MOSCOW, May 17. /TASS/. Militants of the Ukrainian Aidar battalion have organized combat emplacements and deployed artillery and multiple rocket launcher systems in a church in the Dnepropetrovsk region, Mikhail Mizintsev, chief of Russia’s National Defense Management Center, said on Tuesday.
"Militants of the Aidar battalion have organized combat emplacements and deployed artillery and multiple rocket launcher systems on the territory of the Church of the Praise of the Mother of God in Pavlograd, Dnepropetrovsk region, in the direct vicinity to densely populated quarters," said Mizintsev, who also heads the Russian Joint Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response in Ukraine.
Militants have also organized munitions depots on the basement floors of two hospitals in Zaporozhye and are keeping their personnel and patients as a human shield, he added.