MOSCOW, June 11. /TASS/. Neo-Nazis have deployed US-made artillery pieces, heavy military equipment and multiple rocket launchers (MLRS) in schools of the city of Slavyansk in the Donetsk People's Republic, Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev, the chief of Russia’s National Defense Management Center, said on Saturday.
"In Slavyansk (the Donetsk People’s Republic), servicemen of the Ukrainian Armed Forces are stationed in Boarding School No. 1 and the High Voltage Research Institute (on General N. Batyuk Street), and weapons and ammo depots have been set up there. MLRS are deployed in the surrounding area," said Mizintsev, who heads the Russian Joint Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response in Ukraine.
"In schools No. 17 (Olimpiyskaya Street) and No. 9 (Kutuzov Street) the militants of the nationalist battalions have equipped firing positions and placed US-made artillery pieces very close to the educational institutions," he said.
According to the general, neo-Nazis have set up a stronghold at School No. 9 in the city of Pokrovsk, deploying sniper positions and heavy machine guns on the top floor and heavy equipment and MLRS in the yard, while residents of nearby houses are being held in the gym under the pretext of security.