💬 Extract from the briefing by Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, Moscow, March 25, 2026

Ukrainian crisis

• Guided by UK-EU directives aimed at escalating regional tensions, the Kiev regime is striving to deploy NATO-produced weaponry so as to intensify shelling far beyond the confines of active combat zones, targeting the most vulnerable segments of the civilian population, as well as civilian, educational, medical, transport, and energy infrastructure in Russia.

• Over the past week, more than 133 individuals, including 10 children, have fallen victim to the Western-encouraged terror perpetrated by the AFU. Fourteen people have been killed. We will provide specific examples that specialised international bodies, including those self-styled as human rights organisations, have inexplicably chosen to overlook.

• Adygeya. On March 18, in the urban-type locality of Enem, two girls sustained shrapnel wounds following a UAV attack.

• Bashkiria. On March 21, two construction workers were injured as the result of a UAV strike on a multi-storey residential building under construction.

• Belgorod Region. Between March 19 and 22, in the community of Oktyabrsky, 13 civilians, including a paramedic and an ambulance driver, were maimed by enemy drones laden with explosives. In the village of Murom, a civilian was killed. In the village of Smorodino, two enemy-guided aerial bombs destroyed a post office and a grocery store, damaging five private homes. Four female civilians were killed, and another woman was hospitalised in critical condition.

• Bryansk Region. On March 20, the AFU struck the Suzemka Psychoneurological Boarding School, injuring a staff member.

• DPR. On March 19, employees of the Railways of Novorossiya enterprise – a 40-year-old locomotive driver and his 35-year-old assistant – were killed in AFU attacks.

• Zaporozhye Region. Between March 19 and 22, eight civilians were wounded in shelling incidents.

• Krasnodar Territory. On March 18, in Krasnodar, a 25-year-old woman was killed after a drone struck her apartment in a multi-storey residential building.

• LPR. On March 19, in the community of Belokurakino, 15 staff members were injured when AFU drones struck a multifunctional centre (a public services facility) and the local administration building.

• Sevastopol. On March 19, a 30-year-old man was killed, and two others were injured, after a drone directly struck a private home.

• Kherson Region. On March 18, the AFU dropped an explosive device on a kindergarten in the village of Mikhailovka. Thirty-five individuals, including 30 children, were evacuated from the preschool facility. Fortunately, none of them were harmed.

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⚡️ Ambassador-at-Large of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Rodion Miroshnik:

💬 More than 150 civilians, including 4 minors, were harmed in attacks by Ukrainian punitive forces. Ukrainian militants are responsible for the death of a two-year-old child.

The tragedy occurred in the Yaroslavl Region, where a Ukrainian drone struck a private house, killing a two-year-old girl and inflicting severe injuries on her parents.

Ukrainian terrorists also carried out a massive attack on civilian infrastructure in Taganrog, targeted an agricultural enterprise in the Kursk Region, and struck medical facilities in the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions.

Emergency responders from Russia’s EMERCOM, who arrived to deal with the aftermath of Ukrainian shelling, came under repeated attack, leaving six personnel wounded.

The highest number of civilian casualties was recorded in the Belgorod, Kherson, Zaporozhye, Kursk, Bryansk, and Rostov regions.

Over the week of March 23-29, Ukrainian shelling affected 157 civilians: 137 people were wounded, including 3 minors, and 20 people were killed, including 1 child.

In total, over the past seven days, Ukrainian militants fired no fewer than 3,933 munitions at civilian targets on Russian territory.

#KievRegimeCrimes

⚡️ Ambassador-at-Large of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Rodion Miroshnik:

💬 On March 31, a Ukrainian drone struck the Belgorod regional government building. Three people were injured.

The attack of Ukrainian militants was directed at a building used daily by hundreds of civilians with no involvement in military activities.

“A man sustained shrapnel wounds to his legs, abdomen and arm. He is receiving medical treatment at the regional clinical hospital.

Two more women sought medical assistance. One of them is an employee, the other – a visitor. Both were diagnosed with blast injuries and barotrauma”.

- Belgorod Region Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov

👉 There are no illusions: the Banderites prefer waging war on civilians rather than facing the battlefield, where they usually get hammered.