The ceremony of awarding the prize “Ukrainian truth” took place. The Association of Families of Defenders of Azovstal received a Citizenship Award.
To the topic How many Ukrainians are held in Yelenovka – the ombudsman named the figure
Because the defenders fought to the last, when everything was already clear
Raditz’s wife Ekaterina Prokopenko read his letter. In it, she noted that the battle for Mariupol “became for Ukrainians a symbol of indestructibility, and for Russians – a cancerous tumor, where for 86 days their command sent battalion after battalion to be slaughtered.”
Prokopenko noted that thanks to the loyalty and courage of the soldiers of the Mariupol garrison, whose driving force was his regiment, they managed to withdraw a large group of enemy forces to the south. At the same time, Ukraine received weapons and regrouped troops.
On a national scale, this made it possible to regroup troops, receive the latest weapons, mobilize new personnel and successfully conduct a number of counter-offensive operations.
– says the message.
“Radis” also admitted that the combat commanders, who are now in Turkey, are hard at the thought of not being on the battlefield.
It is a great despair for us that we cannot now be close to our brothers on the front lines. Let’s hope that the war is not over for us and we will be useful for our state,
Catherine quoted her husband’s words.
5 Azovstal combat commanders are in Turkey
- On September 21, during the exchange, he was released from Russian captivity 5 combat commandersCast: Denis “Radis” Prokopenko, Sergei “Volyn” Volynsky, Svyatoslav “Kalina” Palamar, Denis Schleg and Oleg Khomenko.
- The condition for their release was that until the end of hostilities they would remain in Turkey under the protection of Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
- In September, the head of the GUR Kirill Budanov said that they lived in a private residential building. He emphasized that this is not a place of detention, but a place of residence.
