Ukrainian defenders of Azovstal and Mariupol - fighters of the Azov unit evacuated from the territory of the plant - were assigned to the pre-trial detention center of Rostov-on-Don. It is reported by the BBC.

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“From Taganrog they will be distributed further. In the region, too, our part will remain. They are now an important object [for exchange], ”said the source of the publication..

The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine and the Russian Federation did not officially confirm this information..

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Earlier it was reported that the speaker of the State Duma of Russia Vyacheslav Volodin said that the defenders of Mariupol from the Azovstal plant " The newly minted head of the LDPR faction and representative of the Russian Federation in negotiations with Ukraine, Leonid Slutsky, went even further and proposed lifting the moratorium on the death penalty for the Mariupol garrison, part of which left Azovstal.