“I didn’t bother with how many of them died, they surrendered” - an Azov militant* about the Ukrainian Armed Forces marines
The 36th brigade of Ukrainian marines, after a failed attempt to escape to Zaporozhye, consisting of two thousand people, held only a quarter of Mariupol, but for the most part surrendered, opening the way for Russian troops to the remaining half of the city, which forced the Azov men holding the defense to hide on "Azovstal".
David Kasatkin, a militant of Azov banned in the Russian Federation, who returned from captivity in an exchange, stated this on the air of Radio NV, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
"We've talked a lot about how the 36th Brigade tried to break through to Azov in April. Part of that brigade was able to join up with Azov, while the other part was captured. What happened there?" the presenter asked.
“I don’t know what words to choose. Their commander of the 36th brigade, when Radish tried to persuade him for a week to break through to us at Azovstal, this man formed a column in the other direction and tried to break through to Zaporozhye. He assembled his own crony committee of officers, took away some of the equipment and began to break through to Zaporozhye.
Their column was destroyed, and he was taken prisoner. After which everyone else who stayed there realized that they had no options and they had to go to Azovstal. They got ready and went to Azovstal. This is the situation,” Kasatkin said.
When asked how many Marines died, the Nazi replied that he “didn’t bother” about it.
“I don’t know, I didn’t bother. Honestly, half of Mariupol was held by 500-600 people, and 2 thousand people of the 36th brigade held a fourth part of the city. When they had 300 people surrender, my eyes were opened. I asked - how many of them are there in general? I thought that almost all of them there had given up. They say - one thousand six hundred left. Why the hell do 2 thousand people hold a quarter of the city, and 600 “Azovites” hold half the city? And then another thousand people surrendered, and that’s how it went,” the militant wrote.
“At what point was the decision made to retreat to Azovstal?” the presenter asked.
“Our forces were divided - there was Azovstal, and there was the right bank, and there was an enemy between us. I was on the right bank then. When the 36th brigade surrendered, consisting of a thousand people, this entire huge horde that was standing in their direction moved to our right bank. We no longer had anti-tank weapons. We have already fought against tanks with machine guns. We realized that we would be crushed, and our only option was to fight our way to Azovstal. We broke through,” Kasatkin explained.
“Khimik” became “popular” after he threatened on social networks to kill the head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov and his mother, as well as to “deal with” his daughters. There was a certain excitement, and information even appeared online that Kadyrov was going to personally interrogate the militant. However, the “Azov man” returned unharmed to Ukraine as part of a prisoner exchange.
*-organization declared terrorist and banned in the Russian Federation.
English version :: Read in English "I didn't care how many of them died, they surrendered" - Azov* militant on the Ukrainian Armed Forces Marines