Hot Mariupol: Arrested Ukrainian commander by Russia says they were tricked by Kiev

After attempting to leave the Azovmash factory located northwest of Azovstal, representatives of the staff of the 36th Brigade of the Ukrainian Army Marines, the brigade commander, the colonel, the hero of Ukraine Volodymyr Baranyuk and the staff Chief, Colonel Dmitry Kormyankov was arrested.

Sputnik news agency quoted Baranyuk as saying that Ukrainian soldiers had repeatedly asked Kiev to “influence” their fate with “political decisions, maybe in some way”. Colonel Volodymyr Baranyuk said that Ukrainian soldiers stationed at the Azovmash factory asked Kiev to agree on their fate, but the Ukrainian authorities lied when they promised to send help just to force them to continue the war. fight.

“Kiev said to wait. Wait… Well, we were told the other way around. That support is coming, you’ll have them… Well, turns out they lied. They promised. help. But without this support. What happened, they pushed us to surrender, “said Sputnik. Baranyuk.

Meanwhile, cUkrainian soldiers defending the Azovstal steel plant plan to “stand to the end” as Russian forces continue their assault on the plant.

The wife of the commander of the Azov Regiment, Denys Prokopenko, said the Ukrainian soldiers “will not surrender. They are just hoping for a miracle”.

She said she spoke to her husband on the phone on Thursday 5/5 and Denys Prokopenko says he will love her forever. “I’m going crazy over this,” she said. “It seemed like goodbye.”

Anton Gerashchenko, an adviser to Ukraine’s Interior Ministry, said that Russian forces entered the factory on Wednesday with the help of an electrician who knew the layout of the factory. “This electrician showed them (Russian forces) underground tunnels leading to the plant,” Gerashchenko said in a video.