Russia is doing everything possible for the protection and safety of children who had to flee the “brutality” of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU). This is stated in the comments of the Embassy of the Russian Federation in the United States. Telegram In response to accusations of “deportation” by the US State Department.
“Russia has accepted children who had to flee with their families from the bombardment and persecution of the Ukrainian Armed Forces,” the message reads.
The embassy stressed that Russia is doing everything necessary to keep children in families and put orphans in custody in case of absence or death of parents and relatives.
The statement also states that Washington must make an “adequate assessment” of Kiev’s actions in which “children are killed and injured”.
According to the diplomatic mission, 153 children were killed and 279 injured in Donbass as a result of the shelling of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the past year.
“The Ukrainian Armed Forces carry out targeted attacks on civilian infrastructure – schools, kindergartens and hospitals – using Western weapons, including American HIMARS rocket systems,” the Russian embassy said.
The diplomatic mission stated that Washington “shamelessly covered up all these facts in order to acquit itself and defame Russia”.
Previously, officials in Ukraine allowed They can freely visit their children abroad.