Soldiers of the Akhmat Special Rapid Response Unit in Mariupol. File photoGROZNY, Apr 7Chechen fighters during sweeps in Mariupol find traces of foreign mercenaries and terrorists in the ranks of the enemy, said the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov. the interesting thing is that during the cleansing operations after suppressing the fire resistance of the enemy, our fighters find more and more evidence of the presence of mercenaries in the camp of Bandera,» the head of the region wrote on his Telegram channel. Kadyrov also published a video in which, according to him, the commander of the police regiment special forces named after Akhmat Kadyrov, Zamid Chalaev captured «another enemy position», where «traces of the presence of foreign mercenaries and terrorists are clear.» 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 genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine.» According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, as of March 25, the Armed Forces completed the main tasks of the first stage — they significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was the liberation of Donbass. In the DPR, Ukrainian troops were driven out of Volnovakha, a strategically important regional center south of Donetsk; there are battles for Mariupol, the largest city on the coast of the Sea of Azov. In the LPR, according to a statement by the Russian Ministry of Defense on March 25, 93% of the territory of the former Lugansk region was taken under control. Only the cities of Severodonetsk and Lisichansk, as well as a number of other settlements of this agglomeration, remain under the authority of Kyiv. opposition in Poland
