drop, the defense of mariupol was led by the commander of the azov special purpose brigade, denys prokopenkodically. he kept in touch with short messages. the enemy broke into the territory of the plant, heavy bloody battles are taking place. i am proud of my soldiers, i thank the whole world for the tremendous support of the mariupol garrison. the situation is extremely difficult, but no matter what, we continue to carry out an order, to hold the defense. may 16 , 2022. on the 82nd day. defense of mariupol, the higher military command of ukraine ordered servicemen to leave the azov steel. more than 2,000 defenders of mariupol were taken to olenivka as prisoners. most were soldiers of the azov brigade, a unit of the ukrainian army demonized by russian propaganda. with the help of fakes, manipulations and staged videos since 2014, the russian right-wing media created the image of neo-nazis from the military, and later russia under the pretext about... started a full-scale war with nazism, then it turned out that we were on the bus, they were very interested in whether we had servicemen from a

the commander of the 12th azov special forces brigade, denys prokopenko, says that this ban appearedin american legislation in 2017 at the request of congress. he is the democrat john conyers and that is conyers jr introduced this amendment on the basis of a publication in the magazine foren affairs, in which the azov battalion was characterized as a neo-nazi and fascist movement. prokopenko is sure that this characteristic was formulated in the western media under the influence of russian propaganda. in addition, he notes, this wording is applied to a unit that no longer exists, because at the end of 2014 , the azov battalion stopped its own. existence and became a separate special purpose unit, and since february 2023 it has been a special purpose brigade as part of the national guards i would like to add that the azov battalion itself was created in berdyansk after the beginning of russian aggression in the east of ukraine in may 2014. at that time, this battalion was a unit of the special purpose police patrol service, and its first commander was andriy biletskyi, a member of the

their commander congratulated the soldiers on their anniversary. hero denys prokopenko of ukraine with the call sign redis, he noted that his comrades forever inscribed their names in the history of the liberation struggle and continue to do so, it was their resistance to the enemy in mariupol in the 22nd year that played one of the key roles in the course of the modern war. unfortunately, many heroic defenders of the city of mary still remain in russian captivity, but azov has assured that they will do everything to return them to ukraine. giving and devotion to the military family is the foundation of azov. we will not stop until we are free of all our comrades-in-arms from russian captivity. we will continue to fight, no matter what it costs us. ahead of us are decisive battles and the victory that we will win in battle. glory to azov, glory to ukraine. the best award for you and me, thanks from our soldiers. fighters of the 12th separate detachment. buggies for evacuating the wounded and transporting combat kits were given a special purpose. our defenders destroy the enemy in the e

they would withdraw from there and lay down their arms, the commander of the azov regiment, denis prokopenkoing, for nothing, so you... hold out here for a little longer , well, how long, well, a month maximum, y you will run out of water, you will run out of food, you will simply be knocked out wherever you appear, your children will grow up without you, these are more than two thousand people, have you really thought about the responsibility for their lives, you start the withdrawal, and zelensky and ermak will wake up behind the decree will appear in number, everything else will appear, they won’t allow it to pass as if without their control, as soon as they went to... it wasn’t, why only at the time of the decree such a decree and order does not exist to this day, but they are there pr, especially those we have already exchanged, they say: we came out on orders by the decree of the president, if it weren’t for him, we wouldn’t have come out, no, guys, you came out as a result of a big deception, a big psychological operation, but they stopped here, they actually created a fortress, a for