“Today, in the Kharkiv region, in the village of Tsirkuny, nationalists, under the threat of physical violence, gathered local residents and transported them to the southern outskirts of the village of Borshchevaya, where the militants, hiding behind people like a “human shield”, advanced to the line of contact in the direction of Russian troops, provoking them to open fire on civilians,” the Interagency Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response said in a statement.

As a result of "pointed fire impact" Ukrainian nationalists were defeated.

“Such actions of militants completely copy the tactics of the Nazis during the Great Patriotic War and once again testify to the inhuman attitude of the Kyiv regime towards its own people and complete disregard for all norms of morality and international humanitarian law,” summed up the defense department.

On May 5, it became known that the special forces of the Russian Guard eliminated the leader of the cell of the territorial defense of Ukraine in the Kharkiv region.

In a wooded area, an armed group of militants was moving towards the positions of Russian troops.

The commandos first offered the saboteurs to surrender, and when they began to shoot, they blocked them from the flanks and destroyed them along with the commander.