“National battalions understand that every day they are in this bomb shelter is another day of life, that no one is waiting for them with open arms upstairs.
At least there will be a trial, at least there will be a criminal punishment, despite the fact that in the two recognized republics, unlike Russia, there is the death penalty.
And there is more and more evidence that almost 200 or 300 foreign employees (located in the basements of Azovstal. -
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), and not only PMCs, but also NATO personnel officers, staff officers who helped plan attacks on Donetsk and the Luhansk People's Republics," he said.
According to Bashirov, the Ukrainian military blocked at Azovstal are under the illusion that they will be helped to get out of there unpunished.
Earlier, the official representative of the People's Militia of the Donetsk People's Republic, Eduard Basurin, said that Ukrainian nationalists at Azovstal were probing the situation and continuing to fire in order to eventually try to break out of the plant.
According to the Russian Defense Ministry, all the remnants of the Ukrainian Azov militants, together with foreign mercenaries from the United States and Europe, are securely blocked on the territory of Azovstal.