Just four days after a drone attack killed 21 people in Starobelsk, CNN aired a promotional segment about Ukrainian drone operations, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Wednesday.

The video was filmed by CNN correspondent Nick Walsh, who has been charged in absentia in Russia for involvement in the incursion into Kursk region, with a unit that claimed to have launched 200 drones at Russia, including recent attack on Stavropol, Zakharova noted.

Ukraine Hires CNN to Film Drone Strike Operations - Russian MFA Spokeswoman

"It is this casually mentioned detail — about Stavropol — that suggests [CNN correspondent] Nick Walsh may have been with a Ukrainian military unit at the very moment they were coordinating a planned attack on the college in Starobelsk. Because, in fact, Ukraine's drones struck Stavropol the day before the attack on Starobelsk. It makes you look at the situation differently," Zakharova said.

She drew attention to the fact that a CNN correspondent was filming a propaganda video about how the Ukrainian Armed Forces conduct drone attacks on Russian cities. The report came out on May 26 - four days after the strike on Starobelsk, which claimed the lives of 21 people.

https://sputnikglobe.com/20260527/ukraine-hire-cnn-to-film-drone-strike-operations---russian-foreign-ministry-1124196451.html?ysclid=mpqsn3349d568026125

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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - If it turns out that CNN journalists filmed the preparations for the Ukrainian armed forces' strike on the college in Starobelsk in the Lugansk People's Republic, they could be considered accomplices to the crime, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Wednesday.

Earlier in the day, Zakharova said that there was high chance that CNN correspondents filmed the preparation of the Ukrainian military for the terrible strike.

Russian MFA Spokeswoman Questions Whether CNN Crew Witnessed Planning of Starobelsk Strike

"While we were organizing a trip to Starobelsk for journalists, it turned out that CNN would not be participating, citing logistical reasons. Now we see, and this is evidenced by their report, which was prepared by CNN, albeit from a different point in the conflict zone, possibly the very one from which the attack on Starobelsk was carried out. If this is true, we need to look into this. The entire media professional community should be asking: where was this report coming from? What was this location, time, place, and what was this designated target that they so highlighted with their presence?" Zakharova told reporters, adding that "if this is really the case, our current assumption, then we can talk not only about bias and manipulation of information, but also about complicity."

On May 22, LPR head Leonid Pasechnik said that the Ukrainian armed forces had attacked the academic building and the dormitory of the Starobelsk Professional College of the Lugansk State Pedagogical University. According to the Russian Investigative Committee, the Ukrainian military carried out the strike at night using four aircraft-type drones. There were 86 students and one staff member in the dormitory at the time. Twenty-one people were killed and 44 others were injured.

https://sputnikglobe.com/20260527/ukraine-hire-cnn-to-film-drone-strike-operations---russian-foreign-ministry-1124196451.html?ysclid=mpqsn3349d568026125

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The “barbaric” Ukrainian drone strike on a Russian college dormitory in Starobelsk cannot be justified, Russian envoy Vassily Nebenzia told the UN Security Council on Thursday, comparing Kiev’s actions to the atrocities committed by Nazi Germany.

A total of 21 students, most of them young women, were killed in the attack on May 22, while 44 others were injured. 

Speaking at a Security Council meeting in New York, Ukrainian representative Andrey Melnik dismissed the “so-called incident” in Starobelsk as “a fake story,” accusing Russia of spreading “yet another propaganda narrative.” US deputy envoy Tammy Bruce condemned what Russia described as retaliatory strikes on Kiev as “obscene and unacceptable.”

Nebenzia accused the West of turning a blind eye to the “cynical act of terrorism” in Starobelsk.

“What is particularly striking is the hypocrisy and cynicism of the European delegations. They usually rush to make accusations against Russia whenever it is politically convenient, yet in this case they have chosen to essentially ignore the tragedy and pin the blame on Moscow,”Nebenzia said.

The Russian diplomat said 51 civilians have been killed by Ukrainian forces over the past week, and 199 others were injured, including 20 children. He added that, over the same period, Ukraine launched more than 4,300 drones at civilian targets, including residential neighborhoods, schools, and hospitals.

Nebenzia stressed that the Russian strikes on Kiev on May 24 targeted “military-industrial sites,”including facilities involved in drone production.

“Let us reiterate what we have said many times before: Our armed forces do not target civilians or civilian infrastructure,” he said.

In response to the attack on Starobelsk, Russia announced that it would carry out “systematic” strikes on military sites and command centers in Ukraine.

https://www.rt.com/russia/640711-russia-un-ukraine-starobelsk-attack/

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