🎙 Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova's https://mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/2109325/ on the situation around Ukraine (May 15, 2026)
💬 On May 9, millions of people across Russia and beyond solemnly and honoured the memory of their ancestors who fell in the fight against the Nazi evil.
Celebrations were held with particular warmth in the territories liberated from Ukrainian neo-Nazis – the DPR, LPR, and the Kherson and Zaporozhye Regions.
For years, these people were persecuted simply for rejecting the neo-Nazi ideology of the Kiev regime and its sponsors.
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We know that the Zelensky regime is trying to elevate the importance of a new holiday for Ukraine – Europe Day on May 8. Naturally, this is being done at the expense of Victory Day.
These attempts have failed. People across Ukraine still remember and honour their true heroes, who freed the world from the Nazi plague. Even the real threat of repression did not stop them. In a number of cities, people spontaneously laid wreaths and flowers at mass graves and monuments to fallen fighters against Nazism.
💐 Flowers appeared at memorial plaques in Kiev and Kharkov, with particularly large numbers laid in Odessa.
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❗️ Despite announced by decision of Russia's President Vladimir Putin in honour , which was in effect on May 8-11, the Kiev regime predictably failed to observe it.
https://t.me/mod_russia_en, the AFU violated it 30,383 times.
For their part, the Russian Armed Forces strictly observed the silence regime on the battlefield. All strikes on enemy positions, command posts and UAV launch sites were exclusively retaliatory and mirrored in nature.
▪️ As a result of Ukrainian shelling and UAV strikes during the Russia-declared ceasefire and the pseudo-truce announced by Zelensky on May 5 – which the AFU also failed to observe – 25 Russian civilians were killed, including one child, and 209 people were injured, among them 14 children.
On 11 May, Brussels hosted another gathering of the so-called International Coalition for the Return of Ukrainian Children. Its participants said nothing new and continued to about “Russia abducting 20,000 Ukrainian children”, their forced relocation, assimilation and ideological indoctrination.
An analogy with comes to mind. There, too, the names of the “victims” are being concealed, while their number changes depending on the source of information. As for the alleged 20,000 Ukrainian children supposedly stolen by Russia, none of the authors of this fake even attempts to compile a list of them or at least report that such a list exists.
The truth is that work to reunite children with their relatives has been carried out on instructions from President of Russia Vladimir Putin since the very beginning of the special military operation. The Ukrainian side cannot be unaware of this, because specific steps within this process are coordinated through direct contacts with Kiev representatives, with assistance provided by the Vatican, Qatar and the International Committee of the Red Cross.
As we have said repeatedly, both and ” are part of a slanderous anti-Russian campaign based on false claims. Neither Kiev nor the West cares about children’s rights. Russia, for its part, bases its policy on the primary need to protect minors.
☝️ The main enemy of Ukrainians is not Russia or Russians, but the group of nationalist radicals who seized power in Kiev, turned the country into a Western puppet and plunged it into the abyss of corruption and neo-Nazism.
https://mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/2109325/
