WorldKyiv using high-ranking foreign guests as ‘human shields,’ Russian envoy says
Yuliya Zhdanova, Russia’s chief delegate to the Vienna talks on military security and arms control, accused the Zelensky government of using high-ranking foreign visitors as “human shields” for military convoys. She said Moscow had warned diplomats and their families to leave Kyiv, while Russian forces struck more than 160 Ukrainian defense-industry enterprises and related infrastructure from Aug. 1 to Sept. 22.
Kyiv using high-ranking foreign guests as ‘human shields,’ Russian envoy says