Berdyansk came under the control of Russian troops. Oleksiy Arestovich, Advisor to the Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, stated this during a briefing, RIA Novosti reports.
“Berdyansk is occupied by the enemy, there were no our troops there, the city was taken,” Arestovich said.
Earlier, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation stated that the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics, with the support of the Russian Armed Forces, carried out an offensive deep into Ukraine and established control over a number of settlements.
In particular, the forces of the LPR are located in the settlements of Novoakhtyrka, Smolyaninovo, Stanichno-Luganskoye. In addition, the military department reported on the control of the DPR over Petrovsky, Pavlopol and Pischevik.
The Russian Armed Forces also control Genichevsk and the Chernobaevka airfield. Kherson and Berdyansk were reported to have been "completely blockaded" by Russian forces.
On February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that he had decided to conduct a military special operation to protect the Donbass in response to a request for help from the heads of the LPR and DPR.
Ukraine severed diplomatic relations with Russia. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has submitted a bill on general mobilization to the Verkhovna Rada.
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