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Azovstal metallurgical plant in Mariupol. Archival photoMOSCOW, May 4.There is no assault on the Azovstal metallurgical plant in Mariupol — exacerbations occur due to the fact that the enemy enters firing positions, but these attempts are suppressed, said the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov. «The order was publicly given to the supreme commanders to cancel the assault, there is no assault. We see that there are aggravations associated with the fact that the militants go to firing positions. These attempts are suppressed very quickly. There is nothing else to say yet,» Peskov said. answering journalists’ questions whether we should expect any changes in Russian tactics around this object. 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, the Ukrainian security forces regained control over 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. 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 plant and refuse to capitulate.March 12, 14:46Exacerbation of the situation in the DPR and LPRMap of the special operation of the Russian Armed Forces in Ukraine on 04.05.2022 InfographicView