MOSCOW, March 1. /TASS/. Western colleagues simply ignore the aftermath of massive shellings of Donbass civilian objects by the Ukrainian military, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in his video address to the UN Human Rights Council meeting Tuesday.
"The mass burials discovered in Donbass serve as an irrefutable proof of criminal consequences of massive shellings of Donbass civilian objects. A forensic investigation has determined that most of the dead are women and seniors. Our Western colleagues simply ignore numerous facts of these outrageous violations of the basic human right - right for life," Lavrov said. "Our attempts to draw the Human Rights Council’s attention to the atrocities that have been going on for eight years were met with indifference."
On February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that, in response to a request by the heads of the Donbass republics, he had made a decision to carry out a special military operation in Ukraine. The Russian leader stressed that Moscow had no plans of occupying Ukrainian territories. Russian Defense Ministry reassured that Russian troops are not targeting Ukrainian cities, but are limited to surgically striking and incapacitating Ukrainian military infrastructure. There are no threats whatsoever to the civilian population.