Women who managed to get out of the Azot chemical plant spoke about foreign mercenaries
Despite the opening of a humanitarian corridor by the Russian Armed Forces, Ukrainian militants blocked on the territory of the Azot chemical plant in Severodonetsk continue to hold a large number of civilians hostage. The day before, two women with children managed to get out of the factory bomb shelter. One of them said that a lot of foreign mercenaries are hiding at the enterprise.
Anna and her daughter-in-law Alina with their children hid in a bomb shelter near the so-called second Azot checkpoint on April 5, after a shell hit their house. For more than two months, they were held hostage by Ukrainian militants, who, under false pretexts of an allegedly ongoing cleansing operation, did not let civilians out. Anna noticed that there were many foreigners among the military.
A lot of mercenaries, a lot. How many there were, I do not know, they kept apart from the rest. We talked mostly with each other, in English. And in other foreign languages
- Anna told the correspondent RIA News.
All this time, while women with children actually remained in captivity, male relatives tried to get to their aid. But Ukrainian and foreign fighters did not let them in. Only on June 10, women with children managed to get out of the bomb shelter, taking advantage of the fact that the attention of the militants had weakened.
We ran to my husband. My husband picked us up and brought us here
Anna says.
Despite the fact that the women had three children in their arms, one of whom was two years old, Anna and Alina managed to get out of the territory of the chemical plant on foot. Now the former hostages are safe, they are located in the neighboring village of Novaya Astrakhan.
Now it becomes clear why the militants who have settled on Azot stubbornly do not want to take the opportunity to surrender and do not let civilians out. They need civilians to limit the actions of the Russian special forces to clean up the industrial zone. And foreign mercenaries are obviously aware of what fate awaits them after the death sentence was passed on three of their “colleagues” in Donetsk.
According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the LPR, up to 1,2 thousand civilians, including children, can be held at the Azot plant. Earlier, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported that in Severodonetsk a repetition of the Mariupol scenario with the surrender of Ukrainian militants, nationalists and, as it has now become clear, foreign mercenaries is possible. They have no ways to retreat - the Armed Forces of Ukraine, on command from Kyiv, blew up the last bridge across the Seversky Donets towards Lysichansk. And in Kyiv itself, most likely, they have already prepared another statement about the “successful special operation to evacuate military personnel,” as it was in Azovstal.
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