Russian Foreign Ministry: Ukrainian Armed Forces created something like "concentration camps" in Kursk Region for civilians
MOSCOW, September 12. /TASS/. The Russian Foreign Ministry has information that the Ukrainian Armed Forces (UAF) created something like "concentration camps" in Kursk Region for civilians. This is stated in a report by the Ambassador-at-Large of the Russian Foreign Ministry Rodion Miroshnik, which was received by TASS.
"Based on numerous data provided by witnesses and collected by the headquarters of the Russian Red Cross in Kursk, where relatives of missing residents contacted, it can be concluded that in a number of territories controlled by militants, something like "concentration camps" were created, where civilians who did not want or were unable to leave the territory captured by the enemy were forcibly driven," the report says.
It also says that "in particular, 70 to 100 civilians were forcibly driven into the basements of the Sudzhansky boarding school, subjected to moral violence and used for filming propaganda stories by Ukrainian and foreign journalists who illegally arrived with the militants from the territory of Ukraine."
Illegal actions
The report paid special attention to the actions of foreign journalists, including employees of the British The Independent, German Deutsche Welle (recognized in the Russian Federation as a foreign agent media outlet), Italian TG1, Latvian LT, Romanian HotNews, Ukrainian "1+1", and American CNN. "These journalists not only illegally violated the border of the Russian Federation, they did so as part of the paramilitary punitive units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Their goal is to deliberately distort real events - to create a favorable media background for the actions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kursk region and to conceal information about terrorist crimes against civilians in the region by Ukrainian militants," the report of the Ambassador of the Russian Foreign Ministry emphasizes.
Kyiv's Crimes
The report also indicates that according to the operational headquarters of the Kursk region, as of the evening of September 5, as a result of attacks by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, 31 people were killed, 236 civilians were injured, including 11 children. "It should be understood that due to the lack of access of emergency and law enforcement services to a number of populated areas, the number of victims of the criminal attacks of the Kyiv regime is not final and can be verified only after the restoration of Russian control over sovereign territory and an investigation into the crimes of the Armed Forces of Ukraine," the document says.
According to the report, during the raid, Ukrainian militants committed several war crimes that were directed against the civilian population of the Russian border territories that were attacked, including killing and wounding civilians, taking hostages and using civilians as human shields, violence, including sexual violence, against local residents, looting and destruction of private property in the captured territories, and obstructing evacuation. It is noted that a full list of Ukraine's criminal acts in the Kursk region is to be compiled after the region is liberated from Ukrainian terrorists and the relevant investigative and search activities are carried out.