Explosion rangs out in Mariupol and Russian aviation is immediately activated there

In the morning of January 24, an explosion rang out in the temporarily occupied Mariupol, and Russian aviation intensified over the city after this.

Petro Andryushchenko, city mayor's adviser, reports.

"Mariupol. Finally, good morning! At 8:40 a.m. a loud explosion of strike in the suburbs near occupying residential complex Nevskyi. Where Russian occupying forces usually deployed anti-aircraft systems. Immediately after explosion, there was mass movement of Russian aviation. We are clarifying details," he wrote.

• On January 10, adviser to the mayor of Mariupol, Petro Andryushchenko, said that Russian invading forces in Mariupol obliged teachers, doctors and employees of state institutions to obtain Russian passports from January 1.