“In Odessa, Ukrainian militants at school No. 113 on the Black Sea Cossacks Street equipped a stronghold, placed heavy weapons and equipment in the courtyard,” he said.

According to him, in Nikopol, units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are deployed in one of the schools, and in Toretsk in the DPR, nationalists equipped barracks and firing positions on the territories of a power plant, a boarding school, a station for young technicians and two schools.

In addition, Mizintsev informed that in Kramatorsk, on the territory of kindergarten No. 93, the Armed Forces of Ukraine equipped firing positions and sniper points, and the approaches to the building were mined. 

Earlier, the Russian Defense Ministry said that Ukrainian militants deployed armored vehicles and equipped firing positions on the territory of elevators and granaries in the Kharkiv and Sumy regions of Ukraine, in the settlements of the DPR.