President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky believes that Mariupol will be able to free from the Russian occupation. The head of state wrote about this in the Telegram channel.
“On the eighth anniversary of the liberation of Mariupol from pro-Russian terrorists, we again fight for him and all of Ukraine. As then, in 2014, Mariupol will be free again. The Ukrainian flag will return the same as in every city and the village, where The invaders came. Because this is our country and our people! ”, Zelensky emphasized.
In 2014, Mariupol was under the control of the militants “DPR”.
In 2022, after the start of a full -scale invasion of the Russian Federation to Ukraine, the Russian military again captured the city.