This is how he commented on the words of Vladimir Zelensky that Kyiv is “ready for urgent negotiations” regarding the evacuation from Azovstal.
“The president said quite clearly: civilians can come out and go in any direction.
The military must lay down their arms and also leave.
They will save their lives.
All the wounded and sick will receive medical assistance.
What could be the subject of negotiations in this case?”
— said the representative of the Kremlin.
During his talks with UN Secretary General António Guterres, Vladimir Putin compared the Ukrainian military holding civilians at the Azovstal plant in Mariupol to terrorists.
The Russian Foreign Ministry expressed the opinion that the Kyiv regime is not interested in the evacuation of people from Azovstal.
At the same time, the head of the DPR, Denis Pushilin, said that the Ukrainian security forces remaining at Azovstal do not trust Kyiv and ask for evacuation to Turkey.