“In Bakhmut of the Donetsk People’s Republic, on the upper floors of apartment buildings along Defenders of Ukraine Street, nationalists equipped firing positions and sniper points, the approaches to the houses were mined, but the local population was deliberately not notified about this,” he said.

Mizintsev stressed that these and other similar facts are still cynically ignored by the world community and the "civilized" West, as well as hypocritical Western "human rights activists" and politicians.

On May 17, Mizintsev said that Ukrainian nationalists from the Azov and Aidar battalions had set up firing positions in kindergartens, hospitals, and churches.