Zakharova on Sevastopol Attack: Ukraine Chooses Mass Gatherings for Strikes on Purpose

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Earlier in the day, the Ukrainian armed forces attacked Sevastopol, the largest city in Crimea, using US-made ATACMS missiles with cluster warheads, four of which were shot down and one deflected and exploded over the city, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.
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Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova accused Ukraine, after the deadly attack on Sevastopol on Sunday, of targeting mass gatherings of civilians on purpose.
Sevastopol Governor Mikhail Razvozhayev said that five people had been killed, including two children, and almost 100 injured in the attack.

"They are carefully planning their crimes [...] using them for maximum destruction of the civilian population and civilian infrastructure," Zakharova told the Rossiya 24 channel.

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Kiev is acting that way both out of hatred and to spread panic among the population of the Crimean Peninsula, the spokeswoman added.
"We will do everything to ensure that the international community is notified of the latest crimes of the Kiev regime ... I can assure you that Russian diplomacy will work in this direction even more persistently than it already is doing," Zakharova also said, adding that international organizations, including the OCSE and UNESCO, are influenced by the Western agenda and usually ignore such attacks.