Foreign Ministry: Russia has repeatedly said how people can leave Azovstal in Mariupol

She said this on the air of the Russia 24 TV channel.

According to her, the statements of the Kiev regime - "this is a lie, this is not true."

“The Russian side, through the mouth of the Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, has repeatedly spoken about how people who want to leave the territory of Azovstal can do this,” RIA Novosti quoted her as saying.

Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin told the head of the European Council, Charles Michel, that the Kyiv regime does not allow the military, militants of the national battalions and foreign mercenaries at Azovstal to lay down their arms.

Putin said that all Ukrainian soldiers, militants of the national battalions and foreign mercenaries who laid down their arms are guaranteed life, decent treatment in accordance with international law, as well as the provision of qualified medical care.