The spokesman for the forces of the Donetsk People’s Republic Eduard Basurin announces the end of the main battles in the center of the city of Mariupl.
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Basurin: The fight has moved to the port city of Mariupol
The spokesman for the forces of the Donetsk People’s Republic, Eduard Basurin, announced today, Thursday, the end of the main battles in the city center of Mariupl.
Basurin explained that the fighting moved to the city’s port, and to the areas belonging to the iron and steel factory “Azov Stal”.
This comes after Basurin announced, on the 26th of last March Donetsk forces lay siege to a group of members of the “Azov” battalion The Nazis, at the Azovstal Factory in the strategic city of Mariupol.
Basurin said that “a group of Ukrainian extremists was expelled from the residential areas of Mariupl, and a siege was imposed on them at the Azovstal factory” in the city.
Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov announced The forces of his republic, participating in the Russian military operation in Ukraine, “began to storm a large steel factory, which is the most important stronghold of the Ukrainian forces in the city of Mariupl.”
Meanwhile, eyewitnesses from the residents said, “The Ukrainian army has told them explicitly that those who have not been able to leave the city so far, will not.”
According to them, “the Russian soldiers, on the contrary, behaved humanely with the local population and organized the supply of humanitarian aid.”
The Russian Defense Ministry had announced the opening of a humanitarian sea corridor for the exit of foreign civilian ships from Ukrainian ports. “There is no danger, on the part of Russia, to civilian freedom of navigation,” said Mikhail Mizintsev, commander of the National Defense Management Center of the Russian Defense Ministry.