Civilians evacuated from the Azovstal area in the village of Bezymennoye. File photoDONETSK, May 8.About 150 people, including 24 children, were evacuated on Sunday from Mariupol to the village of Bezymennoye in the Donetsk People's Republic, the headquarters of the territorial defense of the DPR reports. , among them 24 children,» the headquarters said in a Telegram message. It is noted that now they are in a point deployed by the DPR Ministry of Emergency Situations to provide assistance to the evacuated population. 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 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, Oleksandr Semyonov, announced that the city was surrounded, and a cleansing of its individual districts had begun. .jpg» />Croatian mercenary told how he kept people in Mariupol on April 16, the official representative of the Russian Defense Ministry, Igor Konashenkov, said that the entire city territory was 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. 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.
