Employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation clear the rubble of a destroyed house on Prospekt Mira in Mariupol. Archival photo MARIUPOL, May 16. Power supply has been restored in Mariupol, and water supply is also being restored in the city, a local resident told RIA Novosti. Electricity and water supply in Mariupol has been disrupted since mid-March. given in the city the day before. «Water was given to the house, but there is no house yet. You know, we seemed to come to life. We have electric stoves, there is nothing to cook on … Thank you, of course, very much, everyone is very pleased with the light,» she said. On April 16, it was reported that the Ukrainian army, foreign mercenaries and neo-Nazis from the Azov regiment (against whose militants criminal cases were initiated in Russia) were no longer on the territory of Mariupol. The remnants of the group are blocked at the Azovstal metallurgical plant. Russia launched a special military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» According to the Ministry of Defense, as of March 25, the Russian Armed Forces completed the main tasks of the first stage of the special operation — they significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass. 
A resident of Mariupol spoke about the looting of the Ukrainian military
