DPR servicemen near MariupolSURROUNDINGS OF MARIUPOL (Donbass), March 8 From Mariupol at 13.00 in 23 people managed to withdraw from Novoazovsk, RIA Novosti reported in the camp of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the DPR in Bezymenny. At the time of the proclamation of the DPR in 2014, Mariupol, whose population exceeded 450 thousand people, was the second largest settlement in the republic after Donetsk. However, in June of the same year, the Ukrainian security forces regained control of Mariupol, and its eastern suburbs became one of the hottest places of conflict in Ukraine.22 February, 19:08InfographicDonetsk and Luhansk People's RepublicsInfographicViewOn March 5, the head of the DPR, Denis Pushilin, reported that its military was tightening the ring around Mariupol, but to this day, this largest city on the Azov coast remains under Ukrainian control. At the same time, according to the headquarters of the territorial defense of the DPR, on the same date, the troops of the republic occupied a number of settlements on the outskirts of Mariupol — Gnutovo, Pishchevik, Sartana, Talakovka and Shirokino. Mariupol is completely surrounded, the cleansing of its individual areas has begun. At the same time, the command of the Vostok battalion expressed its readiness to discuss with the Ukrainian forces the conditions of the humanitarian corridor Mariupol-Novoazovsk. In the village of Bezymennoye, Novoazovsky District, one of the closest settlements to Mariupol in the DPR, the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the republic deployed a reception center for refugees. 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. With the support of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, military groups of the DPR and LPR 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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