Ukrainian military personnel abandoned positions on the approaches to Mariupol - media
Mariupol, September 04 (PolitNavigator, Victoria Litovchenko) – The battle in Shirokino near Novoazovsk and Mariupol lasted four hours.
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According to Hromadske TV, the positions of the Ukrainian military have been destroyed. According to the military, they miraculously managed to escape from there. There are civilian deaths. Three houses are on fire, a church is damaged. Several people who were injured have already died because ambulances do not arrive.
The information that Ukrainian volunteers left the village was confirmed by one of the fighters of the Shakhtersk battalion. Chairman of the Donetsk Regional State Administration Sergei Taruta refutes this information and claims that there are still anti-terrorist operation forces in Shirokino.
In turn, one of the Donetsk border guards reported a wounded Azov soldier.
At the same time, the ATO press center reported that the Ukrainian security forces inflicted losses on the enemy. “Mobile groups of ATO forces in the area of the settlement of Kominternovo destroyed a terrorist anti-aircraft installation and a Ural vehicle. According to the reports of our military, the equipment was marked with white circles, as is done by the occupying forces of the Russian armed forces,” the ATO headquarters claims.
As PolitNavigator reported, today in Kyiv they announced the advance of tank columns from Novoazovsk towards Mariupol. At the same time, the DPR militias claim that the Ukrainian military began the battle, trying to break out of Mariupol.
Let us remind you that earlier the National Security and Defense Council did not immediately recognize the loss of Novoazovsk.
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