Pushilin announced the release of Maryinka by 80%

The city of Maryinka in the DPR has been liberated by more than 80%, Denis Pushilin, the acting head of the republic, said on Channel One.

“Now Maryinka is more than 80% liberated,” Pushilin noted (quote according to TASS). According to him, control over this settlement will ensure advancement in the Krasnogorovka region, which in the future will allow stopping the shelling of the Petrovsky district of Donetsk from this direction.

In addition, Pushilin said that fierce fighting was taking place on the outskirts of the city of Artemovsk (the Ukrainian name is Bakhmut). “I do not exclude that, taking into account those orders, those reserves that the enemy is still trying to move to Artemovsk in order to keep this city, that the situation will reach a complete encirclement,” the head of the region emphasized.

Earlier today, Donetsk Mayor Oleksiy Kulemzin declaredthat the city was subjected to the most massive shelling since 2014. In total, 40 rockets were fired at the city from BM-21 Grad multiple rocket launchers. Later, referring to eyewitnesses, he clarified that direct hits on multi-storey buildings were recorded, and in some places there were fires.

Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov named the situation in Donetsk is not easy. According to him, all the Russian military is concentrated on it. Thus, he commented on the idea of ​​the acting head of the DPR, Denis Pushilin, to annex Chernigov and Odessa.