On May 8, the 73rd day of the war and the defense operation in Mariupol was continuing, city defenders said they themselves did not expect them to last that long.
According to the command of the Azov Regiment, Ukrainian defenders in Mariupol destroyed 2.5 thousand Russian soldiers and 60 tanks.
“According to my own calculations and the calculations of the units here, on May 1 (corrected by the Azov press service that on February 24 to April 15), we destroyed nearly 2.5 thousand enemy personnel, wounded more than 5 thousand This is 15 % of the total enemy losses in Ukraine.We also damaged up to 60 tanks and damaged about 30. This is more than 10 % of the total losses of Russian tanks.The situation is almost the same with vehicles. infantry defenses, artillery installations – there are more than 10%. And these losses to the enemy resulted in only one unit – here in Mariupol, “said Ilya Samoylenko, official of the intelligence department, in a press conference of defenders of Mariupol from the territory of the Azovstal plant.
Samoylenko also noted that more than half of all air strikes and sorties of enemy aircraft (of the total in Ukraine) fell in Mariupol.
The officer added that he himself did not expect them to last that long. On May 8, the 73rd day of war and defense operations continued in Mariupol.
Remember that all women, children and adults from Azovstal were evacuated.
Earlier it was reported that in Mariupol, inscriptions began to appear on the entrance doors of apartments of high-rise buildings with the estimated date of death of residents, and 80-100 corpses were found under each destroyed that house.
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Source: korrespondent
