Ukrainian territorial defense represses pro-Russian residents: MoD
Ukrainian radicals are still holding 90 foreigners hostage to use them as human shields.
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Pro-Russian troops seen in the body of a truck on a road near Mariupol, Ukraine March 21, 2022 (Reuters)
Ukrainian territorial defense units and the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) are raiding and arresting pro-Russian residents of Kharkov and other Ukrainian cities, according to the head of the Russian National Defense Control Center, Col. Gen. Mikhail Mizintsev, who also leads Russia's humanitarian response coordination headquarters.
"In Kharkov, militants of the territorial defense battalions, jointly with SBU officers, are conducting raids to identify local residents who express pro-Russian views or condemn the current Ukrainian government. Citizens whose phones contain correspondence of this kind, as well as calls to numbers of Russian subscribers, are detained and taken away in an unknown direction. Dozens of detainees have not returned home so far," Col. Gen. Mizintsev said.
He said that such large-scale raids had previously occurred in Nikolayev, Sumy, Chernigov, and several other settlements. These and other opportunistic activities by Ukrainian neo-Nazis, he claims, directly demonstrate callous cruelty toward civilians.
Ukraine holds 90 foreigners hostage
Ukrainian radicals are still holding 90 foreigners hostage, according to the commander of Russia's National Defense Control Center, Col. Gen. Mikhail Mizintsev, who also runs Russia's humanitarian response coordinating center.
"Ukrainian nationalists continue to hold 90 foreign citizens from five states hostage as human shields," Col. Gen. Mizintsev said.
