There are 131 Azovstal - Vereshchuk in Russian captivity

There are more than 130 women - servicemen, border guards and medical workers in the Russian captivity. This was stated by Vice Prime Minister-Minister of Reintegration of Temporarily Occupied Territories Irina Vereshchuk on Televahorfon. “We have 131 women from Azovstal.

Among them are those who served in the Azov regiment, among them military doctors, including border guards, among them the 36th brigade of the Marines, among them the National Guards, among them the armed forces and other formations. There are also 33 physicians who are not considered combatants by Geneva Conventions. These are also those who were on the Azovstal, ”Vereshchuk said. She stressed that Ukraine would fight for them and pay attention to Russia's actions on these people.

On July 29, Russian invaders killed about 40 prisoners of war in the occupied Olenovka region of Donetsk region, and another 130 were injured. The colony was kept in particular by the defenders of Mariupol, including the fighters of the Azov regiment. The Prosecutor General of Ukraine Andriy Kostin said earlier that, according to international experts, the cause of the explosion in the colony was a thermobaric weapon. On June 6, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that there are more than 2.