Fighters of the People's Militia of the DPR in the Left Bank District of Mariupol. Archival photoMARIUPOL, 28 Apr. The sowing campaign began in the fields near Mariupol after the area was liberated from Ukrainian nationalists, a RIA Novosti correspondent reports. The work was organized by the Donetsk People's Republic, which took control of the areas around the city.
Small shops opened in MariupolAfter the liberation from nationalists, peaceful life is gradually returning to Mariupol: shops are starting to open in the city, there are significantly more cars and people on the roads, and in festive services were held in churches on Easter night. At the time of the proclamation of the DPR in 2014, Mariupol, with a population of about 450 thousand people, was the second city of the republic after Donetsk, but in June of the same year, Ukrainian security forces regained control of Mariupol. On April 16, the official representative of the Russian Defense Ministry, Igor Konashenkov, announced 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 metallurgical plant.
The Ministry of Construction plans to help restore Mariupol
