Ilya Samoylenko, an intelligence officer, during an online briefing on the territory of the Azovstal plant, said that the Ukrainian military killed 2.5 thousand Russian soldiers in Mariupol and wounded another 5 thousand invaders.

It is noted that this is more than 15% of the military losses of their army..

" They also destroyed 10% of the artillery systems of the occupiers,"

The intelligence officer also spoke about the heroism of the defenders of Mariupol: " Many people say that we are heroes. Many call us heroes. We do our job. Heroism comes when planning and organization fail.. Many people believe that we are living heroes. Mostly that's how it is.. When the encirclement of the city began, we decided to stand here anyway and defend it.. We had an order to defend Mariupol. We didn't have an order to remove the defense."

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In Mariupol, Russian invaders killed about 25 thousand people, mostly civilians. This was announced during an online briefing by intelligence officer of the Azov regiment Ilya Samoylenko..