Ukrainian servicemen who defended Mariupol for three months, after the evacuation of soldiers from the Azovstal metallurgical plant, are being held by Russia in " The wife of the commander of the Azov battalion spoke about the fate of the heroes, writes The Guardian.

Denis Prokopenko got the opportunity to call his wife Ekaterina and said that everything was fine with him, that he and his brothers were being kept in satisfactory conditions.. Whether he was able to communicate freely and was not pressured is unknown..

“He said he was fine and asked how I was,” Ekaterina Prokopenko told The Guardian on Tuesday. "

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Prior to this, the basis of information about Ukrainian military personnel came only from Russian sources with the permission of the Russian Ministry of Defense.. The International Committee of the Red Cross, involved in the special operation to evacuate Azovstal, monitors the conditions of detention of military personnel, but refrains from public comments.

" The conditions meet the requirements and in this short period they have not been subjected to violence,” said Ekaterina Prokopenko. “What will happen next, of course, we do not know, but now there are third parties – the UN and the Red Cross – who control the situation”.

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Seriously wounded soldiers were provided with the necessary medical care, they are in a hospital in the temporarily occupied city of Novoazovsk. Most of the Ukrainian servicemen from Azovstal are kept in a prison in the village of Olenevka and, according to Ekaterina Prokopenko, no one was taken to the territory of the Russian Federation.

Earlier it was reported that in Mariupol they were going to hold a trial of the Ukrainian military, who heroically held the defense of the city..