The Kremlin rejected the data on Ukraine's ultimatums on Azovstal

You should not take information from sources that reported Ukraine's "ultimatum" to Russia on the military at Azovstal, Peskov advised. More than 1,000 people remained on the territory of the industrial zone.

The Kremlin advises not to take information from Telegram channels that disseminate information that Kyiv has put forward an ultimatum to Moscow regarding the Ukrainian military stationed in the Mariupol Azovstal plant. About this "RIA Novosti" said the representative of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov.

“Don’t read these Telegram channels,” he said.

The agency does not specify which Telegram channel is in question and what, according to its data, was contained in the conditions put forward by Ukraine. At the same time, RIA Novosti writes that the channel is “Russian”, it spoke about threats to Russian prisoners of war.

At the request of Roskomnadzor, RBC provides data on the details of the military operation in Ukraine based on information from Russian official sources.

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Mariupol has been in the war zone since the end of February, from the very beginning of the Russian military operation in Ukraine. On April 21, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu reported on the capture of the city, noting that the Ukrainian military remained only on the territory of the Azovstal plant. President Vladimir Putin then instructed to cancel the assault on the plant, calling it inappropriate. “There is no need to climb into these catacombs,” the Russian president said, ordering the industrial zone to be blocked in such a way “so that the fly does not fly through.”

In Kyiv, it was reported that more than a thousand Ukrainian soldiers remained at Azovstal. “There are those who have received serious injuries and need urgent evacuation,” said Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Iryna Vereshchuk. The same estimate of the number of military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was given in the DPR, the head of the republic Denis Pushilin announced that there were 1.2 thousand Ukrainian military at the plant. He noted that there were no civilians left on the territory of Azovstal, and therefore "the hands of our units are untied."

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The Ukrainian side offers Moscow to exchange Russian prisoners of war for seriously wounded soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from Azovstal, insisting that it is impossible to unblock the territory of the plant, and the units occupying it do not want to surrender. Earlier, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky warned that Kyiv would stop dialogue with Moscow to resolve the conflict in the event of the death of the military at the plant. According to him, Russia has refused several proposals for the evacuation of the Ukrainian military from the plant, including the exchange of prisoners or the participation of intermediaries.

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