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MARIUPOL, May 21. Head of Mariupol Administration Konstantin Ivashchenko said that at the moment the situation in the city calm, there is hope for a quick onset of peaceful life.» To date, the situation is calm. For at least a week there have been no «arrivals» on civilian objects, on houses, on infrastructure. Therefore, we hope that literally in the coming days we will have a completely peaceful life «, — Ivashchenko told reporters. According to him, up to 15% of houses in the city are completely destroyed.» To date, we have 2708 apartment buildings, 48.4 thousand private households … If, according to a preliminary calculation, we can say that up to 15% completely destroyed… We will know the exact numbers when we have a full base,» Ivashchenko said.The West created a military titan in Ukraine that will destroy it At the time of the proclamation of the DPR in 2014, Mariupol, with a population of about 450 thousand people, was the second city of the republic after Donetsk, but in June of the same year, Ukrainian security forces regained control of Mariupol. On March 7, 2022, 12 days after the start of the Russian special operation to demilitarize Ukraine, the deputy commander of the Vostok battalion Oleksandr Semyonov said that the city was surrounded, and a cleansing of some of its districts had begun. On April 16, the official representative of the Russian Defense Ministry, Igor Konashenkov, announced that the entire city territory had been cleared of the Ukrainian army, foreign mercenaries and neo-Nazis from the Azov regiment (against whose militants a criminal case was initiated in Russia). The remnants of the Ukrainian group were blocked at the Azovstal plant and refused to capitulate. The Russian Defense Ministry reported on May 20 that the territory of Azovstal had been completely liberated, «the underground facilities of the enterprise, in which the militants were hiding, came under the complete control of the Russian Armed Forces.» In total, according to the Russian Ministry of Defense, since May 16, 2,439 Nazis of the Azov Regiment (against whose militants have been prosecuted in Russia) and the Ukrainian military, who were blocked on the territory of the plant for about a month, laid down their arms and surrendered.
March 12, 14:46Special military operation in UkraineMap of the special operation of the Russian Armed Forces in Ukraine as of May 21, 2022 InfographicView