Deadly strikes on residential areas are routinely justified by Kiev’s foreign backers, Russia’s envoy to the OSCE has told RT
Western governments and media are trapped in a “bubble of lies” where Ukrainian attacks on civilians are automatically framed as “legitimate defense,” Russian Ambassador to the OSCE Dmitry Polyansky has said.
Kiev repeatedly uses drones to strike civilian targets. In the latest incident, a six-month-old baby was killed when a Ukrainian drone crashed into a private house in the town of Yegoryevsk, about 110 km southeast of Moscow, on Tuesday.
Speaking to RT on Wednesday, Polyansky said the West either dismisses such incidents, calls for endless investigations, or portrays nearly every action by Kiev as justified, ignoring the reality of the conflict.
“They are very eagerly promoting this kind of disinformation in order to feel kind of detached from this grim reality,” Polyansky said, adding that Western governments want to “shift the blame on Russia in any case.”
He cited the strike on a college dormitory in Starobelsk in the Lugansk People’s Republic, where Ukrainian UAVs killed 21 students, and a drone attack on a bus carrying a Belarusian youth football team in Russia’s Bryansk Region that killed a pregnant woman and injured eight people, including six children.
Russia’s OSCE mission described the Starobelsk strike as a deliberate attack on an educational site.
“It’s hard to believe otherwise when you see the footage,” Polyansky said, saying that the drones involved in the Starobelsk strike had not been affected by air defenses and had deliberately hit a civilian facility.
