site.btaUkrainian Embassy in Bulgaria Condemns Planned Screening of Azovstal Documentary at Russian Culture and Information Centre in Sofia

"The Embassy of Ukraine in Bulgaria strongly condemns the planned screening of the documentary Azovstal at Russia's Russian Culture and Information Centre in Sofia and regards this event as open propaganda of the war waged by Russian diplomats in the territory of a EU and NATO Member State," the diplomatic mission said in a press release on Wednesday evening.

"Since the beginning of Russia's full-scale military invasion in Ukraine, the Russian occupiers have committed almost 85,000 war crimes and other atrocities," the statement reads. "The Russians have killed more than 10,000 peaceful Ukrainians, have injured over 13,000, have damaged or destroyed nearly 100,000 civilian infrastructure sites. The Russian army attacks Ukraine's residential areas and critical infrastructure, systematically violating the norms of international humanitarian law." 

"The screening of the film is an attempt to justify the crime, aggression and occupation of Ukrainian territories, the demolition of the Ukrainian Hero City of Mariupol, the destruction of the Azovstal Metal Works, the distortion of the facts about the heroic defence of the city, the obliteration of the murders of thousands of Ukrainian civilians by Russian war crimes," the Ukrainian Embassy said.

The diplomatic mission calls attention to the actions of the Russian Embassy in Bulgaria, which systematically disseminates military propaganda and the ideology of Ruscism.