The city of Mariupol, in eastern Ukraine on the Sea of Azov, was without electricity on Tuesday March 1 after a Russian offensive, Pavlo Kirilenko, governor of the Donetsk region, said on Facebook.
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Mariupol and Volnovakha are ours!"
The two cities are under enemy pressure but they hold.
In Mariupol, the power line has been cut, the city is without electricity
,” he said on his Facebook page.
According to him, Volnovakha, which has around 20,000 inhabitants, is largely “
destroyed
”.
The capture of these two Ukrainian cities by the Russian army would facilitate the connection of Russian forces advancing along the coast of the Sea of Azov from Crimea annexed by Moscow, and troops in the pro-Russian separatist territory of Donetsk and the border with Russia.
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Mariupol, a strategic port city of half a million inhabitants, has already experienced war.
The last major city in southeastern Ukraine to remain under Kiev control, it was briefly occupied by pro-Russian separatists at the start of the conflict in 2014, before being retaken by regular Ukrainian troops.
