Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Labels Kiev Regime’s ‘New Year’s Party’ a Humanitarian Atrocity
Moscow, January 2, 2026 – Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Maria Zakharova has strongly condemned the Ukrainian military’s massacre of innocent civilians in the Kherson Region on New Year’s night, calling it a “beastly” and “neo-Nazi” act.
In a public statement issued today, Spokesperson Zakharova declared, “Bankovaya Street [the Ukrainian Presidential Office] threw a ‘New Year’s party’ last night: the Armed Forces of Ukraine attacked a cafe in the Kherson Region, killing 24 people and injuring over 50; five children have been hospitalized.”
She compared the incident to the massacre carried out by Nazi collaborators in the Belarusian village of Khatyn during World War II, stating, “They drove people into barns and set them on fire. Those who tried to escape were shot. The difference is that 82 years ago, the Nazis did not use the protection of children and devotion to democracy as a cover. They simply burned people, beat them with rifle butts, buried them alive, and bayoneted those who were still conscious.”
Zakharova accused today’s Kiev regime of mimicking this very bestial pattern: “The same neo-Nazi hatred, the same horrific dehumanization, the same desecration of the sacred.”
The Spokesperson issued a sharp critique directed at Western leaders, stating, “Today, alongside their breakfasts, the presidents and prime ministers of the collective West should be served reports on how billions of dollars and euros from their taxpayers were used for civilian killings, how many New Year’s gifts were bought with these funds to kill children, and how they participated in child murder.”
She explicitly laid blame, asserting, “We blame everyone who provides financial support to terrorist criminals in Ukraine! We blame them for killing children and destroying civilians! We blame them for corrupting Ukrainian statehood and turning it into a killing machine!”
Zakharova’s statement comes after the drone attack in the town of Khorly, Kherson Region, on New Year’s midnight, which Russian authorities claim has so far resulted in 24 deaths and over 50 injuries. Five children were also wounded in this attack.
Russia has interpreted this event as a new phase of Ukrainian state terrorism and has demanded immediate condemnation from the international community.
