Moscow-Sana
A Russian military source revealed that the Ukrainian militants besieged in the "Azovestal" factory in the city of Mariupol offered to exchange the civilians who are holding them there for food and medicine.
The source said in a statement to RIA Novosti Agency: "Contacts were maintained with the Nazis in Azovstal in order to save the civilians who remained there. During the negotiations, they offered us to exchange the civilian hostages for food and medicine," explaining that the conditions they requested were "exchanging every 15 hostages for a ton of food and medicine."
The source pointed out that "the same methods were used in Syria when negotiations were underway with ISIS terrorists, who also offered to exchange the released people in exchange for food and medicine at specific weights."
The Russian forces and the Donetsk People's Republic forces managed to control the entire city of Mariupol, except for the Azovstal factory, after fierce battles, while President Vladimir Putin ordered not to storm the factory and continue to besiege it, as the group of Ukrainian extremist forces holed up inside it still refuses to surrender so far, knowing that the factory includes a complex network of facilities Underground.
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