Russian military reports more than 150 dead bodies at Mariupol Steel Plant
According to the Russian military, in the underground bunkers of the Azovstal factory, which was fought over for months more than 150 bodies found by Ukrainian fighters. “152 corpses of fallen fighters and soldiers of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were stored in a container with no longer working refrigeration.Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said in Moscow on Tuesday.
To date, the Ukrainian leadership has not made any request to transfer the dead. On the contrary, the Russian troops would have Mines discovered under the corpses, with which the container was probably supposed to be blown up on orders from Kiev in order to blacken Russia, Konashenkov claimed. Russia will soon hand over the dead to representatives of Ukraine, he said.
The port city of Mariupol in southern Ukraine was already in the first days of the war surrounded by Russian troops. As a result of the fighting, the city, which was home to 440,000 people before the war, was almost completely destroyed. The Ukrainian defenders, some of whom belonged to the right-wing extremist Azov regiment, finally entrenched themselves in the Azovstal steel works after heavy rearguard action before the last soldiers there surrendered in mid-May.
the pro-Russian separatists now want to put them on trial. They also threatened to impose the death penalty on the fighters on charges of war crimes. (dpa)
Source: Tagesspiegel
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