APU tank on the territory of the Azovstal plant in Mariupol. File photoMOSCOW, Aug 9The Ukrainian military expelled patients from a tuberculosis dispensary in the Nikolaev region in order to place territorial defense units there and equip a weapons and ammunition depot, the head of the Interdepartmental Coordination Headquarters of Russia for Humanitarian Response — Head of the National Center for Defense Control of the Russian Federation, Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev, said on Tuesday. territorial defense units were deployed in the building of the tuberculosis dispensary, a warehouse of weapons and ammunition was equipped, and all patients, regardless of their state of health, were cynically expelled from the medical institution,» Mizintsev said. He also said that Ukrainian militants were in the ambulance building in Cherkasy equipped a stronghold, weapons and ammunition depots, deployed roadblocks and firing points, mined the approaches to the building, but deliberately did not warn the local population about this. «In Kramatorsk, Donetsk People's Republic, in the building of the city hospital No. Hundreds of barracks and firing points are equipped, while medical personnel and patients are not evacuated and are actually used by the nationalists as a «human shield,» Mizintsev added. on Pioneer Avenue, militants of nationalist battalions placed artillery and MLRS, from which they systematically fire at nearby settlements. Nationalists forbid residents to leave their homes in order to evacuate under the pretext of supposedly ensuring security «Such criminal actions by the Ukrainian authorities demonstrate complete indifference to the fate of their own citizens and absolute disregard for all moral standards and principles of international humanitarian law. Once again we call on the United Nations, the World Organization healthcare, the International Committee of the Red Cross and other international organizations to immediately influence official Kyiv and take effective measures to prevent the use of medical infrastructure by the armed formations of Ukraine for military purposes,» the head of the National Defense Control Center of the Russian Federation emphasized.
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