Posted: 14.07.2022 14:23:00

Zakharova: US provided Ukraine with intelligence for shelling Donbass

The United States provided Kiev with intelligence data for the shelling of Donbass using American HIMARS multiple launch rocket systems – as stated by the representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova at a briefing in Moscow, RIA Novosti reports

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According to Ms. Zakharova, the support of the US authorities to Ukraine was expressed not only in the numerous deliveries of weapons and the provision of intelligence data necessary for shelling. The representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry stressed that the American side also ‘secretly sent instructors’ who helped the Ukrainian military ‘to aim correctly’.

Maria Zakharova noted that the Ukrainian military was apparently ordered to use US-made HIMARS MLRS against the civilian population.

“It is with the supply of these heavy weapons that the noticeable activation of the artillery of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is connected, which, apparently, received an order from Kiev without the slightest hesitation to use the mentioned installations against the civilian population,” she said.

Earlier, the Ukrainian military used American HIMARS to attack Novaya Kakhovka in the Kherson Region. As a result, at least two people were killed, about 90 civilians were injured of varying degrees of severity, seven were missing. Later it became known about the repeated strike on the settlement. The number of victims has not yet been reported.