The occupiers said that their “hands were untied” at Azovstal
Iryna Balachuk — Wednesday, 11 May, 2022
The leader of the militants of the so-called "Donetsk People's Republic" Denis Pushilin has said that the occupiers now have free reign, since all civilians have left the territory of Mariupol’s Azovstal plant.
Source: Kremlin-aligned Russian publication RIA Novosti
Pushilin's Quote: "According to our information, it is confirmed that there are no civilians left there. Accordingly, the hands of our units are untied."
Details: What this means, the leader of the militants did not say. Russian occupiers strike at the plant every day. There have also been several assault attempts. But the defenders continue to hold the line.
Background: Illia Samoilenko, an intelligence officer from the Azov Regiment, said that his unit could not surrender to the Russians, because it had an order to hold the line of Azovstal in Mariupol and could not violate it.
For more on this, read also: Commander of "Azov" Denys Prokopenko (Redis): We did everything possible and impossible to pull the superior forces of the enemy
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