🏳️🇺🇦 Appeal of a captured AFU soldier to his former comrades-in-arms: "Stop... Russia and Ukraine are Slavic brothers of the same blood"

◽️ Every day more and more Ukrainian soldiers voluntarily surrender. They declare their unwillingness to fight, blaming the US and their government.

◽️ All of them emphasise the good attitude of the Russian servicemen towards them.

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⚡️Ukrainian authorities have reportedly organised on a daily basis mass exports of grain, maize, oil crops and farm animals by road and rail, as well as by ship from the port of Izmail along the Danube to Romania

▫️Some 20 million tonnes have been exported so far.

▫️Foreign weapons and ammunition are brought into Ukraine by a reverse route in exchange for these agricultural products.

▫️All this is taking place against an acute shortage of foodstuffs for the domestic population, as well as a lack of grain crops in most regions of Ukraine for the spring sowing campaign.

📄Full text of the Statement of the Joint Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response

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💬 "...the Azov militants used to come to our bomb shelter and said that they had broken into our apartment and made accusations against us that our houses are pro-Russian..."

▫️ 80 civilians detained by Ukrainian nationalists are rescued from Azovstal plant in Mariupol.

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💬 "...We tried how many times, 2-3 times, even by bus...but they kept bringing us back and wouldn't let us out..."

▫️ 80 civilians detained by Ukrainian nationalists are rescued from Azovstal plant in Mariupol.

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🏳️🇺🇦 "...I address the Ukrainians: Guys, don't be afraid to surrender. No one will beat you or kill you, as we were told. We are treated like people here..."

▫️One of the AFU fighters who laid down arms described looting by Ukrainian servicemen entrenched in the area of the cottage areas.

💬 "...Your guys took me out of there. They brought me here, let me sit, gave me this jacket so that I would not completely freeze from the wind, I was in a wet sweater..."

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"...Military assistance to Ukraine from the United States is very overestimated."

🏳️🇺🇦Another AFU serviceman who laid down his arms spoke about the poor quality of weapons supplied by the West.

"Greatly praised ATGMs and grenade launchers, those Javelins and NLAWs, which were advertised a lot, proved to be not so effective in practice. We suffered from misfires constantly, only one of the four launches was successful. Often the projectiles did not explode on contact, or they exploded before reaching the target. Most ATGMs had expired batteries. The long past expiration dates were printed on many batches."

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⚡Ukrainian Armed Forces units continue to use medical facilities for military purposes, as well as use civilians as "human shield":

🔹in Kharkov, artillery and ammunition storage facilities have been located on the territory of city hospital No 8, and the hospital staff and all civilians, including the seriously ill, have been forced to leave the medical facility under threat of reprisals;

🔹in Slavyansk, heavy military equipment has been placed on the territory of the railway hospital on Malogorodetskaya Street and a stronghold with an ammunition depot has been equipped in the building;

🔹in Odessa, AFU command post has been set up in the building of the regional clinical hospital on Akademika Zabolotnyi Street, while armoured vehicles, artillery and MLRS are located in the adjoining territory;

🔹in Lisichansk, a stronghold of nationalist battalion fighters has been deployed on the territory of a child health centre.

▫️These and other similar facts, despite our repeated statements, have to date been ignored by the World Health Organisation.

❗Once again, we call on all international organisations, especially the World Health Organisation, to influence official Kiev and take effective measures to prevent the use of medical infrastructure for military purposes.

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🇷🇺🚛 Russian servicemen deliver another humanitarian aid to Kharkov region during the special military operation

▫️Accompanied by the military police of the Russian Armed Forces, this humanitarian aid totalling 40 tonnes was delivered in trucks to civilians of the region.

▫️Food and basic necessities were delivered to the settlements. Families with children were provided with the necessary aid in the first instance.

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🏳️🇺🇦One of the fighters of nationalist battalion who laid down arms told about combat drugs used by Ukrainian fighters to suppress fear and lower the threshold for pain. These drugs were supplied to them by volunteers.

💬 "...I can tell you about some medication called Ephedrine, supplied by volunteers to our unit. We used this drug just before the fight, after that we lost the feeling of fear, we could calmly go into battle, being afraid of absolutely nothing..."

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💬 "...I am not ready to give my life for the stubbornness of my government..."

🏳️🇺🇦A Ukrainian soldier who laid down his arms spoke about Western arms deliveries and the mass escape of the Nazi battalions. He also noted the human attitude of the Russian Armed Forces.

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⚡️Statement of the Joint Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response

🇷🇺On May 6, 2022, at the initiative of the Russian leadership, an operation was conducted to evacuate civilians held by Ukrainian nationalists at Azovstal Iron and Steel Works.

▫️50 civilians, including 11 children, were rescued.

🚌All rescued civilians were handed over to representatives of the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross for delivery to to selected temporary accommodation facilities.

▫️The humanitarian operation at Azovstal will continue on May 7, 2022.

