Ukrainian strikes kill 50 Russian civilians, including child, last week — envoy

Russian Politics & Diplomacy October 27, 14:12

263 civilians were injured, including seven minors

LUGANSK, October 27. /TASS/. Fifty Russian civilians, including a child, were killed last week in attacks by the Ukrainian armed forces, while more than 260 people, including seven minors, were injured, Russian Foreign Ministry Ambassador-at-Large Rodion Miroshnik told TASS.

"Over the past week, 313 civilians were affected by Ukrainian shelling: 263 civilians were injured, including seven minors, and 50 people were killed, including a child. <…> The highest number of civilian casualties over the past week was recorded in the Belgorod, Bryansk, Zaporozhye, Kursk, Kherson, and Oryol Regions, as well as in the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics," he said.

Miroshnik specified that 278 people, which is 89% of the total number of casualties, were injured in enemy unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) strikes.

In total, according to the diplomat, over the past seven days, Kiev has fired more than 8,200 various types of munitions into the territory of Russian regions.

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