In a statement published on its website, the agency added that “contrary to propagandist assertions, bombing is conducted not with precision weapons, but with non-directed bombs OFAB-250-270,FAB-500 and OFZAB-500,” Poland’s PAP news agency reported.
“This causes significant casualties among the civilian population and damage to the civilian infrastructure,” GUR MO said.
“Such bombardment is yet another obvious crime against humanity on the part of the occupier’s army,” the defence-intelligence agency added.
Meanwhile, Russian rockets targeted a humanitarian convoy heading to the southern port city of Mariupol in the early hours of Wednesday, according to officials cited by the Ukrinform news agency.
The convoy escaped unscathed, officials said.
The offices of the Red Cross in the city were also bombed, they added.
Ukrainian authorities have been trying to deliver 90 tons of food, water and medicines to the besieged Mariupol for days, amid Russian shelling, according to PAP.
Ukraine’s Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said Kyiv would on Wednesday “again ask the Russian invaders to open a humanitarian corridor between Mariupol and Zaporizhzhia,” PAP reported.
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Source: PAP