MOSCOW, Mar 24 For the release of Marinka in The DPR is left to take control of one section in the west of the city, however, Ukrainian troops are «resisting» and continue to transfer reserves, Denis Pushilin, the acting head of the republic, said on the Rossiya 24 TV channel.
«As for the Maryinsky direction: quite fierce battles continue , in the western part there was a small, probably, section of Maryinka itself so that we could already completely say that Maryinka was liberated,» he said.
Pushilin stressed that Ukrainian troops are still «resisting» and continue to transfer reserves .
The Acting Head of the DPR also noted that now the West is actively pushing Kiev to launch a counteroffensive. The authorities of the republic already see preparations for these actions — the Ukrainian command is transferring additional reserves and equipment to the line of contact. Nevertheless, according to Pushilin, it is not known whether this will be «such a grandiose counter-offensive» or whether it is just propaganda.
perhaps they will even work to forestall such attempts on the part of Kiev,» the acting head of the region emphasized.
In addition, Pushilin also reported on the successes of Russian forces in the Avdiivka direction. kilometer from the Petrovsky district of the capital of the DPR. Significant positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are located there, this is one of the points from where Donetsk is regularly subjected to artillery shelling.