and actually we helped, but the situation also got out of control when rockets came to the administration, they were inside and the next day we went to the gunp building and two rockets flew there and that's when my sister collapsed on the stairs. i was in the basement. we got the master, he was in the parliament, and that is exactly why i had to leave. you need to always know and not forget that there are such guys who are in captivity, who really kept hell for 86 days so that we could leave like that. so that somewhere there are our military moved when i knew that he was in mariupol, for example, they just know what he can do. what kind of mind he has and what kind of person he is, i was calmer because i knew that he was in the right place. if you had told me , would you have told him not to go anywhere? no, never. i don't have to refuse you, because i support. i support the

fact that it is necessary to protect our country, our homes , because we still have children to raise, a new generation. i congratulate you, dear tv viewers, an air alert has been announced in all regions of ukraine except the temporarily occupied crimea. i hope that you are in safe places and are already ready to listen to the news on espresso and i want to say right away that we are waiting for the start of the press conference of the soldiers of the azov regiment released from russian captivity, as soon as it starts we will go to the broadcast, well, i will start with this, the mayor of nikopol yevhen yevtushenko said that on the opposite bank of the reservoir the army of the russian federation carried out a provocation. he asks, if possible, to leave the streets and avoid mass

gatherings of residents of cities, villages and towns located on the banks of the kakhovsky reservoir on the opposite on the banks of the reservoir, in particular, the zaporizhzhya npp is located, further on the situation in the south of our country, it remains tense and the operational command there reports that during the night, the occupiers hit mykolaiv four times with berezenite rockets from the s-300 complex in the city, destroyed enterprises, damaged administrative buildings and several residential buildings, and there were no casualties. resolutely attacked nikopol, used grady and heavy artillery, four people were injured; in addition, the enemy forces launched a rocket attack on sometimes the probability of an attack from the black sea remains very high, the black sea headquarters warns that in the ship group of the enemy fleet there are five

missile carriers equipped with more than 30 missiles and one anti-ship missile on combat duty, the probability of increasing enemy attacks and missile strikes is very high be alert and attentive, do not neglect warning about the danger of filigree work, the antoniv bridge in the kherson region did not have time to be repaired, ukrainian soldiers hit it again, this was reported by the deputy of the kherson regional council, serhiy klakhlani. and vin added that ukrainian troops are exhausting the enemy , locals report 10 airstrikes, let me remind you that at the end of july, the armed forces of ukraine carried out several pinpoint strikes on the antonov road and railway bridges, which destroyed the logistics and transport routes of the russian troops, six settlements

were shelled by the russian invaders in the zaporizhzhia region. this is reported by the regional military administration, the city of gulyaipole and the village of preobrazhenka, little tokmachka in melnyk, and tauriyskoe, pologivskoe, and zaporizhzhia districts, there are destroyed residential buildings, a school, the territory of a shopping area, a sports complex and an institution for the rehabilitation of persons with disabilities, there are victims among the civilian population , the exact number of dead or wounded is not reported. of the defense of ukraine, the organizer was a resident of temporarily occupied melitopol, who was recruited by the russian special services for intelligence gathering, the woman involved

father-in-law, who lived in the regional center, he was supposed to carry out external surveillance of the movement of ukrainian troops and take photos of the objects of the husband, they detained a little more specific information , they asked about a-a in what kind of hangar, for example, and what is the name of the factory, or is it a railway могу казать прочено частону i named the point where the units were located that что я согрушил i am very strong, each of us is a warrior , an exhibition with this name was placed on the kyiv podil, banners highlight the role of the forces of the territorial of defense in the defense of ukraine in the first months

of the full-scale invasion and also draw attention to the historical tradition of national resistance of ukrainians, in the photos you can see our modern defenders, the banners on kontraktova square will be placed at least until the end of september, we understand even better and more precisely that this is a war for our identity and one from the features of that identity there is a tradition to stand side by side during the time when we are attacked but the exhibition with a human face you can look at specific the military that is now defending ukraine at this time , just like a thousand years ago, there were specific places, the same way here in podil, the militia gathered to fight against the invader, we do not know their manners, but today, 1,000 years later , we see the same people who gather and

fight the enemy to protect their country. they carry in their eyes all the emotions they experienced half an hour ago, and that's why i think it's very interesting. you don't even have to show your face because you can read it all in your eyes. month, the village received territorial defense in addition to 100,000 soldiers who were yesterday businessmen, managers, tilers, farmers , artists, all professions, and academics, even doctors of psychology, we, teachers, all of them, and these people first took up arms. in six months, these people have already become more professional, they have become military, and right now the

press conference of the fighters of the azov regiment released from russian captivity is starting, so we are going to broadcast what will be the beginning, the guys will introduce themselves, tell what they wanted, and immediately we will have the opportunity to be. questions, if possible, let's coordinate. who wants to be the first, and so on. you asked me who is the international federation of journalists? i myself, mariupolchenko, have done a lot as a documentarian of films and documentaries

nearby , including the kyiv post.

