The Russian Foreign Ministry’s ambassador-at-large for crimes of the Kiev regime, Rodion Miroshnik, has compiled the most high-profile facts of crimes committed by Ukrainian servicemen and security forces during April-June this year. The facts collected in the digest make it possible to highlight a number of peculiarities that should be emphasised. Since the beginning of the year, there has been a trend towards an increase in the number of civilian casualties, who have been killed or injured as a result of strikes by Ukrainian armed formations against civilian structures and infrastructure using increasingly powerful explosive weapons. The increase in civilian casualties is directly linked to the increased supply of Western weapons to the Ukrainian armed forces and their deliberate use in strikes against civilian targets.
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Map with recorded incidents of shelling of civilian objects by Ukrainian armed units for the period from 01 January to 30 June 2024.
In recent months, Kiev has received a large volume of foreign weapons in conjunction with official permission to use them on Russian regions, which it perceived as a guarantee of impunity from the West for its crimes and violations of IHL norms and principles. The victims of the criminal actions of Ukrainian militants are underage children, women, the elderly – civilians who have no connection with the armed forces or security agencies.
In the last weeks of May and June, schools, universities and other educational establishments were shelled.educational institutions were shelled with particular brutality. Tragedy was avoided only because children were switched to distance learning and schools in the frontline zone refused to hold face-to-face examinations and tests.
We note a significant increase in the number of drones of various types being used to attack civilians, civilian objects and infrastructure. The overwhelming majority of Ukrainian UAVs are either foreign factory-made or assembled in Ukraine in a home-made manner from imported foreign components.
A new Nazi hobby we have highlighted is the pursuit of civilian transport by attack drones. They hunt down private civilian cars, buses, and utility vehicles on the roads and carry out deadly strikes on them. Entire families with children, teams of labourers, rescue and repair workers have been targeted.
Drones are actively used by the Ukrainian Nazis to strikes on agricultural machinery out on the fields in the agrarian regions of Russia, as well as on construction vehicles working to rebuild infrastructure after shelling. American, British and French long-range weapons placed in the hands of Ukrainian executioners – generously supplied by Westerners – have been used to strike sleeping quarters, beaches and places of mass gathering of civilians, resulting in great loss of life and destruction.
According to the data we have collected and verified, from 1 January to 30 June 2024, at least 2,547 civilians suffered from the actions of Ukrainian punishers. Of these, 2,082 people received wounds and injuries of varying severity. 465 were killed. At the same time, the number of killings and injuries of civilians is increasing. If in January-March of this year 1012 civilians were injured, then in the second quarter of 2024 more than 1535 people became victims of the Nazis, i.e. in comparison with the previous three months the number of victims increased by one third.
In the first three months of this year, 201 civilians died, 264 more civilians in April-June.
The number of ammunition fired by Ukrainian militants at civilian objects in six months militants have fired at civilian objects in 11 frontline Russian territories is approaching 42,000 – 41,706 munitions, or 230 arrivals per day, which fly at housing, hospitals, kindergartens and social centres.
It is worth noting that in the second quarter of this year there was a qualitative change in the types of weapons used. A qualitative change in the types of weapons used by the Ukrainian armed forces against our civilian objects – instead of shells, longer-range and more explosive missiles and drones of various types are increasingly being used, which has led to an increase in the number of casualties and destruction.
At the same time, the 155 mm NATO-calibre shells used by the Ukrainian armed forces continue to lead the way in terms of the number of civilian lives lost or maimed by them and the shelling of civilian infrastructure. These are the very shells that the Czech Republic is now so assiduously collecting all over the world, ostensibly to ensure Ukraine’s defence.
In second place in terms of the frequency of strikes against civilians are all sorts of attack drones assembled from foreign components delivered to Ukraine. The use of Ukrainian drones from 1 January to 30 June 2024 injured at least 486 civilians, including 17 children. 98 civilians were killed, including 7 children.
