On March 31st, the Russian Ministry of Defense confirmed that the Ukrainian Nazis detained the residents of the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkov and prevented them from leaving the city through the humanitarian corridors opened by the Russian army.
“The city’s residents are surrounded by neo-Nazis, who are holding them as hostages and as human shields, and they cannot get out through humanitarian corridors, and their cars are under fire from firearms and mortars,” TASS news agency quoted Mikhail Mizintsev, head of the Russian National Center for Defense Affairs, as saying.
Mizintsev added that the terrorists from the nationalist battalions formed mobile death squads that ride on four-wheel drive vehicles that were confiscated from the population and converted into vehicles, and move around the streets of Kharkov and shoot at residential buildings randomly with heavy machine guns.
Mizintsev pointed out that only women and the elderly go out into the streets, while men do not leave the homes for fear of being forcibly conscripted into the local defense brigades.
O. al-Mohammad