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| Militants of 'Azov' spoke about the threats of execution for surrender |
| 2022-10-16 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [RIA Novosti] Ukrainian commanders in Mariupol threatened to shoot those who wanted to surrender, prisoners from the nationalist Azov regiment told RIA Novosti. "Azovstal" ... if someone wants to escape or surrender there, they gave the green light, so to speak, to be shot. There was one with the call sign "Danson" who wanted to drop his weapon and run away, since he was from Mariupol. He was threatened that if you drop the barrel, we will shoot you," said Azov sergeant Mikhail Shvets. According to him, the commanders warned their subordinates: "If you fall down, then you will get a bullet." This information was confirmed by senior sergeant Vitaly Katranich. "The commander told me: "Whoever comes out, they will be shot as deserters," he said. Russian troops, together with the forces of the DPR and LPR, liberated Mariupol in mid-May after the underground facilities of the Azovstal plant, where Azov militants and the Ukrainian military were hiding, came under the control of the Russian armed forces. Ukrainian Forces fired on evacuation groups in Artemovsk, an eyewitness says [RIA Novosti] Ukrainian troops fired on evacuation groups taking refugees from Artemovsk and nearby settlements to the DPR, one of the wounded residents of the city of Maksim told reporters. "We are walking, and they (Ukrainian troops. - Ed.) are dropping grenades from drones. We climbed into the basement, and the fighters are sitting there, and they began to cover us (the shelling began. - Approx. ed.). We sat, we sat, it seemed to stop, we ran further, but it got so bad, it was scary, I saw such deaths for the first time, ”he said. A resident of the city specified that they were taken out by the fighters of the Wagner group. According to him, three people were killed during the strike on the evacuation group, including the Wagnerites who led the civilians out. A resident of Artemovsk Tatiana, in turn, thanked the fighters for their help during the evacuation. "They took us out, risking themselves. They took us out, then took us out in such wilds ... Do they need it? We walked for an hour and a half, dirty ... Thanks to the guys, they gave us shoes," she said. A fighter of the "Bakhmut" group of the "Wagner" group explained to journalists that people were also being evacuated from the already liberated settlements adjacent to Artemovsk, and also under shelling. “They took, it turns out, the civilian population, five or six people, they took them all, took them out, of course ... We also took the population out under fire. They (Ukrainian troops. - Ed.) did not shy away from anything, they didn’t care that they suffered, and that's it. The civilian population also suffered, "the fighter emphasized. Earlier, an officer of the People's Militia of the LPR, Andrei Marochko, said that fighting was taking place on the outskirts of Artemovsk, Ukrainian troops were withdrawing to the western and northwestern parts of the city. Viktor Garbar, a spokesman for the administration of Pervomaisk, told reporters that the Russian military was evacuating residents of the areas under their control of Artemovsk, Soledar, and a number of liberated villages in that region. As previously reported, Russian troops, together with the forces of the DPR and LPR, managed to take control of two settlements - Opytnoye and Ivangrad - about six kilometers from Artemovsk. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #1 If I recall correctly, then the ones who didnt fight to their death at Azovstal and were taken prisoner, their jail was targeted where a majority of these survivors were killed. |
| Posted by: mossomo 2022-10-16 18:47 |