MOSCOW, May 8. /TASS/. Ukrainian troops have organized combat emplacements in a school and a kindergarten in Kramatorsk in the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), Mikhail Mizintsev, chief of Russia’s National Defense Management Center, said on Sunday.

"Combat emplacements of the Ukrainian army have been organized in school No20 and kindergarten No87 in Kramatorsk, the Donetsk People’s Republic. Civilians, residents of the nearby houses are kept by force in the basement premises. Approaches to the buildings have been mined," said Mizintsev, who also heads the Russian Joint Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response in Ukraine.