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MARIUPOL, May 10. Black smoke rises over the territory of Azovstal in Mariupoli, RIA correspondent reports News. According to him, in addition, the sounds of explosions were clearly audible from the plant in the afternoon. Ukrainian security forces recaptured it. 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 agency called the liberation of Donbass the main goal of the operation.