The head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko said that no one withdraws the military from Mariupol in southern Donetsk oblast, on the contrary, it provides enhanced protection of the city. last weekend in mass media there were messages that the Ukrainian military as if withdrawn from positions in the area of Shirokino near Mariupol. At the headquarters of the special operations challenged data as if the allotment of offices of the battalion "Azov" from positions near Shirokino and battalion "Aydar" in the Luhansk direction, explaining that there is a planned rotation of these battalions "This is our Outpost, never tell anyone We did not give up. We strengthen the defense of Mariupol best parts and units of the armed forces, elite units, Marines. A whole team, let's see, because It's for the heroes, and then go out and organize a panic, " - said the head on the first day of the week at events in the Ministry of defence. "A separate message for the residents of Mariupol: head with you, equipped with weapons forces with you, the best Authorized and among them, the Marines, the Marines, at the present time, the artillery concentrated there. No buffer zone to Mariupol does not apply, each division holds its place ", - assured the head. Deputy head of the people's Council DND Denis Pushilin at the end of June, said that the Authorities of the breakaway Republic in co-operation with said Shirokino, which was one of the most hot spots of Donbass, a demilitarized zone. The head of the "channel four" Vladimir Putin, Angela Merkel, Francois Hollande and Petro Poroshenko after a telephone conversation on July 23, instructed to develop practical solutions for the withdrawal of Ukrainian forces from residential settlements until August 3. The Ukrainian authorities began in April last year in the Donbass military operation against dissatisfied with the coup d'etat of residents of the region. According to the summary data of the UN, the victims of the conflict were about 6, 5 thousand people. The settlement of the situation in the Donbass is discussed, as well as among them, during meetings in Minsk contact group, which since September of last year already took 3 of the document governing the steps to de-escalate the conflict.