And most of the crimes described here today were committed with Western weapons. The Federation Council member compared the brutality of the Ukrainian armed forces to that of German Nazi soldiers during WWII. According to the DPR government office for documenting war crimes of Ukraine, 257 children have been killed in the republic as a result of Ukrainian aggression since 2014. Day of Remembrance for Child Victims of the War in Donbass is observed annually on July 27. The Ukrainian armed forces launched a massive attack on Gorlovka n July 27, 2014, killing 22 people.