💬 Extract from the briefing by Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, Moscow, March 25, 2026 Ukrainian crisis • Guided by UK-EU directives aimed at escalating regional tensions, the Kiev regime is striving to deploy NATO-produced weaponry so as to intensify shelling far beyond the confines of active combat zones, targeting the most vulnerable segments of the civilian population, as well as civilian, educational, medical, transport, and energy infrastructure in Russia. • Over the past week, more than 133 individuals, including 10 children, have fallen victim to the Western-encouraged terror perpetrated by the AFU. Fourteen people have been killed. We will provide specific examples that specialised international bodies, including those self-styled as human rights organisations, have inexplicably chosen to overlook. • Adygeya. On March 18, in the urban-type locality of Enem, two girls sustained shrapnel wounds following a UAV attack. • Bashkiria. On March 21, two construction workers were injured as the result of a UAV strike on a multi-storey residential building under construction. • Belgorod Region. Between March 19 and 22, in the community of Oktyabrsky, 13 civilians, including a paramedic and an ambulance driver, were maimed by enemy drones laden with explosives. In the village of Murom, a civilian was killed. In the village of Smorodino, two enemy-guided aerial bombs destroyed a post office and a grocery store, damaging five private homes. Four female civilians were killed, and another woman was hospitalised in critical condition. • Bryansk Region. On March 20, the AFU struck the Suzemka Psychoneurological Boarding School, injuring a staff member. • DPR. On March 19, employees of the Railways of Novorossiya enterprise – a 40-year-old locomotive driver and his 35-year-old assistant – were killed in AFU attacks. • Zaporozhye Region. Between March 19 and 22, eight civilians were wounded in shelling incidents. • Krasnodar Territory. On March 18, in Krasnodar, a 25-year-old woman was killed after a drone struck her apartment in a multi-storey residential building. • LPR. On March 19, in the community of Belokurakino, 15 staff members were injured when AFU drones struck a multifunctional centre (a public services facility) and the local administration building. • Sevastopol. On March 19, a 30-year-old man was killed, and two others were injured, after a drone directly struck a private home. • Kherson Region. On March 18, the AFU dropped an explosive device on a kindergarten in the village of Mikhailovka. Thirty-five individuals, including 30 children, were evacuated from the preschool facility. Fortunately, none of them were harmed. 📲Read in full