Locals leave Mariupol, UkraineMOSCOW, Mar 7Director of Operations of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Dominic Stillhart claims that one of the roads, which the employees of the organization indicated as an evacuation route when leaving Mariupol, turned out to be mined. whom a criminal case was initiated in Russia, a column of civilians was fired upon trying to leave Mariupol along the humanitarian corridor, two civilians were killed, four were injured. According to the official representative of the People's Militia of the DPR, Ukrainian nationalists are preventing the evacuation of civilians.Basurin announced the imminent start of the cleansing of Mariupol from the Ukrainian military» He (Stillhart) said that on Sunday some ICRC employees tried to get out of Mariupol along the agreed road, but soon realized that «the road he indicated was actually mined,» the statement says. British radio BBC Radio 4, whom Stillhart gave an interview, does not say who mined the road, who indicated it as an evacuation route, and from what sources it became known. evacuation agreement.Mariupol, with a population of over 450,000, was the republic's second-largest city after Donetsk at the time of the DNR's declaration in 2014. However, in June of that year, 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, said that during The circle of the republic's forces is shrinking ever closer.
The head of the Investigative Committee instructed to investigate the shelling of civilians in MariupolRussia 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. With the support of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, military groups of the DPR and LPR are developing an offensive. But there is no talk of the occupation of Ukraine, the President of Russia emphasized.
