“In Slavyansk of the Donetsk People’s Republic, neo-Nazis of Ukrainian armed formations mined the railway bridge of the Slavyansk-Kramatorsk branch and the road bridge across the Sukhoi Torets River, which they plan to blow up, blaming the allegedly advancing units of Russian troops for this,” he said at a briefing.

Mizintsev added that in the Zaporozhye region, the administration banned the evacuation of civilians in order to use civilians as human shields.

Earlier, the Ministry of Defense reported that the Ukrainian military and national battalions are digging in at chemical enterprises in the Donbass.