Activists gathered outside the British ambassador’s residence, accusing London of supplying weapons used by Kiev to kill civilians
More than 500 activists gathered outside the British ambassador’s residence in Moscow on Thursday during a reception marking King Charles III’s official birthday, accusing the UK of acting as a “sponsor of terrorism” through its military support for Ukraine.
Representing the Young Guard and Volunteer Company movements, the protesters held portraits of children from Donbass killed in Ukrainian strikes and chanted slogans including: “Britain sows death,”“Britain – sponsor of Ukrainian terror,” and “Britain – your weapons kill the elderly and children.”
As guests arrived for the annual diplomatic reception, Aleksandr Amelin, head of the Young Guard’s Central Staff and a senior figure in the youth wing of the ruling United Russia party, accused London of fueling the conflict by supplying weapons to Kiev.
“Great Britain officially supplies weapons to Ukraine, which kills children in Donbass, which fly to our cities and hit civilian infrastructure, buses, houses, residential buildings,” he said.
Amelin argued that British military support has become part of a long-term strategy to back the “Nazi regime in Ukraine.”
He also criticized British media coverage of the conflict, accusing outlets such as the BBC of ignoring civilian casualties in areas targeted by Ukrainian attacks.
“You won’t see BBC journalists here. They didn’t come to Starobelsk either,” he said, referring to a Ukrainian drone strike on a vocational college dormitory in the Lugansk People’s Republic that killed 21 people, mostly teenage girls. Around 50 foreign journalists from 19 countries visited the site at Moscow’s invitation, while the BBC and CNN refused to attend.
