Russia-Ukraine war and invasion continues.
Meanwhile, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said that the Russian army is expanding control of the Donbas region along with the pro-Russian republican forces in the Donbas region in eastern Ukraine.
“Russian forces are continuing ‘special military operations’ in Ukraine,” Minister Shoigu said at a meeting of the Ministry of National Defense. We are doing it,” he said.
Russia has approved the independence of the pro-Russian Luhansk People’s Republic of Luhansk and the Donetsk People’s Republic of the Donbas region, which declared separation and independence from Ukraine in February.
It also launched a special military operation in Ukraine under the pretext of protecting the two republics.
At the beginning of the operation, the Russian army, which launched simultaneous attacks across Ukraine, withdrew from the Ukrainian capital Kiiu and northern regions from the end of March, and concentrated its attacks on the eastern Donbas region and southern regions.
“Normal life is being established in the Luhansk People’s Republic and the Donetsk People’s Republic of Ukraine, which have been liberated from the Ukrainian military, and in the territory of Ukraine,” said Minister Shoigu. claimed.
“According to the instructions of President Vladimir Putin, the remnants of the remnants of the Ukrainian rebels at the Mariupol Azoustal Works have been completely sealed off,” Shoigu said. height added.
Azoustal is mentioned as the last stronghold of the Ukrainian forces remaining in Mariupol.
