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 The Commander of Ukraine's Azov special-forces battalion, Andriy Biletsky, said that on Sept. 4 the Russian troops had destroyed the battalion's and the border guards' fortified position near Mariupol.

 The strike came from the Novoazovsk area, Biletsky said, citing data from the Azov battalion’s Facebook page.

The attack killed some of the Ukrainian fighters, he said, blaming the Ukrainian command for failing to provide the battalion with supporting fire.

“We thank the generals who promised precision artillery fire but did nothing. All of our meager hardware has been destroyed (…) We are working under dense fire thanks to traitor insiders,” the commander said.

For his part, Oleksandr Danyliuk, an Advisor to the Ukrainian Defense Minister, said that the Ukrainian military had repelled the enemy’s advance on Mariupol.