Russian Foreign Minister Challenged Over Factory Strike and Civilian Targets

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-

It's only-

... though, 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-

Uh

... 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-

Ukrainian settlements

... your actions? 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.