Kremlin Accuses West of Turning Blind Eye to Ukrainian ‘Terrorist Assaults’ In opposition to Russia

MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Kremlin accused the West of turning a blind eye to what it mentioned have been “terrorist assaults” dedicated by Ukraine inside Russia, noting on Wednesday what it mentioned was the silence this week over a lethal assault on the Crimean Bridge.

The mom and father of a 14-year-old lady have been killed on Monday and the lady left wounded as they tried to cross the bridge to start out a household vacation in Crimea, which Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014.

Moscow mentioned Ukraine had used naval drones to assault the bridge, which hyperlinks Russia to the Crimean Peninsula.

Kyiv, which in keeping with Ukrainian media experiences was behind the assault however has not taken official accountability, says Crimea is Ukrainian and that it intends to take it again by power as a part of its drive to expel Russian troops from its territory.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov instructed reporters on Wednesday that Moscow had not for the primary time famous the failure of the West to sentence Ukraine for what he mentioned was terrorism.

“The collective West is able to flip a blind eye to any terrorist assaults that the ‘Kyiv regime’ organises in our nation,” mentioned Peskov.

“They don’t shrink back from any sort of silence. This isn’t information. It was like this earlier than and it’ll proceed to be like this. We perceive that completely nicely,” he mentioned.

(Reporting by Reuters; Modifying by Andrew Osborn)

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