“The servicemen of the Donetsk People's Republic continue to tighten the encirclement around Mariupol.

Militants of the Azov and Aidar national battalions are firing at the units of the people’s militia that have entered the city from positions equipped in schools, hospitals, maternity hospitals and kindergartens, ”said Major General Igor Konashenkov, spokesman for the Russian Defense Ministry.

He also said that units of the Russian Armed Forces during the operation in Ukraine were conducting offensive operations on a wide front, ten settlements were taken under control in a day.

In addition, the Russian army destroyed an ammunition depot in a military unit in Zhitomir, where Javelins and NLAWs were stored, with a long-range precision weapon.