
Ukraine: 'The Mariupol offensive has started' - DPR's Zakharchenko
'The offensive on Mariupol has started,' Head of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR/DNR) Alexander Zakharchenko said in Donetsk, Saturday.
Zakharchenko added that the DPR/DNR forces are planning to close the caldron in the Debaltseve area currently occupied by the Ukrainian Armed Forces within a few days.
While lighting candles in memory of a trolleybus shelling that happened on Thursday, Zakharchenko stressed that Kiev is killing the people of southeast Ukraine because they are "different."

'The offensive on Mariupol has started,' Head of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR/DNR) Alexander Zakharchenko said in Donetsk, Saturday.
Zakharchenko added that the DPR/DNR forces are planning to close the caldron in the Debaltseve area currently occupied by the Ukrainian Armed Forces within a few days.
While lighting candles in memory of a trolleybus shelling that happened on Thursday, Zakharchenko stressed that Kiev is killing the people of southeast Ukraine because they are "different."