Mariupol, Donetsk region. Archival photoMOSCOW, April 15 In the town of Liman, Kramatorsk district, Ukrainian nationalists have detained and are torturing more than 800 people who are suspected of being loyal to Russia, said the head of the National Center for Defense Control, Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev.According to him, , from April 11 to April 15, the militants of the nationalist battalions conducted door-to-door rounds in the city in order to identify local residents for pro-Russian views or signs of assistance to the DPR formations. The Ministry of Defense warned that Kiev was preparing a provocation at the Lozova railway station «All the suspects (surnames, first names, patronymics of 837 people were reliably established) were detained, are currently subjected to brutal torture, threatened with physical violence against their relatives,» the general said. He added that during the raids militants took away valuable property and products from people, allegedly for the needs of territorial defense. On February 24, Russia began national military operation to demilitarize and denazify Ukraine. According to President Vladimir Putin, its goal is “to protect people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.” . The main task in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.
