Ukrainian soldier in the port of Mariupol. File photoMOSCOW, April 7The representative of the People's Militia of the Donetsk People's Republic, Eduard Basurin, said that he does not exclude provocations from the Ukrainian side with foreign citizens in the port of Mariupol, Ukraine will try to portray the shelling of civilian ships by the Russian Federation. , recorded smoke on the Turkish ship Azburg, operating under the Dominican flag. According to him, yesterday they set fire to a Turkish ship flying the Dominican flag, set fire to the Donbas military ship, which is the command post of the Ukrainian naval forces. Basurin.
Ukrainian nationalists staged a provocation in the port of Mariupol»And they will now spread this picture to the whole world, and I'm afraid that they will even depict some corpses of foreign citizens, that Russia is destroying foreign citizens who are in Mariupol,» Basurin suggested .Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on 24 February. 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 Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and , on March 25, completed the main tasks of the first stage — significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.
