Deputy PM says Russia has attacked schools and hospitals in Ukraine
Olha Stefanishyna says after “strong resistance” from the Ukrainian army, there was an “enormous operation” by Russia against civilians.
On Sunday alone, A family of four were killed when Russians fired shells at people fleeing the conflict in Irpin.
And in the port city of Mariupol, a mass evacuation had to be called off.
The city is now on its fifth day with no running water, no power, no sanitation, and food and water are fast running out.
However, the city council said plans to get civilians safely had been aborted for the secondd day running because Russian shelling had made it impossible. Russia has blamed Ukrainian forces.
The World Health Organization also said health facilities were being attacked, with its director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
The British government has accused Russia of targeting populated areas "in multiple locations", noted in lar tactics in Chechnya in 1999 and Syria in 2016".
On Sunday, UN monitors said 364 civilian deaths had been confirmed in Ukraine since the invasion began on 24 February, but the actual figure was likely to be "considerably higher".
The UNHCR said more than 1.5 million people had fled Ukraine since Russia invaded.
But Russia denies targeting civilians, saying it is carrying out a "special military operation" against Ukrainian "nationalists" and "neo-Nazis".
Ms Stefanishyna - who was speaking on Sunday Morning programme - accused Russia of "military tactics right in the cities of Ukraine", adding they were carrying out a "terroristic plan", with attacks coming from the air and also by land.
"Shelled hospitals, the shelled houses for kindergartens and schools, and the ordinary households," she said. "This is how the reality looks."
She said Ukraine was seeing "another wave of implementation of this terroristic plan of [the] Russian Federation".
Ms Stefanishyna claimed Russia was suffering "enormous losses" of soldiers and equipment, but this "does not deter Russia".
"It only encourages further aggression," she said.
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