APU tank on the territory of the Azovstal plant in Mariupol. File photoMOSCOW, July 16 The Ukrainian military has set up a stronghold at a school in Soledar in the DPR, the head of the Interdepartmental Coordination Headquarters of the Russian Federation for Humanitarian Response — Head of the National Defense Control Center of the Russian Federation, General- Colonel Mikhail Mizintsev. «In Soledar of the Donetsk People's Republic, at school No. 14 (Krasnoflotskaya St.), a stronghold of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was equipped, an ammunition depot was located in the basement, and heavy weapons were located on the adjacent territory,» Mizintsev said. He added that in another the city of the DPR — Slavyansk — nationalist formations equipped barracks and a strong point in the social shelter for children «Sails of Hope». At the same time, they forcibly keep teachers with children in the basement of the building as a human shield. 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 abuse and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» To this end, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine» bloody crimes against civilians» of Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and, as of March 25, they have completed the main tasks of the first stage — they have significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.
