Relief truckMOSCOW, Mar 15To provide humanitarian assistance to civilians in Mariupol, the Russian side has already delivered more than 450 tons of food and medicine, including 225 tons on Tuesday, Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev, head of the National Defense Control Center of the Russian Federation, told reporters on Tuesday. «To provide humanitarian assistance to civilians More than 450 tons of food, medicine and essentials have already been delivered to Mariupol, including 225 tons today. Safe evacuation of Mariupol residents through open humanitarian corridors from the unblocked city is underway,» the general said. According to him, since Monday, Russia has been conducting an unprecedented scale humanitarian operation in Mariupol. “At the same time, the civilian population rescued yesterday and today confirms all previously drawn conclusions about the nightmare and horrors that took place in this city,” Mizintsev said. The general said that Ukrainian nationalists had mined all the approaches to the city, blown up bridges. Residential areas, kindergartens and schools, medical facilities and other civilian facilities have been turned into strongholds, ammunition depots, firing points, and Mariupol residents themselves were used as a «human shield». Under the threat of death, all able-bodied people were driven to the equipment of barricades and trenches.View from Kyiv: Ukraine really needs denazificationThe head of the NCUO said that the inhumanity and ruthlessness of neo-Nazis towards their own civilian population is confirmed by the concept of «festung» — «fortified cities» borrowed from the Nazis. «A special tragedy of such tactics lies in the fact that the Nazis created all the conditions for the mass destruction of civilians so as not to leave a single living witness to their monstrous crimes,» Mizintsev said. He specified that the National Battalions and the military of Ukraine actually wiped off the face of the earth, shops looted, monuments and objects of historical heritage desecrated and cannot be restored. He added that all past appeals of the Russian Federation to allow the civilian population to go to safe areas were ignored. «Despite the complete unwillingness of official Kyiv to protect the civilian population from terrorist attacks by crazed nationalists, as well as the complexity of the situation, aggravated by the actions of disparate armed gangs, the Russian Federation continues to fully fulfill our humanitarian obligations,» the general emphasized.
