Lieutenant Svyatoslav Palamar (call sign Kalina), Deputy Commander of the Ukrainian Azov* unit, was killed in Mariupol, according to Daniil Bezsonov, First Deputy Minister of Information of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR).
Palamar, Deputy Commander of Ukraine’s nationalist Azov* Battalion, was killed in Mariupol while aboard one of the Mi-8 helicopters shot down by DPR air defense systems.
Earlier, DPR forces prevented the evacuation of Azov* Commander Denis Prokopenko and Commander of the 36th Marine Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) Volodymyr Baranyuk from Mariupol. Servicemen of the DPR People’s Militia managed to stop the evacuation of the Ukrainian commanders as they were trying to fly a helicopter to escape from the territory of the Azovstal plant and thus leave Mariupol.
Earlier, the Russian military destroyed one of the main ideologists of the Azov* regiment, Nikolai Kravchenko. A soldier with the call sign Kruk (Ukrainian for “raven”) was kiled in Mariupol, surrounded by the forces of the Donetsk People’s Republic.
Russian troops enter advantageous line in Ukraine
Meanwhile, the units of the Russian Armed Forces took full control of the settlement of Zolotaya Niva, crossed the Kashlagach River and entrenched themselves at an advantageous line, Major General Igor Konashenkov, an official representative for the Russian Defense Ministry said.
According to Konashenkov, the Russian army advanced for six kilometers during 24 hours.
“Up to 60 Ukrainian nationalists, two tanks, 4 infantry fighting vehicles, 9 vehicles have been were destroyed,” Konashenkov reported.
Units of the Luhansk People’s Republic (LPR) completed the cleansing of the settlement of Zhitlovka and moved forward for five kilometers, Konashenkov also said. Now they are fighting on the outskirts of the village of Kremennaya.
On March 30 at night, large fuel depots were destroyed with high-precision air-launched missiles in the settlements of Dnepropetrovsk, Lisichansk, Chuguev and Novomoskovsk. The destroyed depots had been used to supply fuel to Ukrainian troops in the Donbass.
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