“Ukrainian nationalists blew up one of the buildings of the Physical-Technical Institute in Kharkov, said Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev, head of the Russian National Defense Control Center,” according to Sputnik. Mizintsev said they were trying to get rid of evidence of research conducted there: “In order to conceal research work on nuclear topics, militants of the territorial defense battalions blew up one of the buildings of the Physico-Technical Institute on Akademicheskaya Street,” he said.