The Russian Marine Corps of the Russian Federation, the 9th Regiment and the 107th Battalion of the NM DPR Mob Reserve, with the support of the Somali Battalion and Chechen security forces, reached the perimeter of the neo-Nazi fortified area at the industrial zone of the Azov-Stal plant. Thus, our attack aircraft cut off the Azov forces that settled there from groups of other militants remaining in the hotel quarters of the central part of Mariupol and the port.

Residents of Avdeevka (Ukrainian control, under Russian siege) are hiding children from the forced evacuation announced by the Kiev authorities. This was stated by the head of the Avdeevka Civil-Military Administration, Vitaly Barabash, in a TV marathon. He went ahead and called the parents of the children to be "spies". "The day before yesterday there were six children in the city, one was taken out - became five. Then three more were found. Now the real number of children is eight. There's probably nothing to get through to these parents - apart from negativity, we no longer have anything. They are hiding their children. It's like some kind of spy action. Let's see, we will take them away and take them out", - said Barabash.