“Hypocritically without giving them an order to stop resistance, Kyiv actually “appointed” them as the next “martyrs,” as was the case in Mariupol,” Mizintsev said at a briefing.

According to him, the Ukrainian authorities have demonstrated their indifference towards women, children and the elderly, who are also at the plant.

Earlier, the head of the garrison service of the 2nd Army Corps of the People's Militia of the Lugansk People's Republic, Oleksandr Nikishin, announced that the Ukrainian military had disrupted the work of the humanitarian corridor from the Azot plant.