Battle for Mariupol Ending: Civilian Testimonies Multiplying on Crimes of Azov

Christelle Néant

Internationalist 360°

As the battle for Mariupol draws to a close and the Russian army and the DPR (Donetsk People’s Republic) people’s militia have now taken control of most of the city, civilians are evacuating en masse, and stories of the horrors committed by the fighters of the Azov regiment are multiplying.

Thus, on 23 March 2022, we went to Volodarskoye (renamed Nikolskoye by the post-Maidan Ukrainian authorities), where many civilians fleeing western and central Mariupol are sent to be registered and from where they can take buses to Berdiansk, Donetsk or Rostov.

While they wait in the check-in line or on the bus that will take them to their chosen destination, I talk to several of them. All of them confirm that the Azov fighters were evicting Mariupol civilians from their flats and using them as firing points. Worse, they were also setting up near the bomb shelters where women, children and elderly people were to shoot, knowing that they were putting the lives of these civilians in danger!

One woman also told us that the Azov fighters set up near a school to bomb the houses! She and her makeshift neighbor in the bomb shelter described the Azov fighters as real Nazis, explaining that they walked around with swastikas and other Nazi symbols clearly visible on them.

One man also told us how the Azov fighters took all the food that was still being sold to the residents of a neighborhood in Mariupol, leaving them with nothing to eat. He also reported that the families of Azov fighters are in bomb shelters in Mariupol’s metal factories, where they use civilians as slaves, who have to work for them to get some water.

See the report filmed in Volodarskoye, with French subtitles:

Several of these civilians confirmed that Azov fighters and Ukrainian army soldiers were not letting civilians out of Mariupol, using them as hostages and human shields.

One woman said that Ukrainian soldiers had fired on civilian cars trying to leave Mariupol, a testimony confirmed by another civilian who saw her car being targeted by Ukrainian units as she tried to flee the city, despite the fact that the word “Children” was prominently written on the vehicle. Her daughter was wounded by the gunfire.

Unfortunately for the Nazis – a living witness to war crimes.

Just listen to what this woman says – twice they tried to leave Mariupol and were not let out.

The second time they tried to leave – the Bandera people shot at their cars, despite the sign “Children” and clearly civilians in the car.

The house where they lived – was occupied by Azov Nazis, thanks to whom the city is practically destroyed

Zelensky – burn in hell, scum.

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Another civilian confirmed that Ukrainian soldiers were even shooting at children, and that they did nothing to help the civilians, who were only able to evacuate thanks to Russian soldiers.

Evacuated residents of Mariupol report how Russian soldiers save people

The woman sent her warmest regards to the escaped mayor of Mariupol, who during the 8 years of the war didn’t prepare a single bomb shelter.

“He abandoned our city, left people without food, water, electricity and gas for a whole month. We didn’t see bread for a month. This bastard fled. He abandoned the people!” she said.

Also, the evacuated resident claims that 85 % of the city destruction is the merit of the Ukrainian troops. She personally witnessed this.

Then the woman added that it was Russian soldiers who get people out of the basements, help them and share their combat rations with hungry children. “They carry them out in their arms. And the Ukrainian militants shoot small children. We saw it with our own eyes. Show it to the whole world! The evacuation of people was carried out by the Russian militaries, not a single Ukrainian military helped us, not a single one. They instead were hiding, using civilians as a human shield”.

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Yesterday, the DPR flag was installed on top of the Mariupol municipal administration, and the head of the Republic, Denis Pushilin, went there with Russian deputies to deliver humanitarian aid, marking the takeover of the city.

Today in Mariupol together with Andrei Turchak, Secretary of the General Council of the “United Russia” party, and Dmitry Sablin, deputy of the Russian State Duma, visited a humanitarian aid center organized by the “United Russia” party. Mariupol residents were provided with all the necessary assistance in the center.

People are beginning to realize that the worst is over and that Russia has come, which does not abandon its own.

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According to the latest data, 80% of the city is now under the full control of Russian and DPR forces. The remaining fighters of the Azov Regiment have taken refuge in the USSR-designed bomb shelters in the industrial zones, which offer them a last refuge. Russian forces and the DPR people’s militia are eliminating them in these areas in order to complete the liberation of Mariupol. The battle of Marioupol should therefore be over in a few days, as Denis Pushilin had announced.

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