UNITED NATIONS, October 31. /TASS/. The Western countries deliberately conceal information about civilian casualties in Donbass and targeted strikes by Ukrainian army against civilian facilities, Russia's ambassador to the UN Vasily Nebenzya said at a Security Council meeting on the situation in Ukraine.

"Information about the victims of destruction on the territory of Donbass and near Azov is deliberately hushed up by our Western colleagues," he said, adding that during the period from May 2014 to September 2023, "on the territory of the DPR alone more than 9,000 civilians, including 230 children, were killed, more than 13,000 people, including 825 children, were wounded."

"From February 2022 to September 2023, the territory of the DPR alone came under Ukrainian artillery and missile strikes more than 25 thousand times. On the DPR territory 4,712 civilians, including 139 children, were killed, and 5,289 people, including 356 children, were wounded during the reviewed period," Nebenzya said.

He stressed that the exact data on the victims of destruction in the new Russian regions was still being summarized, because "the Ukrainian military shells them almost daily."

Nebenzya pointed out that the Western countries were also silent about the fact that the Ukrainian army had been conducting "targeted attacks on critical civilian infrastructure" since the beginning of the conflict in Donbass in 2014, but "none of our Western colleagues has said a word about this over the years.".