Citizens of Mariupol walk along the city streetDONETSK, 9 Apr. territory of Mariupol, the DPR representative office in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire (JCCC) reported. , born in 2004, 1973; women: born in 1963, 1967, 1958, 1946, 1999, 1953. The personal data of two more victims are being specified,» the message of the representative office in the Telegram channel says.
The captured soldier said that there were 200-300 mercenaries at Azovstal At the time of the proclamation of the DPR in 2014, Mariupol, with a population of about 450,000 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 its individual districts had begun. Currently, the allied forces of the Russian Federation and the DPR are fighting for the final liberation of the city. Among other Ukrainian units, they are resisted by the nationalist Azov regiment, against whose militants 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 abuse and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» To this end, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine» bloody crimes against civilians» of Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and, on March 25, they 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 called the liberation of Donbass. What distinguishes the Ukrainian security forces
