Russia refuses to negotiate release of Azovstal fighters

Russia today refused to negotiate the possible release of the Ukrainian fighters of the nationalist Azov battalion who have been entrenched for several weeks in the Azovstal steelworks, whom he called “war criminals”.

“Making Azov war criminals the object of political negotiations is blasphemy in relation to the history of 1941″, when Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union, said today Vladimir MedinskyRussian chief negotiator, on his Telegram channel.

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Medinsky considered wrong and inappropriate to compare Azovstal with the resistance of the defenders of the fortress of Brest (Belarus) against the unstoppable advance of the Hitlerite troops.

The negotiator Russian wondered if those Soviet soldiers had used human shields, shot civilians in the back, traded civilians for food and medicine, addressed the international community to the Vatican, or agreed to be evacuated to other countries with the promise not to fight with the enemy.

When you talk about war crimes, Medinsky It refers to “genocide”, as Moscow calls it, committed during the last eight years by the Army ukrainian against the civilian population of Donbas.

By announcing the “special military operation” russian in Ukrainethe head of the Kremlin, Vladimir Putin, used as one of the arguments the “denazification” from Ukraineat the time you called “bastards” to neo-Nazis.

Turkey has shown its willingness to welcome the combatants who are in the metallurgical plant in the port of Mariupol (Sea of ​​Azov), among whom there would be more than a thousand wounded.

In fact, a group of relatives of the fighters, mostly wives, traveled to Turkey to meet with its president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, whose country has already hosted negotiations between the two sides.

This week the former presidents of UkraineLeonid Kuchma, Víctor Yúschenko and Petró Poroshenko, appealed to the international community to save those who still resist in the steel mill, where they said that there is still a group of civilians.

In their letter they ask “assist with all diplomatic resources available to the authorities ukrainian to save the lives of the Ukrainian civilians and soldiers whom Russia is trying to eliminate on the orders of (Russian President Vladimir) Putin, with barbaric methods in the compound of the Azovstal”.

Although Putin ordered to suspend the assault on the plant, the bombing is intense, according to the authorities ukrainian.

According to a Mariúpol councilor denounced on Telegram, the russian soldiers used white phosphorous bombs in the struggle for control of the city in the Donetsk region.

Source: Elcomercio

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