The attack by Kiev’s forces targeting a medical facility in the Lugansk People’s Republic was “deliberate,” Moscow says.
At least 14 people have been killed and 24 injured after Ukrainian troops struck a hospital in the city of Novoaydar in the early hours of Saturday, the Russian Defense Ministry has said in a statement.
The medical facility in the city, which is located dozens of kilometres away from the frontlines in the central part of the Lugansk People’s Republic, treated both local residents and soldiers, the ministry noted. It added that both patients and medics were among the victims.
“A deliberate missile strike on a known civilian healthcare facility is an absolutely grave war crime of the Kiev regime,” the MOD stated in a Telegram post, vowing to bring all those involved in planning and executing the attack to justice.
According to the statement, a US-made HIMARS multiple rocket launcher was used in the strike. In the wake of the attack, Moscow’s First Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN Dmitry Polyansky accused Washington of being directly involved in the incident.
Polyansky branded the strike “yet another heinous crime,” highlighting that 14 civilians were killed in the hospital with missiles provided by the US. He also pointed to the fact that Washington provided the Ukrainian military with intelligence data. “This makes the US directly complicit” in the attack on the hospital, he said, adding that “the US taxpayers should know how their money is spent.”
Moscow has repeatedly accused Ukrainian forces of targeting civilian infrastructure, including with weapons supplied by the West. In early January, six people were killed and 37 injured in a strike on the city of Vasilyevka in Russia’s Zaporozhye Region. Prior to that, a hospital was destroyed in the city of Tokmak in the same region. In both cases, US-made HIMARS systems were used, local authorities said at the time.
The Ukrainians have no depth to their depravity and NZ support of that sham regime prove we don’t either.
But now as Bakhmut is encircled and field intelligence shows at least 6 Brigades within its noose, do the yanks (or wanks as they are known in Russia) think the Russians should spare those solders lives?
Or should they treat those ill fated troops to the same standard of mercy the west and Ukraine knowingly enact upon civilians
They either surrender knowing their fate or they continue to fight and meet their doom.
I would say that is the two sides of the coin.
Sorry I had to answer the question.I know it wasn’t intended to have an answer.
It was a cowardly attack on New Year’s morning. 12:01 am. Brutal indeed.
Most likely CIA. Americans losing interest, ramp it up a bit.
What will the NZ Herald tell Us?
You have only one guess