408 people were evacuated from Mariupol in a day

View of the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol. File photoDONETSK, May 9.More than 400 people, including 65 children, were evacuated over the past day from Mariupol to the village of Bezymennoye in the Donetsk People's Republic, the headquarters of the territorial defense of the DPR reports. 408 people were evacuated, including 65 children,» the headquarters said in a Telegram message. The ministry clarified that a total of 29,562 people had been evacuated to Bezymennoe since March 5. 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» />Employees of the Investigative Committee inspected the buildings of the Azovmash plant in MariupolOn April 16, the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Igor Konashenkov, said 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 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 military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and , on March 25, completed the main tasks of the first stage — significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.