Ukrainian strikes kill 52 Russian residents, including 5 children, over past week — envoy

Russian Politics & Diplomacy October 13, 16:29

96% of the total number of casualties were injured in attacks by drones

LUGANSK, October 13. /TASS/. Attacks by Ukrainian forces over the past week claimed the lives of 52 Russian civilians, including five children, while more than 270 people, including 11 minors, were injured, Rodion Miroshnik, Ambassador-at-Large of the Russian Foreign Ministry, told TASS.

"Over the past week, 326 civilians fell victim to shelling by Ukrainian Nazis: 274 civilians, including 11 minors, were injured, and 52 people, including five children, were killed," the diplomat noted.

Miroshnik said that 96% of the total number of casualties, or 312 people, were injured in attacks by enemy drones. "The largest number of civilian casualties over the week was recorded in the Belgorod, Bryansk, Zaporozhye, Kursk and Kherson regions, as well as the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics," he said.

In total, Kiev fired approximately 8,500 munitions of various types at Russian territory over the past seven days, the source told the agency.

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