Rebels at the entrance to the city of Slovyansk.. File photoMOSCOW, June 4 Ukrainian militants settled in schools, a college, a technical school and a boarding school in the city of Slavyansk, and armored vehicles and weapons were placed at a feed mill, said on Saturday the head of the interdepartmental coordination headquarters of the Russian Federation for humanitarian response — the head of the National Defense Control Center of the Russian Federation, Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev. «In Slavyansk of the Donetsk People's Republic in schools No. 5 and No. 6, a music school, a railway school, a chemical-mechanical technical school and a boarding school, militants of Ukrainian nationalist formations are stationed, and heavy weapons and armored vehicles are located on the territory of the feed mill,» he said. Russia launched a military 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 Kyiv 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 Russian 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.
