`Until now, we weren’t conducting any operations outside Mariupol. We’re saving strength,´ Zakharchenko was cited by RIA-Novosti news agency as saying.
`But now, after Kiev decided to shift the blame on us for its erroneous fire from Grad multiple rocket launchers at residential areas [in Mariupol], I gave an order to suppress the positions of the Ukrainian military, stationed east of Mariupol,´ he added.