The building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. Archival photoMOSCOW, April 28Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that the Russian side would seek to establish and punish those responsible for the tragedy in Odessa in 2014. «This crime of May 2, 2014 is still in Ukraine not disclosed, not investigated,” she said at a briefing in Moscow. countries turn a blind eye to him, as well as, in principle, in general, to neo-Nazism, which is growing in Ukraine like a cancerous tumor. We will never forget this terrible crime. We will seek to establish and punish all those who were involved in this tragedy, » — she pointed out. On the afternoon of May 2, brawls began between anti-Maidan activists on the one hand and football ultras from Kharkov and Odessa, as well as Euromaidan participants, on the other. The fight ended with the destruction of the tent city and the arson of the House of Trade Unions, in which representatives of the «anti-Maidan» took refuge. 48 people became victims of the tragedy that day, six in the area of Greek Square and the Athena shopping center (two of them died in hospitals), 42 on Kulikovo Field and in the House of Trade Unions (three died in hospitals). Six people died from gunshot wounds, ten fell out of the windows of a burning building and crashed, 32 died from burns and as a result of carbon monoxide poisoning. More than 250 people were injured.
«Bloody massacre»: plans of Ukrainian nationalists in Odessa revealed in Crimea
