View of MariupolMARIUPOL, Mar 26Mariupol, where the Ukrainian Nazis continue to resist, will be taken within a week, a fighter of the reconnaissance company of the people's militia of the DPR with the call sign Lis told RIA Novosti. the guys have combat. We win, everything will be fine, «said the source of the agency. «I don't know how the fighting will go on, but I think the city will be taken within a week. That's for sure,» he added. At the time of the proclamation of the DPR in In 2014, Mariupol, with a population of about 450 thousand people, was the second largest city in the republic after Donetsk. However, in June of that year, the Ukrainian security forces regained control of Mariupol, and its eastern suburbs became one of the hottest places of conflict in Ukraine. On March 7, 2022, Alexander Semyonov, deputy commander of the Vostok battalion of the DPR, said that the city was surrounded, and a cleansing of some of its districts had begun. Currently, there are battles for liberation going on in the city. Among other Ukrainian units in Mariupol, there is a Nazi regiment «Azov», against whose fighters a criminal case has been initiated in the Russian Federation. «Not Nazis. Because they are not Germans, 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 Russian Defense Ministry, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops. With the support of the Russian Armed Forces, the DPR and LPR groups are developing an offensive, but there is no talk of the occupation of Ukraine, the Russian president emphasized. tell
