MOSCOW, April 1. /TASS/. As many as 14 people have been slain in Ukrainian attacks on Russian regions over the past week, with more than 100 others, including three children, being injured, Russian Foreign Ministry Ambassador-at-Large for the Kiev regime’s crimes Rodion Miroshnik told TASS.
"In the past week, Nazi artillery fire has caused 118 civilian casualties, namely, 104 people, including three minors, have been wounded and 14 people have been lost," the diplomat said. "As many as nine Russian reporters have been targeted by Ukrainian militants, of them four have been killed and five others have sustained wounds of varying severity," he continued. According to Miroshnik, the affected reporters covered the situation on the frontlines and in adjacent areas.
In all, Ukrainian troops fired at least 1,785 shells on civilian targets on Russian soil in the past seven days, Miroshnik reported. According to him, ambulances, and civilian and public transport, as well as infrastructure facilities and farm vehicles working in fields were targeted by the Ukrainians.
Also, in the past week, Ukraine has intensified attacks on civilian facilities in the Belgorod Region, and the Kherson Region has been heavily shelled. In the bordering region of Kursk, Ukrainian troops have prevented a civilian evacuation from liberated areas, and the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) has come under artillery attacks on a daily basis, with cluster munitions mostly affecting Gorlovka there, he recounted. Eight people were injured in an enemy attack on a residential neighborhood in Lisichansk in the Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR), with apartments on upper floors of a high-rise building being damaged, he concluded.