MariupolMOSCOW, 6 Apr. The armed forces of the Russian Federation shot down two Ukrainian Mi-8 helicopters that attempted to break through to Mariupol from the sea. The relevant information was disseminated by the representative of the Ministry of Defense Igor Konashenkov. «On the morning of April 5, another attempt by the Kiev regime to evacuate the leaders of the nationalist Azov battalion was thwarted in the Mariupol region. Two Ukrainian Mi-8 helicopters, trying to break through to the city from the sea, were shot down from portable anti-aircraft missiles complexes,” he said. Official Moscow, recalled Konashenkov, brought proposals to Kyiv on the possibility of voluntarily laying down arms for the military, but they were ignored. On April 1, Eduard Basurin, a representative of the People's Militia of the DPR, said that the forces of the Donetsk People's Republic shot down two of the three helicopters in which Ukrainian nationalists tried to escape from Mariupol to the territory controlled by Kiev. According to him, there were 17 people in each helicopter, only two survived. According to him, there were 17 people in each helicopter, only two survived, one of them was a military intelligence officer of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine. A day earlier, Igor Konashenkov reported that the DPR troops shot down two Mi-8 helicopters that were trying to take out the commanders of the nationalist regiment from Mariupol » Azov», against whose fighters a criminal case has been initiated in Russia. «The calculation of the man-portable anti-aircraft missile system of the people's militia of the Donetsk Republic from the captured American Stinger complex shot down one Ukrainian Mi-8 helicopter and crashed near the village of Rybatskoye,» Konashenkov said.
The second Ukrainian Mi-8, as he specified the official representative, «was damaged by a missile, evaded to the sea, but crashed 20 kilometers from the coast.»Ukrainian nationalists are holding more than 6,500 foreigners hostageThe situation in MariupolCleansing of Mariupol continues, several thousand Ukrainian militants are in the city, the head of the Donetsk People's Republic Denis Pushilin said last Tuesday. the second largest city in the republic after Donetsk. However, in June of the same year, the Ukrainian security forces regained control of Mariupol, and its eastern suburbs became one of the hottest places of conflict in Ukraine. Currently, fighting for liberation is going on in the city. Among other Ukrainian units, the Azov nationalist regiment is located in Mariupol, against whose militants a criminal case has been initiated in Russia. Over the past day, 551 people, including 99 children, were evacuated from Mariupol to Bezymennoe in the Donetsk People's Republic, according to the territorial defense headquarters of the DPR. According to the agency, a total of 12,509 people have been evacuated to Bezymennoye since March 5.
Ukrainian military shot down cars with children in MariupolSpecial military operationRussia 24 February launched a special military operation to demilitarize and denazify Ukraine. Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» — significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal of the operation in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.