Lavrov: We're sure we're acting in the right way, but it's bad people are dying

MOSCOW. March 3 (Interfax) - Russia's actions in Ukraine are right, but it is bad that people are dying, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.

"We are convinced that we are acting in the right way. I'd like to say once again that it's bad, it's very bad that people are dying. But I am thinking not about a diplomatic fiasco, I am thinking about the West's diplomatic talent," Lavrov said at a press briefing on Thursday.

About 14,000 people have died over the eight years of hostilities in Donbas, he said.

"Nobody from your channel or other Western media outlets... even thought about travelling to Donbas to see how people whom the Ukrainian regime declared terrorists lived there, although they didn't attack anyone, to see how those people were shelled upon on a daily basis, how civilians were killed there, how schools and kindergartens were destroyed, and how acts of terrorism were committed," Lavrov said in reply to a question from a French correspondent.