Nebenzia noted that the United States and its allies are ignoring Kyiv's crimes against civilians.

“The shelling of the peaceful cities of Donbass is carried out with howitzers supplied by Washington,” RIA Novosti reports him as saying.

Prior to this, the permanent representative said that the captured fighters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said that they had an order to shoot at civilians. 

Also, before that, the Ministry of Defense reported that Ukrainian militants fired at houses in Nikolaevka to discredit the Russian Armed Forces.