MOSCOW, June 23. /TASS/. Ukrainian militants deployed artillery and multiple launch rocket systems near the school of Druzhkovka, Donetsk People’s Republic, Russian National Defense Control Center head Colonel General Mikhail Mizintsev reported Thursday.

"Nationalist battalion militants deployed strongholds inside school number 8 in Druzhkovka, with artillery and multiple launch rocket systems deployed nearby. Meanwhile, residents of nearby buildings were intentionally not evacuated," Mizintsev said.

He also said that a group of foreign mercenaries has been deployed in the professional college number 64 (Pushkina Street) in Volnyansk, Zaporozhye Region, with armored vehicles and artillery deployed nearby.