Families of the so-called "Azovstal fighters" plead for help

 

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 1. Azovstal in Mariupol – exchange of 38 so-called fighters planned.

“We want to sign an agreement on evacuation from Azovstal, we are ready to sign it,” Vereshchuk said. The aim is an evacuation in several stages – the first priority is the rescue of 38 seriously wounded defenders from Azovstal. If this works, “then we move on”. Among other things, Ukraine is ready to exchange Russian prisoners of war for the wounded from Azovstal
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2. The families of the Ukrainians desperately defending Mariupol’s Azovstal steel plant are demanding more be done to save them.

Reuters news agency says a group of relatives and supporters marched through central Kyiv on Thursday.

“The conditions they are in are horrible,” Mariupol resident Alina Nesterenko, who was at the demonstration told Reuters. “I have no words to describe them. That’s why we are here. We are begging, we are pleading in every possible way, we are asking for our loved ones to be saved.”

Kyiv says new talks are underway with Moscow to rescue the most badly wounded servicemen, and that the Red Cross and United Nations were also involved.