Destroyed houses on Prospekt Mira in MariupolMARIUPOL, Apr 27 A group of DPR representatives at the Joint Center on control and coordination of the ceasefire checks buildings and social facilities in Mariupol, where the positions of Ukrainian militants were located, RIA Novosti correspondent reports.During the check, ammunition for small arms and grenade launchers were found in the sports complex. Also in the basement of the residential complex were found sets of uniforms of the National Guard of Ukraine and various ammunition. All the facts were recorded, the information was transferred to the relevant services.The Ukrainian Armed Forces blew up two of the three bridges in Volchansk in the Kharkiv region 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 March 7, 12 days after the start of the Russian special operation to demilitarize Ukraine, the deputy commander of the Vostok battalion, Alexander Semenov, announced that the city was surrounded, and a cleansing of its individual areas had begun. and neo-Nazis from the Azov regiment (against whose militants a criminal case has been initiated in Russia), the entire city territory was cleared. The remnants of the Ukrainian group are blocked at the Azovstal metallurgical plant. 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 abuse and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» To this end, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine» bloody crimes against civilians» of Donbass. According to the Russian 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.
