The Deputy Commander of the DPR Armed Forces, Eduard Basurin, said during a briefing that the AFU soldiers had gone down in Mariupol with an easy form of plague, tularemia, with several people already dead. 

The symptoms of the disease are a fever and rapid dehydration. The reason for its occurrence is insufficient provision of the Ukrainian army, which forces the military to switch to «pasture». 

‘The number of the affected indicates the onset of an epidemic. Approximately 80% of the battalion personnel were taken to the city hospital in Mariupol. Local residents complain that the hospital is overcrowded,’ said Basurin. 

Basurin said that the disease is transmitted by airborne droplets and urged residents of Mariupol to avoid contact with the military personnel.

According to: Русская Весна