Adviser to the Deputy President of the Donetsk People’s Republic, Igor Kimakovsky, said that the Russian army broke through the defense of the Ukrainian army at Maryinka in the DPR. It has been reported TASS.
“I won’t tell dates yet, but [Марьинка] will be published soon. The situation is very difficult, this city for a long time, almost eight years, turned into a fortified area by the armed formations of Ukraine. That’s why we have to break through the enemy’s defense,” he said.
Kimakovsky noted that many houses in the city were practically sheltered, their interiors reinforced with logs, reinforced concrete, some buried three floors below. According to him, they were equipped with “NATO devices” that monitor the movement of the equipment of the Russian Armed Forces and the adjustment of the artillery.
On February 6, Denis Pushilin, acting head of the DPR, stated that it was in the direction of Maryinsky. To go Fierce clashes in which the Ukrainian army tried to hold its ground.
A week ago, Pushilin, the Ukrainian army continues transfer reserves to Artemovskoye, Ugledarskoye and Maryinskoye directions. On January 18, Pushilin said that in Maryinka, Russian fighters continued to “cleanse”, trying to keep the private sector and small industrial enterprises of the enemy.
On February 24, 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that he had decided to organize a military special operation to protect Donbass, in response to a request for assistance from the heads of the LPR and DPR.
The decision to run the operation became the justification for new sanctions against Russia by the United States and its allies.