all colleagues, we will then move on and in the future i will no longer be with you, we will just raise the channel please and we will bring out

wild creatures who are not able to choose something else. and we in ukraine like to choose everything, even if it is insurance on hotline finance hotline finance insurance, of course, online without ukraine it is impossible to destroy the soviet union and this day has come in

its own happiness we are also independent to declare ukraine an independent democratic state on august 24 ukrainians understand more than ever what independence is expert those who were deprived of freedom well understand what a great value this is. we will win and make such a state where ukrainians will not die. because independence is a state that protects each of its citizens.

dear colleagues, i congratulate everyone at the press conference of the azov fighters who defended azovstal for the entire time and then were in captivity and how you probably know now that russia is preparing for the so-called illegal illegitimate tribunal by the super-

defenders of azovstalia, which may take place in the captured occupied mariupol, all fighters are seriously wounded, they are going through a very difficult rehabilitation and treatment now, and they will tell you about how russia extracts testimony from prisoners, what conditions are captives held in general, and whether international organizations have access to them, it is the cross of international amnesty and others. let me introduce you to all our guys. before that, i briefly i will outline the format of our press conference. so this is a zoom conference for which about 100 representatives of various mass media have registered. the limbs are undergoing very difficult treatment, we are

working until the hour and please focus on this. so, i will introduce our participants. this is vladyslav lark, call sign wikipedia, a fighter of the azov union. he was a prisoner of the occupiers, he was seriously wounded. he was wounded. please, vladislav, give me your word . thank you very much, and my call sign is wikipedia. i performed combat tasks from 24 at the beginning of the full-scale aggression and until the night when the decision to evacuate was made, it means that he was in a serious condition and was seriously wounded, well, at night, the night before the evacuation and for a month and a half, i was in donetsk in the 15th hospital of vladyslav. tell me what you actually are. well, what do you

know about how the russians treat prisoners, and what means of pressure are being used now? understood uh, the means of pressure uh are used by russia. in general, all uh, everything that is possible is important to understand that russia is not looking for the truth. russia already decides what will be the truth, and under this truth it begins to pull what it gives out as facts uh specifically, in our case, as far as the treatment of the whole of russia is concerned, it was necessary that we were somehow treated, but in fact, this smoke treatment was to save life so that we would simply live to the moment when, perhaps, we will be exchanged in our case, we were exchanged, what

i want to say is that the pressure was, first of all, very strong, psychological because of this, of course, russia did not give any access to contact with relatives , no contact at all with the outside world, so the psychological pressure was based on the fact that you no one needs er, so you will lose in this war and in general there is nowhere to call and you don't need it. but this is already a violation of international conventions, i.e. imagine that the seriously wounded are in the hospital, but already from the first days this moral pressure begins, personal interrogations begin using my example, i will say that i was interrogated even before i started receiving antibiotics after the amputation of a limb, so it

is difficult to call it a treatment. that is, someone was stuck with needles into a wound, someone was tortured with water. some guys received insufficient treatment due to either an insufficient amount of medication. the enemy or an insufficient amount of knowledge on how to treat a specific guy, a specific fighter of ours, but also for russia , the fact that they treat them as ours can er, as if they can’t heal us, that’s why even when the enemy side couldn’t help one of our wounded, they didn’t ask for help, that is, they didn’t tell anyone what was wrong with them there is not enough medicine there, that's why we received the minimum amount of these medicines. and sometimes we didn't get the necessary medicine, and this applies to medical care, that is, if the surgeons didn't know what

to do with a soldier, now such soldiers stayed there, hmm, in this hospital as far as i know, i have no information about them now, because now i have no connection with them, what i saw is what i am saying about these tortures that you are talking about, it happened during the so-called investigative actions, or in principle during so-called treatment is in in principle, it happened during the treatment in general, er, that is, it took all this time, it was all hmm, the conditions were very uncomfortable, uncomfortable er, for an ordinary person. can you imagine how the wounded felt in the hospital, everyone who was in the hospital, it was difficult wounded, some seriously wounded were not in a hospital, but in a deer park , er, in this camp of theirs for prisoners of war, and er, because of this, we can only guess what tortures were there for those whom they considered healthy enough for

in fact, it can be seen in the videos with the boys that they teach, that is, i personally know a lot of these videos and i can see from them how difficult it is for them and what kind of human conditions they endure. azsp azov was seriously wounded and was in captivity denis . please tell us about what you witnessed and in what conditions you were in captivity, and in what condition are your comrades who remained there in donetsk now? thank you. good day. my name is denis or the eu of the azov regiment held the defense of the city of mariupol from the 24th, where he was wounded at azov stalin on 11.05 , lost his arm and had a shrapnel wound in the leg, where he was evacuated to the 120th colony of the deer house, eh, in the

