A residential building in Mariupol destroyed by shelling. File photoMOSCOW, March 29Ukrainian nationalists continue to hold more than 4.5 million citizens as human shields, and more than 6.5 thousand foreigners are also held hostage, Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev, head of the National Defense Control Center of the Russian Federation, said. «Over 4.5 million civilians in Kyiv, Kharkov, Chernihiv, Sumy, Mariupol and more than two dozen other large settlements, as well as 6,515 citizens from 19 foreign countries,» Mizintsev said at a briefing.Pushilin: there are all prerequisites for a tribunal over Ukrainian nationalistsHe added that more than 60 foreign ships remain blocked in Ukrainian ports. The threat of shelling and high mine danger created by official Kiev in its internal waters and territorial sea do not allow them to go to sea. 80 and a width of 3 nautical miles, said the head of the National Center for Defense Control of the Russian Federation. «At the same time, the Ukrainian side still does not confirm the readiness to ensure the safety of foreign ships entering the assembly area and in every possible way evades interaction in resolving this issue,» Mizintsev noted. once again called on the International Maritime Organization and the leadership of shipowners to influence official Kyiv so that the Ukrainian authorities take measures to unblock and ensure the safety of the exit of ships of foreign states from the ports of Ukraine.
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