MariupolNameless (DPR), Mar 21 A resident of Mariupol who fled the city told RIA News that there are no safe places in the city, even a basement cannot be a reliable shelter. «There is no safe place in Mariupol at all. Even in basements, to be honest. We do not expect to return to the city at all. Because there are no houses, no apartments. No housing in Mariupol. What we have earned with our labor — houses, apartments bought these, they are no more, they are destroyed,» the agency's interlocutor said. Russia launched a special 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 Russian Defense Ministry, the Armed Forces strike only at 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 there is no talk of the occupation of Ukraine, the President of Russia emphasized. to Russia's proposal for Mariupol
