Russian military: Militants trapped in Azov steel plant are in a desperate situation, but Kyiv will not let them surrender
Reference News Network reported on April 17 that according to the satellite news agency Moscow on April 17, the head of the Russian National Defense Command Center, General Mikhail Mizantsev, said that the people who were surrounded by the Azov steel plant in Mariupol Desperate, with little food and water, militants and foreign mercenaries demanded permission from Kyiv to lay down their arms and surrender, but were refused.
“A sharp increase in the frequency of radio calls by militants of nationalist groups and foreign mercenaries, which was found on April 16, 2022, at the Azov steel plant in Mariupol, was found besieged,” Mizantsev said.
According to him, the contents of the radio interception indicated that the resistance of the militants was “desperate, with almost no food and water”, and 367 radio messages were intercepted in the past day alone.
“They insisted that the Kyiv authorities allow them to lay down their arms and surrender. At the same time, representatives of the Ukrainian authorities forbade this and threatened to be subsequently executed under ‘wartime’ terms,” added Mizhantsev.
According to a report by Sputnik Moscow on April 17, General Mikhail Mizantsev, head of the Russian National Defense Command Center, said that the Russian armed forces suggested that the nationalist groups besieged at the Azov steel plant in Mariupol should be armed The terrorists and foreign mercenaries stopped all combat operations and laid down their weapons at 6:00 Moscow time (11:00 Beijing time) on April 17.