Russian diplomat: Russia not bombing civilians as NATO, US did
A Russian diplomat stresses that Russia's strikes in Ukraine are only targeted against the Ukrainian army and not at residential areas and civilians.
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Secretary of Russia’s Security Council, Nikolay Patrushev
Secretary of Russia’s Security Council, Nikolay Patrushev, affirmed that his country is not bombing residential neighborhoods as NATO and the US did in Yugoslavia, Iraq, and Afghanistan.
"We are not bombing cities and civilian facilities as the US and NATO did in Yugoslavia, Iraq or Afghanistan, ruthlessly destroying residential neighborhoods with thousands of people," Patrushev considered at a meeting with Noureddine Makri, head of Algeria's Directorate-General for Documentation and External Security.
The Russian diplomat pointed out that Russian "strikes, including high-precision weapons, are carried out against major strongholds, airfields, weapons storage sites and accumulations of military equipment of the Ukrainian army."
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The tally of the war on Afghanistan
An analysis published by the civilian harm monitoring group, Airwars, estimated that US drones and airstrikes have killed at least 22,000 civilians and as many as 48,000 since the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the US in 2001.
According to The Guardian, the published analysis revealed that the US military has directed almost 100,000 airstrikes since 2001 under the pretext of the so-called “War on Terror.”
