Over the past day, 566 people were evacuated from Mariupol to Bezymennoe

Buses with refugees queue for checks at the filtration point in the village of Bezymennoe. File photoDONETSK, May 21. More than 560 people, including 46 children, were evacuated from Mariupol to Bezymennoye in the Donetsk People's Republic over the past day, the DPR territorial defense headquarters said on Saturday. On Friday, the DPR headquarters reported that more than 400 people, including 46 children, were evacuated from Mariupol to Bezymennoye in a day. «Over the past day, from 08.00 on May 20 to 08.00 on May 21 (coincides with Moscow time — ed.), 566 people were evacuated from Mariupol to Bezymennoye, Novoazovsky district, including 46 children. Currently, they are at the point of assistance to the evacuated population, which is deployed by the forces of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the DPR,» the department's Telegram channel says. It is noted that since March 5, almost 35 thousand people have been evacuated to Bezymennoe. 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.