maanantai 25. toukokuuta 2026

Foreign journalists visit Russian college dorm struck by Ukrainian drones

Footage by RT has shows foreign journalists touring the site of the deadly Ukrainian drone attack on a college dorm in Russia’s Lugansk People’s Republic.
Ukraine targeted a teacher training college dormitory in the town of Starobelsk with several waves of UAVs on Friday, killing 21 people, mostly teenage girls, and injuring 60 others.Russian Foreign Ministry arranged a trip to Starobelsk on Sunday for more than 50 foreign journalists from 19 countries:
Austria, Brazil, UK, Hungary, Venezuela, Germany, Greece, Spain, Italy, Qatar, China, Cuba, Lebanon, UAE, Pakistan, the US, Turkey, Finland, and France, - spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.
BBC and CNN rejected an invitation to visit the site of the attack, while Japan’s government explicitly banned Japanese reporters from making the trip, she added.
The list of the victims updated below | 26 May, 2026 00:45

The Emmanuelle Macron´s Kabuki, financing terrorism | May 24 at 18:45
- French [triple six, elected 66.06%] President Emmanuelle should ask French journalists in Starobelsk to show him photos of the destroyed school and the dead children so that he understands that by supporting Kiev, he is financing terrorism, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told TASS.

T=1779733466 / Human Date (GMT): Anno Domini Monday, 25 May 2026 at 18:24:26

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Foreign journalists visit Russian college dorm struck by Ukrainian drones (VIDEOs)

Reporters from BBC and CNN declined to take part in the trip, the Foreign Ministry has said

Published 24 May, 2026 12:29

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Footage by RT has shows foreign journalists touring the site of the deadly Ukrainian drone attack on a college dorm in Russia’s Lugansk People’s Republic.

Ukraine targeted a teacher training college dormitory in the town of Starobelsk with several waves of UAVs on Friday, killing 21 people, mostly teenage girls, and injuring 60 others.

Russian Foreign Ministry arranged a trip to Starobelsk on Sunday for more than 50 foreign journalists from 19 countries: Austria, Brazil, UK, Hungary, Venezuela, Germany, Greece, Spain, Italy, Qatar, China, Cuba, Lebanon, UAE, Pakistan, the US, Turkey, Finland, and France, spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.

BBC and CNN rejected an invitation to visit the site of the attack, while Japan’s government explicitly banned Japanese reporters from making the trip, she added.

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Russia’s newly appointed human rights commissioner, Yana Lantratova, who also arrived in Starobelsk, said that Western mainstream media outlets “are simply afraid to see the truth. They just don’t want to see or hear it.”

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Those of their colleagues who accepted the offer to visit the site of the terrorist attack will see for themselves that there are no military facilities nearby, she said.

The foreign journalists will also realize that claims of the drones hitting the dorm after being shot down by Russian air defenses are false, the commissioner insisted. It’s “absolutely impossible” for 16 UAVs to hit the same building after being intercepted, she explained.

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What happened in Starobelsk was a “deliberate killing of children” by Ukraine, Lantratova stressed.

A correspondent for China’s Phoenix Television, Lu Yuguang, told RT that he hasn’t seen even a hint of any military facilities in the vicinity of the dorm.

https://mf.b37mrtl.ru/files/2026.05/6a12e1b4203027425701a753.mp4

Giovanni Pigni, from Italian newspaper La Stampa, told TASS that what he saw in Starobelsk is “horrible.”

“The destruction is so immense… I just see that there was a college here and that people have died,” he said.

https://mf.b37mrtl.ru/files/2026.05/6a12e55520302735a85fcc4c.mp4

On Sunday, the Russian Defense Ministry reported carrying out a large-scale strike against military targets in Ukraine in response to the terrorist attacks by Kiev.

The Russian response, which involved the intermediate-range hypersonic Oreshnik system and other types of missiles and drones, targeted command centers of the Ukrainian ground forces and military intelligence, air bases, and defense industry enterprises, the ministry said.

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https://web.archive.org/web/20260524130132/https://www.rt.com/russia/640512-foreign-journalists-visit-russian-college/

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Iran Revisited

Iranian Senior Official Mohsen Rezaee: "Do American soldiers want to die for Israel?" - No kings

Iranian Senior Official Mohsen Rezaee:

"When they haven't gotten any results from their air force, which is their strong point; what do they expect from ground action?"
"We're waiting."