The third most frequently used weapon for criminal attacks on the civilian population is multiple rocket launchers.In third place in the use of multiple rocket launchers, the vast majority of which are Western-made, such as the Czech Vampir MLRS, the American HIMARS, GMLRS and others.
There has been a significant increase in the use of long-range, high-powered missile weapons, often with cluster warheads, to attack civilian targets on the frontline territory of the Russian Federation.
A 79-YEAR-OLD MAN DIED AS A RESULT OF SHELLING BY THE UKRAINIAN ARMED FORCES IN DONETSK.
On 7 April 2024, men born in 1945 and 1977 died as a result of 155 mm artillery shelling in the Kuibyshevskiy and Kirovskiy districts of Donetsk. A 79-year-old man died at a sports ground. Despite his age, he went outdoors every day to do sports: running, doing exercises. This morning the man, as always, went for a jog, where he was overtaken by an incoming AFU shell. He tried to take cover behind the concrete parapet of the stairs, but received shrapnel wounds incompatible with life.
A WOMAN WAS KILLED AS A RESULT OF AFU STRIKES ON MAKEYEVKA, DNR.
On 7 April, a woman born in 1956 was killed on the street near her house in the Sovietskiy district of Makeyevka as a result of MLRS shelling. Three residential houses were destroyed.
THE DRIVER OF THE CAR WAS KILLED AND THE INJURED PASSENGER WAS KILLED BY A DRONE IN THE VILLAGE OF BABINO, KHERSON REGION.
On 4 April in the village of Babino, Ukrainian drones attacked a Gazelle car that was delivering water and food to a local shop. The driver and a passenger of the vehicle died. The strike was carried out during daylight hours, when the drone operator could clearly see that the car had no military purpose and was performing a socially important function. The passenger survived the first impact. He managed to crawl away and put a tourniquet on his wounded leg. He was killed in cold blood on the road, using a second UAV circling over the site of the attack. Later, Ukrainian terrorists also launched a drone strike on civilians who had arrived from a neighbouring village to help.
A UKRAINIAN DRONE ATTACKED A REPAIR TEAM AND AN AMBULANCE CREW IN NOVAYA KAKHOVKA, KHERSON REGION: TWO FITTERS WERE KILLED.
A Ukrainian drone attacked a repair team in Novaya Kakhovka, which was repairing a mobile phone tower damaged by shelling. One of the fitters died on the spot, two wounded people were evacuated to the nearest entrance. The ambulance that came to their aid was also hit by Ukrainian UAVs. Only by a miracle were the medics unhurt. They were able to get to the entrance and bring the wounded there. While the Nazi drones were preventing them from leaving the shelter, another young fitter died. Only the foreman survived and was hospitalised in a serious condition.
A PREGNANT WOMAN DIED AS A RESULT OF UKRAINIAN MILITARY SHELLING IN THE VILLAGE OF NOVAYA TAVOLZHANKA, BELGOROD REGION.
A pregnant woman was killed and three other civilians were wounded when the AFU shelled the village of Novaya Tavolzhanka in the Shebekinsky urban district on 20 April 2024. As a result of the attack, a pregnant woman who was walking along the street at the time of the shelling was seriously wounded by a shell fragment. Doctors tried to help her, but she and her unborn child died from their wounds. Three other people – a woman and two men – were injured. Twelve private residential houses were damaged in the village.
DEATH OF A CHILD AS A RESULT OF MLRS SHELLING OF KLIMOVO SETTLEMENT, BRYANSK REGION.
On 9 April 2024, the AFU shelled the centre of Klimovo settlement from MLRS. A woman born in 1993 and a 12-year-old child died. The boy Sasha was returning home from school on his bicycle and did not reach home just a few metres before he was pierced through by shrapnel from a shell that exploded nearby. Six other civilians were injured. A residential building was destroyed. Several civilian vehicles were damaged.
A UKRAINIAN DRONE ATTACK KILLED A FAMILY, INCLUDING TWO CHILDREN, IN THE VILLAGE OF APANASOVKA, KURSK REGION.
