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MARIUPOL, May 10. against which a criminal case has been initiated in Russia) on the territory of the blocked Azovstal plant, RIA Novosti correspondent reports. Fighters move through the territory carefully to minimize losses, using data from drones and superiority in artillery. his. On March 7, 12 days after the start of the Russian military operation, the deputy commander of the Vostok battalion, Alexander Semenov, said that Mariupol was surrounded, the remnants of the armed formations were at the Azovstal plant. Since February 24, Russia has been conducting a special operation to denazify and demilitarize Ukraine. As Vladimir Putin stressed, its goal is «to protect people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» According to the Ministry of Defense, the Russian military strikes only on military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops, nothing threatens the civilian population. The ministry called the liberation of Donbass the main goal of the operation.