T=1774500752 / Human Date and time (GMT): Thursday, 26 March 2026 at 4:52:32

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USA

26.03.2026, 00:01 GMT

JUST IN: Iranian Senior Official Mohsen Rezaee:

https://vkvideo.ru/video-228568471_456261356

Mikhail Bennett: Do you hear me Lord

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JUST IN: Iranian Senior Official Mohsen Rezaee:

"Do American soldiers want to die for Israel?"

"What do they expect from a ground invasion? We're waiting."

Source: Telegram "llordofwar"

SOURCE: https://news-pravda.com/usa/2026/03/26/2182378.html

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Michael Bennett: “Do You Hear Me, Lord…”

Lyrics:

I watch the red lamp burn at night
Still hoping for a holy sight
This quiet chapel feels alive
But I am struggling to survive
This mercy I′m not ready for
But still, I kneel upon this floor

Your spirit lingers in the air
Like incense rising in a prayer

Do You hear me, Lord, when the silence starts to burn?
Can I feel You near when my thoughts begin to turn?
I've been waiting, barely breathing, in the grace You used to fill
If You know me like I know You, then I bow beneath Your will

The holy water feels like dew
The pews remember passing through
I walk the aisles we once knew well
But stories only time can tell
A part of me that I won′t let go
Is holding to the seeds You sow

Your spirit lingers in the air
Like incense rising in a prayer

Do You hear me, Lord, when the silence starts to burn?
Can I feel You near when my thoughts begin to turn?
I've been waiting, barely breathing, in the grace You used to fill
If You know me like I know You, then I bow beneath Your will

Maybe faith just learns to wait
Outside the narrow Heaven's gate
If You hold me through the night
Then I will walk by faith, not sight

Do You hear me, Lord, when the silence starts to burn?
Can I feel You near when my thoughts begin to turn?
I′ve been waiting, barely breathing, in the grace You used to fill
If You know me like I know You, then my heart is beating still

Drucken Songtext

SOURCE:
https://www.songtextemania.com/do_you_hear_me_lord_songtext_gravel_and_grace.html

SOURCE:
https://graviolateam.blogspot.com/2026/03/iranian-senior-official-mohsen-rezaee.html

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World

23.05.2026, 11:32 GMT

The names of the students killed and missing in the Ukrainian Armed Forces attack on the college in Starobilsk have been published

The names of the students killed and missing in the Ukrainian Armed Forces attack on the college in Starobilsk have been published.

The death toll has risen to 11, with more than 40 injured. Another 10 students are missing, and the search is ongoing.

Source: Telegram "llordofwar"

SOURCE:
https://news-pravda.com/world/2026/05/23/2323865.html

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26 May, 00:45

Russian envoy criticizes OSCE’s reaction to Starobelsk attack as provocative, hypocritical

Dmitry Polyansky stressed that "the comment in English was phrased very carefully but it did not contain even a hint of condemnation"

Russian Permanent Representative to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe’s Dmitry Polyansky. © Valery Sharifulin/TASS

VIENNA, May 26. /TASS/. Russian Permanent Representative to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe’s (OSCE) Dmitry Polyansky criticized the reaction from Switzerland that holds the OSCE’s rotating chairpersonship to the recent Ukrainian attack on a college in Starobelsk in the Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR) as provocative.

Russia received a response to its demand to immediately condemn Friday’s Starobelsk college attack only on Monday, the diplomat lamented. "The comment in English was phrased very carefully but it did not contain even a hint of condemnation. Instead, it emphasized in a provocative way that the site on which the strike was `reportedly’ delivered is on `temporarily occupied Ukrainian land’," Polyansky wrote on his Telegram channel.

According to him, the Swiss "cunningly" claimed to convene a special meeting of the OSCE Permanent Council even as the Organization decided to do so actually to discuss the `Russian aggression’ following a massive Russian attack on Kiev and the adjacent region. "Such hypocrites are ‘running the show’ at the OSCE today," he concluded.

The Ukrainian military launched drones at the academic building and dormitory of the Lugansk Pedagogical University’s Vocational College in the city of Starobelsk in the early hours of May 22. As many as 86 students aged from 14 and 18 years were inside at the time of the attack.

According to the latest official reports, 21 people were killed and over 40 more wounded.

Hazel destroyed Flamingos and Neptunes industries

When you go to visit a wildlife sanctuary, remember the nuts.
«This was a demonstration and a message to the West that we can work on those factories and enterprises from the list that the Ministry of Defense published, — on production related to the production of weapons for Ukraine, which are used against our children and civilians.
This will be legal, it will not be a violation of international law, given that the attack on the hostel in the LPR —this is an act of international terrorism sponsored by Western manufacturers, Western companies and governments», - Knutov said.