On 10 April 2024, in the village of Apanasovka, Korenevskiy district.
a Ukrainian drone attacked a civilian car by dropping an explosive device on it. A man and his two daughters, aged 10 and 6, were in the car at the time of the attack. They all died in the burnt-out vehicle.
ATTACK ON JOURNALISTS ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF KREMENNAYA.
On 9 April, a film crew of the Lugansk State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company came under artillery fire from the AFU on the outskirts of the town of Kremennaya. The film crew was tracked down by a Ukrainian drone and targeted artillery fire was opened on them. At least three shells were fired. As a result of the shelling, cameraman Denis Shum was wounded. Correspondent Artem Yundas was concussed, a shell exploded right behind his back. The Ukrainian armed forces tried to finish off the wounded by sending a combat drone in their direction – it later attacked the car with the reporters.
A STRIKE ON A MULTI-STOREY RESIDENTIAL BUILDING IN KAKHOVKA.
On 9 April, the AFU hit a multi-storey residential building in the town of Kakhovka. A fire broke out in the building. Three civilians died and one was hospitalised.
A ROCKET-PROPELLED ARTILLERY STRIKE ON RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS IN THE TOWN OF TOKMAK, ZAPOROZHYE REGION: 16 DEAD, 28 WOUNDED.
Ukrainian militants launched a strike with multiple rocket launchers (MLRS) on a residential neighbourhood of Tokmak in Zaporozhye Region on 12 April. The AFU militants used small-diameter ground-launched GLSDB bombs, which were developed and used by NATO countries, in the strike on Tokmak. As a result of the strike, 16 people were killed, 3 of them children. Twenty-eight people were injured, most of them seriously. Some of the houses that came under fire were completely destroyed.
THE DRIVER OF A GAS TANKER WAS BURNT ALIVE AS A RESULT OF AN AFU STRIKE.
On 15 April, a fuel tanker burst into flames at a petrol station in Gorlovka as a result of a targeted ammunition drop by a Ukrainian drone. The explosive hit directly into the cabin of the vehicle. The driver of the petrol tanker, a man born in 1964, was burned alive. – an employee of the Republican Fuel Company.
FOUR DEAD WOMEN AS A RESULT OF A DUMPING FROM A UAV ON A CIVILIAN VEHICLE.
On 23 April 2024, in Mirnoye village, Zaporozhye region, a Ukrainian drone dropped an explosive device on a civilian car travelling along a highway near the village of Mirnoye. As a result of the impact, the roof of the car was blown apart. Four women in the car were killed.
ATTACK DRONE RAID ON THE BORISOVSKIY DISTRICT OF BELGOROD REGION: 9 DEAD, 41 WOUNDED.
On 5 May, the AFU attacked civilian transport with three attack drones in the Borisovskiy district near the village of Berezovka at about 7:00. The target of the criminal strike were two passenger Gazelles carrying employees of the Agro-Belogorie enterprise and a passing civilian car. At least three rounds of ammunition were aimed at the vehicles. As a result of the impact, seven employees of the agro-complex were killed on the spot. Another 43 people were injured to varying degrees of severity. Two of the injured died later in hospital. In addition to the employees of the enterprise, civilians in passenger cars travelling behind the minibuses became victims of the UAV strike. Three minors, boys aged 6, 9 and 17, were injured.
NIGHT ATTACK ON AN OIL DEPOT IN ROVENKI, LNR: 4 DEAD, 11 WOUNDED.
On the night of 10 May, the Ukrainian armed forces struck an oil depot in the town of Rovenki with US-made ATACMS long-range missiles. Fifteen civilians became victims of the shelling. Four of them were killed and 11 were injured of varying severity, including a child. Two of the victims were seriously injured and maimed. Not only employees of the oil depot were injured and burned, but also residents of nearby residential buildings. Injured civilians were hospitalised with mine blast injuries and poisoning with combustion products.
MASSIVE STRIKE BY MLRS ON BELGOROD: 1 DEAD, 29 WOUNDED.
