Ukraine’s Defense Ministry announced late Friday that its forces had “temporarily” lost access to the Sea of Azov as Russian troops, which invaded its neighboring country last month, tightened the grip around Mariupol, where it is located. port of strategic importance wet by it.
“The occupying forces have partially achieved their goal in the ‘Danetsk operations sector, temporarily depriving Ukraine of access to the Sea of Azov,'” the Defense Ministry said in a statement.
The ministry did not say in a statement whether Ukrainian forces had been able to regain access.
Russia said on Friday that its forces were “tightening the noose” around Mariupol, where local authorities say 80 percent of the city’s houses had been damaged and that some 1,000 people may have been trapped in a shelter under a damaged theater. .
Mariupol, a city of strategic importance off the coast of Ukraine in the Sea of Azov, came under Russian fire in the early morning hours of February 24, when Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered that what he called ” special military operation “.
The city is located on a road from the west, the Crimean peninsula, which Moscow annexed in 2014, to the east, to the Danieck region, which is partly controlled by pro-Russian separatists.
Russia has said since March 1 that its forces have cut off access to the Azeri Sea by the Ukrainian armed forces.
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