Ukrainian nationalists set the Svyatogorsk monastery on fire.

The Russian Defense Ministry reported that Ukrainian nationalists set fire to a wooden monastery as they fled from Svyatogorsk on Saturday.

"Ukrainian nationalists on June 4 set fire to a wooden monastery of the Svyatogorsk Dormition Laura as Ukraine’s 79th air assault brigade retreated from the town of Svyatogorsk of the Donetsk People’s Republic," the Ministry said in a statement.

After completing the arson, the Ukrainian nationalists fled south toward the Ukrainian-controlled village of Sidorovo, according to the Ministry.

Earlier, the head of the National Defense Management Center of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Mikhail Mezintsev, announced that the neo-Nazis have mined containers that include a rare type of dangerous gas at a chemical plant in Lysechhansk. They held employees and civilians hostage to pin the blame on Russia.

Earlier, the Russian Armed Forces announced destroying a large batch of weapons and military equipment being delivered from the USA and European countries to a group of Ukrainian troops near the Malin railway station in Zhytomir Region using high-precision, long-range sea-based Kalibr missiles.