On 11 May, the civilian infrastructure of Belgorod was subjected to massive shelling. At least 12 rockets from MLRS were fired at the city. Residential buildings in several districts of the city were hit. One of the shells tore apart the entrance of a residential building, where a woman was killed by a blast wave and under the debris of the building. A total of 29 civilians, including a teenage girl, were injured as a result of the shelling in various parts of the city. The targets of the Ukrainian militants’ attack were multi-storey residential buildings, shopping centres, shops and civilian cars parked in courtyards. The buildings of four socially important facilities were damaged: City Hospital No. 2, Children’s Regional Clinical Hospital, the Lilac Artistic Gymnastics Centre, and Secondary General Education School No. 41. Damage was caused to 22 apartment blocks.
MLRS STRIKE ON RESTAURANT IN DONETSK: 3 DEAD, 9 WOUNDED.
Armed formations of the Kiev regime are deliberately
are deliberately targeting places of mass gathering of people, timed to coincide with weekends and the time of the greatest influx of people. Another such episode was the strike on the Kirovskiy district of Donetsk on 11 May. The site near the Paradise restaurant was targeted. For the attack, the Ukrainian armed forces used American-made HIMARS MLRS munitions with a fragmentation warhead. The choice of weapons demonstrates a clear realisation that only civilians would be victims. As a result of the shelling, the restaurant building was completely destroyed, with restaurant staff and customers trapped under the rubble. Three civilians were killed as a result of the shelling: a female restaurant employee and two male customers. Another nine civilians were wounded, including a child – a twelve-year-old girl.
A MASSIVE COMBINED ATTACK ON SHCHORSA STREET IN BELGOROD: 19 DEAD, 27 WOUNDED.
On Sunday 12 May around noon, the AFU carried out a combined strike on a residential multi-storey building near Kharkovskaya Gora in Belgorod. Massive strikes with Vampire and Olkha MLRS rockets overwhelmed the air defence system protecting the city from the raids, after which at least six Tochka U missiles were fired at the residential sector.
One of the missiles hit the base of the entrance of an apartment building on Shchorsa Street. As a result of the explosion, an entire entrance from the 10th to the 1st floor collapsed in a matter of seconds. Fifteen people, including two children, died under the rubble of the collapsed building.
Numerous residents of the building were trapped under the rubble. The work of emergency workers to rescue the victims was complicated by the resulting fire and subsequent partial collapse of the roof. Three employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations were injured. As a result of rescuers’ work, 17 people, including 2 children, were rescued from under the rubble. Emergency evacuation of residents from the surviving entrances to temporary accommodation centres was also carried out.
In addition to residential buildings, some of the ammunition hit the nearby City Mall shopping centre. The victims were two civilians who received injuries of varying degrees of severity.
In the evening, the residential area again became the target of another attack on Belgorod. Around 20:00 a new series of strikes was recorded. As a result of the attack, 4 more civilians were killed, 8 people were wounded. Fifteen apartment blocks were damaged.
MASSIVE UAV RAID ON GORLOVKA, DNR: 1 DEAD, 6 WOUNDED.
The AFU drone operators are increasingly targeting special rescue and medical vehicles. On 13 May, a Ukrainian drone attacked an Emergencies Ministry firefighting vehicle on its way to a fire extinguishing site. As a result of the blast, four EMERCOM employees were injured. Also as a result of the UAV raid, one civilian was killed and another man was injured. They were victims of a targeted UAV ammunition drop.
SHELLING OF DONETSK WITH CLUSTER MUNITIONS: A MARRIED COUPLE WAS KILLED.
On 13 May, a private sector of the Petrovskiy district of Donetsk was shelled with cluster munitions. As a result of the explosion, a married couple – a man born in 1955 and a woman born in 1957 – were killed. They were on their way to the market when a Ukrainian shell exploded near them. The woman died on the spot, the man died in hospital. Once again the AFU militants resorted to the tactic of repeated strikes. This time, as a result of the repeated attack, the vehicle of the ritual service, which had arrived at the scene of the tragedy to pick up the body of the deceased, was damaged.
