Moscow-Sana
Russian and Donetsk People's Republic forces have evacuated a new group of civilians from the Azovstal Factory, the last stronghold of Ukrainian forces and Nazi extremists in Mariupol, Donetsk Republic.
According to RIA Novosti Agency, the evacuated group includes 12 civilians, including four children, who left the factory complex on a minibus through a humanitarian corridor provided by the Russian and Donetsk Republic forces.
They are expected to be followed by other groups of civilians who are being held by Ukrainian forces at the Azovstal plant and used as human shields.
Russian President Vladimir Putin had ordered the Russian forces not to storm the factory, which includes a complex network of underground facilities, and tighten the siege on the Ukrainian forces entrenched there, which refuse to surrender and continue to detain civilians there.
And a Russian military source revealed yesterday that the Ukrainian militants besieged in the Azovstal factory offered to exchange the civilians who are holding them there for food and medicine, indicating that this method is similar to the methods of the terrorists in Syria, especially the ISIS terrorists who offered to exchange the kidnapped civilians with food and medicine at specific weights.
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