The Russian occupation troops commit large-scale killings of the civilian population and destruction of housing, as well as plunder everything of value in the occupied territories - that is, they fight brutally, as in the Middle Ages. This was stated by US Permanent Representative to the OSCE Michael Carpenter during a meeting of the Permanent Council of this organization in Vienna, Ukrinform reports..

According to Karpenger, despite the presence of modern weapons, the Russians are fighting with such cruelty as in the Middle Ages..

“Russia has a lot of modern weapons of war: cruise missiles that fly hundreds of miles, hitting the target with amazing accuracy.. It has precision guided munitions that can be launched from air, sea and land.. But why is this war being waged as if we were living in the Middle Ages Why do so many civilians experience the horrors of war? "

He believes that Russia had the goal of forcing civilians to flee their homes, and thus get rid of the local population in the occupied areas. And this, in his opinion, led to such barbarism..

" Especially if that goal is to deny the very concept of Ukrainian statehood in areas that the Russian Federation now controls in order to more easily absorb these parts of Ukraine,” Carpenter said..

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Recall that only in the Kyiv region, which was partially occupied for a month, almost 1300 bodies of civilians killed by the occupiers were found.. There are indications that the same massacres as in Bucha could be repeated on a very large scale in other occupied territories.