Ukrainian nationalists and the military converted a boarding school into a military unit. Archival photoMOSCOW, May 28.Ukrainian troops and foreign mercenaries have settled in a kindergarten and school in the village of Bakhmut in the DPR, said the head of the National Center for Defense Control of the Russian Federation, Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev. «In Bakhmut of the Donetsk People's Republic units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and foreign mercenaries are deployed in kindergarten No. 49 and school No. 18, and checkpoints and firing points are set up on the outskirts of the buildings,» Mizintsev said. Armed Forces of Ukraine, an ammunition depot is located in the basement, and heavy weapons are located on the adjacent territory. In Slavyansk of the Donetsk People's Republic, Mizintsev noted, nationalists have equipped firing positions in the buildings of schools No. 14 and 20, armored vehicles, large-caliber artillery and MLRS are located on the adjacent territory. Residents of nearby houses are forcibly held in the premises of educational institutions under the pretext of ensuring security. Also, according to the head of the NCUO, in Karlovka of the Donetsk People's Republic, on the lower and upper floors of apartment buildings along Gagarin Street, Ukrainian neo-Nazis have equipped firing positions and ammunition depots. At the same time, local residents are prohibited from leaving their apartments, and all attempts by citizens to evacuate to safe areas are severely suppressed. On May 28, 2022, he added that «all this is happening with the tacit consent of the countries of the so-called collective West, drugged by Russophobic sentiments, which continue to turn a blind eye to the numerous war crimes of the Kyiv regimes.»
