A serviceman of the «Vostok» battalion of the People's Militia of the DPR walks around the territory of the destroyed Azovstal plant in Mariupol. File photoMARIUPOL (DPR), May 23.Ukrainian troops left a large number of anti-personnel fragmentation mines in residential areas of Mariupol, the deputy commander of the DPR engineer platoon with the call sign «Mole» told RIA Novosti. — said the source of the agency.A RIA Novosti correspondent showed a banner with a grenade left by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. According to him, the demining of the territory adjacent to the Azovstal metallurgical plant, where the remnants of the enemy group recently surrendered, is carried out using heavy tracked vehicles or by undermining. The target sensors of the mines do not require much effort and are triggered by any careless touch, and the zone of continuous destruction by fragments is at least ten meters. about 450 thousand people was the second city of the republic after Donetsk, but in June of the same year, the Ukrainian security forces regained control of Mariupol. On May 20, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced the complete liberation of the territory of the Mariupol metallurgical plant «Azovstal» — the underground facilities of the enterprise, in which the Ukrainian military and militants of the Azov regiment were hiding (against whom criminal cases were initiated in the Russian Federation), came under the control of the Russian Armed Forces. In total, according to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, since May 16, more than 2.4 thousand Nazis from the Azov Regiment and the Ukrainian military have laid down their arms and surrendered.The National Guard cleared the bridge in the Kharkiv region
