Refugees from Mariupol at a temporary accommodation facility organized by the DPR Ministry of Emergency Situations in the village of Bezymennoye. Archival photoDONETSK, May 27. Over the past day, 280 people, including 36 children, were evacuated from Mariupol to Bezymennoe in the Donetsk People's Republic, the headquarters of the territorial defense of the DPR reports. «Over the past day, from 08.00 on May 26 to 08.00 On May 27, 280 people, including 36 children, were evacuated from Mariupol to Bezymennoe, Novoazovsky District,» the headquarters' Telegram channel said. The authorities of Melitopol spoke about the situation with refugees from Mariupol. In total, according to the headquarters, 36,960 people were evacuated to Bezymennoe since March 5. 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, they completed the main tasks of the first stage — they significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.
