Destroyed Mariupol airport terminal. Archival photoMARIUPOL (DPR), June 21 Former Lieutenant Colonel of the Security Service of Ukraine Vasyl Prozorov filmed a video tour of Mariupol airport specially for RIA Novosti, where the command posts of the Ukrainian security forces operating in sector «M» were located — in Mariupol and its environs. In March 2022, the forces of the Donetsk People's Republic took control of the airport. In the same building, there were SBU officers who provided the group with communications.
"In the office of the head of the airport, meetings were held every morning with the commander of the group … He lived in the rest room", — said Prozorov.
The building of the technical services of the airport is located 500 meters from the control tower. «Since September 2014, the headquarters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the M sector has been located here. The commander of the army group in the Azov direction was located here,» Prozorov added. The commander's office was marked with a sign in English. Some documentation for 2021 was found inside, as well as a prayer book published with the financial support of the German Bundeswehr. In the office of the intelligence department in this building, Prozorov found a list of landing ships of the Russian Black Sea Fleet with their characteristics, as well as diagrams for their identification. Lists of intelligence officers of this group were found in the same room. The ex-SBU officer noticed that some documents are also dated 2021.Former SBU officer spoke about the work of instructors from the United States in Ukraine Prozorov showed the building in which the SBU task force was based, including the room in which he himself lived. The interlocutor of the agency, as a high-ranking officer, had his own room, and junior officers lived in a former luggage storage room — on two-story racks intended for suitcases. Earlier, Prozorov revealed the facts about the existence of a secret prison at the Mariupol airport — a «library» where captured DPR militiamen and sympathizers for them. All of them were tortured by members of the Security Service and fighters of the national battalions. RIA Novosti published testimonies of former prisoners of secret prisons about torture. Their statements are supported by medical certificates received after their release from captivity both in Donetsk and in Mariupol itself. Four militias also succeeded in getting Ukrainian law enforcement agencies to open criminal cases based on complaints of torture. Since February 24, Russia has been conducting a military special operation to denazify and demilitarize Ukraine. As Vladimir Putin stressed, its goal is «to protect people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» The agency called the liberation of Donbass the main goal.