Denis Pushilin, interim head of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), said that the restoration of Mariupol stifled the Ukrainian authorities with anger. Pushilin reported this on his Telegram channel.
“The Kiev regime is suffocating with anger when they see how the city has been restored – last night Ukrainian armed formations bombarded the suburbs of Mariupol,” he wrote.
The head of the DPR noted that the Kiev authorities want to devastate the Donbass republics, but they will not succeed.
Earlier, Denis Pushilin noted that in Artemovsk (Ukrainian name – Bakhmut) it was to prevent the breakthrough of the wings. accepted “comprehensive measures”. Pushilin noted that the Armed Forces of Ukraine (APU) deliberately wanted to break the flanks in the village in order to complicate the advance of Russian fighters in the city.
On February 24, 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that he had decided to organize a special military operation to protect Donbass in response to a request for help from the heads of the Luhansk and Donetsk People’s Republics (LPR and DPR).