UNITED NATIONS, February 13. /TASS/. Russia regularly informs the United Nations Security Council about crimes committed by Ukrainian troops against children as well as about attacks on schools and hospitals, Russian Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations Gennady Kuzmin said on Monday.

"Being backed by their handlers, the Kiev authorities continue the war against their own people. Since 2014, Kiev has been brutally suppressing those who disagree with its inhumane policy in Donbass," he said at a meeting of the UN Security Council. "Over these years, hundreds of children have been killed in the region and ten times as many have been wounded. The Ukrainian army deliberately targets civilian facilities, kindergartens, colleges, schools and children’s hospitals."

"Here are just a few of the latest examples. On January 21, the building of kindergarten No279 in Donetsk was damaged as a result of shelling by Ukrainian troops. On January 28, a targeted strike was delivered on a hospital in the city of Novoaidar from a HIMARS multiple rocket launcher of US make. As a result, 14 people were killed and 24 more were wounded," Kuzmin said. "On the same day, a children’s hospital in Novaya Kakhovka came under shelling. In the early hours on February 3, Ukrainian troops shelled the village of Bulavinovka in the Lugansk People’s Republic from American-made HIMARS systems, damaging a school, a cultural center and ten residential houses."

"Such an inhumane method of warfare threatens the lives of children, deprives them of the right to education and destroys Ukraine’s educational infrastructure," he stressed. "Last year alone, as many as 4,574 civilians, including 153 children, were killed and 279 children were wounded."

"We regularly send data to the office of the UN Secretary General’s special envoy about the crimes of the Ukrainian military against children, about attacks on schools and hospitals," the Russian diplomat added.