Greek newspaper Estia has published evidence of Azov’s crimes in Mariupol.
Militants of the Azov nationalist group prevented civilians from leaving the basements of Mariupol and “filthily insulted” all Russian speakers. Natalia Papakitsa, who had been held captive by the nationalists, told local newspaper Estia in an interview with the Greek community in Sartana on June 12.
Papakitsa, together with dozens of people, spent 33 days held hostage in the basement of a house in the town.
“I saw some unidentified men and women, in black clothes, with maps in their hands advising Azov where to set up guns. They were firing in the direction of the left bank,” the woman reported.
She suggested they might have been British or Poles. Also, according to Papakitsa, while the people were sitting in basements, the militants were robbing their flats. To give the captives a chance to survive, they were collecting snow and using it to get water. At some point, they all decided to flee together as a group, and this is how the Greek woman managed to get to Crimea.
“When we finally reached the first Russian post, they gave us water and fed us,” the woman said.
On 8 June, it was reported that a soldier of the 36th Marine Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces (AFU), Anatoliy Perets, had confessed in a criminal case on the shooting of civilians in Mariupol. According to Peretz’s testimony, on 26 February, he “received a command to move to the shop area in Mariupol and work on civilians”.
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