War in Ukraine | Pro-Russian militias take the port of Mariupol, according to their leader

Pro-Russian militias have seized the port of the Ukrainian city of Mariupolin the Sea of ​​Azov, as reported today by Denis Pushilin, leader of the separatist “Donetsk People’s Republic”.

“Regarding the port of Mariupol, it is now under our control”declared pushilin to the first channel of Russian public television.

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Hours earlier, the pro-Russian leader had called to “intensify the march of the liberation operation” of the donbas.

He argued this need with the “complex situation of people”, as well as with the “provocative actions of the kyiv regime”, which he blamed for last Friday’s missile attack against the Kramatorsk railway station, a city controlled by Ukraine, in which 57 people died, according to the latest data.

about the situation in Mariupolin the southern region of Donetskwhere fierce fighting has been going on for several weeks, The pro-Russian leader pointed out that “several thousand” of Ukrainian nationalists remain in the area of ​​the Azovstal steelworks, on the outskirts of the city.

“According to our calculations, together with Azovstal there are still nationalists, several thousand. The figure that appears most frequently in war reports is between 1,500 and 3,000 people.he added.

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The separatist leader pointed out that there are many underground passageways in the factory, “so it makes no sense to take this target by storm.”

“We could lose a large number of men, while our enemy would have practically no losses. Therefore, at this time we must understand how to block the factory, locate all the exits and entrances, what is possible “he indicated.

The pro-Russian affirmed that after cutting off the escape routes for the defenders of Azovstalthe militias of Donetsk they would look for a way to “make the moles come out of their burrows”.

Source: Elcomercio

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