deer house, what did you witness, did you eh, do you know about the facts of the disappearance of people, beatings, pressure , means of physical influence, what did you see, what did you feel, yes, i was confronted with all this and was a witness when the boys were beaten, and we were kicked out of the named description and stripped to the neck, where are we there were departures under the heat, who forced them to squat raised my head from the boys, they started beating them right away and i also felt the blows on myself, they also beat me during the interrogations, they wanted me to sign all kinds of statements there, i work for my command and creation, what is there, what did we have, what exactly, what exactly did they ask me to sign? that is, well they wanted us to testify against our command and that we

broke the garden so that they would do everything. we all wanted to put all our guilt on us and i said that i would not do it, they started beating me with sticks, they gave me nothing and did not sign, and they came here threats to life i see that the guys were taking us away from our barracks. they brought them beaten , broken ribs, well, in a very serious condition. they even set us up. they made us run. we were given 600 g of water for two days. the water was like this because we didn’t lift at all. it was very hard there. restrictions on water and food physical restrictions on russia did not comply with the strict convention according to which we and they had to observe there were no conditions 10 of us slept in a room one meter by one meter we slept on the floor nothing was given to us nothing happened denis or for

the conditions of your detention were monitored by the red cross or any other human rights organizations. well, i got caught. well, on the 17th, we were transferred to the red cross deer pen. then they didn't let you in. they said that there was a car with general assistance. well, they didn't let you into the colony. ugh. okay, thank you, please . dmytro usichenko, call sign cherry, serves in the gur of the ministry of defense, please tell me your story. briefly and witness what you were in captivity . what do you know about the detention of prisoners now ? good day. my name is dmytro usichenko, call sign. cherry i arrived on march 28 in mariupol, which was surrounded by helicopter raids , and that is, he voluntarily flew into the occupied city,

surrounded by a dense ring, where very fierce fighting had already taken place, and a large part of the city's housing stock was destroyed, the city was completely unrecognizable and dmytro voluntarily flew there is russian air defense everywhere, risking being shot down and dying without getting there. how long did you stay in mariupol until the end, until we moved to azovstal? yes, you received two wounds there. received and then you ended up in captivity, what did you witness and what means of pressure were applied to you personally, they intimidated you with physical violence with shootings , this is what they wanted during the so-called investigative actions, i

don't know. for us to admit that we killed the civilian population, although they didn't. of course, thank you, dmytro. so, friends. well, i'm once again making a remark about the fact that all our today's heroes are seriously injured and are undergoing quite complex rehabilitation right now, so dear colleagues, give us your questions, we will see you now at the zoom conference, whatever laska good day good day time magazine american weekly with your permission i will ask a question in russian in ukrainian still in

progress thank you so much for the press conference today eh hotel will ask next president zelensky during the interview talked about what eh obschalsya with the commander and soldiers of azov and other defenders of azovstal eh during this defense eh you can say if you knew something about it if it is so first persons the states of zaluzhnogo rohamia if there was this direct contact with your commanders and in general how do you evaluate their er requests to help you and during the defense of azov they became er and when you were in captivity thank you simon i will say right away that not all our er fighters were in constant contact with their commanders such as there radis er and others. that's why

vladyslav may know something, so i'll say that i remember that they reached us er, so, well , information came . it really means that the representatives of the higher command contacted the command of the mariupol garrison and i know about attempts to deblockade. that is, it actually happened like that, that is, they tried to unblock it, they tried to provide us with help, how important was it, how possible was it, in general, we heard a lot, we heard about the attempts of other special- purpose units in ukraine to bring us some kind of help there, medicines, ammunition, something else there , uh, well, we were very much affected by this. well, hmm , it was very nice for us to understand that we ourselves, but unfortunately, there is help, but it turned out to be not enough but first of all it was due to the fact that for the

enemy mariupol was a fundamentally important point on the map and therefore it is disgusting how he stretched so many anti-aircraft defenses so that the rectors did not fly to us and a lot of drones were lost, a lot of lives were lost people who tried to fulfill the tasks that the higher command set for our command, yes. well, i. as far as i understand the question, the point is, how do you evaluate the efforts of president zelensky, and the authorities in general, in their attempts to release you from captivity there and so on. and in general, their help during the siege of mariupol there, i evaluated these efforts positively. and now that i found out at what cost what was done for our salvation is now evaluated as positively as possible. thank you, vladyslav, guys, does anyone else have

something to say friends next question please please introduce yourself we see you iryna prudkova mariupol first of all i want to thank the defenders of mariupol and the question is what personal help do you or your families need please denis. maybe you can ask me a question for all the participants. help azov patronage service well, if you can contact it, contact it and they will provide you with this information. the fact is that in azov there is a patronage in all conditional azov subdivisions. the so-called patronage service is a service