Smoke over neighborhoods in downtown Mariupol where fighting continuesMOSCOW, 10 Apr. In Mariupol, militants from the national battalions seized two foreign ships along with crews, the People's Militia of the DPR reported. of these ships, Azov nationalists are firing from decks with 120-millimeter mortars, various types of grenade launchers and small arms,” the department’s telegram channel notes. .jpg» />Kadyrov showed footage of the work of the Chechen special forces in MariupolThe fate of the members of the team is unknown. At the time of the proclamation of the DPR in 2014, Mariupol, with a population of about 450 thousand people, was the second largest city in the republic after Donetsk. However, in June it was recaptured, after which the eastern suburbs became one of the hottest places of conflict in Ukraine. Among other Ukrainian units, the Azov nationalist regiment operates there, against whose fighters a criminal case has been initiated in Russia. As the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov said earlier, the city has now been 98 percent liberated. Since February 24, Russia has been conducting a special military operation to demilitarize and denazify Ukraine. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to abuse, genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» the military refused to help the wounded residents of Mariupol
