TASS, April 11. There is a pro-Russian resistance consisting of civilians in all districts of Ukraine’s Nikolayev Region, they provide information about the deployment of the Ukrainian military and its facilities, underground resistance spokesman Sergey Lebedev told TASS.

"When there is an attack on Nikolayev, within the first hour there are messages from 100 to 130 different people. We should not forget those who write from the region, almost from every settlement we receive information about dislocations, places of storage of ammunition and equipment, about movements of enemy troops," he said.

Lebedev pointed out that the people he cooperates with are rightly called the resistance, not the underground, because the underground is a more professional organization run by professional military officers with ties to the center.

"The people who work with me are rather ideologically insensitive to what is going on in Ukraine. They are ordinary people: shop assistants, waiters in cafes, shuttle bus drivers, hairdressers, cooks, just people standing in line or riding public transport, but they notice everything and pass on information. It would be more correct to call them resistance," he said.