The Ministry of Defense again offered to surrender to Ukrainian servicemen at Azovstal

According to a representative of the Ministry of Defense, no one used the gum corridor proposed by the Russian side on April 19.The military department guaranteed the surrendered life and the provision of medical care *

The Russian Ministry of Defense again offers the Ukrainian formations at the Azovstal plant in Mariupol to surrender, since no one used the gum corridor proposed by RUSSIA on April 19. This was stated by the HEAD of the National Center for Defense Control of Russia, Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev.

According to him, from 14:00 on Wednesday (April 20), Ukrainian servicemen located on the territory of the plant were asked to stop hostilities and lay down their arms. “The leadership of the Russian Federation guarantees the preservation of life, complete safety and the provision of qualified medical care to all who laid down their arms,” the general said.

He also noted that information about the next opportunity to surrender for those surrounded at Azovstal will be transmitted via radio channels every 30 minutes. Mezintsev specified that humanitarian convoys with buses and ambulances would be deployed in advance near the plant in three directions.

Before the outbreak of hostilities, the Azovstal plant was considered one of the largest metallurgical enterprises in Ukraine. The plant is part of the metallurgical division of the Metinvest group, the main shareholders of which are Rinat Akhmetov's SCM group and Vadim Novinsky's Smart Holding.

The production capacity of the enterprise allowed it to produce up to 5.7 million tons of pig iron, 5.3 million tons of converter steel and 4.7 million tons of finished rolled products per year.

The Ministry of Defense called the stuffing of messages about the civilian population at Azovstal Politics

The military operation of Russia in Ukraine began on February 24, a few days later the Ministry of Defense announced that the DPR formations blocked the second largest city in the Donetsk region - Mariupol. On March 21, the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, announced the beginning of the assault on the city. Already on April 8, he announced that the Russian Armed Forces had taken control of 98% of the city's territory, and soon the Ministry of Defense announced that the forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine remaining in Mariupol were surrounded on the territory of Azovstal.

On the morning of April 19, Eduard Basurin, a representative of the People's Militia of the DPR, said that the DPR formations, with the support of Russian aviation and artillery, began an assault on the Azovstal plant. Basurin expressed hope that the Ukrainian fighters who were on the territory of the enterprise would surrender. In turn, Kadyrov promised that the Russian military would soon establish full control over the plant.

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Earlier, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said that Ukraine would stop negotiations with Russia if the Ukrainian military remaining in Mariupol were destroyed. According to him, the situation in the city remains difficult. “Our military is blocked. There is a humanitarian crisis, no food, no water, no medicines. Nevertheless, the guys are defending themselves,” he said.

At the same time, the Ministry of Defense stated that the Ukrainian authorities ordered the "militants in Mariupol" to shoot those remaining soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine who want to lay down their arms.