MOSCOW, May 25. /TASS/. Russia expects Europe to recognize the Ukrainian army’s crimes; participants in the NPT Review Conference fail to reach a consensus; and a US-Iran memorandum is unlikely to bring an end to the Middle East conflict. These stories topped Monday’s newspaper headlines across Russia.
Izvestia: Europe will have to recognize Ukrainian army’s crimes
The West has chosen to ignore the horrific aftermath of the Ukrainian army’s attack on a college in the city of Starobelsk, which killed 21 people, most of them teenagers. Western representatives in the United Nations Security Council questioned Russia’s assessment of the terrorist attack, while major media outlets covered it with caution, Izvestia notes.
Europe is actually guided by the principle that Ukraine "is allowed to do whatever it wants," and it is the West’s tacit approval that has become one of the drivers behind recent Ukrainian strikes on civilian facilities, Rodion Miroshnik, the Russian Foreign Ministry’s ambassador-at-large in charge of overseeing the Kiev regime’s crimes, told the newspaper. "The question is whether international humanitarian law enshrined in the Geneva conventions, additional protocols and a whole number of other conventions can be swept under the rug or must be respected by everyone. If it applies to all, then Europe will have to recognize that Kiev has indeed committed such crimes," the diplomat pointed out.