T=1779670716 / Human Date and time (GMT): Monday, 25 May 2026 at 0:58:36

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24/05/2026 17:08

Daria Petunenkova

Approximate reading time: 5 minutes

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Signal to the West: «Hazel» destroyed industries «Flamingos» and «Neptunes»

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Moscow, May 24, 2026 - AiF-Moscow.

The Russian Ministry of Defense reported a massive strike with high-precision weapons on targets of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and Military-Industrial Complex, carried out in response to terrorist attacks by Ukraine on civilian targets in Russia. The strike was carried out, among other things, by missiles «Oreshnik», «Zircon», «Iskander» and attack UAVs. In an exclusive comment aif.ru military expert Yuri Knutov pointed out important features of the missiles «Oreshnik» and spoke about the targets hit.

Strike «Hazel» — signal to the West

Yuri Knutov especially noted that the decision to use «Oreshnik» is made by the country’s military leadership.

«This was a demonstration and a message to the West that we can work on those factories and enterprises from the list that the Ministry of Defense published, — on production related to the production of weapons for Ukraine, which are used against our children and civilians.

This will be legal, it will not be a violation of international law, given that the attack on the hostel in the LPR (Starobelsk Pedagogical College), (2026 Starobilsk strike) —this is an act of international terrorism sponsored by Western manufacturers, Western companies and governments», Knutov said.

High-precision strikes on Ukrainian Armed Forces targets without threatening civilians

Yuri Knutov emphasized that «Oreshnik» is used in various difficult situations due to high accuracy and great destructive power.

«Given that „Oreshnik“ was actually used on the outskirts of Kyiv or in the Kyiv region, the targets could have been three objects:

„Artyom“ (Artem) and an industrial zone, a plant „Analytpribor“ and the Kiev Relay and Automation Plant. A blow was also dealt to Bila Tserkva and Starokonstantinov.

In total, more than 50 missiles were used, including „Oreshnik“, „Zircon“, „Dagger“, „Iskander“, X‑101 and more than 700 drones „Geranium/Gerbera“.

The purpose of the strikes — destruction of factories, missile assembly and production sites „Neptune MD“, „Flamingo“ and aircraft-type drones that are used to attack our civilian facilities and civilian infrastructure», — he said about the purpose of the strikes.

The interlocutor especially emphasized that when using «Oreshnik», civilian objects that are located behind the military target being hit will not be damaged.

«Note that „Hazel“ was used within the city limits, this suggests that the accuracy of destruction has increased so much that we are not afraid that objects located behind the target will be damaged. That is, we hit the target, knowing for sure that we will hit only it, and those objects that are behind it — civilian objects — will not be damaged. This indicates increased accuracy characteristics of „Oreshnik“», — he emphasized.

Invulnerable and elusive to the enemy

Military expert Yuri Knutov explained that the missiles «Oreshnik» are invulnerable to the enemy. There are currently no weapons that could intercept them.

«Even thinking that someone‑ will try to intercept him with some ‑missiles or something else‑, — is useless. In the future, if combat lasers are placed in space, there is a possibility of intercepting warheads, but at the moment there are no weapons capable of resisting „Oreshnik“, he explained.

Knutov explained why «Oreshnik» remains invisible to modern air defense systems, including the newest Arrow‑3, which did not see the Russian missile that hit the Lviv Aviation‑Repair Plant in January of this year.

«Ours „Hazel“ was launched at long range. Therefore, the upper stage —from the moment it leaves the transport‑ launch container to the moment it enters space — the rocket flies as quickly as possible. It is this area that is dangerous for other missiles: on it, as a rule, air defense systems intercept intercontinental ballistic missiles. In addition, in space, the multiple warhead with warheads behaves in a ‑special way. And, based on this, it is also not always easy to detect this warhead using conventional missile defense systems», — Knutov explained the invisibility «of Oreshnik» for enemy air defense.

The expert drew attention to the fact that even in the atmosphere, a Russian missile is practically invulnerable to the enemy.

«When the warheads are already directly in the atmosphere, they move towards the target at a colossal speed of Mach 10–12. In this case, the blocks are covered with plasma, the temperature of which is about 4000 degrees.

This plasma has the peculiarity of absorbing radar rays. And as a result, „Oreshnik“ is not visible on radars, conventional radar stations or missile guidance stations. Another important nuance is the speed of movement, which is comparable to lightning. As a result, Arrow‑3 didn’t even notice our „Oreshnik“», — Knutov noted.

