Kyiv announced Ankara's consent to participate in negotiations on Azovstal

Kyiv wants to sign a document that will spell out the procedure for the evacuation of the Ukrainian military from Azovstal,said Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Irina Vereshchuk View of the plant "Azovstal"

Turkey has agreed to mediate in negotiations on the evacuation of forces controlled by Kyiv from Azovstal in Mariupol, Deputy Prime Minister - Minister for the Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories Irina Vereshchuk said. Her words are quoted on FACEBOOK (owned by Meta, which is recognized as extremist in RUSSIA and banned) by the Ukrainian Ministry for Temporarily Occupied Territories and Internally Displaced Persons.

She clarified that today a meeting will be held in Russia with representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to agree on the first stage of the evacuation of the Ukrainian military from the plant. it will include the withdrawal of the seriously wounded from Azovstal. Vereshchuk added that Kyiv wants to sign a separate document on how exactly the evacuation will take place.

She claims that not only fighters of the Azov national battalion (recognized as extremist in Russia and banned in Russia), but also soldiers and officers of the SBU, the national police and border guards are now on the territory of the plant.

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

On May 5, an operation by the UN and the Red Cross to evacuate civilians began at the Mariupol enterprise Azovstal. This became possible after the talks between the HEAD of the UN, António Guterres, and the presidents of Russia and Ukraine, Vladimir Putin and Vladimir Zelensky, at the end of April.

On May 6, the UN and the Donetsk People's Republic reported that during the first day of the operation, 150 civilians were withdrawn from Azovstal. On May 7, Kyiv reported that all women, children and the elderly had left the enterprise. Later that day, the Ministry of Defense spoke about the rescue of 51 people, including 11 children.

On May 10, Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Irina Vereshchuk told AFP that about a thousand Ukrainian soldiers remained at the plant, including "hundreds" of the wounded. On May 11, she stated that Kyiv offered Moscow to exchange them for Russian prisoners. There are no agreements, negotiations on this issue are ongoing, she stressed.

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The Russian Foreign Ministry stated that Kyiv is seeking the evacuation of military personnel from Azovstal in order to hide the presence of Ukrainian military mercenaries among the Ukrainians. According to the head of the department, Sergei Lavrov, there are “characters at the enterprise who will confirm the presence of both mercenaries, and perhaps acting officers of Western armies on the side of Ukrainian radicals.”