The 152 bodies of dead militants and servicemen of the Azovstal

Section from the briefing of the Russian Ministry of Defense (05/31/2022):

During a survey in Mariupol of the underground structures of the Azovstal metallurgical plant, where the Nazis of the Ukrainian Azov formation who surrendered were hiding, Russian military personnel discovered an isothermal van.

In a van with a non-working cooling system, 152 bodies of dead militants and servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were stored. Let me remind you that before being taken prisoner, the Azov command publicly appealed to Zelensky to take the bodies of the dead so that the families could bury them in the territory controlled by the Kyiv regime.

However, there were no requests from Kyiv to receive the bodies of the dead from the Azovstal plant. Moreover, during the inspection of the van, Russian sappers found four mines placed under the bodies of the dead Ukrainian servicemen. The cumulative mass of the explosive in them was sufficient to destroy all the remains of the bodies remaining in the van.

Based on the results of interrogations of the captured Azov militants, it was established that the mining of the bodies was carried out on direct orders from Kyiv. The purpose of the provocation is to accuse Russia of deliberately destroying the remains of the bodies and preventing them from being taken out for transfer to relatives in order to save the political “reputation” of the Kyiv regime and Zelensky personally.

In the near future, the Russian side plans to hand over the bodies of Ukrainian militants and servicemen found on the territory of the Azovstal plant to representatives of Ukraine...
* From the briefing of the Russian Ministry of Defense (05/31/2022)