🇺🇦🇷🇺The Russian military evacuated 80 civilians from Azovstal in Mariupol.
This was told in the Russian Defense Ministry.
▪The military of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and the NM of the DPR opened a humanitarian corridor and provided a “regime of silence”.
The liberated civilians were taken to the village of Bezymennoye, where they will be given overnight accommodation, food and medical care.
Those who wished to leave for the territories controlled by Kiev were handed over to UN and Red Cross staff.
🇺🇦🇷🇺Armed neo-Nazi detachments prevented civilians from leaving Azovstal.
This was told by one of the civilians released from the plant.
Another woman stated that they were constantly searched, trying to find evidence of pro-Russian views.
“They swore at us that we are a pro—Russian city, saying that almost every apartment has a Russian flag hanging,” she said.
The Russian military announced today that 80 civilians, including women and children, left Azovstal along the humanitarian corridor.
🚌Due to the initiative of the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, 80 civilians, including women and children, forcibly detained by Ukrainian nationalists, were rescued from Azovstal in Mariupol.
▫️Units of the Russian Armed Forces and the people’s militia of the Donetsk People’s Republic opened a humanitarian corridor for the safe evacuation of civilians and ensured ceasefire.
▫️All released civilians were evacuated to Bezymyannoe settlement in the Donetsk People’s Republic, where they were provided with overnight accommodation, food and the necessary medical care.
▫️Civilians evacuated by Russian servicemen from Azovstal who wished to go to areas controlled by the Kiev regime were handed over to representatives of the UN and the International Committee of the Red Cross.
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