UPDATES: Russian MoD Calls on Kiev to Take Back Order to Militants to Become 'Martyrs of Mariupol'

DONETSK (Sputnik) - The law enforcement agencies of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) plan to collect evidence of all the crimes committed by the Ukrainian nationalist battalions in the city of Mariupol, DPR Human Rights Envoy Daria Morozova tells Sputnik.

"We will continue the same work that is being carried out right now in all the liberated territories, for example, in the town of Volnovakha. And all those who have broken the law, all those who have violated the Geneva Convention and the norms of international law, and actually their own, Ukrainian, legislation, will face trial. This will be judged in the future in the tribunal, we will not back down," Morozova said.

She emphasized that people evacuated from Mariupol to DPR are already expressing extreme indignation at the actions of the Ukrainian armed formations that are using civilians as live shields in Mariupol and are taking food away from ordinary people, including mothers and their children.

The head of the Russian National Defense Control Center, Mikhail Mizintsev, said on Sunday that the Russian Defense Ministry was urging representatives of the United Nations, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) and the Red Cross to help with the humanitarian operation to evacuate civilians from Ukraine's Mariupol. Mizintsev also said that Moscow was insisting on receiving an official written response from Kiev to all its humanitarian proposals on ensuring the safety of Mariupol residents and the city's infrastructure.

"There can be no talk of any surrenders, laying down of arms. We have already informed the Russian side about this," Vereshchuk told the Ukrayinska Pravda newspaper, adding that Kiev has already conveyed this stance to the UN and the Red Cross.

He called on the Mariupol authorities to make a "historic choice" and stand up against the bandits in their city and not go to the war tribunal with them.

"To fulfill this task [evacuation], we are also sending an official appeal to the UN, the OSCE, the International Committee of the Red Cross and other international organizations, inviting their representatives to accompany this humanitarian operation, as they say, directly 'on the ground,' that is, in the city Mariupol, as part of Russian and Ukrainian humanitarian convoys," the head of the Russian National Defense Control Center, Mikhail Mizintsev, said on Sunday.

He also noted that Russia is insisting on receiving an official written response from Ukraine to all its humanitarian proposals on ensuring the safety of Mariupol residents and the city's infrastructure before 05:00 local time on Monday.