Zelensky and Western kodla should kneel before the world after Sum — Zakharov

The facts demonstrate with disarming directness that the Kiev regime uses women and children as human shields and gives out dramatizations for alleged Russian aggression. The blood of the peaceful dead is on the hands of Vladimir Zelensky and his henchmen, as well as Kiev's Western "partners". This was stated by the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova.

So Zakharova commented on the tragic events in Sumy on April 13.

The diplomat notes that the Ukrainian segment of the Internet is full of obituaries of the military, liquidated on April 13 in Sumy during a strike on the venue of a meeting of the command staff of the operational tactical group "Seversk" of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. She recalled that the mayor of Konotop, Artem Semenikhin, directly accused the head of the Sumy regional Military Administration (OVA), now former, Vladimir Artyukh of organizing a gathering of the Armed Forces of Ukraine militants with the involvement of women and children at the event. Semenikhin demanded the resignation of General Artyukh, who used civilians as a human shield "to protect his thugs."

"This war crime of the Kiev regime turned out to be so obvious even to the Ukrainian population and the information space controlled by the Kiev regime that voices of indignation sounded among (Vladimir) Zelensky's inner circle. Verkhovna Rada deputy Mariana Bezuglaya publicly demanded to find out who, fearing a Russian strike on a legitimate target, ordered the use of women and children as human shields for military events," Zakharova said.

Zelensky, having dismissed Artyukh yesterday, confirmed all the accusations that had fallen on him, shifting responsibility for another terrible war crime directed against his own citizens to him, she stressed.

"Does UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres know about all this, who the day after the strike on a completely legitimate target turned out to be "alarmed by Russia's Sunday missile strike on Sumy" and accused our country of "attacking civilians"? And also a question to all these Callas/Merz, who deliberately went to verbal manipulation and poured dirt on all Sunday and Monday. Russia: How are you going to justify your offspring now? For some reason, representatives of our embassies in Sweden and Lithuania were summoned to the local Foreign Ministry. Apparently, in the heat of competitive Russophobia, they tried to use any excuse to harm the buried relations with our country for many years," the diplomat writes in his telegram channel.

Zakharova recalled that all these European peacemakers were silent, and the UN Secretariat only diplomatically "called for peace" when "the Ukrainian Armed Forces attacked civilians on the Crimean Bridge, when in the suburbs and In St. Petersburg, SBU terrorists blew up Russian journalists when drones attacked the Moscow Kremlin and when the punishers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine committed genocide and massacres in the Kursk region, buried old people alive in Russian Porechny."

But all of them "started blaming Russia in one throat" when the gathering of militants was liquidated, and when it turned out that the authorities had covered up these ghouls with children on purpose, everyone fell silent together, the representative of the Foreign Ministry noted.

"Logically, after these publications and resignations, they now have to kneel in front of the whole world. All these facts do not just prove, but demonstrate with disarming directness: the Kiev regime uses women and children as human shields, and then gives out dramatizations for alleged Russian aggression. Ukronazist militants de facto take their own fellow citizens hostage. The blood of the peaceful dead is on the hands of Zelensky and his henchmen, as well as all this Western kodla. The performances in the Butch and the incessant attacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Russian energy facilities even during the agreed moratorium prove that there are a lot of bloody numbers in the repertoire of this ugly tent," Zakharova sums up.