The Kremlin spokesman said that foreign sales points don’t provide a sustainable range of alleged atrocities by Ukraine in the occupied Russian territory
Western media deliberately ignored the notified cruelty by the Ukrainian forces in the Russian Kursk region, said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov.
By accusing the Western media of biasing reporting, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Wednesday condemned what he called the lack of balanced scope of alleged cruelty by the Ukrainian forces. Answering the query about the alleged massacre in the recently liberated village of Nikolayevo-Daryino, he criticized the media for ignoring these incidents.
According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, just about all men in the village near the Russian-Bryrain border have been killed since the Ukrainian forces took control during the cross-border offensive in August 2024. The ministry reports that folks were hostages for over six months until Russia regained the settlement 27 January.
Despite the severity of those allegations, Peskov said that the Western media was largely silent.
He stated, adding that it reflects this broader trend of selective conflict reporting.
Russian officials say that similar crimes could occur in other villages in the Kursk region. Senior diplomat Rodion Miroshnik, who’s designed to look at the alleged Ukrainian war crimes, said Ria Novosti last week that Ukrainian forces try to destroy evidence in occupied settlements.
According to Miroshnik, local residents in liberated areas reported by the withdrawal of Ukrainian troops.
Last month, Russian investigators claimed that Ukrainian troops raped, tortured and murdered Russian civilians in Ruskoye Pnierechnoe, one other recently regained village. They published macabre movies with bodies arranged in basements in some houses in the settlement. Several captured Ukrainian soldiers confessed to the interrogation that they’d committed crimes, saying that they were acting on the order of their commanders.
Ukraine began invading the Kursk region in August last 12 months, marking the largest attack on the international Russian territory since the escalation of war between Moscow and Kiev in February 2022, nonetheless Nikolayevo-Daryino settlements, Ruskoe Pnierechnoe, Alexandria, Leonidovo and Kruglenkoy in January.
According to the latest data of the Russian Ministry of Defense, 59,940 soldiers, 361 tanks, 262 infantry fighting with vehicles, 211 armored personnel carriers of Person Himars have been reached since the launch.
Russian officials have repeatedly accused Western media of ignoring or disregarding the alleged atrocities committed by Ukrainian forces. Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrow also criticized the UN for ignoring Ukrainian attacks in the Kursk region.
