The populated areas located eastward of Mariupol, Donetsk Oblast, which were occupied by the Ukrainian military last Tuesday, remain under their control and fighting is now going on for the village of Sakhanka, Novoazovsk district, the special-task regiment Azov said.
According to a report posted on Azov’s official page on the website Vkontakte on Feb. 11, Azov now maintains control over territories that were occupied as a result of the offensive. “Fighting now continues for the populated area of Sakhanka,” the report says.
The regiment Azov earlier reported that Ukrainian troops had taken defense positions along the lines of the villages of Shyrokyne-Kominternove-Pavlopil, Volnovakha district, and were fighting for Sakhanka.
Oleksandr Turchynov, secretary of the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council, who is at the site now, said the villages of Pavlopil, Kominternove, Lebedynske, Berdianske, Shyrokyne and others had been taken under control during the Ukrainian offensive.
Sakhanka is located some 12 km east of Mariupol and 3 km northeast of Shyrokyne, the occupation of which Azov reported on Feb. 10.
According to the 2001 population census, the village had 1,093 residents. The villages of Leninske and Dzerzhynske, whose administrations report to the Sakhanka village council, are located north of Sakhanka.
