Six Ukrainian soldiers were killed trying to detonate an ammunition depot in Azovstal

“It is not clear who did this, no one is responsible, but after the main group of soldiers walked out, … Someone ordered the ammunition depot to be blown up,” Denis Pushilin – leader of the Donetsk People’s Republic (Donetsk People’s Republic) DPR) self-proclaimed, revealed on Youtube channel Soloviev Live on May 21. “This was done hastily with unclear orders. So as a result, six people were killed instantly, and as far as I know, four others were injured.”

According to Pushilin, an unspecified number of Ukrainian soldiers may still be inside the Azovstal steel plant area. These soldiers still have a sufficient stock of food and water, but lack of medicine. “Every room, every corner of the factory is being thoroughly searched,” the official said.

Ukraine has not yet commented on this information.

Earlier, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said on May 20 that Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu had informed President Vladimir Putin that the operation “to free” the Azovstal factory and all of its facilities had been completed. Mariupol city in southern Ukraine.

Accordingly, a total of 2,439 Ukrainian soldiers and members of the Azov Brigade entrenched inside the Azovstal factory since April 21 have laid down their weapons in turn since May 16. Most of the soldiers were taken to a detention camp in the town of Yelenovka on the outskirts of Donetsk, while the wounded were transferred to a hospital in an area controlled by pro-Russian separatists. .

The Ukrainian government hopes to exchange the soldiers who laid down their weapons, but the Russian side has not yet responded. President Volodymyr Zelensky on May 21 stated that a prerequisite for Kiev to continue to sit at the negotiating table is that Moscow does not harm Ukrainian soldiers still entrenched inside the Azovstal steel plant.

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