Leader of the "DNR" Denis Pushilin admitted that the russian invaders completely destroyed Marinka, but they could not take the city. He toldt this on the air of one of their russian propaganda shows.
"The enemy does not leave the settlement in any way... You and I even argued that Marinka should have been liberated long ago, but for the enemy, it was also a strategic point, although, unfortunately, practically nothing was left of Marinka - in terms of some whole structures and some whole housing constructions", - Pushilin laments.