“We know that a lot of civilians died at the hands of neo-Nazis who tried to defend Mariupol then,” Peskov said.
Peskov emphasized that Ukrainian neo-Nazis used civilians as human shields and shot them in the back.
Earlier, the Supreme Court of the DPR sentenced militant of the Azov national regiment* Renat Aliyev to life imprisonment for the murder of five civilians in Mariupol.
* “Azov” is an organization recognized as terrorist by a decision of the Supreme Court of Russia dated August 2, 2022.