Ukraine reveals the secret of Russia's use of the letter "Z" on its equipment and accuses it of Nazism

Ukraine's Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov accused Russia on Monday of using Nazi "Z" banners on its equipment.

"The Russian occupiers, who carry Nazi 'Z' banners and use them on their equipment, are very well known to us," Reznikov said on his Twitter account.

"In 1943, next to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp (in Oranienburg, Germany) there was the Z station, where massacres were committed, shootings from behind, as well as a gas chamber, this is the Russian flag," he added.

The famous camp was used from 1936 until the end of World War II in May 1945. It was mainly political prisoners.

After violent bombings on the night of Sunday, Monday, the intensity of the fighting temporarily eased due to "heavy losses" suffered by the Russian side, according to Ukrainian Defense Minister Olsky Reznikov.

But he warned that Russian forces are preparing for "a new series of attacks" that will target "primarily Kyiv, Kharkiv, Chernigov (north) and Mikovayev (south)."

At least 13 people were killed on Monday in the bombing of an industrial bakery in Makarev, fifty kilometers west of Kyiv, according to Ukrainian ambulance services.

Tension is high in the capital, Kyiv, where the attack is still expected in the coming days.

"The capital is preparing to defend itself," Kyiv's mayor, former world boxing champion Vitali Klitschko, declared on Telegram, emphasizing, "Kyiv will hold out! It will defend itself! Let's stand together!"

Ukrainian forces are preparing to destroy the last bridge linking Kyiv with the rest of the regions to the west, in an effort to stop the advance of Russian tanks.

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