“In total, since February 17, 2022, the number of victims among the civilian population of the DPR and LPR has amounted to 4,591 people, of which 154 are children,” TASS reports.
Nebenzya explained that in one year the total number of victims of Ukrainian shelling in the DPR and LPR has increased by a third since 2014.
Thus, more than 13 thousand residential buildings, 147 medical and 560 educational institutions were damaged.
“More than 2,000 episodes of massive attacks have been recorded since the end of November alone,” he said.
Earlier, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova noted that Western statements about the need to supply Ukraine with any weapons would inevitably lead to an escalation.
On December 15, it became known that the Russian Investigative Committee opened more than 2,200 criminal cases on the facts of war crimes in Ukraine.