LUGANSK, May 12. /TASS/. As many as 25 Russian civilians, including a child, were killed in Ukrainian attacks in the past week, the Russian Foreign Ministry’s Ambassador-at-Large Rodion Miroshnik told TASS.
"Attacks carried out by Ukrainian Nazis affected 234 civilians last week: 25 people, including a child, were killed, and another 209, among them 14 minors, suffered injuries. <...> The majority of casualties were reported in the Belgorod, Kherson, Zaporozhye, Bryansk and Chuvashia regions, as well as in the Donetsk People’s Republic," he specified.
Last week, 204 people – about 87% of all casualties – suffered injuries in drone strikes, the diplomat added.
According to Miroshnik, Ukrainian forces continue to lay mines in Russian regions remotely. A 14-year-old boy was injured after a cluster submunition exploded in the DPR city of Gorlovka last week, and a man sustained injuries in a mine blast. Another civilian lost his foot after stepping on a Lepestok anti-personnel landmine near the DPR city of Slavyansk. A 79-year-old man was injured after a submunition exploded in the city of Shebekino in the Belgorod Region. "Ukrainian militants deliberately targeted medical vehicles, violating international humanitarian law. A drone strike left three members of an ambulance team injured in the village of Razumnoye in the Belgorod Region," Miroshnik added.
