City residents before boarding a bus from MariupolDONETSK, Apr 16 Two hundred and fifteen people , including 30 children, were evacuated on Saturday from Mariupol to the village of Bezymennoye, where the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the DPR deployed a point of assistance to displaced persons, the headquarters of the territorial defense of the republic reports. «During the day on April 16, from 08.00 to 16.00, 215 people, including 30 children,» the message posted on the headquarters' Telegram channel reads. However, in June of the same year, the Ukrainian security forces regained control of Mariupol. 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 allied forces of the DPR and Russia are fighting for the final liberation of the city. Among other Ukrainian units, they are resisted by the nationalist Azov regiment, against whose militants 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 Russian Defense Ministry, as of March 25, the Armed Forces 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.
