Russian Defense: Kiev forces deploy their weapons in kindergartens

Moscow (ST): The Russian Defense Ministry announced that the Kiev forces are deploying their command posts, armored vehicles and artillery in kindergartens in the Zaporozhye and Nikolaev regions and a number of other regions that are still under them.

TASS news agency quoted the head of the Russian National Center for Defense Management, Lieutenant-General Mikhail Mezintsev: “In the city of Nikolaev in kindergarten No. 103 on Okyanovskaya Street, the Ukrainian forces have set up a command post and deployed artillery and ammunition depots without evacuating civilians from nearby buildings to make them human shields”.

He pointed out that in a kindergarten in the city of Zaporozhye a headquarters of the so-called local defense forces and military equipment was set up, and in a kindergarten in the city of Konstantinovka in the Donetsk People’s Republic, Kiev forces deployed a command center and ammunition depots and set up security barriers around them. He added that in two kindergartens in the city of Kramatorsk in the same republic, Ukrainian units had deployed artillery and rocket launchers.

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