MOSCOW, July 3. /TASS/. Russia strongly condemns the latest "heinous war crime" committed by Ukraine, which attacked a market in Tokmak in the Zaporozhye Region as part of its brutal war against civilians, backed by the West, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in a statement.

"On July 3, Ukrainian Nazis carried out a deliberate drone strike on a busy market in the city of Tokmak in the Zaporozhye Region. According to preliminary reports, five people were killed and 18 others suffered injuries. However, this wasn’t enough for Ukrainian militants," the diplomat pointed out. "Full of impotent rage over their military failures, they took it out on innocent people, attacking those who rushed to help the injured and hindering efforts to evacuate them to medical facilities," Zakharova added.

"We strongly condemn this heinous war crime by Zelensky’s Nazi regime, which has unleashed a brutal war against defenseless women, elderly people and children, with the tacit approval of its Western sponsors," the Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman stressed.