Defenders of Mariupol have killed about 6,000 russian invaders and more than 100 armored vehicles since the start of the full-scale war, the deputy commander of “Azov” regiment, Captain Sviatoslav Palamar (“Kalyna”), said during the special military panel of the Kyiv Security Forum.
"Our garrison managed to destroy about 6,000 enemy units, including one general. That's about 78 tanks. That's more than 100 units of armored vehicles. This is the number that is confirmed. There is, of course, a lot of unconfirmed data that we will not rely on," Palamar said.
The deputy commander of the Azov regiment noted that the enemy deployed their elite units to storm Mariupol.
“This is the 150th Division; this is the 68th Tank Regiment. This is the 83rd Airborne Brigade. This is the 346th Brigade of the GRU special forces. This is the 22nd Brigade of the GRU Special Forces. This is the 9th Regiment of Marines of the Donetsk People’s Republic. This is the 810th Brigade of the Black Sea Fleet and the 155th Pacific Brigade. It is also strategic aviation and tactical aviation. It is Wagner mercenaries and other militants from other parts of the Russian Federation and the Caucasus," he said.
Sviatoslav Palamar stressed that the enemy outnumbered the Ukrainian defenders in the number of weapons and the number of infantry.
"This group was a total of about 14,000 servicemen. It's a huge amount of equipment, planes, ships, and naval artillery; it's sorties of both tactical and strategic aircraft. And a lot of artillery, MLRS. And they fired a huge number of missiles at us during this period ", - the Ukrainian serviceman noted.
Palamar stressed that the defense of Azovstal, which Russian troops are trying to storm, continues. He assured that Ukrainian fighters would resist the enemy "as long as we have the possibility."