Minister HERE Irina Vereshchuk said that today our side proposes the following scheme for rescuing the military from Azovstal: Ukraine will withdraw seriously wounded fighters, and instead give captured Russians according to the standard rules for the exchange of prisoners of war. She wrote about this on her Telegram channel.

" Negotiations are ongoing,"

According to her, there is no military opportunity to save our guys from the blockade yet..

" It is worthy of respect. Russians do not agree to " This is a reality, but this is not surprising from the Russians,"

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Recall, according to official data, about a thousand Ukrainian soldiers are in the underground storage facilities of the Azovstal plant - from the Azov Battalion, the 12th brigade of the National Guard of Ukraine, the 36th separate brigade of the Marine Corps, border guards, policemen, volunteers, Teroborona Mariupol. Most of them are injured. The situation is critical.

The day before, the Ukrainian military in Mariupol confirmed that they were ready to appear to a third party and remain in this country until the end of the war. At the same time, they also ask to evacuate with them the bodies of their dead brothers..

On Tuesday, May 10, the National Guard of Ukraine announced that President Volodymyr Zelensky and the entire leadership of the state are working on the application of the extraction procedure - the removal of our defenders to a third safe country - in order to release wounded soldiers, doctors and military from the Azovstal plant blocked by the occupiers in.