The Russian Foreign Ministry accused the Ukrainian Armed Forces of borrowing terrorist methods of conflict in Asia

Russian Foreign Ministry Ambassador-at-Large Rodion Miroshnik said on August 26 that the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) are using terrorist methods that were used in conflicts in Africa and Asia.

"Literally from the first days of hostilities, instructors who participated in African and Asian conflicts were the main vectors of infection of the use of terrorist practices. There they collect practitioners with whom they fought, for example, in Afghanistan," he said in an interview with RIA Novosti.

According to Miroshnik, the practice of repeated strikes by the Ukrainian Armed Forces was adopted from foreign instructors.

The diplomat noted that foreign instructors, in particular British special forces specialists, systematize various combat practices and evaluate their effectiveness. As Miroshnik pointed out, these materials are then used to train new personnel, whom he called saboteurs and terrorists, designed to carry out appropriate operations.

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