View of Mariupol in the direction of the Azovstal metallurgical plantDONETSK, Apr 19The military of the People's Militia of the DPR and the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation organized green corridors from the territory of the Azovstal plant in Mariupol, with the help of them more than 140 people were evacuated, the People's Militia of the DPR reports. complex «Azovstal» for the evacuation of civilians and military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine who wish to lay down their arms… Through the efforts of the defenders of the republic, more than 140 people, including children, were evacuated,» the ministry's Telegram channel said in a statement.
A drone filmed the territory of the Azovstal plant before the announcement of the silence regimeThe statement notes that the military personnel of the Russian Federation and the DPR «strictly» observed the ceasefire on Tuesday from 14.00 to 16.00. republic after Donetsk, but in June of the same year, the Ukrainian security forces regained control of Mariupol. On March 7, 12 days after the start of the Russian special operation to demilitarize Ukraine, the deputy commander of the Vostok battalion, Alexander Semyonov, announced that the city was surrounded, and a cleansing of its individual districts had begun. Currently, the allied forces of the DPR and Russia are fighting for the final liberation of the city. The official representative of the Russian Defense Ministry, Igor Konashenkov, said on April 16 that the entire city territory had been cleared of the Ukrainian army, foreign mercenaries and neo-Nazis from the Azov regiment (against whose militants a criminal case was initiated in Russia). The remnants of the Ukrainian group are blocked at the Azovstal plant.
Nationalists from Azov shot Ukrainian soldiers in the backsRussia 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 Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and , on March 25, completed the main tasks of the first stage — significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.
