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Ukraine’s intelligence services are in communication with the captured Azovstal steelworks fighters and Kyiv is doing all it can to ensure their release, Ukrainian Interior Minister Denys Monastyrskiy said late on Friday, according to a Reuters report.
Uncertainty has surrounded the fate of hundreds of fighters who were taken into Russian custody in mid-May after being ordered to stand down. They had spent weeks holed up in a warren of tunnels and bunkers underneath the steelworks, as Russian forces took control of the rest of the city. Many had serious injuries, with limited medical care and dwindling supplies.
It is through them [intelligence services] that we are learning about the conditions of the detention, nutrition and the possibility of their release. We all know that they will all be here, in Kyiv, and we are doing everything possible to do so.”