State Duma deputy promises retribution to Ukrainian military commanders after strike on college in Starobilsk

A member of the State Duma Defense Committee, Andrei Kolesnik, stated that all those from the Ukrainian military command involved in the strike on the college in Starobilsk will not escape punishment, and that Russia will intensify its strikes on Ukraine.

The parliamentarian made the statement to Gazeta.Ru.

“Not a single person who is involved in the killing of our children will escape harsh retribution, harsh punishment. Now they must live in fear,” Kolesnik stressed.

According to the deputy, Russia’s army will going forward intensify “serious strikes that knock out all of the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ means.”

“We will be monitoring logistics chains, where things come from and what is being supplied, since the conflict in Ukraine is being fueled by Western countries,” Kolesnik said.

On June 1, Russian President Vladimir Putin, at a meeting dedicated to the investigation of the terrorist attack in Starobilsk, stated that the actions of the Kyiv authorities in Starobilsk and Henichesk constitute deliberate crimes that are changing the nature of the entire conflict.

“The Kyiv leadership, by committing grave crimes against children and teenagers at the pedagogical college in Starobilsk and now in Henichesk, has decided to open a new page in its history of crimes and to change the quality of the conflict. This is their choice,” Putin said.

Earlier, Deputy Prime Minister Golikova spoke about the condition of those injured in the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ attack on the college in the Luhansk People’s Republic.