The separatists announced that they entered Mariupol

The confrontation between the Ukrainian military and Donetsk separatists under Mariupol continues, and the so -called militias claim that they have already entered the city. This statement was made in those minutes when the parties to the conflict in the Donbass were to cease to fire.

Currently, information from Mariupol comes contradictory. The source of Interfax in the “Ministry of Defense” of the self -proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic said that "the first sabotage groups, including armored vehicles, are already in Mariupol."

Similar information with reference to the "headquarters of the militia" was distributed by RIA Novosti . "Our detachment entered the districts of Talakovka and Sartan. This is a little away from the Vostochny microdistrict, where the battles between the militia and the security forces are going on, so the detachment managed to freely enter Mariupol," the agency was told in the headquarters.

At the same time, there is no evidence of information about the promotion of separatists into the city of the city from other sources yet. Local journalist Nikolai Lesogor, for example, told Interfax that supporters of the DPR have not yet entered the city. “Explosions from long -range guns from the Ukrainian army are periodically sounded. However, there are no fighting clashes,” he explained, noting that the city continues to live a peaceful life.

The Ukrainian side, in turn, completely refuted the information about the capture of Mariupol separatists. The Armed Forces of Ukraine continue to hold the city under control, citing a representative of the Ukrainian side is reported by Reuters.

"As of 16:30, near Mariupol in the Shirokino region, the military of the Russian Federation continued to shell the positions of forces of the anti -terrorist operation. There were no promotion of Russian troops towards Mariupol," said the speaker of the National Security and Defense of Ukraine Andrei Lysenko, quoted by UNIAN .

According to him, the information regarding the number of losses is currently being specified. Military personnel of the National Guard and Volunteer Battalions along with the Armed Forces of Ukraine "reliably held the defense of the city," Lysenko noted.

“These are all fictions. In Mariupol, at the moment, they were calm, they repelled the attacks that were,” said RIA Novosti Speaker of the Information Center for the special operation Leonid Matyukhin.

Separatists' information that their advanced formations entered Mariupol was also refuted by the adviser to the head of the Donetsk regional state administration Konstantin Batozsky. On his Facebook page , he wrote that the situation in the city is stable.

“Yesterday, four civilians were killed as a result of hostilities, including two combiners engaged in harvesting. Today, three civilians were killed (two children of them). A total of 23 people were injured,” said the adviser to the head of the regional administration.

According to him, in schools and kindergartens of Mariupol, civil defense exercises begin. Citizens carry out the inspection and arrangement of bomb shelters. On the approaches to the checkpoints, mobile hospitals are unfolding.

"Mariupol enterprises joined in defense - they are engaged in the repair of equipment and the production of defense structures. Mobile points of recruiting in self -defense and Azov battalion are unfolding in the city," Batozsky wrote.

An hour earlier, the so -called leader of the People’s Front of Novorossia, Alexander Zinchenko, told the Russian News Service that Mariupol will be taken by three hours. According to him, the city was surrounded by a group of five thousand people.

The day before, President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko , and then the separatists themselves said that at 15:00 in Moscow they were ready to declare a ceasefire in the conflict zone. However, as Zinchenko explained, the supporters of the "people's republics" are ready to cease fire only if the Ukrainian troops leave their territory.

Representatives of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Mariupol regarding the ceasefire said that so far no order to suspend the use of weapons from Kyiv has been received. In Mariupol, during a conversation with Reuters correspondent, the Ukrainian officer said that while the operation continues in accordance with the previously made command instructions.