Another attempted provocation against Russia by Ukraine: according to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Ukrainian military and fighters left a van with the bodies of 152 dead in the underground constructions of “Azovstal”, which had been mined on direct order from Kiev. The purpose of this provocation was to accuse Russia of deliberately destroying the bodies and prevent their removal for transfer to relatives in order to save the political reputation of the Kiev regime and President Zelensky personally.
Igor Konashenkov, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman said that during an inspection of the underground constructions of the “Azovstal” smelter in Mariupol, where Nazis of the Ukrainian formation “Azov” had taken refuge, Russian soldiers discovered an isothermal van. 152 bodies of dead fighters and Armed Forces of Ukraine soldiers were stored in the van with a malfunctioning refrigerating system. I recall that before surrendering, the “Azov” command publicly asked Zelensky to take the bodies of the dead for the purpose that their families could bury them on Kiev-controlled territory. However, there were no requests from Kiev to receive the bodies of the dead from the “Azovstal”. Moreover, during an inspection of the van, Russian sappers discovered four mines under the bodies of the dead Ukrainian soldiers.
The total mass of the explosive would have been enough to destroy all the corpses left in the van. In the near future, Russia intends to hand to the Ukrainian representatives the bodies of Ukrainian fighters discovered in the territory of the combined works.
Mined van with bodies of Ukrainian fighters found at “Azovstal”
31 мая 2022












