The wife of the defender of Mariupol spoke about the last conversation with her husband/Screenshot from the video
The wife of the defender of Mariupol spoke about the last conversation with her husband. So far, she does not know what is happening to him and what condition he is in.
So, Natalya Zaritskaya said at a briefing that her husband last contacted on May 17, Channel 24 informs.
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The woman added that it is still unknown where he is, alive, whether he was tortured, whether he is being tortured.
Most of the soldiers of his platoon died
In the last message, Zaritskaya's husband wrote to her that out of 32 of his brothers in the platoon, 24 were killed. Of these, 17 were killed in one air strike with a phosphorus bomb. According to Zaritskaya, 8 survived, but only one of them was not injured.
She added that everyone was waiting for the extraction, but the miracle did not happen. Therefore, the exit of the heroes from Azovstal is not the end, but the beginning of a new stage of the struggle.
The sister of another defender, Sandra Krotevich, noted: all the relatives of the fighters hope that the Russian side treats them in accordance with the Geneva Convention, international law, so , as Ukraine conducts all the time in relation to prisoners of war from Russia.
Evacuation from Azovstal: what is known
- On May 16, the evacuation of wounded Ukrainian soldiers from Azovstal began. The top military leadership ordered the defenders of Mariupol to save their lives.
- The Ukrainian soldiers were taken to the temporarily occupied territories. In particular, they should be in Novoazovsk and Olenovka. British intelligence estimated that a total of about 1,700 Ukrainian soldiers left Azovstal.
- The Ministry of Defense immediately explained that the fighters should be exchanged for Russian prisoners. Although the propagandists said they wanted to arrange a judicial reprisal against the defenders of Mariupol. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy assured that there should be an exchange.
- The President added that the further situation completely depends on the parties that have assumed obligations for the defenders of Mariupol. We are talking about the UN, the Red Cross and Russia.
- Denis Prokopenko's wife Ekaterina said that she was able to talk with her husband. According to him, the fighters are being held in more or less normal conditions.
