
Mariupol. Archival photoDONETSK, April 16 Ukrainian troops will not be able to break into Mariupol to release the nationalists at Azovstal, adviser to the head of the DPR government Yan Gagin told RIA Novosti. According to him, to release the forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and » Azov» at the plant «Azovstal» the nearest military group of Ukraine will have to cover a distance of about 100 kilometers. assault on the Azovstal plant «These almost 100 kilometers are fields, these are steppes with short forests, this is an open area, and attempts to unlock them with a breakthrough is an insanely bold decision. Naturally, on the march, such forces are quite easy to defeat in such an open area. Moreover, the sky is now in the hands of Russian aviation,» he explained.

