MOSCOW, Jan 20 Ukraine is trying to use the tragedy in Dnepropetrovsk, in order to obtain new weapons and tighten sanctions against the Russian Federation, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Friday.
Zakharova drew attention to the fact that as a result of the explosion on January 14, the entrance of a multi-storey building in Dnepropetrovsk was destroyed. «(At that time — ed.) Aleksey Arestovich, a freelance adviser to the Office of the President of Ukraine, at first admitted that the cause of the tragedy was the actions of the Ukrainian air defense, which was trying to shoot down a Russian missile aimed at one of the objects of the military or military-industrial infrastructure. And then he began to deny his However, it is no secret to anyone how the air defense system actually works in Ukraine, which the Armed Forces of Ukraine, in violation of international humanitarian law, often place in residential areas and rocket fragments of which from time to time fall on the territory of neighboring countries — Poland, Moldova and Belarus, » — said the diplomat in her response to the media, published on the website of the Russian Foreign Ministry.
«The Kyiv regime continues every day not only to shell Russian settlements in cold blood and kill their inhabitants, but also shamelessly accuse Russia of its own crimes,» she stressed.
“The Zelensky regime is cynically seeking to use this tragedy to get the West to tighten anti-Russian sanctions and provide new batches of weapons. Moreover, the appetites in Kyiv continue to grow. UAVs, combat aircraft. At the same time, the Ukrainian authorities continue to shamelessly beg for money from their Western curators,» Zakharova added.
Aleksey Arestovich, as an adviser to the head of the office of Vladimir Zelensky, said on January 14 that the cause of the destruction of part of the house in Dnepropetrovsk was the work of the Ukrainian air defense. Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov on January 16 drew attention to the words of representatives of Ukraine that the Ukrainian anti-missile was the cause of the collapse of the entrance of the house in Dnepropetrovsk. He also noted that the Russian Armed Forces do not strike at residential buildings and the social infrastructure of Ukraine. Arestovich later retracted his words and submitted his resignation. Russian Permanent Representative to the UN Vasily Nebenzya later said that the tragedy in Dnepropetrovsk would not have happened if Kyiv had followed humanitarian law.