“The Chairman of the Russian Investigative Committee instructed investigators to investigate the circumstances of the explosion of a residential building in the Donetsk People’s Republic by Ukrainian nationalists,” the report says.
As specified, Bastrykin pointed out the need to promptly take the necessary measures aimed at identifying all nationalists involved in criminal activities.
Earlier, the head of the DPR, Denis Pushilin, said that the militants of the Azov detachment staged an explosion in Mariupol in a house on Meotida Boulevard.
As a result of the explosion, the house collapsed, leaving up to 200 people under the rubble in the basement, most of them women and children.
From 10:00 Moscow time on March 4, the Russian side announced a regime of silence and opens humanitarian corridors for the exit of civilians from the Ukrainian Mariupol and Volnovakha.
According to the deputy head of the criminal investigation department of the Novoazovsky district department of the DPR Ministry of Internal Affairs, Artyom Malevanny, Ukrainian nationalists do not allow civilians to leave Mariupol, as they are afraid of being left without a human shield.