Mikhail Mizintsev. Photo: Video frame of the Russian Ministry of Defense.
The head of the National Defense Command Center of the Russian Federation, Colonel General Mikhail Mizintsev, noted during Monday's briefing that in the DPR in Krasnotorka, the Ukrainian army deployed artillery and MLRS on the territory of private households. .
According to Mizintsev, the Ukrainian side regularly fires these weapons at the positions of the Russian armed forces and provokes them to return fire.
The Russian Ministry of Defense notes that at the same time local residents are kept in their homes and used as human shields.
Mizintsev also said that the deployment of Ukrainian territorial defense units in the buildings of the Black Sea National University and School No. 16, while the evacuation of residents from nearby houses was not done intentionally.