SHELLING OF DONETSK FROM BARREL ARTILLERY: 4 DEAD, 2 WOUNDED.
On 16 May, the Petrovskiy district of Donetsk was shelled. A public transport stop near school No. 106 was hit with NATO-calibre artillery shells. The victims of the criminal strike were again exclusively civilians: four women were killed, a six-year-old girl and a man born in 1987 were wounded. When the shelling began, people tried to hide behind a bus stop, but they were riddled with shrapnel from a nearby shell. Two women died on the spot and two others died in hospital.
Among the dead was an employee of the Republican Rehabilitation Centre in Donetsk. The woman worked as a nurse in the medical rehabilitation department. Her six-year-old daughter was seriously wounded.
A STRIKE BY THE RUSSIAN ARMED FORCES’ “HIMARS” ON A RESIDENTIAL HOUSE IN LISICHANSK: TWO DEAD, FOUR WOUNDED.
On 22 May, AFU fighters launched an attack from HIMARS MLRS on a residential neighbourhood in Lisichansk. At least six shells were fired. As a result, a multi-storey residential building was significantly damaged: the upper floor and the end part of the building were partially destroyed. Two civilians were killed and four wounded, including a 9-year-old girl.
MASSIVE UAV RAID ON THE OREL REGION: 1 DEAD, 3 WOUNDED.
On 27 May, Ukrainian UAVs attacked a civilian petrol station in Livny. After waiting for the arrival of EMERCOM personnel to extinguish the fire, the drone operators struck again. As a result of the explosion, the driver of the fire truck was killed and three more rescuers were injured. To carry out this cynical strike, the AFU militants used at least 5 attack drones of various modifications.
ROCKET ARTILLERY STRIKE ON STAROMIKHAILOVKA, DNR: 3 DEAD, 2 WOUNDED.
On 31 May, the Ukrainian armed forces again used MLRSs to hit private residential houses in the village of Staromikhailovka. A young family – a husband and his pregnant wife – were in one of them at the time of the shelling. The destructive force of the impact was such that there was essentially nothing left of the house. The man died immediately, his wife died on the way to hospital. Three other people were also injured as a result of the shelling in the settlement: a woman was killed and two men were wounded of varying degrees of severity.
THE STRIKE BY A UAV ON AN AMBULANCE IN TAVRIYSK, KHERSON REGION.
There was an incident in the city of Tavriysk, Kherson region, which continued a series of deliberate strikes against Russian emergency services personnel and equipment. On 3 June in the morning, a Ukrainian drone pursued an ambulance vehicle for a long time. The driver, having seen the UAV, tried to get away from it. Despite the driver’s manoeuvres, the Ukrainian drone caught up with the medical team and dropped a munition. As a result of the explosion, the driver of the medical vehicle was injured. The ambulance was completely burnt down.
MASSIVE ATACMS MISSILE STRIKE ON LUGANSK, LNR: 6 DEAD, 60 WOUNDED.
On 7 June, AFU militants launched a strike on Lugansk using US-made ATACMS precision long-range ballistic missiles. The neighbourhood named after Nikolay Vatutin suffered the most. This is one of the dormitory neighbourhoods of Luhansk, where there are no military facilities. However, it was this residential neighbourhood that was hit by a missile strike at 11:00. One of the ATACMS missiles hit an apartment building at 22 Vatutin Street. As a result of the strike, the entrance from the fifth to the ground floor completely collapsed. 6 civilians were killed, 7 were rescued from under the rubble. Search and rescue operations continued throughout the night.
As a result of the missile strike, at least 30 civilian objects were damaged, including multi-storey residential buildings on Vatutin and Budennyy streets, the building of the Lugansk College of Information Technologies and Entrepreneurship, two schools and three kindergartens. The facade of the school No. 8 building cracked due to the detonation of a shell that exploded nearby.
