Destroyed military equipment on the street in Mariupol. Archival photo MARIUPOL, May 12. The Ukrainian command abandoned its military in Mariupol without ammunition and food, Ukrainian artilleryman Oleksandr Plotnikov told investigators of the RF Investigative Committee. we had: we were very heavily shelled, there were many dead, we returned back. They made a second attempt — the same thing, it didn’t work out, «Plotnikov testified. According to him, when he returned after the second attempt with his unit, then -I brigade has already reached out to representatives of the Russian Federation to discuss the surrender. «I think we made the right decision. Because we were thrown: there is nothing to treat the wounded, there is no food, no water, the ammunition is over. There was nothing else to do,» the military man said .Military investigators of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation in April began work in Mariupol on a permanent basis to record the facts of the crimes of Ukrainian nationalists. Employees of the department interrogate residents and go to the site. What Ukrainian artillerymen did in Donbass
