Anti-tank barriers on the highway Novoazovsk — MariupolDONETSK, March 6The headquarters of the territorial defense of the DPR reported that 8 more people were evacuated from Mariupol and its suburbs to the Novoazovsky district through the humanitarian corridor. in a message from the department in the Telegram channel. Earlier, the headquarters of the territorial defense of the DPR reported that on Saturday a total of 84 people were evacuated from Mariupol and settlements in its suburbs. and Mariupol will reopen on Sunday morning.A step away from a second Chernobyl, Mariupol, with a population of over 450,000, was the republic's second-largest city after Donetsk at the time the DPR was proclaimed in 2014. However, in June of that year, the Ukrainian security forces regained control of Mariupol, and its eastern suburbs on the Azov coast became one of the hottest places of conflict in eastern Ukraine. On March 5, the head of the DPR, Denis Pushilin, announced that the ring of forces of the republic was closing around the city. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine early in the morning 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 Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops, the civilian population is not in danger. 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 stressed.The development of the situation is in the online report >>
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