Pushilin said that the population of Mariupol is 280 thousand people
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Acting head of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) Denis Pushilin said that the population of Mariupol is currently 280,000 people. According to him, the locals who left the city are now actively returning to their homes. Before the start of the military conflict, the population of the city was 425 thousand people.
The official noted that the population is returning “at a faster pace” than the DPR authorities had planned.
“Now we can say that about 280 thousand people live in the city. Although we expected that by the current period about 200-220 thousand people would return,” Mr. Pushilin said in an interview with the Rossiya 24 TV channel. In his opinion, residents are returning to the city because of the high pace of its recovery.
March 19 Mariupol visited Vladimir Putin. According to the press service, the president arrived in the city by helicopter and traveled around several districts of Mariupol driving a car together with Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin.
Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Vladimir Putin’s movements around Mariupol were spontaneous. Initially, the plan of the President’s visit did not include communication with local residents and visiting them.
On the situation in the war zone in Ukraine – in online broadcasts “Kommersant”.
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