Smoke over the Azovstal plant in Mariupol. Archival photoMOSCOW, April 20The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, spoke on his Telegram channel about the cleansing of Azovstal from Ukrainian nationalists, and also showed captured equipment.
"Work does not stop in Mariupol cleaning up the buildings of the industrial zone. In this video, one of the largest industrial facilities in the DPR, which the Bandera and Nazis used as one of their many bases", Kadyrov said.
According to him, the Chechen military are combing every square of the once powerful enterprise, which «Azov ghouls» turned into a «decent fortified area.» «In the course of operations, three units of Nazi equipment were captured in one of the workshops. But this is far from the limit. The account of weapons and ammunition recaptured from the bandits has long been lost. You can even not use your ammunition and attack with trophies,” Kadyrov added. Russian units and DPR forces surrounded Mariupol on March 7, and the city has been mopped up ever since. Almost all of it was brought under control, but intense battles continue in the Azovstal area — the remnants of the nationalist Azov regiment are hiding there, against whose fighters a criminal case is being investigated in Russia. Since February 24, Russia has been conducting a military operation to denazify and demilitarize Ukraine. According to President Vladimir Putin, its goal is «to protect people who have been subjected to abuse, genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» Ukraine. The main task in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.