Seventy percent of Russia's attacks on Ukraine have hit civilian targets, according to numbers from Ukrainian military officials.
Ukraine's Ministry of Defense is renewing its accusation that Russia is committing genocide, releasing numbers that they say show the vast majority of Russian military attacks against the country have been aimed at peaceful targets.
A ministry spokesman said during a televised broadcast on Friday that 70 percent of Russian strikes in Ukraine have been directed at civilians, according to Ukrainian state news agency Ukrinform. The grim statistic follows repeated reports of war crimes against the Kremlin and comes a day after a Russian missile strikein Vinnytsia, a west-central Ukrainian city far from the frontlines of the conflict.
"Yesterday's insidious criminal missile attack on the center of a peaceful city in Ukraine is yet another fact of Russia's absolutely proven genocide against Ukraine," Ministry of Defense spokesman Oleksandr Motuzianyk said on Ukraine 24, according to Ukrinform."This is the extermination of Ukrainians as a nation, this is an attempt to break the spirit of Ukrainians and lower the level of their resistance.
Ukraine's government has accused Russia of overwhelmingly attacking civilian targets. Above, a young woman walks over road debris made by a rocket in Vinnytsia, Ukraine, on July 15, 2022.Only 30 percent of attacks by Russian forces have been launched at military targets, Motuzianyk said. The remainder were intentionally aimed at peaceful cities, he said, referencing the Ukrainian cities of Mariupol, Zaporizhia, Mykolaiv and others.
Motuzianyk repeated calls from other Ukrainian officials for Western countries to provide it with advanced weapons, specifically modern air defense systems, to defend against Russia.At least 21 civilians, including three children, were killed and more than 90 wounded on Thursday during the missile strike on Vinnytsia.
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