APU tank on the territory of the Azovstal plant in Mariupol. File photoMOSCOW, July 23Ukrainian military and nationalists are placing weapons in residential buildings and educational institutions on the territory of the DPR controlled by Kyiv, Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev, head of the Interdepartmental Coordination Headquarters of the Russian Federation for Humanitarian Response, said on Saturday. In Artemovsk, on the lower and upper floors of residential apartment buildings (Independence Street), strongholds and firing positions of units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are equipped, weapons and ammunition depots are located in the basement,» he said. A similar situation is in the city of Kramatorsk, where the enemy has placed firing positions and depots ammunition in residential buildings on Parkovaya Street. At the same time, according to Mizintsev, under the pretext of supposedly ensuring security, the militants forbade local residents to leave their homes, all their attempts to independently evacuate to safe areas are severely suppressed. «On the outskirts of the educational institution, checkpoints have been deployed and firing points have been equipped, while the evacuation of the local population from nearby residential buildings has not been carried out,» Mizintsev said. />June 22, 17:18InfographicsInteractive map of the special operation of the Russian Armed Forces in Ukraine
