A store in the Kievsky district of Donetsk that was damaged by shelling by the Ukrainian Armed Forces. File photoMOSCOW, Aug 3The Kyiv authorities, under the auspices of the West, are ordering their military to shell markets, train stations, residential areas and places where humanitarian aid is distributed, Russian Deputy Defense Minister Alexander Fomin said on Wednesday. «Using the patronage of the West, the Kyiv authorities do not limit themselves to any moral or legal norms. nationalist battalions commit crimes that are not properly appreciated by the international community,” Fomin said at a briefing for foreign military attaches. other cities of Donbass,» he added. The Deputy Minister specified that at the same time, a lot of fake information about alleged crimes committed by servicemen of the RF Armed Forces is being posted on the Internet.Ukrainian troops are purposefully shelling churches, the DPR said in particular, in its assessment, such connivance by the international community, as well as the desire of the Ukrainian authorities to hide their crimes, led to the tragedy in Yelenovka in the DPR — shelling by the Ukrainian military of the place where their own prisoners of war were kept. As previously reported In the Russian Ministry of Defense, during a Ukrainian strike from HIMARS on a detention center in Yelenovka, 50 Ukrainian prisoners of war were killed and 73 were injured. Later, the head of the DPR, Denis Pushilin, said that the shelling of the pre-trial detention center in Yelenovka was deliberate and began due to the fact that the militants who were there, in particular from Azov *, began to testify. The Russian Defense Ministry said that Russia was calling on UN experts and ICRC to investigate Yelenovka. As noted the other day at the UN, Secretary General António Guterres received requests for an investigation from both Russia and Ukraine. The possibility of such an investigation, according to the UN representative, is being studied.* Terrorist organization banned in Russia
