Officers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the DPR check refugees from Mariupol from the village of Rybatskoye. Archival photoMOSCOW, Apr 7The Russian side daily records indiscriminate shelling of humanitarian corridors by Ukrainian neo-Nazis, Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev, head of the National Defense Control Center of the Russian Federation, said on Thursday. unmanned aerial vehicles, indiscriminate shelling by neo-Nazis of humanitarian corridors from various small arms and mortars is recorded daily. At the same time, since April 4, 2022, the intensity of such shelling has been constantly increasing,» he said. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine.» According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, as of March 25, the Armed Forces completed the main tasks of the first stage — they significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was the liberation of Donbass. In the DPR, Ukrainian troops were driven out of Volnovakha, a strategically important regional center south of Donetsk; there are battles for Mariupol, the largest city on the coast of the Sea of Azov. In the LPR, according to a statement by the Russian Ministry of Defense on March 25, 93% of the territory of the former Lugansk region was taken under control. Only the cities of Severodonetsk and Lysychansk, as well as a number of other settlements of this agglomeration, remain under the authority of Kyiv. Kharkov