A total of 60 civilians were wounded as a result of the shelling of Lugansk, three of them children – boys aged 8, 15 and 16. People who were on the streets at the time of the shelling suffered from shell fragments, broken windows, stones and pieces of metal structures. Two people were in extremely serious condition, the condition of 7 victims was assessed as serious, and more than 30 victims received moderate injuries.
IMPACT OF MLRS “HIMARS” ON THE FOOD SHOP
IN THE VILLAGE OF SADOVOYE, KHERSON REGION: 22 DEAD, 15 WOUNDED.
On the evening of 7 June, Ukrainian militants shelled the village of Sadovoye in the Golopristanskiy district with HIMARS MLRS. As a result of the strike, a grocery shop was destroyed, where a large number of customers and staff were present at the time of the attack. The rocket artillery strike killed 22 civilians and injured 15 people of varying degrees of severity. Two children were among the dead. Most of the wounded are in serious condition. After the strike, local residents rushed to the scene of the tragedy in a short time to help the injured. And already after the prompt arrival of emergency services, the AFU militants made a purposeful repeated strike in order to achieve as many casualties as possible.
SHELLING OF A NTV FILM CREW
On 13 June, a Russian film crew was hit by a barrel artillery shelling in the Nikitovka district of Gorlovka. As a result of the shelling, NTV journalist A. Ivliev and cameraman V. Kozhin were seriously wounded. The village of Golmovskiy is a populated area that is regularly subjected to brutal shelling by the Ukrainian armed forces. As part of their professional duty, the journalists came to film a report on the constant attacks of Ukrainian militants against the civilian population, as well as on how the fighters of the Russian armed forces counter this threat.
Ivliev and Kozhin suffered severe mine blast injuries.
Valeriy Kozhin could not be saved and died in hospital. The deceased was 46 years old and had been working for the NTV channel since 2006: he had travelled to Syria, filmed materials in the DNR and LNR long before the special operation began. He was awarded the medal “For Bravery”. Alexey Ivliev was seriously injured and is currently in a serious condition, he lost his arm.
A STRIKE ON A RESIDENTIAL BUILDING IN SHEBEKINO, BELGOROD REGION: 5 DEAD, 6 WOUNDED.
On 14 June in the town of Shebekino, AFU fighters struck an apartment building on Zheleznodorozhnaya Street. As a result of the strike, the entrance was completely “folded”. Five civilians were killed. Four were extracted from under the rubble, one of the victims was taken to hospital, where, despite all the efforts of doctors, died. Another 6 people were injured. Six residents of the house were removed by rescuers from the top floor of the emergency building.
ARTILLERY SHELLING OF DONETSK: 2 DEAD, 3 WOUNDED.
On 19 June, as a result of shelling of Donetsk from artillery guns of 155 mm calibre in the Petrovsky district of the city at the public transport stop “School #106” 5 people were injured. A man died on the spot, one of the wounded women later died of her wounds in hospital. Three more civilians were injured, including a girl born in 2007.
ATACMS STRIKE ON A BEACH IN SEBASTOPOL ON A DAY OFF: 4 DEAD, 153 WOUNDED.
At noon on 23 June, AFU militants struck Sevastopol with American ATACMS ballistic missiles equipped with a cluster warhead. Four missiles were launched from the area of the city of Nikolaev. The targeted strike was aimed at the beach recreation area of Sevastopol residents – Uchkuevka and Lyubimovka. As a result of dispersion and detonation of cluster submunitions, the city beach was hit. As a result of the strike, 153 civilians were injured, 27 of them children. Five children were taken to hospital in serious condition. Four civilians were killed, including two children, a three-year-old girl and a nine-year-old girl. All the injured were civilians who were holidaying with their families on the beach, as well as in the surrounding area. There are no military facilities in the vicinity of the beach, which indicates a targeted attack on the civilian population.
ATTACK ON A NUCLEAR SECURITY FACILITY.
On 25 June, in the village of Velikaya Znamenka, the AFU shelled one of the radiation control posts of the Zaporozhye NPP. This post was used to measure radiation levels in the environment. As a result of the strike, the facility was completely disabled.
