Residents of Mariupol who independently left the city along the humanitarian corridor in the village of Bezymennoye in the Novoazovsky district. File photoDONETSK REGION (DPR), March 6 Eighty-year-old man Vladimir Karpov was able to walk out of Mariupol on foot, despite shelling from the Ukrainian side. He told RIA Novosti how he managed to leave the city and what the situation was like in the village. «Yes (he escaped on foot),» the man told RIA Novosti. jpg» />The DPR told how many people were evacuated from MariupolAccording to the pensioner, on February 16 he turned 80 years old, and the shelling of Mariupol began on February 23, while shooting was carried out at night and during the day with 122-mm shells. «My house was smashed, neighbors, six houses around ( smashed),» the source said. The man noted that his wife died yesterday and he decided to leave Mariupol. “Yesterday my grandmother died. Why stay? There is no water, no gas, no electricity, the phone does not work. city after 9 am. Answering a reporter's question, he said that it was difficult to say whether there were many civilian casualties in the city, «but a lot of houses were broken.» no residents. Earlier, the head of the administration of the Donetsk People's Republic, Alexei Nikonorov, said that the residents of Mariupol, who managed to leave the city through humanitarian corridors, were in a state of shock. Earlier, the representative of the People's Militia of the DPR, Eduard Basurin, said that the Ukrainian side refused to guarantee the regime of silence in Mariupol and Volnovakha. The headquarters of the territorial defense of the DPR reported that the DPR evacuated more than 300 people from Mariupol and its suburbs to the Novoazovsky district, despite the provocations of Ukrainian nationalists. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the Armed Forces strike only at the military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops, nothing threatens the civilian population. With the support of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the DPR and LPR groups are developing an offensive. But the occupation of Ukraine is out of the question, the Russian president emphasized.The development of the situation is in the online report>>
DPR evacuated more than 300 people from Mariupol and its suburbs
