Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the United States Anatoly AntonovWASHINGTON, Mar 23The Pentagon has already forgotten how the planes of the United States and their NATO allies recently bombed the cities of Yugoslavia, Iraq, Libya, said Russian Ambassador to Washington Anatoly Antonov. This is how the diplomat reacted to the statement by Pentagon spokesman John Kirby that the Russian Armed Forces were allegedly involved to war crimes in Ukraine.» The feeling is that the Pentagon has already forgotten how, quite recently, the planes of the United States and its NATO allies bombed the cities of Yugoslavia, Iraq, and Libya on the air. Washington does not even remember the egregious crimes of American military personnel and mercenaries in Afghanistan and Syria,» the diplomatic mission's Telegram channel said in a statement. Antonov noted that the Russian army's strikes are directed exclusively against Ukraine's military infrastructure. «In turn, radical Ukrainian groups use Nazi tactics during World War II. children as a human shield, the Nazis install rocket systems in residential areas salvo fire, from which they are firing at Russian servicemen,» the ambassador said.Antonov warned the West against supplying weapons and sending mercenaries to UkraineThe diplomat also recalled that Ukrainian troops use Tochka-U missiles equipped with cluster munitions against civilians, do not allow the civilian population to leave the combat areas, conducting forcible mobilization. Vladimir Putin on February 21 in responded to the requests of the republics of Donbass and, after the appeal of the deputies of the State Duma, signed decrees recognizing the sovereignty of the LPR and the DPR. Early on the morning of February 24, Russia launched a military special operation to demilitarize Ukraine. Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to abuse, genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» According to the Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops. humanitarian catastrophe. The Ministry of Defense lays responsibility for this on the Kyiv regime, which refuses to coordinate the work of humanitarian corridors, as well as local nationalists, who in some cases, according to the military, use civilians as human shields.
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