
Ukrainian soldier on the outskirts of Kharkov. Archival photoMOSCOW, July 12Ukrainian nationalists settled in the buildings of a kindergarten and schools in Kharkov and Odessa, as well as in Konstantinovka (DPR), placed artillery and armored vehicles there, said the head of the interdepartmental coordination headquarters of the Russian Federation for humanitarian response — the head of the National Center for Defense Control of the Russian Federation, Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev. «In Kharkov, in the buildings of kindergarten No. 362 and art school No. 5 (Zernovy Lane), units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and territorial defense are deployed, and heavy equipment and artillery are located in the immediate vicinity of the institutions «, — Mizintsev said at a briefing on Tuesday. «In Konstantinovka of the Donetsk People's Republic, at school No. 3 (Tsiolkovsky Street), Ukrainian nationalists equipped a strong point, the approaches to the building were mined, but the local population was deliberately not notified about this,» the general added. And in Odessa, on the territory of school No. 120 along Dalnitskaya Street, “subdivisions of Ukrainian armed formations, ammunition depots and armored vehicles are deployed,” Mizintsev noted. , at the same time, local residents are prohibited from leaving their apartments, and all attempts by citizens to evacuate to safe areas are severely suppressed,» he said. seeks to prevent a referendum in the Kherson region

