Houses in Severodonetsk during the fighting in Donbass. Archival photoSEVERODONETSK (LPR), June 9 Ukrainian troops in Severodonetsk mined the territory of the Azot plant, where, according to a captured Ukrainian security official, there are about 300 civilians in the basement, an assistant to the head of Chechnya told RIA Novosti on the power bloc of Apty Alaudinov. Earlier, the head of the republic, Ramzan Kadyrov, referring to the testimony of a prisoner, said that the Ukrainian military drove about 300 civilians into the industrial zone of Severodonetsk. «We have information that there (on the territory of the Azot plant — ed.) where — about three hundred people of peaceful people whom they (Ukrainian troops — ed.) drove into some kind of basement and mined everything,» Alaudinov said. Alaudinov specified that people cannot leave the territory of the plant, as they are used as a human shield . «In this regard, we must do our work (to liberate the territory of the plant — ed.) Carefully, locally, so as not to harm these civilians. In fact, they have become a human shield so that we cannot do our work in the format in which we they did it,” said the assistant to the head of Chechnya. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. Russian President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, as of March 25, the Armed Forces completed the main tasks of the first stage — they significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.
