Maria Zakharova on the attempts of the Kiev regime to accuse Russia of deliberate attacks on Ukrainian civilian objects
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Following what happened yesterday (8th July 2024) in Kiev, today Maria Zakharova, spokeswoman of Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), has issued the following statement on the Telegram channel of the Russian MFA (all formatting original):
🎙 Commentary by Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson M.V. Zakharova on the attempts of the Kiev regime to accuse Russia of deliberate attacks on Ukrainian civilian objects
💬 On 8 July, in response to repeated attempts by the Ukrainian armed forces to cause damage to enterprises of our country's economic complex, the Russian Armed Forces launched a group strike with long-range precision weapons against military facilities in Ukraine.
These included the Artyom, Antonov and Luch design bureau plants in Kyiv; the Dnepr and Yuzhmash plants in Dnepropetrovsk; the heavy engineering plant in Kramatorsk; warehouses of Western weapons and military equipment at the Arcelor Mittal metallurgical plant in Krivoy Rog and a number of other facilities. All targets were hit.
Once again, as has happened many times with Ukrainian air defence, its missiles went off course and hit residential buildings and social institutions. That is what happened this time too. It has already been confirmed, including by numerous witnesses, that one of the missiles of the Western NASAMS SAM system hit a building on the territory of the Okhmatdet children's hospital in Kyiv.
☝️ On Bankova, they immediately started accusing Russia of deliberately killing children. At the same time, no one mentioned that in the neighbourhood of the affected clinic is the Artyom factory, and within walking distance is the Ukrainian Ministry of Defence complex and AFU [Armed Forces of Ukraine] warehouses. Of course, no one mentioned that the Banderites deliberately place air defence systems in residential neighbourhoods, using civilians as human shields.
The Kiev junta has long been using purely civilian enterprises for military purposes, turning them either into workshops for the assembly and repair of military equipment or into warehouses for the storage of Western military hardware. In addition to this, the AFU itself covers itself with civilians and facilities.
The practice of attaching wagons with military equipment and servicemen to passenger railway trains is widespread. Postal transports are also used to transport weapons.
❗️ All this is a flagrant violation of international humanitarian law, which prohibits the use of civilian objects for military purposes.
The attempts of the Zelensky regime to use the tragedy with the children's hospital in Kyiv for propaganda purposes once again confirm its inhuman Nazi nature. The regime in Kyiv is prepared to commit any crime in order to preserve its power. It does not care about the fate and lives of fellow citizens, including children.
I do not think that other words are needed.