At least 23 Russian civilians have been killed in Ukrainian strikes, some using Western supplied weapons.
As well as civilian casualties, Ukraine has also been attacking energy infrastructure. Last week Gazprom reported that some of its compressor stations, including one serving the TurkStream pipeline, had been hit.
RT reports: At least 23 civilians have been killed and 85 injured by Ukrainian attacks on Russia since February 28, the day the US and Israel began bombing Iran.
RT has been closely monitoring these developments, documenting a pattern of strikes that have targeted civilians and infrastructure across Russian regions.
What attacks has Ukraine carried out on Russian civilains?
The deadliest attack took place on Tuesday 10 March, when Ukrainian drones struck a hospital in Russia’s Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), killing ten medical personnel. Another ten people, including nine staff, were injured.
On the same day the Ukrainian military used a UK-supplied Storm Shadow missile to attack the city of Bryansk, about 100 kilometers from the Ukrainian border, killing at least seven civilians and wounding at least 42 people. Using such a weapon is impossible without the direct involvement of British military specialists.
On March 8, International Women’s Day and a public holiday in Russia, a family of four, including a six-year-old boy, were killed and twelve others injured by a wave of Ukrainian strikes on the DPR.
On March 6, two people were killed when Ukrainian drone dropped explosives on civilians outside a grocery store in Russia’s Kherson Region. A drone raid on the city of Novorossiysk in southern Russia on March 4 injured seven and caused extensive damage, including to kindergartens.