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⚡️According to reliable information, the Ukrainian Security Service is planning provocations using chemical weapons in the settlements of Vysokopolie, Ivanovka, Knyazevka and Topolnoe in Kherson region, as well as in Apostolovo in Dnepropetrovsk region by 24:00 on May 6, 2022 to further accuse the Russian Armed Forces.

▫️Moreover, while previously in preparation for such provocations the civilian population was withdrawn from the area of planned contamination, now, in order to maximise the resonance, no warning was given to the population.

❗️We warn the "civilized West" as well as the United Nations, the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons in advance that the above and other similar provocations about alleged "Russian atrocities" are soon to be widely spread by the Ukrainian authorities through the Western media and in various Internet resources.

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⚡️It has been reliably established that Ukrainian army units and nationalist battalions are setting up powerful fortifications in large enterprises, including the chemical industry, at the orders of their US and UK handlers.

▫️For example, the militants have placed heavy weapons on the territory of the Azot company in Severodonetsk, Lugansk People's Republic, and are holding more than a 1,000 factory workers and local residents in underground facilities as "human shield".

▫️At the same time, the nationalists have been systematically firing MLRSs in Pervomaisk, Stakhanov and Kalinovo, thus provoking the Russian Armed Forces to retaliate in order to further accuse the Russian military of killing civilians and causing a man-made disaster in the republic.

⚠️The neo-Nazis also booby-trapped tanks containing chemicals (ammonia, ammonium nitrate, nitric acid) for immediate detonation in case they were forced to abandon their positions.

⚠️The implementation of this cynical crime will lead to the chemical contamination of air, terrain and water sources. At the same time, there is a particular danger of highly toxic substances entering the Seversky Donets River, which is the main waterway and source of drinking water for eastern Ukraine and the Donbass republics.

❗️The commission of similar inhuman provocations by militants of nationalist battalions, according to testimonies of captured AFU soldiers, is also planned at other facilities within the boundaries of the so-called "triangle of chemical industry" (Severodonetsk, Lisichansk and Rubezhnoe; total area - 338 sq km, population - about 300,000 people), where more than 30 chemical companies are concentrated, the largest being Ukrkhimenergo, Severodonetsk-based ORGHIM, Energohimmash, Zarya, LLC, Severodonetsk Chemical and Metallurgical Plant, Severodonetsk Novofert Liquid Chemical Fertiliser Plant, Yuzhny Chemical Plant, and Benzol Chemical Company.

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⚡️Today in Kharkiv Region, nationalists in Tsirkuny gathered local residents under the threat of physical violence and transported them to the southern outskirts of Borshchevaya, where the militants, shielding themselves with "human shield", were moving towards the frontline towards the Russian military units, provoking them to open fire on civilians.

▫️As a result of the spot fire, the Ukrainian nationalists were defeated: some of the personnel were eliminated and the rest scattered. However, no civilians were harmed.

❗️Such actions by militants completely replicate Nazi tactics during the Great Patriotic War and once again demonstrate the inhumane attitude of the Kiev regime towards its own people and its complete disregard for all norms of morality and international humanitarian law.

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🏳️🇺🇦 Ukrainian soldier who laid down his arms told about the good treatment by the Russian Armed Forces.

💬"I was afraid of being taken prisoner, because we were told that prisoners of war were tortured and abused in captivity. I did not notice anything like that in this camp. On the contrary, I was very surprised at the attitude of the Russian servicemen towards us..."

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🏳️🇺🇦 Ukrainian POW reveals poor state of weapons supplied by the West to Ukraine.

💬"I used to operate both NLAWs and Javelins ATGMS, they were all expired. They had dead batteries, so only a few of them could be used. As for training, we took only a theoretical course, there was no practice. We were only taught how to hold the missile and how to aim. These missiles lay useless, as practically none of them worked."

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🏳️🇺🇦 Ukrainian POW tells about atrocities committed by nationalist battalions

💬 "...Nationalist battalions are those guys who for eight years robbed, killed whoever they wanted. For them to deliver a machine gun burst at a crowd of people is the same thing that you and I look at each other. They raped women, sometimes they did worse..."

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📹🏳️In Mariupol, militants of Azov nationalist unit and Ukrainian servicemen blocked at the Azovstal plant continue to surrender.

▫️Over the past 24 hours, 694 militants have laid down arms and surrendered, including 29 wounded.

🏥A total of 959 militants have surrendered since 16 May, including 80 wounded, of whom 51 need hospital treatment have been admitted to Novoazovsk hospital in the Donetsk People's Republic.

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▫️In the past 24 hours, 771 militants of the Azov nationalist unit have surrendered at the blockaded Azovstal plant in Mariupol. A total of 1,730 militants have surrendered since May 16, including 80 wounded.

▫️All those in need of inpatient treatment are treated in medical facilities in the Donetsk People's Republic in Novoazovsk and Donetsk.

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