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MARIUPOL, Apr 18 Ukrainian nationalists from the Azov detachment (against whose fighters Russia criminal cases) while retreating from Mariupol, they blocked civilians in an underground shelter, a citizen named Mikhail told RIA Novosti. When they fled from here, they threw boxes of ammunition at the bomb shelter. If it weren’t for the DPR, people would still be sitting there,” the source said. 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 the same year, the Ukrainian security forces regained control of Mariupol. At the moment, the city is almost completely liberated, and the remaining Ukrainian group is surrounded on the territory of the Azovstal metallurgical plant.
Ukrainian militants tried to break out of the encirclement in Mariupol twice