“For Donetsk, first of all, this will mean a sharp and very important decrease in even the ability to shell the city,” RIA Novosti quotes him as saying on Channel One.
Pushilin explained that after the liberation of Maryinka and Avdiivka, the Armed Forces of Ukraine “will not physically reach” Donetsk.
Soldiers of the special forces regiment "Akhmat" previously occupied a stronghold near Marinka.
According to RT, on January 16, Russian troops took under fire control part of the highway SO51138, along which the remnants of the Armed Forces units in Marinka were supplied from Krasnogorovka.