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Several officers of the Azov Battalion were transferred to the Lefortovo prison in Moscow
“Currently, several Azov commanders, who were captured during the attack on Mariupol, have been transferred to Lefortovo”A source in the Russian police told the news agency, without specifying who exactly he was talking about.
Lefortovo Prison is located in the Moscow district and is known to be the place where the NKVD, the predecessor of the KGB, practiced interrogations by torture in the 1930s, during the Soviet Union.
Earlier today, this Russian source had claimed that the deputy commander of the regiment, Svyatoslav Palamar, and the commander of the 36th division.e Naval rifle brigade Serhiv-Volynsky was transferred to the territory of the Russian Federation for investigation.
At the end of May, the leader of the “Donetsk People’s Republic”, Denis Pushlin, said that the soldiers would be brought before the courts of this self-proclaimed pro-Russian separatist state, where they were arrested. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Rudenko then confirmed that the prisoners would be tried.
According to TASS, more than a thousand Ukrainian soldiers, who went to Azovstal, were transferred to Russian soil for investigation. The Russian Defense Ministry claimed that more than 2,400 Ukrainian soldiers – including Azov fighters – had surrendered by the end of May.
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