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| Russian Ambassador was summoned to the Czech Foreign Ministry due to the events in the Ukrainian village of Grozaa |
| 2023-10-13 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. To recall, the Groza missile strike was against a number of Ukrainians who were part of a group Russia considers to be a terrorist group. It was an easy an d obvious target. [Regnum] The Russian Embassy in the Czech Republic resolutely rejected unfounded accusations against Russia in connection with the events in the Ukrainian village of Groza. This was stated in a commentary by the Russian diplomatic mission on October 12. It is noted that the Russian Ambassador to the Czech Republic Alexander Zmeevsky was summoned to the country's Foreign Ministry for a conversation with Deputy Foreign Minister Jan Marian. The diplomatic department informed that the Czech side put forward a well-known set of claims and demands from the West to Moscow, emphasizing its full support for the Kyiv regime. “Of course, we resolutely rejected the unfounded accusations against Russia and its Armed Forces,” the statement said. Russian diplomats emphasized that the dialogue did not work out, since the Czech partners once again demonstrated their reluctance to listen to arguments and conduct a discussion. As Regnum reported, the Ukrainian side stated that a missile strike was carried out on the village of Groza in the Kharkov region near Kupyansk on October 5. The Ministry of Internal Affairs claims that dozens of people died as a result. Press Secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov emphasized that the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation do not attack civilian targets on the territory of Ukraine; only military targets and places of concentration of military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the leadership of the Ukrainian army are subject to attacks. The Ministry of Defense has repeatedly spoken about this. This is not the first time Kyiv has blamed Moscow for allegedly committing crimes against civilians. Such events include a strike on the Kramatorsk train station with an obsolete Soviet Tochka-U missile, which is only in service with the Ukrainian Armed Forces, in April of this year, as well as a strike on the central market in Konstantinovka in September, which killed 15 people. Russia's permanent representative to the UN Vasily Nebenzya noted at a meeting of the organization's Security Council that the missile that struck the market in Konstantinovka was launched from territory controlled by Ukraine. |
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