Citizens on the street in MariupolDONETSK, Apr 3Twenty-three civilians were injured as a result of shelling by Ukrainian troops of the liberated part of Mariupol, according to the DPR representative office in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire Regime (JCCC). part of the AFU (armed formations of Ukraine — ed.) of the previously liberated part of Mariupol,» the message says.West to Ukraine: the doctor said «to the morgue» — that means, to the morgueThe victims were delivered to medical institutions, they are provided with the necessary medical care. At the time of the proclamation of the DPR in 2014, Mariupol, with a population of about 450 thousand people, was the second largest city in the republic after Donetsk. However, in June of that year, the Ukrainian security forces regained control of Mariupol, and its eastern suburbs became one of the hottest places of conflict in Ukraine. On March 7, 2022, Alexander Semyonov, deputy commander of the Vostok battalion of the DPR, said that the city was surrounded, and a cleansing of some of its districts had begun. Currently, the military of the DPR and Russia are fighting for the liberation of the city. Among other Ukrainian units, they are resisted by the nationalist Azov regiment, against whose fighters a criminal case has been initiated in the Russian Federation. 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 genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine.» According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the Armed Forces strike only at the military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops, and as of 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 the liberation of Donbass. At the moment, the strategically important regional center of Volnovakha south of Donetsk has been liberated in the DPR, and battles are underway for Mariupol, the largest city on the coast of the Sea of Azov. In the LPR, according to a statement by the Russian Ministry of Defense on March 25, 93% of the territory of the former Lugansk region was taken under control. Only the cities of Severodonetsk and Lysichansk, as well as a number of other settlements of this agglomeration, remain under the rule of Kyiv.
