The militias did not manage to take Mariupol before the truce
Moscow - Kyiv, September 6 (PolitNavigator, Mikhail Stamm) - The DPR militias, who had been advancing on Mariupol for the last two days, were unable to take control of it before the ceasefire agreement was signed in Minsk. By the evening of September 5, the shooting around the second most populous city in the Donetsk region subsided, Kommersant reports.
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Cannonades from the north and east frightened the townspeople until lunchtime, after which they began to slowly subside. If the DPR had a plan to occupy Mariupol before the signing of peace agreements in Minsk, it failed to be realized. The townspeople, who the day before were actively collecting things and lowering them into bomb shelters, can only hope that the truce will be real and will not turn out to be a short-term pause, reports the newspaper’s special correspondent, who spent the whole day yesterday with Ukrainian troops.
The rebels failed to take Mariupol before the ceasefire.