View of Mariupol in the direction of the Azovstal metallurgical plant. Archival photoMOSCOW, 21 Apr. The Kiev authorities did not allow people at the Azovstal Mariupol plant to use the humanitarian corridor. The relevant information was disseminated at a briefing by the head of the Russian National Center for Defense Control, Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev. «The announced humanitarian operation by the Kiev authorities was cynically disrupted,» he said. Evacuation of civiliansOn Wednesday, the military of the People's Militia of the Donetsk People's Republic and the Russian Armed Forces organized humanitarian corridors from the territory of the Azovstal plant in Mariupol, with their help 127 people were evacuated. On Tuesday, DPR units took 120 residents of Mariupol to a safe place, who were hiding in basements near the checkpoint of the Azovstal plant. At the request of the People's Militia of the DPR and the Russian Armed Forces, five servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine laid down their arms and voluntarily left the territory of the Azovstal plant, the department said. They added that the Ukrainian security forces learned about the offer to surrender from special leaflets that were dropped in the industrial zone.< img src="/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/d0e31239eed82d07f4fc89b7acffb4da.jpg" />The Ministry of Defense commented on Azov’s appeal along the gum corridors Cleaning up AzovstalChechen head Ramzan Kadyrov previously spoke on his Telegram channel about the cleansing of Azovstal from Ukrainian nationalists, and also showed captured equipment. video is one of the largest industrial facilities in the DPR, which the Bandera and Nazis used as one of their many bases,” Kadyrov said. fortified area».
The State Duma offered Zelensky to exchange himself for militants from Azovstal»Special military operationRussia launched a special military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. Almost all of it was taken under control, but intense fighting continues 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.
A resident of Mariupol told how nationalists shelled a residential area
