Ukrainian militants continue to place weapons in medical facilities

Ukrainian soldiers on BMP. File photoMOSCOW, May 31.Ukrainian militants continue to deploy weapons and equip positions in medical facilities, said Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev, head of the National Defense Control Center of the Russian Federation. According to him, Ukrainian armed formations continue to use medical infrastructure facilities for military purposes. At the same time, hiding behind civilians as a «human shield», they fire at units of the RF Armed Forces, provoking them to retaliate, in order to later accuse them of killing civilians and indiscriminate shelling. «In Kharkiv, in the hospital building (Igor Muratov Street) on the upper firing points are located on the floors, an ammunition depot is located in the basement, while medical personnel and patients are forcibly kept in the premises,” Mizintsev said in this regard. wounded militants of Ukrainian nationalist formations. Civilians, including those seriously ill, were forced to leave the institution under threat of reprisals, and on the outskirts of the clinic, the Ukrainian Armed Forces deployed checkpoints and equipped firing points. />In the DPR, a gas pipeline caught fire due to shelling by Ukrainian troops. In addition, the head of the NCUO said, in Odessa, in the building of hospital No. In Kramatorsk, Donetsk People's Republic, a stronghold was equipped in the children's polyclinic No. 3 (Geroev Ukrainy st.), the approaches to the building were mined, the polyclinic staff and patients, including children, were forcibly kept in the basement. He emphasized that these and similar facts, despite «We once again call on all international organizations and, first of all, the World Health Organization to influence official Kyiv and take effective measures aimed at preventing the use of medical infrastructure for military purposes,» — added Mizintsev.