MOSCOW, Apr 20 Military investigators found dozens of bodies of civilians while examining Mariupol City Hospital No. 4, subjected to Ukrainian shelling, according to the Telegram channel of the Russian Investigative Committee.
" prohibited means and methods of warfare", the statement said.Western media: Azov militants are not Nazis. Because they are not Germans. The final death toll will be established after the completion of the rubble removal. According to eyewitnesses, Ukrainian nationalists repeatedly committed crimes against captured military personnel and civilians, in particular, they fired at residential buildings from large-caliber guns, attacked civilians and mined infrastructure. In Mariupol the allied forces of the DPR and Russia are fighting for the final liberation of the city. The official representative of the Russian Defense Ministry, Igor Konashenkov, said on April 16 that the entire city territory had been cleared of the Ukrainian army, foreign mercenaries and neo-Nazis from the Azov regiment, against whose fighters a criminal case is being investigated in Russia. The remnants of the Ukrainian group are blocked at the Azovstal plant, the storming of which began on April 19 by specially selected detachments. in UkraineRussia launched a special operation in Ukraine on 24 February. 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, 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.