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Deputy chief of staff (left) from the 503rd separate battalion of the Marine Corps of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, detained the day before by officers of the Cyclone unit of the DPR Ministry of Internal Affairs in the suburbs of MariupolMARIUPOL, March 26The deputy head of the 503rd separate battalion of the Ukrainian marines, who was trying to leave Mariupol, said that the battalion had broken into groups and was trying to get out of the encirclement. «The rest of me left about two days ago, I don't know where they are. We left in small groups, — he said, adding that he did not know which of the soldiers of his battalion still remained in the city. «The positions of the people with whom we were, the last ones were in the port area in Mariupol,» he explained. 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 nationalist regiment «Azov», against whose fighters a criminal case has been initiated in the Russian Federation. 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 Russian Armed Forces, the offensive of the DPR and LPR groups is developing, but there is no talk of the occupation of Ukraine, the Russian President emphasized. saboteurs