Ukrainian nationalistsDONETSK, Mar 13 Militants of the Ukrainian nationalist organization Right Sector* (banned in the Russian Federation) were able to leave Mariupol before blocking it and arrived in the Zaporozhye region, where they took civilians hostage, the people's militia of the DPR reports. — the statement of the police representative in Telegram reads.The Aidar militants held the hostages in the monastery, the Ministry of Defense said. «Ukrainian militants took civilians hostage and confiscated their cell phones. This information is also confirmed by relatives of the residents of the village. At present, the militants have already looted all the grocery stores that were in the village,» the statement says. According to the people's militia of the republic, Seven servicemen of the 36th Marine Brigade of the Ukrainian troops defected to the DPR side. content/uploads/2022/03/9f68252897dce95bca4bf716e9e998e4.jpg» />Six thousand foreigners are being held hostage in Kharkiv, Putin saidRussia 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 Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops, the civilian population is not in danger. With the support of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the DPR and LPR groups are developing an offensive. But the occupation of Ukraine is out of the question, the President of Russia stressed.* An organization banned in Russia
