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Exclusive: Russian forces not engaging in street battles in Kiev

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  • 26 Feb 2022 10:11
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A local source in Kiev assures Al Mayadeen correspondent that armed groups estimated at 20,0000 extremists are terrorizing the residents of Kiev amid looting and killing operations.

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  • Exclusive: Russian forces not engaging in street battles in Kiev
    Exclusive: Russian forces are not engaging in street battles in Kiev.

A local source in Kiev revealed to Al Mayadeen's correspondent that Russian forces are not engaging in battles in the streets of Kiev, noting that armed groups estimated at 20,000 members of extremists are terrorizing Kiev's residents and engaging in killing and looting operations. 

According to the source, Kiev's residents took up arms to defend themselves from the extremists, not from the alleged Russian threat.

Putin appealed to the military forces of Ukraine to not allow what he called "neo-Nazis and Bandevorites" to exploit children, women, and the elderly as human shields.

The source also indicated that he expected the Russian forces to control their encirclement of Kiev within 24 hours.

Two days ago, the Russian President stressed that NATO-allied neo-Nazis are moving closer to the Russian borders from Ukraine.

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Days ago, the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) foiled a terrorist attempt to bomb an Orthodox Church in Crimea, arresting six who belong to a banned right-wing party, the Right Sector. 

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Had Russia not taken this step, he underlined, "we would have faced a threat that I do not know how our country would have continued after. "

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