UNITED NATIONS, November 9. /TASS/. Since 2022, the Kiev government’s strikes have destroyed over 3,500 civilian infrastructure facilities and more than 16,000 residential buildings in Donbass, Russian Permanent Representative to the United Nations Vasily Nebenzya told the UN Security Council.

"Since February 2022, the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic alone has been subjected to more than 25,000 artillery and missile strikes by Ukrainian armed forces. A total of 145,000 shells fell on Donetsk soil. More than 16,000 residential buildings and almost 3,500 civilian infrastructure facilities were destroyed and damaged," he told the UNSC briefing on threats to international peace and security, including the shelling of Donetsk.

"Moreover, as we know very well, the terror against the population of Donbass did not begin in February 2022. Over the previous eight years, since May 2014, the Ukrainian authorities had carried out aggression against their own people, who did not accept the unconstitutional Maidan coup d'·tat," the Russian diplomat continued. "Troops were deployed against the civilian population. Aviation, heavy artillery and armored vehicles were used. The total number of people killed and wounded in Donbass since 2014 exceeds 20,000."

The diplomat emphasized that the Kiev government does not consider its former fellow citizens in Donbass to be human beings.".