“In Shcherbinovka of the Donetsk People’s Republic, at school No. 21 (Dzerzhinsky Street), Ukrainian nationalists equipped firing positions and sniper points, the approaches to the building were mined, but the local population was deliberately not notified about this,” he said.

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, as well as in the settlements of the DPR.