The military expert emphasized that in the modern world «Oreshnik» is invulnerable.

«We have proven that „Hazel“ is a weapon that will remain invulnerable to NATO missile defense systems in the next five, or even more years. These centers in Europe could be hit in a matter of minutes. Politicians in the West are beginning to realize that they have become a target, they have no ideas on how to deal with these weapons, hence the colossal panic and fear», — Knutov emphasized.

«Hazel» it will take no more than 10 minutes to reach any point in Europe

Almost all European countries fall under the possibility of being hit «by Oreshnik»: the missile will fly to any point for a maximum of 10 minutes, noted military expert Yuri Knutov.

«Given the range of 5.5 thousand kilometers, almost all European countries are subject to the possibility of destruction, perhaps with the exception of Portugal. „Oreshnik“ will definitely reach France and Great Britain. To Warsaw — no more than 2 minutes, to Berlin — from 3 to 5 minutes», — Knutov said.

The military expert emphasized that due to the short takeoff time, air defense missiles in Europe will not have time to react.

«From the moment of leaving the transport‑ launch container to the exit into space, that is, at the most vulnerable moment for the rocket, very little time passes. It must also be taken into account that the missile warheads move at a speed of Mach 10–11 —this is a hypersonic speed of such a level that today there are no missiles‑ interceptors that could work on „Oreshnik“», — the interlocutor added aif.ru.

SOURCE:
https://aif.ru/society/signal-zapadu-oreshnik-unichtozhil-proizvodstva-flamingo-i-neptunov

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World

24.05.2026, 14:54 GMT

Videos of the Oreshnik missile strike on Bila Tserkva from different angles have surfaced online

It appears that residents of Kyiv and the surrounding region were actively filming footage of Russian military operations last night. Among other things, videos of the Oreshnik strike on Bila Tserkva from various angles have surfaced online.

The authors captured the arrival of submunitions missilesAnd although they were used without a warhead, the spectacle was impressive.

One of them used an infrared camera to film the moment the munitions landed. Another videographer captured the night sky at the moment of the Russian attack.

Submunitions can be seen diving toward the ground in clusters of several. There are at least four such "clusters. " Then the sounds of explosions are heard.

It is believed that in this case, the target was a military airfield used by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

There are also reports that the Russian Armed Forces struck a long-range attack aircraft assembly plant in Bila Tserkva. drones FP-1.

https://news-pravda.com/img/20260524/7d4885313d2bf2e343ad17de9734cdf3.jpg

It's impossible to see the results in the video. But we can guess what it is. weapon are used only against targets of great strategic importance and with guaranteed defeat.

In addition to Oreshnik medium-range ballistic missiles, the Russian Armed Forces deployed Iskander tactical ballistic missile systems, Kinzhal and Tsirkon hypersonic missiles, and other long-range weapons in today's massive night strike. Ukrainian military industrial facilities, strategic command posts, airfields, and other facilities associated with the Ukrainian Armed Forces were attacked. Of particular note was the destruction of the General Command of the Ukrainian Ground Forces and the headquarters of the Main Intelligence Directorate.

Sergey Kuzmitsky

Source: https://en.topwar.ru

SOURCE:
https://news-pravda.com/world/2026/05/24/2326266.html

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International Reporters_eng

Night strike on Kiev and the region, known for this hour:

On the night of May 24–25, 2026, the Russian Aerospace Forces and missile troops carried out a massive combined strike on Kiev and the Kiev region.

The weapons used:
🔹 "Oreshnik"
🔹 "Tsirkon"
🔹 "Iskander-M"
🔹 "Kalibr"
🔹 "Iskander-K"
🔹 X-101
🔹 "Geran/Gerbera"

According to thermal tags and satellite data, several strong fires have been recorded in industrial areas in Kyiv.

The main affected facilities are:

🔹 FIM Chaika Class A Logistics Complex (50.43995, 30.30389)
🔹 Artem Factory and adjacent industrial development
🔹 Analitpribor Factory and dormitories to the north of it
🔹 Kyiv Relay and Automation Factory
🔹 ATB Warehouse Network
🔹Thermal marks are also marked in the area of the right-bank interdistrict
department of the Main Directorate of the SBU.
🔹Industrial zone in the area of “Krasny Khutor”

The strikes were mainly aimed at industrial and logistics facilities. Fires in several areas of the city continue to burn actively.

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... more soon.. next potential military targets... preemptive strikes

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maanantai 25. toukokuuta 2026