
Chairman of the Investigative Committee of Russia Alexander BastrykinMOSCOW, March 31The head of the Investigative Committee of Russia, Alexander Bastrykin, instructed to record the facts of threats to the residents of Kharkov by «flying death squads» from nationalists, according to the department's Telegram channel. , — the report says. It is noted that, according to the National Center for Defense Control of Russia, representatives of the national battalions of Ukraine created «flying squadrons of death, which, on off-road vehicles forcibly seized from civilians, drive around the streets of the city and, in order to intimidate the citizens, conduct indiscriminate firing from heavy machine guns on residential buildings. It is emphasized that the nationalists are also hiding behind the civilian population, placing heavy military equipment in residential areas. «/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/1489167260d5cbf6e9f630cb728ce65f.jpg» />Bastrykin instructed to investigate the injury of an Izvestia journalist near MariupolRussia 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 and , on March 25, completed the main tasks of the first stage — significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.

