MOSCOW, March 18. /TASS/. Units of the Armed Forces of Russia and the DPR are tightening the encirclement in Mariupol and are fighting in the city center against Ukrainian nationalists. This was stated on Friday by the official representative of the Russian Defense Ministry, Major General Igor Konashenkov.
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"In Mariupol, units of the Donetsk People's Republic, with the support of the Russian armed forces, are squeezing the encirclement and fighting against the nationalists in the city center," he said.

Konashenkov also said that the Russian Armed Forces continue their successful offensive in the northern direction of the Donetsk People's Republic. "In a day, the settlements of Zolotaya Niva, Novodonetskoye, Novomayorskoye and Prechistovka were taken under control. The movement for the day was 16 kilometers," he said.

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FROM MoD RUSSIA - Today we have every reason to publicly announce some facts of the current tragedy in Mariupol.

▫️According to radio intercepts, it has been reliably established that nationalists in the city are conducting intensive negotiations with Kiev to unblock Mariupol and send them support, since they understand that without strengthening they are not able to fulfill their tasks.

▫️Over the past three days, the intensity of negotiations has increased significantly, while negotiations on both sides are taking place in extremely rough tones. On the one hand, the NeoNazis in Mariupol feel the hopelessness of the current situation, and on the other, Kiev understands the impossibility of providing any assistance. In addition, officials of Kiev are voicing rhetoric that the militants in the besieged city should become an example of perseverance, sacrifice themselves for a common victory and they will be given the status of "martyrs of Mariupol".

CONTINUED -At the same time, it is necessarily stipulated that in order to fulfill this "great" mission, the nationalists have more than 200,000 people of the civilian population, whom they can use as a "human shield". This position has been agreed with the leadership of Ukraine. This is an exact quote from a number of radio intercepts.

▫️Understanding the content and consequences of these negotiations, we officially appealed to the Kiev authorities and two days ago brought that we are ready to open humanitarian corridors and release all your bandits in any direction in order to save the city and people from these so-called martyrs, who have already glorified themselves with the explosions of a kindergarten, two schools, a maternity hospital and a drama theater building. At the same time, we guarantee the life of nationalists who have laid down their weapons, we will provide a humanitarian corridor for their exit to the territories controlled by Kiev. In response, we received a categorical refusal, at the same time from high officials of Kiev.

▫️One can only guess about the next steps of desperate bandits who have lost their minds and understand their complete hopelessness, while horrifying pictures of the possible consequences of these actions are emerging. That is why, from the platform of the Joint Coordination Headquarters of the Russian Federation for Humanitarian Response in Ukraine, we warn the entire civilized world in advance, international organizations, primarily the UN, the OSCE, the International Committee of the Red Cross, expect from these odious bandits who have settled in Mariupol, distraught with hopelessness and the absence of any prospects in the future, the next crimes with grave consequences for civilians and further attempts to write off all this as indiscriminate strikes by the Russian Armed Forces.

▫️In addition, it has also been reliably established (this is the data of fresh radio intercepts) that over the past two days, a part of the militants numbering from 150 to 200 people, using humanitarian corridors, dressed in civilian clothes, deserted the city and in scattered groups of 10-15 people move in Zaporozhie direction along country roads.

▫️93 of them have been liquidated overnight, the locations of the rest have been determined by the bearing of radio conversations. The question of their elimination is a matter of a short time.

▫️The Joint Coordination Headquarters of the Russian Federation for Humanitarian Response in Ukraine continues to record numerous facts of violence against civilians and in other localities, which continues to be held by NeoNazis as a "human shield".

▫️Here are just some of them over the past day:
in Chernihov, the militants of nationalist battalions, under threat of physical violence, take away the last food from the local population, including those received as humanitarian aid;
in Zaporozhie, the nationalist-minded authorities forcibly distribute Molotov cocktails to the residents of the city and call on the civilian population to throw them at Russian troops, thereby cynically pushing people to imminent death;
in Kharkov, the Ukrainian nationalists fired at the place of delivery of humanitarian aid.

▫️In addition, in Severodonetsk, nationalist formations and foreign mercenaries defending themselves together with territorial defence reservists forcibly placed the local population around occupied residential buildings, and citizens who refused to leave shelters and go out into the streets were simply shot.

▫️Independent exit of people from settlements is strictly suppressed. Local residents, taken to the basements of residential buildings, allegedly to escape from Russian air strikes, are in appalling conditions of unsanitary conditions, lack of food and water, without electricity and under the influence of lies fabricated by the Ukrainian authorities about blocking humanitarian corridors.

▫️All these facts once again testify to the genocide of the Kiev authorities against their own people and complete indifference to the fate of millions of ordinary people.

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