Citizens are leaving Mariupol. Archival photoMOSCOW, March 19Ukrainian radicals continue to hold the civilian population as a «human shield», more than 2.7 million people who want to evacuate in Russia have accumulated, the head of the National Center for Defense Control of the Russian Federation said at a briefing on Saturday Federation, Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev.» According to the results of daily monitoring, it was found that over the past day alone, 7,223 more such applications were received, and in total there are already 2 million 711 thousand 319 specific names and specific addresses in our database out of two thousand ninety-three settlements of Ukraine», — said Mizintsev. as a «human shield» of more than 4.5 million civilians in Kyiv, Kharkov, Chernigov, Sumy and more than two dozen other blockaded large us villages, as well as 6,830 foreign citizens from 19 countries. In addition, according to Mizintsev, the crews of seventy foreign ships are blocked in the seaports of Ukraine.
