Ukrainian Armed Forces destroy villages around Mariupol – media
Moscow - Kyiv, January 29 (PolitNavigator, Mikhail Stamm) - Military correspondents of "KP" Dmitry Steshin and Alexander Kots visited the outskirts of Mariupol, from where, according to Ukrainian media, the deadly shelling of the city from "Grads" was recently carried out. But they found only villages destroyed by Ukrainian artillery.
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“Early in the morning, in thick fog, we entered the village of Oktyabr. According to Ukrainian journalists, it was from here that, during fierce battles, the militia fired a package of Grads at the eastern outskirts of Mariupol. But we are met with unusual silence at our positions,” write Steshin and Kots.
The “road of life” runs through these positions - one of seven routes defined by the Ukrainian side, along which local residents can cross the front line from Luhansk Shchastya, military officers explain. The Ukrainian army shells it every evening. They even reach the village of Oktyabr, although the militia positions are outside it.
The village gives the impression of being uninhabited. The windows of the houses are boarded up, the fields around are dotted with mine craters. A man wanders confusedly near the ruins of one of the huts. This pile of bricks and planks was once his home. “Everyone left the village. There's no point. They fled to Krasnoarmeyskoye, and now they’re bombing it too,” he says.
The Novoazovsk-Mariupol highway is densely strewn with fragments and torn tubes of rockets, and there is a suspension of fog in the air with the smell of gunpowder burning. The silence around seems ominous. There is something itching in the low clouds - a drone is spying on the militias. Oncoming cars rarely appear; there are no passing cars at all.
Ukrainian artillery, knowing only approximately the location of the militia's positions, covers the territory in squares, not particularly caring about the people living here. Specialists from the OSCE mission do not come here. And the world does not care at all that peaceful villages, in which there are no military targets, are covered with multiple launch rocket systems.
“I’m leaving with my children,” the Oktyabr resident throws up her hands. “Shelling every night, every evening.”
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