MOSCOW, January 30. /TASS/. The playbook used by certain UN structures to collect data on the Ukraine conflict looks more like an attempt at broad-scale manipulation, Russian Foreign Ministry Ambassador-at-Large on Kiev’s War Crimes Rodion Miroshnik said at a briefing.

"Data recently presented by certain near-UN agencies that resemble attempts at broad-scale manipulations, using the influence of the respected global organization, raises serious questions. Unfortunately, much of the allegedly unbiased data is pro-Western," the diplomat noted.

According to Miroshnik, those agencies rely on quite a strange playbook to collect the data based solely on reports from one side of the conflict. "They classify those injured on one side and the other with a bias, and ignore reports about killed or wounded civilians in Russian border areas. Eventually, this looks more like attempts to adjust the conditions of the problem to predetermined results," he added.