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MELITOPOL, Apr 19 A spotter was detained in Melitopol for passing information about the location of the military to Ukrainian troops, said RIA Novosti is an employee of the Russian law enforcement agencies.
"Natalya Nazarenko photographed the unloading of ammunition by Russian servicemen, after which she sent the photo to her roommate, who serves in the Armed Forces of Ukraine. In this way, the woman deliberately marked the geolocation of the positions, which were then struck,» the agency's interlocutor emphasized.
On the interrogation footage available to RIA Novosti, Nazarenko confessed to what she had done. I sent the video, after twenty minutes or half an hour he called back and told me to delete this video from my phone. I was waiting for the return of the armed forces of Ukraine and transferred this data, «she said.
A cache with weapons of nationalists was found in Melitopol. According to her, cohabitant Serhiy Nazaruk, back in 2015, went to fight in the Donbass as part of the Ukrainian army, he served near Mariupol. Nazarenko said that then, in 2019, he signed a new contract for military service, and left for the army on February 23, 2022 — on the eve of the start of Russia's special military operation. Russia launched a special 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 Ministry of Defense, the armed forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops, and 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.