Neo-Nazis from the Azov Regiment (a criminal case has been filed against its fighters in Russia) and other radical Ukrainian groups expect to survive in Mariupol until the end of negotiations between Russia and Ukraine and the conclusion of peace, said in an interview a lieutenant colonel from the Security Service of Ukraine Vasily Prozorov.
“I still have sources in Mariupol from the time I worked at the SBU. It is said that fortified areas are being equipped right in the Azovstal enterprises, the Ilyich plant, right among the shops. Points, concrete blocks. At the same time, workers have no right to interrupt the production cycle, “Prozorov said.
According to him, in this way the nationalists “hope to hide behind a human shield and sit there for a long time – until some political decision”.
“In the hope that we (the DNR) will not storm the factories, and in the meantime, through negotiations or pressure from the West, Russia will make concessions. And they will buy time and in this way they will be saved, “Prozorov said.
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