MOSCOW, April 12. /TASS/. Ukrainian nationalists and regular troops deploy heavy weapons in residential quarters, at schools-and kindergartens in Kharkov, the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics (DPR and LPR), Mikhail Mizintsev, chief of Russia’s National Defense Management Center, said on Tuesday.
"In Kharkov (Kievsky, Nemishlyansky, and Shevchenkovsky districts), militants of nationalist units continue to organize positions at residential compounds, kindergartens and schools, and to deploy heavy weapons in densely populated quarters. Moreover, they banned evacuation of civilians from April 10," he said.
He also said that Ukrainian troops organized combat emplacements and deployed armored vehicles at a school in Severodonetsk in the Lugansk People’s Republic, and at a school in Serebryanka and at schools in Belozerskoye in the Donetsk People’s Republic.
According to Mizintsev, nationalists continue to raid private households in the Chernigov to seize food, valuables and private cars under the treat of physical violence.