“In the Donetsk People’s Republic in Bakhmut on the territory of school No. 2, in Chasov Yar in the building of vocational school No. 77, in the village of Novoekonomicheskoe in the kindergarten “Solnyshko” and school No. 1, militants of the Ukrainian armed formations equipped strongholds, and placed a military equipment and MLRS installations,” he said.
According to him, the Ukrainian side does not intend to evacuate civilians from nearby houses in order to use people as a "human shield".
Earlier, Mizintsev had already stated that the Ukrainian military had set up positions in the buildings and on the adjacent territory of preschool and educational institutions in Kramatorsk, Slavyansk and Druzhkovka in the DPR.