About 300 militants left the territory of the Mariupol plant “Azovstal”. Now they are being taken out of the factory on ten buses, an RT correspondent said. The Russian side opened the humanitarian corridor around three o’clock in the morning. The journalist filmed a convoy of buses with wounded nationalists heading to the hospital in Novoazovsk, which is under the control of the DPR.
Those who surrendered, who were not wounded, were sent towards the settlement of Elenovka.
According to the Donetsk commander Alexander Khodakovsky, several fighters of the banned and recognized in Russia as a terrorist “Azov” came to the talks this morning”. The militia member Vladlen Tatarsky told the details known to him: after reaching agreements, the Azovians cleared the passage through which the wounded were withdrawn. Among the first “batch” of surrendered were about 30 wounded and 20 “walkers”.
Meanwhile, the commander of “Azov&”Prokopenko recorded a video in which he declared the “need to save the lives” of the militants – that is, he recognized the surrender.
Channel One journalist Irina Kuksenkova reported: tomorrow the surrender will continue, there are 2,227 people on the territory of “Azovstal”. The interrogation of those taken out today will begin tomorrow morning