VIENNA, March 10. /TASS/. Every day at least 6 civilians die from actions of the Ukrainian army, the number of victims in Russia’s frontline regions exceeded 19,500 people, over 13,000 were injured, including 830 minors, over the past three years, said Rodion Miroshnik, the Russian Foreign Ministry's special envoy for crimes committed by the Kiev regime.
According to the diplomat, Russia has confirmed data on the number of civilians affected by the actions of the Ukrainian army since February 2022.
"All the data we provide is used with the wording "at least", because the number of victims is only growing as the investigative actions are carried out.
Thus, over the past three years, the number of civilians injured by the actions of the Ukrainian army in the frontline Russian regions has exceeded 19,500 people. 13,200 people were injured, including 830 minors. Almost 6,500 died, including about 250 minors," he said at a round table meeting titled The Current Problems of International Humanitarian Law in Conflict Situations.
"A simpler arithmetic of Ukrainian crimes looks like this: every 6 minutes a Ukrainian munition arrives at a Russian civilian facility. Every day over the past three years, 6 civilians have been killed and 13 injured by the actions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces," Miroshnik added.
He noted that every day in the past three years one child has been injured or killed - from a three-month-old baby to a seventeen-year-old girl.
"The international audience should make it clear that providing military assistance to Kiev means becoming complicit in the shelling of civilians and civilian targets in Donetsk, Belgorod, Kursk, Lugansk and many others," he said. "Continuing financing of [Vladimir] Zelensky's regime is allocating your taxpayers’ money to the support of the customers and perpetrators of murders, rapes and other atrocities against civilians in Russian regions."
According to Miroshnik, blocking investigations and recognition of crimes of the Kiev regime at the international level is not only "acceptance of the possibility of committing atrocities and terrorist acts in their interests, but also creating conditions for their use on an ever-increasing scale." "Because there is no more breeding ground for the spread of crime and terrorism than impunity, which disguises itself as a fight for freedom, independence and the pursuit of democracy," he concluded.