The car of the UN representatives in the village of Bezymennoe, where a special point was organized to assist the evacuated population. File photoUN, 3 May.The UN is ready to return to Mariupol to assist residents of destroyed buildings, deprived of access to water and electricity, Osnat Lubrani, the organization's humanitarian coordinator in Ukraine, said in a statement. «We … intend to work with the parties to return to Mariupol and provide urgent humanitarian assistance to people living in destroyed buildings without access to water and electricity. We know that this can be done and it must be done,» Lubrani said. 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 Semenov, announced that the city was surrounded, and a cleansing of its individual regions had begun. On April 16, the official representative of the Russian Defense Ministry, Igor Konashenkov, said 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 bullying and genocide by the Kyiv 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 the military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and, as of March 25, they have completed the main tasks of the first stage — they have significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.
