Despite the systematic and constant bombing of Kyiv, Kharkov, Mariupol, Chernigov and many other cities in Ukraine, when bombs destroy residential buildings and kill civilians, the Kremlin still claims that they do not shoot civilians, writes Meduza.

So, during a conversation with reporters on March 23, Putin's press secretary Dmitry Peskov argued that the killings of children, old people and just civilians do not take place..

“The Russian military does not strike or fire at civilians.. Russian military help civilians. And, unfortunately, more and more witnesses come out of the cities and say that they are being held there like a human shield and that the nationalist battalions open fire, these are mass cases, on civilians. Information about the rape of a woman we do not believe at all. This is a lie,” he said, answering the question of how it happened that 96-year-old Boris Romanchenko, who during the Second World War managed to survive in several Nazi concentration camps, died in Kharkiv as a result of shelling by Russian troops..

Asked to clarify whether the killings of civilians in Ukraine were really the work of local nationalists, Peskov said that this “is confirmed by a huge number of stories from direct eyewitnesses who leave the cities”.

At the same time, speaking about the losses of the Russian army, he said that the expediency of their volume depends on the decision of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

“The operation is being developed and carried out in strict accordance with the plans and tasks. The plans and tasks of the operation are well known, I will not repeat.

The military does not shoot at civilians - as long as the civilians do not take up arms and aim at our military, ”Putin’s speaker repeated the already well-known mantra.

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It should be noted that, in addition to everything, from the territories of Donetsk and Luhansk regions temporarily occupied by the enemy, women and children are massively forcibly taken out to the territory of the Russian Federation, where they are placed in concentration camps with subsequent movement to the depressed regions of Russia to the settlement.