Mariupol. Archival photoMOSCOW, June 1More than 100 enemy soldiers and officers captured in Mariupol have been moved to a pre-trial detention center (SIZO), a decision on them will be made by the court, DPR Justice Minister Yury Sirovatko said. «More than 100 people have already are not in this area, they have already been moved to a pre-trial detention center. And this is already a category of suspects. They are no longer prisoners, the court will decide on them,» Sirovatko said on Channel One. about 450 thousand people was the second city of the republic after Donetsk, but in June of the same year, the Ukrainian security forces regained control of Mariupol. On May 20, 2022, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced the complete liberation of the territory of the Mariupol metallurgical plant «Azovstal» — the underground facilities of the enterprise, in which the Ukrainian military and militants of the Azov regiment were hiding (against whom criminal cases were initiated in the Russian Federation), came under the control of the Russian Armed Forces. In total, according to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, since May 16, more than 2.4 thousand Nazis from the Azov Regiment and the Ukrainian military have laid down their arms and surrendered, who were blocked on the territory of the plant for about a month. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. Russian President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, 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. Along with the Russian military, units of the DPR and LPR are operating in the region.
