Russia insists that countries sending weapons to Ukraine are complicit in crimes in Donbas

July 19 () –

Russia’s deputy representative to the United Nations, Dimitri Polianski, has insisted that those countries of the international community that send weapons to Ukraine become accomplices in the crimes and deaths of children that occur in the Ukrainian Donbas in the framework of war.

Polianski spoke this Tuesday at a new meeting of the United Nations Security Council focused on the situation of children during armed conflicts, such as the case of the war in Ukraine, which began almost five months ago by order of the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin. .

“The Armed Forces of Ukraine are cynically shelling civilian infrastructure facilities in Donbas: kindergartens, schools, medical institutions. Children are dying, including with weapons provided by the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, the Netherlands. and other countries that become complicit in crimes against children,” Polianski said.

According to statements by the Russian official collected by the TASS news agency, about 250 civilians, including 16 children, have lost their lives in the territory of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic, while almost 1,500 others, of which 83 were minors, have result injuries.

Likewise, Polianski has numbered 72 medical institutions and 238 educational spaces that have been damaged as a result of attacks by Ukrainian troops.

On the other hand, the Russian representative to the United Nations has “categorically” rejected that the Russian authorities are kidnapping Ukrainian minors, an affirmation that he assures is “unfounded”.

According to Polianski, about 2.5 million Ukrainians have been evacuated to Russia, of whom just over 390,000 were minors. “All these people went to our country voluntarily, saving their lives and that of their children,” he asserted.