“In the Maryinsky direction, the enemy is very seriously resisting,” RIA Novosti quotes his words on the air of Solovyov Live.
Pushilin added that Ukrainian troops continue to pull up reserves and equipment in large numbers to the settlement.
“Some of their orders are quite tough.
I think that these orders are being carried out there, and not without detachments, ”he said.
Pushilin stressed that the Ukrainian military “throw and throw people, often unprepared, into this firebox.”
Earlier, the acting head of the DPR said that Russian units were moving meter by meter in the Maryinsky direction.
He also said that the shelling of Donetsk would stop after the liberation of Maryinka and Avdiivka.