Ukrainian servicemen. File photoMOSCOW, June 23 The Ukrainian military has deployed heavy weapons on the grounds of a school in Druzhkovka in the DPR, and similar situations are occurring in other regions, Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev, head of the National Defense Control Center of the Russian Federation, said on Thursday «Ukrainian armed formations continue to use educational institutions, houses of culture and other social facilities for military purposes. In Druzhkovka of the Donetsk People's Republic, on the territory of school No. 8, militants of nationalist battalions equipped strongholds, installed artillery and residential buildings were deliberately not carried out,» Mizintsev said. He added that a group of foreign mercenaries was deployed in the building of vocational school No. 64 in Volnyansk, Zaporozhye region, and armored vehicles and artillery were deployed on the adjacent territory. In addition, in Kharkov, on the lower and upper floors of residential buildings on Academician Pavlov Street, Ukrainian nationalists equipped firing positions. They forbid residents to leave their apartments and severely suppress all attempts of citizens to evacuate to safe areas. «These facts once again demonstrate the indifference of the Ukrainian authorities to the fate of civilians and complete disregard for the provisions of international humanitarian law. All this is happening with the tacit consent of the countries of the collective West, who continue to «turn a blind eye» to the numerous war crimes of the Kyiv regime,» Mizintsev stressed.
