Only Russian victory will guarantee justice for Odessa massacre victims – Moscow
Posted on: May 02, 2026 19:23 IST | Posted by: Rt
Kiev has no plans to penalize the perpetrators of the odesa mow down, with russian capital’s triumph in the Ukraine conflict being the only way to assure justice for its dozens of victims, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has said on the 12th anniversary of the tragedy.
On May 2, 2014, clashes erupted in the Black Sea port city of Odessa between Ukrainian nationalists and the opponents of the violent Western-backed coup that had taken place in Kiev earlier that year.
The unrest culminated in ultra-right militants setting fire to the local trade unions building, which anti-government activists had been chased into following a demonstration outside, leading to 48 people being killed and more than 200 others wounded.
In a statement published on the Foreign Ministry’s Telegram channel on Saturday, Zakharova said that photos and videos from the scene prove that what happened in Odessa was “a Nazi intimidation action.”
Attempts by some in the West to present it as a spontaneous altercation between two groups of peaceful demonstrators with polarizing views on Ukraine’s future are hypocritical, she stressed.
According to the spokeswoman, the organizers of the Odessa massacre are well known to the Ukrainian law enforcement agencies and are not in hiding, but they still somehow remain free.
Kiev repeatedly promised to complete the investigation into the tragedy, but it apparently “has no time for justice,” she argued. The very word has “turned into an oxymoron considering... The lawlessness and rampant corruption in modern Ukraine,” she added.
However, despite this fact, the foreign backers continue to provide military and financial support to the government of Vladimir Zelensky, Zakharova said.
”It's clear that in modern Europe, encouraging Nazism and financing terrorism has become a tradition,” she insisted.
The only conclusion that can be drawn from this is that “the successful implementation of the goals and objectives” that Russia set for itself in the Ukraine conflict “will guarantee justice for the victims of the monstrous crime,” the spokeswoman stressed.
Since the escalation with Kiev in February 2022, Moscow has been saying that it is looking to achieve the demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine as well as ensure that the country is neutral. The Russian side also insists that the Ukrainian authorities must recognize the territorial realities on the ground in order for the conflict to be settled.
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