Russian Envoy to UN Says Nationalists in Ukraine Using Civilians as Human Shields - Sputnik International

(Sputnik) - Russian Ambassador to the United Nations Vasily Nebenzia said nationalists in Ukraine are using civilians as human shields.

“President [Vladimir] Putin and the Russian Defense Ministry explicitly and clearly stated that there would be no strikes targeting civilian infrastructure but nationalists are already using civilians as human shields,” Nebenzia said during a UN Security Council meeting on Friday.

Speaking of the draft UNSC resolution targeting Moscow, which was submitted Friday and vetoed by Russia, the diplomat called it “yet another brutal, inhumane move in this Ukrainian chessboard.”

On Friday, the Russian Ministry of Defense said that Pentagon and CIA advisers had taught the Ukrainian army how to deploy rocket-propelled artillery systems in residential areas to provoke return fire on local residents, in a notorious technique the United States has used in military interventions around the world.

“These methods are actively used by terrorists supervised by the CIA in the Middle East and other countries.”