Ukrainian servicemen BREST REGION (Belarus), Mar 7 Nationalists who seized positions in Ukrainian cities , use civilians as a human shield, this should be investigated as a war crime, said the head of the Russian delegation at the talks with Ukraine, assistant to the President of Russia Vladimir Medinsky. «Nationalists who have seized positions in cities continue to keep civilians there, using them indirectly and directly … as a human shield. This is, of course, a war crime that will be investigated accordingly,» Medinsky told reporters before talks with the Ukrainian side, which are scheduled for Monday in the Brest region of Belarus.
Ukraine has not fulfilled a single condition on the humanitarian corridors, the Ministry of Defense saidThe head of the Russian delegation at the talks with Ukraine, Medinsky, emphasized that four civilians died the day before in the eastern outskirts of Mariupol as a result of the fact that nationalist fighters tried to leave the city, using them as human shields «I will tell you just one episode that happened yesterday at 5 o'clock in the afternoon: on the eastern outskirts of Mariupol, a city blocked by the Donbass police, in the area of Pobedy Avenue, a small group of 20-25 machine gunners, fighters of the nationalist battalion, tried to leave the city through the positions of the Donetsk police At the same time, as in the best traditions of the Great Patriotic War, they led about 150 civilians in front of them, including children and women, stood behind them,» Medinsky said. He clarified that the Russian Ministry of Defense had reported on this case. He clarified that at that time the soldiers of the Donbass rifle battalion started shouting «Get down», a shootout began, as a result of which, as previously reported, four civilians were killed and five — wounded. «Nationalist fighters were partially destroyed, partially fled,» Medinsky added. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the Armed Forces strike only at the military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops. With the support of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the DPR and LPR groups are developing an offensive. But there is no talk of the occupation of Ukraine, the Russian president emphasized.The development of the situation is in the online report>>
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