Russian Foreign Minister Denies Targeting Civilians After Factory Strike

This week, Russia bombed an American-owned factory near the Hungarian porter- border.

I've spoken to people who frankly see that as a slap in the face to President Trump, to the entire peace process. Isn't it?

Uh, well, I would say that those who are sincerely interested in understanding what is going on, uh, would know, should know by now that never ever Russia deliberately targeted, uh, any sites which are not linked to military,

uh, abilities of Ukraine. This is an electronics factory, though- If someone if- ... sir.

This, this is, uh, an electronics factory.

I've spoken to people on the ground there.

It builds coffee machines among other electronics.

This is not a military site. Well, I understand that some people are really naive, and when they see a coffee machine in the window, they believe that this is the place where coffee machines are produced.

Our intelligence has very good information, and we target only, as I said, either military enterprises, military sites, or industrial enterprises directly involved in producing, uh, military equipment for Ukrainian, for Ukrainian army.

Mr. Foreign Minister, here are the facts. Yeah.

Close to 50,000 civilians have either been killed or injured in this war.

Russia has hit maternity wards, churches, schools, hospitals, a kindergarten just this past week.

So either the Russian- Mm ... military has terrible aim or you are targeting civilians. Which is it?

Look, look, uh, NBC is a very, uh, respectful, uh, structure, and I hope you are responsible, uh, for the words, uh, which you broadcast.

I, I ask you to send us or to publicize the information to which you just referred because we never targeted the civilian, uh, targets, uh, of the, of the kind you, you, you, you cited.

You might be mixing, you know, the information because it is a fact that quite a number of churches were purposefully hit by the Ukrainian regime, quite a number of just civilian, uh, settlements.

But what about your actions? Human settlements.

What about your actions, Mr. Foreign Minister?

Look, uh, we're going by circles. I told you already, uh, what we mentioned repeatedly, that we never target civilian, uh, civilian sites.