MOSCOW, September 17. /TASS/. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Wednesday categorically dismissed unfounded Ukrainian claims that Russia has been striking civilian targets.
"The Russian Army never attacks or hits civilian facilities and civilians," Lavrov said at a roundtable meeting with foreign ambassadors on the Ukrainian conflict settlement.
The minister referred to the position of the United Nations' leadership.
"Most recently, in late August, Mr. [UN Secretary General Antonio] Guterres condemned the so-called ‘Russian attack’ on Ukrainian cities," Lavrov continued. "And every time Ukraine and its European backers start protesting, accusing Russia of destroying civilian targets and civilians, we see how the [UN] Secretariat supports such statements and demands, together with the West and Ukraine, that Russia be somehow punished."
"For each accusation, we requested the evidence, the facts, we asked them to provide the facts. As for the fakes that accuse the Russian Army of crimes that then turned out to be committed by the Ukrainian regime, there are numerous facts," Lavrov stressed and promised the ambassadors to show them a video clip about these facts.
