🇺🇦 🇦🇺 🇷🇺It feels weirdly satisfying knowing that the local Ukrainian bandera right sector activists dedicate every Saturday afternoon to protesting against Pushkin, Onegin and Simeon Boikov the @AussieCossack outside the Sydney Opera House... 😂

❗️Russia’s top diplomat in Australia has been called in by DFAT for a dressing down over Moscow’s vow to launch a blizzard of strikes across the Ukrainian capital of Kiev, which included a warning to foreign diplomats to leave the city.

Diplomatic sources said Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade officials had rebuked Russian ambassador Mikhail Petrakov in Canberra over the threats in a meeting on Wednesday.

Petrakov arrived in Australia last September, replacing former ambassador Alexey Pavlovsky.

UPDATE: Ambassador Petrakov rejected the Australian Government's position in a statement here.

Via Sydney Morning Herald

We took note of the Australian side’s position regarding the Russian Foreign Ministry’s Statement of 25 May and reject its interpretation as a “threat”.

Russian MFA issued an advance warning urging the timely evacuation of foreign nationals, including personnel of diplomatic missions and representative offices of international organisations, in view of impending strikes by the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation against military targets in Kiev.

These strikes are an inevitable reaction to the gruesome terrorist attack on the academic building and dormitory of a college of the Lugansk State Pedagogical University in Starobelsk committed by the Kiev regime on 22 May. It claimed 21 young lives (most of them girls born in 2006-2007), with more than 60 people injured, and constituted a direct violation of the 1949 Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols regulating the protection of civilians during conflicts, the 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child, and a number of other important international instruments.

We also noted that neither the Australian government nor the mainstream media reacted to this heinous crime. Should we take it as accepting and condoning the killing of Russian children by the neo-Nazi regime, hiding behind the Kiev lies about the allegedly “military” nature of the dormitory and generally giving Ukraine a free hand in murdering civilians?

50 foreign journalists from 19 nations visited Starobelsk and witnessed the devastating consequences of the Ukrainian massive drone strikes.

❗️The Kiev regime is fully responsible for the escalation of hostilities and the undermining of political and diplomatic efforts to resolve the conflict.