View of Mariupol. File photoMOSCOW, May 25.Vadim Boychenko, who held the post of Mayor of Mariupol in Ukraine before the start of the Russian special operation in Ukraine, said that he had left the city on February 27. «I received one message from the special services that the Russians arrived (to work — ed.) for me personally — about 40 were DRGs with heavy weapons. When I received such information, consulted with the head (of Donetsk – ed.) of the regional military administration and with people from the special services. They said that they had to leave Mariupol for the night so that they wouldn’t capture me. It was February 27,» UNIAN quoted Boichenko as saying .
The port of Mariupol began to function normally. According to him, he could not enter the city the very next day. regained control of Mariupol. On May 20 of this year, the Russian Defense Ministry 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.
Yesterday, 08:00Special military operation in Ukraine «We are advancing again». Where are the troops deployed after the storming of Mariupol? 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. 25.05.2022 InfographicView
