“In Kharkiv, on the lower and upper floors of residential buildings (Rymarskaya St.), territorial defense militants have equipped firing positions, while local residents are forbidden to leave their apartments, and all attempts by citizens to evacuate to safe areas are severely suppressed,” he said.

Earlier, Mizintsev said that Ukrainian nationalists mined the approaches to the school they occupied in Shcherbinovka in the Donetsk People's Republic.