Port cranes in the seaport in Mariupol. Archival photoMARIUPOL, June 21The second dry cargo ship of the day is preparing to leave the port of Mariupol, where five more foreign ships remain, RIA Novosti correspondent reports. which also completes the restoration of technical readiness, the collection of the crew, all procedures for processing border and customs documents,» said Rear Admiral Viktor Kochemazov, commander of the Novorossiysk Naval Base.
Ex-SBU officer showed the command post of the security forces at the airport of MariupolEarlier on Tuesday, the first cargo ship Azov Concord under the flag of Malta, accompanied by warships, left the port of Mariupol along the corridor organized by the Russian military, heading for Novorossiysk. On June 12, sappers finally cleared the territory and water area of the port of Mariupol. As stated by the head of the Donetsk People's Republic Denis Pushilin, the supply of electricity and water to the facility should be fully restored in two to three weeks. According to him, by the end of the year, the republic will ship about a million tons of food through the port. Russian troops and units of the DPR surrounded Mariupol on March 7 and liberated almost the entire city by April 21. At the Azovstal plant, more than two thousand servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and fighters of the nationalist battalion «Azov» were blocked (criminal cases were opened against some of them in Russia). In mid-May, the nationalists began to surrender, and on May 20, the Ministry of Defense announced the complete liberation of Mariupol. Mariupol
