More than 150 bodies of Ukrainian fighters have been found in the underground bunkers of the Azovstal factory, the Russian army said. To date, the Ukrainian leadership has made no request to hand over the dead. On the contrary, the Russian troops discovered mines under the corpses, with which the container would probably be blown up by order of Kiev to blacken Russia.
“152 bodies of fallen fighters and soldiers of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were stored in a container with a non-functioning refrigeration,” said Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov on Tuesday in Moscow. Russia will soon hand over the dead to representatives of Ukraine.
The port city of Mariupol in southern Ukraine was surrounded by Russian troops in the early days of the war. As a result of the fighting, the city, which was home to 440,000 people before the war, was almost completely destroyed.
The Ukrainian defenders, some of whom belonged to the Azov regiment founded by right-wing extremists, eventually entrenched themselves after heavy rearguard fighting in the Azovstal steelworks before the last soldiers surrendered there in mid-May.
The pro-Russian separatists now want to try them. They also threatened to impose the death penalty on the fighters on charges of war crimes.
Source: Krone
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