DONETSK, Apr 16 512 people were evacuated from Mariupol to the DPR-controlled village of Bezymennoye in a day, The headquarters of the territorial defense of the republic said in a statement. «/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/9105e6fe975a2da4cfea73eb68afbae8.jpg» />The first refugees were evacuated from Izyum to RussiaAccording to the Ministry of Defense, 138,733 people were evacuated from the city through the Russian humanitarian corridor. Ukrainian national battalions, whose fighters occupied the Azovstal plant. According to Jan Gagin, an adviser to the head of the DPR government, thousands of people are defending themselves there. 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 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 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.
