UNITED NATIONS, November 8. /TASS/. The Kiev government seeks the West’s prior approval for targets of its strikes, including those delivered on civilian facilities and population, Russian Permanent Representative to the United Nations Vasily Nebenzya told the UN Security Council on Wednesday.

"Given the fact that most of these strikes are carried out with long-range, high-precision Western weapons, the UAF command knew exactly where they were going to hit. And they knew that the targets of the attacks were not military but civil facilities and civilians," he said.

He described Ukrainian strikes on civilian facilities as "conscious and cynical crimes that have no statute of limitation. "

"Responsibility for them will be borne both by the highest political authorities of the Kiev regime and the executors of their criminal orders, as well as Western countries who flood Ukraine with weapons and, as we are well aware, also approve targets of the strikes," the Russian diplomat went on.

"Only Washington, which is used to covering up its own crimes and those of its allies in Yugoslavia, Afghanistan and the Middle East can call such tragedies "collateral damage". During the war in Iraq in 2003, the US tactics implied repeated shellings of locations where emergency and other services were working," Nebenzya added. "As we can see, the armed forces of Ukraine are ‘diligent students’ of their ‘teachers.’"

"Such strikes of despair by the Kiev regime, which make no sense from the military perspective, cannot be explained by anything other than helplessness amid failures on the battlefield and the misanthropic nature of the Kiev regime," the diplomat said.