The authorities do not maintain any communication with the relatives of the captured defenders of Mariupol, who were under siege at Azovstal for a long time. This was announced by the mother of one of the fighters of the Azov regiment, Ilya Samoylenko, Alla told on the air of the Espresso TV channel.

“I did not have and do not have a connection with my son. None of the authorities go into personal communication with the relatives of the defenders of Azovstal. I can tell what everyone already knows. There is practically no information about our fighters from Azovstal. Fragmented and not very pleasant information arrives. This information is often discouraged and it is very difficult to fight not to listen to this news.. There is no official information from the Ukrainian authorities,” said Alla Samoilenko.

According to the mother of the Ukrainian defender, they were told that the operation to dismiss Ukrainian fighters from Azovstal in Mariupol would be handled by the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.

“The only thing we know today is that the leadership of the operation to free our soldiers was taken over by the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.. We really hope that this will have some result in the near future.. I would like to know more about our children. I think that we may not be told everything, because close people of fighters are often the cause of information leakage.. However, the fact that there is no news about the fighters from Azovstal remains a fact, ”added the mother of the Ukrainian defender.

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Recall, NSDC Secretary Oleksiy Danilov assured that the Russian occupiers do not use torture against the Ukrainian defenders of Mariupol.

Earlier, the Azov commander had the opportunity to call his wife Ekaterina and said that everything was fine with him, that he and his brothers were being held in satisfactory conditions..

Recall, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said that if the invaders destroy the defenders of Azovstal, who are now on the territory not controlled by Ukraine, "