Mikhail Mezintsev, head of the Russian National Defense Center, said that foreign fighters and mercenaries from the Nazi Azov Battalion had set up fortifications and sniper points, and placed armored vehicles at a school in Kramatorsk.
On Thursday, Mezintsev said: In Kramatorsk, Donetsk People’s Republic, at school No. 35 along Yubileynaya Street and in private houses along Aktobe Street, fighters of the Kyiv troops, foreign mercenaries and fighters of the Nazi battalion “Azov” prepared fortified strongholds. and sniper points, deployed armored vehicles and mortar firing positions, forcibly keeping civilians in the basements of houses, they use them as human shields.
He added that the fighters of the Ukrainian armed formations, the Armed Forces of Ukraine and territorial defense formations also use educational institutions in Kharkiv, Slavyansk and Nikolaev for military purposes.
In particular, the Ukrainian armed formations use the Kharkiv Technological School No. 9 to deploy armored vehicles, artillery and rocket launchers.
He added: “In Slavyansk of the Donetsk People’s Republic, units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are deployed near the Technical School (Volzhskaya Street), armored vehicles, long-range artillery and rocket launchers are deployed, the streets leading to the high school are mined, but the local population was deliberately not notified about this “.
The head of the center said that at school No. 51 in Nikolaev, regional defense detachments were deployed, which placed ammunition and military equipment there.
Source: Russian Ministry of Defense.