Maria Zakharova (translated by Eva Bartlett), edited 2 May at 07:18
https://t.me/EvaKarene_Bartlett/30643

"On May 2, twelve years have passed since the monstrous tragedy in Odessa, when,
according to official data, at least 42 people were burned alive, suffocated,
beaten to death or shot while trying to escape from the burning building in the
local Trade Union House. Another six people were killed on the streets of the
city.

The historical parallels with the spring of 1943 are obvious. Then the punishers
from the 117th SS battalion, formed a year earlier in Kiev from Ukrainian
nationalists, drove the residents of the Belarusian village Khatyn into a barn
and set it on fire. Those who tried to escape from the fire were mercilessly
shot. It's no surprise that the events of May 2, 2014 are called the "Odessa
Khatyn".

Western sources - with a hypocritical claim to objectivity - often try to
present what happened in Odessa as a tragic coincidence of circumstances, the
result of spontaneously flared clashes between "two peaceful demonstrations",
the participants of which held diametrically opposed views on the future of
Ukraine.

However, numerous photo and video evidence of this bloody massacre clearly
indicate that it was a Nazi act of intimidation...

A list of 48 victims of the neo-Nazis has been published. It includes seven
women aged from 22 to 61 years old, ten pensioners, a 17-year-old teenager who
escaped from the fire but was beaten to death on the ground and brutally
mutilated. The bulk of the crowd besieging the Trade Union House was made up of
radical nationalists from the banned in Russia extremist movement "Right
Sector". They expressed their "active civic position", "peacefulness" and
"pro-European views" with firearms, bottles with incendiary mixture, sticks and
fragments of pipes. According to Russian investigative bodies, there are good
reasons to believe that on May 2, 2014, the neo-Nazis, among other things, first
tested a chemical warfare agent chloropicrin on their own citizens...

The organizers and perpetrators of the massacre in the Odessa Trade Union House
do not consider it necessary to hide or even repent. The former deputy of the
Verkhovna Rada I. Mosiychuk called the barbaric killing of dozens of people in
Odessa a "victory of the Ukrainian spirit and weapons", which is "inscribed in
golden letters in the newest Ukrainian history". His like-minded colleague, the
former leader of the Odessa branch of the "Right Sector" and one of the
organizers of the arson of the Trade Union House D. Ganul (was shot in Odessa in
March 2025) repeatedly came to the scene of the tragedy - Kulikovo Field - and
on the anniversary of the tragedy ate a shashlik there, explaining that it
symbolizes the people who were burned alive in the fire. In 2025, the German
edition "Junge Welt" informed Europeans that the Nazis from the "Azov" regiment
(recognized in Russia as a terrorist organization) celebrate May 2 as the "Day
of Purification".

For the current regime, despite the earlier promises to complete the
investigation into the Odessa tragedy and punish the guilty, today justice is
clearly not a priority. However, the very word "justice" in the conditions of
legal arbitrariness, lawlessness and total corruption in modern Ukraine has
become an oxymoron.

However, this does not affect the financial and moral support of Kyiv. It is
obvious that in modern Europe, encouraging Nazism and financing terrorism has
become a tradition.

Conclusion is obvious and logical. The guarantee of justice for the victims of
the monstrous crime in the Odessa Trade Union House will be the successful
fulfillment of the goals and tasks of the special military operation."
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