A resident at his house in the Kirovsky district of Donetsk, destroyed by shelling. File photoMOSCOW, March 6DPR people's militia units are advancing on the western and northwestern outskirts of the city of Mariupol, under their control of the Stary Krym residential area, Major General Igor Konashenkov, spokesman for the Russian Defense Ministry, said on Sunday. «Units of the People's Militia of the Donetsk Republic are conducting successful offensive operations on the western and northwestern outskirts of the city of Mariupol. The residential quarter of Stary Krym has been taken under control,» he said. 
LPR troops took control of eight settlements
