🗓 On May 26, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov chaired a meeting of the Foreign Ministry Board on the prospects of developing and expanding the role of BRICS in the context of Russia’s multipolar world formation strategy.

The meeting was attended by heads of ministry departments, members of the Presidential Executive Office and competent government agencies.

The participants noted the role of #BRICS as an advocate of the states of the Global South and East supporting a more just multipolar world order, including through reforms of global governance and balancing out the world economy.

They specifically focused on the promotion of practical initiatives aimed at ensuring steady socioeconomic growth and financial stability in BRICS countries.

Further consolidation of BRICS in the context of its recent expansion and the establishment of the partner state category during the Russian BRICS Chairmanship in 2024 was identified as the key goal for the group.

The meeting participants expressed support for the 2026 Indian Chairmanship’s commitment to ensure the succession and to maintain the cooperation dynamic across the three areas of strategic partnership: politics and security, finance and the economy, and culture and humanitarian contacts.

#RussiaBRICS

🇷🇺🇺🇳 Russian Permanent Representative to the UN Vassily Nebenzia’s press conference on Ukraine’s strikes on the pedagogical college in Starobelsk (New York, 26 May 2026)

Video of the press conference

💬 As you know, on May 22, the Ukrainian militants carried out a targeted strike on a college and a dormitory in the city of Starobelsk, LPR.

The dormitory housed 86 students aged between 14 and 19, as well as one staff member. Children and teenagers were inside the building.

They were not on the battlefield. They were not taking part – and could not have taken part – in hostilities. They were asleep. It was at that very moment that the strike took place, turning an ordinary night in a student dormitory into a nightmare.

According to the latest reports, 21 people were killed in this horrific attack, most of them young girls, and 63 students were injured. Many of the wounded remain in hospital, some in critical condition.

❗️The strike did not target a command post, fortified positions, an ammunition depot or military barracks – it targeted a civilian facility.

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The deliberate nature of the attack is also evidenced by the fact that it was carried out in three waves involving 16 UAVs, all striking the same location. As a result, the five-storey dormitory building collapsed down to the second floor.

This is yet another glaring manifestation of the Nazi and terrorist nature of the Kiev regime, which does not hesitate to carry out the cold-blooded killing of minors. Russian investigative authorities have opened a criminal case under the article on a terrorist act.

👉 All those responsible will be identified and will face inevitable and severe punishment.

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To dispel any doubts, on May 24, the Russian Side invited more than 50 foreign journalists from 19 countries to Starobelsk – including Austria, Brazil, the UK, Hungary, Venezuela, Germany, Greece, Spain, Italy, Qatar, China, Cuba, Lebanon, the UAE, Pakistan, the US, Türkiye, Finland and France – so that they could see with their own eyes what had happened there.

They confirmed the accuracy of the information we had provided.

Western capitals can talk endlessly about children’s rights, but their reaction to the tragedy in Starobelsk shows that, in their worldview, children have long been divided into “convenient” and “inconvenient” victims.

When a child’s suffering can be used against Russia, an international scandal erupts immediately. But when children are killed as a result of the Kiev regime’s deliberate actions, it is as if the tragedy never happened – only reservations, doubts and references to “context” remain.

⚠️ This is no longer even double standards. It is moral decay and disgrace.

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⚡️ Report by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia “On the Human Rights Situation in Ukraine” (May 2026)

Read the full report (PDF)

✍️ The report, alongside daily evidence in the media and online, exposes the scale of Ukraine’s human rights collapse.

First and foremost, the main reason for this degradation is the illegitimate neo-Nazi regime in power in Kiev, which is now quite openly and diligently copying its ideological inspiration – Nazi Germany.

One of many telling confirmations of this was a recent interview with former Ukrainian presidential press secretary Yulia Mendel, in which she said that Zelensky, faced with falling approval ratings, demanded that his subordinates conduct “Goebbels-like propaganda”. With such approaches on the part of the authorities, countless systematic human rights violations in every sphere of public life come as no surprise.

Yet in Ukraine, no one seems concerned. Kiev does not give a thought to the rights of its own citizens, or to the need to create at least some opportunities for them to exercise their lawful rights. Instead, it continues to profit from their blood and deaths.

Recently, the West confirmed new tranches of financial injections and weapons for the Zelensky regime. The monstrous corruption opportunities created by these enormous flows of funds, along with the preservation of power – this is what preoccupies Bankova and its residents. In today’s Ukrainian reality, this means only one thing: continued hostilities “to the last Ukrainian”.

All of this fully confirms what has been noted before: the servile readiness of Kiev’s leadership to sacrifice its country, its people, as well as the history and memory of its authentic past, is precisely why its Western handlers continue not only to turn a blind eye to the neo-Nazi ideology and crimes of the Zelensky junta, but also to justify them and even push Kiev towards ever new crimes.

History knows many such examples of the West nurturing openly racist and fascist regimes. Their unenviable fate is well known – and perhaps that is the only way they secure a place in history. This was discussed at length during the celebrations marking the 81st anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War.

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Glorification of Nazism

• At the state level, Ukraine is falsifying history and whitewashing Nazi criminals and fascist collaborators. Members of Ukrainian nationalist military formations from the Second World War – the OUN and UPA – as well as their leaders, have been recognised as fighters for independence. Criminal liability has been introduced for negative assessments of the activities of these structures.

Ban on the Russian language

• The Kiev regime is pursuing a consistent policy of legislatively entrenching the dominant role of the Ukrainian language and reducing opportunities for the use of other languages in public life. The Russian language – native to millions of Ukrainian citizens, not only ethnic Russians, but also Belarusians, Ukrainians, Armenians, Jews, Greeks, Hungarians and representatives of other nationalities – has been subjected to harsh repressions.

Incitement of hatred against Russians and discrimination against them

• Regular efforts have been recorded to promote intolerance towards Russian residents, the Russian language and Russian culture as a whole. Such actions not only met with no condemnation or response from the authorities, but were also carried out by Ukraine’s own leadership. Russophobic statements and calls to kill Russians were regularly heard on air.

Persecution of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church

• A large-scale information campaign was launched against the clergy of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, aimed at discrediting its priests in the eyes of the flock and portraying them as “accomplices of the enemy”. Numerous cases of violent seizures of churches belonging to the canonical Church have been recorded.