A crack opens for the evacuation of the last wounded left in the steel plant Azovstal of Mariupol, after the announcement by the Russian Defense Ministry on a truce agreement reached with Kiev according to the agency Interfax. The Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who in video message released yesterday, March 15, it spoke of “very difficult and delicate negotiations to save our people from Mariupol and Azovstal”. A humanitarian corridor has already been activated for the wounded soldiers in the steel plant. According to local media, the buses carrying over 51 wounded, mostly from the Azov battalion, are already ready outside, and will be taken first to the hospital and then to prison by the troops of the Donetsk separatists.
The Kremlin’s announcement comes while the skepticism of the government’s closest collaborators about Russian overtures remains in Kiev. In particular, the adviser to the Ukrainian Interior Minister, Vadym Denysenko quoted by UKrinform: “Everything is clear about Azovstal here. Unfortunately, the only task of the Russian troops is to capture the steel mill. There are no other modalities despite all the efforts of the president Zelenskyof all our diplomacy and of the relatives of those who are currently inside the steel plant, unfortunately this is a personal decision of Putin».
The yellow on the surrendered Ukrainian soldiers
A few hours before the Kremlin’s announcement, the commander of an internal forces unit of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic, Alexander Khodakovsky, had announced the first surrenders of the soldiers barricaded in the steel mill with “ten soldiers carrying white flags have come out. from a tunnel “. A circumstance, however, denied by the adviser of the mayor of Mariiupol, Petro Andryushchenko, who had instead branded reiterated how the Russian bombing had become more intense on the plant.
