View of the buildings of the base of the 36th Marine Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Donetsk People's Republic, destroyed by the Russian Aerospace ForcesMOSCOW, 18 Mar. Ukrainian nationalists are holding hostage more than 4.5 million residents and almost 7,000 foreigners from 23 countries in the country, said Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev, head of the National Defense Control Center of the Russian Federation. «Ukrainian neo-Nazis are being held hostage as » human shield «there are more than 4.5 million civilians who are simply not released by the militants of the territorial defense battalions from Kyiv, Kharkov, Chernihiv, Sumy and more than two dozen other blockaded large settlements along the daily opened humanitarian corridors,» Mizintsev said at the briefing. In addition, he noted, 6,921 foreign citizens from 23 states, as well as the crews of 70 foreign ships blocked in the seaports of Ukraine, are forcibly detained by nationalists. around-the-clock work with representatives of the relevant diplomatic departments has been organized,» Mizintsev said.
