The Minister of Justice of the Donetsk People’s Republic Yuri Serovatko said that about 2.3 thousand prisoners of war from the factory “Azovestal” in the city of Mariupol are located in the territory of the republic.
“All POWs are in the territory of the Donetsk People’s Republic… Specifically, we have approximately 2,300 Azovstal POWs,” Serovatko said in a televised statement. He said they were treated like ordinary prisoners of war and investigators contacted them.
It is noteworthy that the city of Mariupol, with a population of approximately 450,000, was in June of the same year, although it was the second largest city of the republic after Donetsk, when the Donetsk People’s Republic was declared in 2014., Ukraine’s security forces are in control.
On May 20, 2022, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced the liberation of all Mariupol lands, including the Mariupol steel plant “Azovstal”, including underground facilities where soldiers hide and Ukrainian fighters of the Azov extremist regiment. Criminal cases have been opened in Russia and are under the control of the Russian armed forces.
According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, since May 16, more than 2.4 thousand Nazis from the Azov Regiment and the Ukrainian army have laid down their weapons and surrendered after being stranded in the factory for almost a month.
Russia launched a military operation against Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin described his goal as “protecting the people who have been subjected to genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years”.
Source: RIA Novosti
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