Reception room in a city hospital in Donbass. Archive photoMARIUPOL, Mar 27The situation in one of the several working hospitals in Mariupol is tense, in the damaged building they not only help the wounded, but also give out medicines and drinking water, RIA Novosti correspondent reports. distribution of medicines and drinking water. The building itself is heavily damaged, and the wounded continue to arrive. This city hospital is already operating as a hospital (Regional Intensive Care Hospital), a new head physician has recently appeared in it, and soon the medical facility will start working better, returning to its previous form. «The wounded are now being brought here and the seriously wounded, too. They are operated on here and put in a hospital for rehabilitation. There is a polyclinic nearby. It should also work. And in the center of the city hospital number one, it should also work. In addition to helping the wounded, there is also a dispensing point medicines and a point for distributing drinking water,» a soldier of the DPR army told RIA Novosti. 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 the Nazi regiment «Azov», against whose fighters a criminal case has been initiated in the Russian Federation. MariupolRussia 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 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. Gorlovka — Nikitovka
