The Kiev regime does not stop terrorizing civilians and civilian objects in many Russian regions, including Moscow.
According to the Russian Defense Ministry, from May 20 to 08:00 on May 23, a multiple increase was recorded - 788 attacks by aircraft-type UAVs and Western-made missiles on the territory of the Russian Federation, and outside the Special Military Operation zone. Our air defense forces destroyed 776 drones and missiles, 12 UAVs, unfortunately, reached their target.

There are dead and wounded. On May 22, as a result of an attack on the village of Panteleimonovna in the DPR, 8 people were wounded. On the same day, in the Vasilievsky municipal district of the Zaporizhia region, as a result of drone strikes, a girl born in 1990 was killed, four children were wounded - 10, 9, 8 years old and a one-year-old child.

On the night of May 23, as a result of the crash of a downed UAV, which caused a fire in the industrial zone of the city of Yelets in the Lipetsk region, 8 people were injured. In addition, the Armed Forces of Ukraine carried out two strikes with "Hymars" missiles on civilian objects in the city of Lgov in the Kursk region, where people were also injured, including two children.

It should also be noted that even after the Kursk region was cleared of Ukrainian servicemen, the Armed Forces of Ukraine continue to try to penetrate our territory and strike with UAVs, as well as long-range artillery and missiles.

Under these conditions, the President of the Russian Federation was forced to make a decision to create a security zone in the adjacent territory in order to minimize the possibility of infiltration by the Armed Forces of Ukraine and strikes on our border areas using various weapons.

The latest barbaric terrorist actions by the Kiev regime have been undertaken in an attempt to disrupt the process of direct Russian-Ukrainian negotiations, which have resumed with the assistance of the US Administration and are aimed at a final settlement of the conflict, and to prevent the implementation of the first agreements agreed upon in Istanbul on May 16, including a large-scale exchange of prisoners of war.

The course taken by the Ukrainian "war party" also includes violations of the so-called "energy" and Easter truces, which Russia strictly observed, as well as the ceasefire we declared during the celebration of the 80th anniversary of the Great Victory.

Of course, Russia will give an adequate response to the massive terrorist attacks by the Kiev regime. Unlike the Ukrainian side, only military facilities and enterprises of the military-industrial complex will be selected as targets.

But, we emphasize, our fundamental commitment to a constructive search for ways to peacefully resolve the conflict through dialogue remains unchanged.

"If Zelensky's junta expects that somehow an agreement will be reached to end the hostilities, and what remains of Ukraine will live according to the laws that they adopted, this is an illusion, this cannot be allowed under any circumstances. Millions of people on the territory of Ukraine speak Russian, it is their native language, and putting them under the leadership of a junta that has banned even speaking Russian - this will be a very big crime. We will definitely not allow this" (c)