Coast in Mariupol sector being defended strongly – Ukraine military

Spokesman for the military operation in Donbas Andriy Lysenko said Ukrainian servicemen monitor the Sea of Azov near Mariupol to spot enemy contingents, noticing none so far.

"We have achieved [these] results due to monitoring with the use of air defense mans and water surface surveillance equipment, which indicate that enemy contingents are concentrated on the land, but there are none at sea," he said at a press briefing in Kyiv on Tuesday.

He also said that, "special artillery units have been put in charge of defending the coast," should the militia attempt to cross into Ukrainian territory from the sea.

"They monitor the situation within a radius of several dozen kilometers and are strong enough to halt and disable the enemy at sea derailing its approach maneuver," Lysenko said.

In addition to this, engineering units are holding training exercises on land. Individual areas have been mined to obstruct the enemy's landing operations, he said.

Drones are also being used in the to monitoring.

The entire amount of information gathered arrives at the Mariupol defense staff and in Sector M responsible for defending this area, Lysenko said.