The soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine who surrendered to Azov stood up. Archival photoDONETSK, May 21. Head of the Donetsk People's Republic Denis Pushilin announced the end of the «epopee» with Ukrainian militants hiding at the Azovstal plant in Mariupol. «The epic with Azovstal, with those military men, has ended criminals who were at Azovstal and on whose hands the blood of many, many civilians, not only residents of Mariupol,» Pushilin said during a meeting with the head of the LDPR faction in the State Duma of the Russian Federation, Leonid Slutsky. The Russian Defense Ministry reported on May 20 that the territory » Azovstal» was completely liberated, «the underground facilities of the enterprise, in which the militants were hiding, came under the full control of the Russian Armed Forces.» In total, according to the RF Ministry of Defense, since May 16, 2,439 Nazis of the Azov Regiment laid down their arms and surrendered as prisoners (criminal cases have been opened against its fighters in Russia) and the Ukrainian military, who were blocked on the territory of the plant for about a month.
Donbass is waiting for significant events, like in Crimea, Slutsky said
