“Mariupol can be like ten Borodyanka, and I want to say that the destruction of our military, our guys will put an end to all negotiations,” Ukrainska Pravda quotes him as saying.

On the eve it became known that in Mariupol, the troops of Russia and the Donetsk People's Republic prevented an attempt by a column of Ukrainian military to make a breakthrough to the Azovstal plant.

On April 14, the headquarters of the territorial defense of the DPR reported that as of the evening of April 13, 1,350 Ukrainian marines from the 36th brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine had surrendered.

As noted in Moscow, the destruction of nationalist battalions in Ukraine is the primary task of a special military operation of the Russian Armed Forces.