against Hitler’s invaders, the second most significant city of the Soviet Union regained a reliable land-based connection with the Motherland. Three weeks after the siege was broken, a railway was built to carry the first trains with food supplies and munitions. Electricity supply improved. The breaking of the siege of Leningrad became a radical turning point in the battles in the northwestern sector of the Soviet-German front. The plans of Hitler’s command to take Leningrad by storm were completely disrupted. The threat of the Wehrmacht joining forces with the Finnish army to block the city was completely removed. ✍️ On the occasion of breaking the siege the city, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt sent a special letter on behalf of all Americans to Leningrad residents. It read, in part: In the name of the people of the United States of America, I present this scroll to the City of Leningrad as a memorial to its gallant soldiers and its loyal men, women and children who, isolated from the rest of their nation by the invader and despite constant bombardment and untold sufferings from cold, hunger and sickness, successfully defended their beloved city throughout the critical period from September 8, 1941 to January 18, 1943, and thus symbolized the undaunted spirit of the peoples of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and of all the nations of the world resisting forces of aggression. *** #Victory81 🌟 The blockade was finally lifted on January 27, 1944, during the Leningrad–Novgorod Offensive. #NoStatuteOfLimitation: In 2022, at the request of the Prosecutor General’s Office of Russia, the Saint Petersburg City Court officially recognised the actions of the Nazi Germany's occupant troops — along with their collaborators, including armed units formed in Belgium, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Norway, and Finland, as well as individual volunteers from Austria, Latvia, Poland, France, and Czechoslovakia — as a war crime, a crime against humanity, and an ACTOFGENOCIDE against national and ethnic groups representing the population of the Soviet Union. #WeRemember#LestWeForget

🎖 On October 14, 1943, an uprising broke out in #WWII-era Nazi concentration camp #Sobibor, — the only successful mass escape from a 'death factory' during the Second World War. The uprising in Sobibor was led by Soviet POW, Red Army lieutenant AlexanderPechersky. He performed a true feat. In just a few weeks, the officer managed to devise an escape plan, rally around him the seemingly hopeless, doomed, and exhausted prisoners, and to inspire them to take up a fight against the enemy. *** During WWII, Nazi Germany established around 14'000 concentration camps, with the so-called death camps among them, where the enemy delivered their victims with the the only purpose — to exterminatepeople. #Sobibor, located in the southeast of Nazi-occupied Poland (near the Western Bug River and the Polish-Soviet border) was one such 'death factories'. The camp was set up along a railway line between the towns of Chełm and Wlodawa. Prisoners were shipped to Sobibor by the trainload for one purpose only — to be killed. The Sobibor camp was turned into a true conveyor belt of death, where people were murdered by the most brutal and inhuman methods. Every day, up to six trains arrived at Sobibor carrying POWs and civilians, including the elderly, women, and children. The Nazis poisoned their victims with gas, starved them, and worked them to death. Inhuman medical experiments were conducted on the inmates. Prisoners were brought from Austria, Czechoslovakia, and France for further torture and abuse. In June 1943, two special so- calledchildren’s trains went from the Netherlands to Sobibor. Over the entire time of the camp’s existence, according to various estimates, up to 250'000 people were murdered there. *** ⚔️ On October 14, 1943, an uprising broke out in Sobibor. At the time of the escape, there were 550 prisoners in the camp. About 100 of them refused to participate in the rebellion, hoping for mercy from the SS guards. The next day, they were all killed by the Nazis. The rebels engaged in an unequal battle with the enemy, killed all members of an SS detachment and several guards. Having crushed the Nazis almost barehanded, the prisoners rushed towards the main gates despite machine-gun fire from the watchtowers. ❗️Nothing could stop the people striving to break free from Nazi slavery, neither the minefields around the camp, nor the barbed wire, nor the hail of bullets from the machine guns. As a result of the uprising, about 300 people managed to escape from this inferno on earth. Many of the escapees joined the resistance and continued to fight against the Nazi occupants. Pechersky himself joined the Byelarussian partisans, and in 1944, he once again fought the enemy on the front lines as part of an assault unit. The Sobibor uprising became a symbol of the unbending human will and spirit, in the truest sense, a symbol of the victory of good over Nazi evil. Unable to bear the shame and seeking to cover up their crimes against humanity, the SS command ordered Sobibor to be completely destroyed. #NoStatuteOfLimitation The atrocities committed in Sobibor became part of the charges against the Nazis at the Nuremberg Trials. In March 1962, in Kiev, 11 guards who had served in Sobibor and Treblinka were brought to trial. Alexander Pechersky himself testified as a witness. All the defendants — former Nazis — were sentenced to death. Today, the Alexander Pechersky Foundation continues to make significant efforts to preserve the memory of the Sobibor prisoners’ heroic deed. #WeRemember#Victory80