They are in progress “Very difficult negotiations” Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Irina Verestsuk announced on Thursday the removal of seriously injured people from Azovstal.
He said the aim was to remove the seriously wounded fighters from the besieged steel plant in exchange for Russian prisoners of war.
“To be clear: at the moment we are only negotiating for about 38 seriously injured (bed) fighters. We work step by step. We will exchange 38, and then we will move on. At the moment, there are no talks for the exchange of 500 or 600 people, something that is broadcast by some media “, he clarified.
He called for an end to speculation about the process. «I beg you. It is about people’s lives. “Avoid public comments about what you do not know,” he said characteristically.
“Become a hero”
Dramatic appeal to Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan to mediate to save lives of the last defenders of the Azofstal steel industry addressed their families in the meantime as reported by CNN.
In their touching appeal to Erdogan, urge him to “become a hero” and start an evacuation process for all remaining fighters in the factory. Speaking to reporters in Kyiv, the father of an 18-year-old fighter urged the Turkish leader to seize “a historic opportunity to go down in history as a peacemaker, as a hero”.
“As a human being, a father to a father, I beg you to save my son and his comrades,” begged Yevgeny Sukharnikov, citing Turkey’s experience with military mining operations in the Middle East.
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