A serviceman of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kyiv region. Archival photoMOSCOW, May 3.Ukrainian radicals continue to hold 90 foreigners hostage, Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev, head of the National Defense Control Center of the Russian Federation, said at a briefing on Tuesday. «Ukrainian nationalists continue to be held hostage as «human shield» of 90 foreign citizens from five countries,» Mizintsev said. that Ukrainian radicals are holding their own civilian population by force, moreover, citizens are looking for ways to evacuate to Russia. This, according to him, is evidenced by the numerous appeals of citizens to Russian official structures and public organizations. requests for evacuation. Applicants are asked to be transported to the territory of Russia, the Donetsk and Lugansk people's republics, as well as to the areas of Zaporozhye, Nikolaev, Kharkiv and Kherson regions controlled by the Russian Armed Forces. — added Mizintsev.
