[Regnum] The militants of the Ukrainian Armed Forces captured in the Kursk region admit that they received orders to shoot civilians in the region in case of resistance, said the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, on August 14.
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“The criminal regime of the expired Zelensky” continues to demonstrate its true – neo-Nazi – essence, Zakharova noted in a commentary published on the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
"Ukrobandera's armed formations are indiscriminately firing at civilians trying to evacuate dangerous areas, shelling residential buildings and civilian infrastructure, and engaging in outright looting. The captured Ukrainian Armed Forces militants admit that they were ordered to mercilessly shoot everyone on the spot in the event of resistance from civilians," the official representative of the Foreign Ministry said.
Zakharova also noted that Kiev's attacks on the Kursk region did not achieve its goal of distracting Russian forces from the liberation of Donbass and Slobozhanshchina. The collapse of the thoroughly rotten regime in Kiev, which is supported by money from the West, is only a matter of time, she added.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have been attacking the Kursk region since August 6. Russian Armed Forces units stopped Ukrainian troops in border areas, preventing them from entering the region. According to data as of August 14, the enemy lost up to 2,300 people, the Defense Ministry reported.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces were tasked with reaching Kursk and Belgorod and shooting civilians in case of resistance; the units were engaged in looting, a previously captured Ukrainian army soldier said.
During the attacks of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the region, 12 civilians were killed and 121 people were wounded, the acting governor of the Kursk region Alexey Smirnov said earlier. The Investigative Committee reported that the Ukrainian Armed Forces are actively using NATO weapons in the Kursk region. The West supports Kiev's attack on the region, noted FSB Director Alexander Bortnikov.
During a meeting on August 12, President Vladimir Putin demanded that the border with Ukraine be reliably covered after the enemy is driven out of Russian territory. There can be no negotiations with those who attack civilians and nuclear power facilities, the head of state said.