DPR police officers ensure road safetyDONETSK, Mar 15 At least 110 civilians were successfully evacuated from Mariupol to the rear areas of the Donetsk People's Republic, the representative office of the republic in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire Regime (JCCC) reports. residents from the settlement of Mariupol,» the message published on the Telegram channel of the representative office reads. As reported, one person was evacuated wounded, he was taken to a hospital on the territory of the DPR. Also, reports are still coming in about the evacuation process and about the wounded as a result of the fighting in Mariupol. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24th. 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, the DPR and LPR groups are developing an offensive. But the occupation of Ukraine is out of the question, the President of Russia emphasized.
