Heavy equipment was involved in the analysis of the rubble of the Mariupol Drama Theater

Grad multiple rocket launcher shell fragments . Archive photoMARIUPOL, May 3.Heavy equipment was involved in the removal of the rubble of the Mariupol Drama Theater, where, according to information from various sources, there may be dozens of bodies of Mariupol residents, RIA Novosti correspondent reports. Earlier, a number of media and DPR authorities stated that as a result of a provocation by Ukrainian Nazis, the building of a drama theater in the center of Mariupol was blown up . But at that moment there could be several dozen people there.Pushilin showed Solovyov the liberated Mariupol. At present, heavy equipment, cranes and excavators are involved in the analysis of the rubble of the drama theater. Previously, these works were carried out manually, RIA Novosti correspondent reports. «We have our detachment from St. Petersburg working on one side, guys from Samara on the other side. If you work at an accelerated pace, then you can, of course, manage in two days. But, most likely , it will take more time,» a representative of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation told reporters. 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 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.April 26, 19:38 Aggravation of the situation in the DPR and LPRRussian military restore infrastructure in the Kherson region