Kremlin reacts to Ukraine’s invitation of International Committee of the Red Cross and UN to Russia’s Kursk Oblast
Pravda Ukraine
Dmitry Peskov, Spokesperson for the Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin, has called a provocation of Ukraine’s invitation to representatives of the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to visit the territories of Russiaʼs Kursk Oblast, which the Ukrainian Armed Forces currently control.
Source: Russian propaganda outlet TASS
Quote from Peskov: “We expect that the addressees will not perceive such provocative statements. This is a pure kind of provocation.”
Background:
- On 16 September, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs appealed to the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross to join the humanitarian response efforts in the areas of Russia’s Kursk Oblast, currently controlled by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
- On 12 September, the Russians shelled Viroliubivka of Kostiantynivka hromada of Donetsk Oblast with artillery, killing three ICRC staff members and injuring two others. A lorry carrying humanitarian aid and a car were destroyed. [a hromada is an administrative unit designating a town, village or several villages and their adjacent territories – ed.]
- The ICRC said that their team was preparing to distribute firewood and coal briquettes in the village of Viroliubivtsi, Donetsk Oblast when the lorries they were using were attacked.
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