⚡️Colonel General Mikhail Mizintsev, Head of the Russian Federation Joint Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response - Head of the National Centre for State Defence Control of the Russian Federation:

▫️Taking into account the catastrophic situation at the Azovstal metallurgical plant in the city of Mariupol, from 14:00 (Moscow time) on April 19, 2022 the Russian Armed Forces have opened a humanitarian corridor for the withdrawal of Ukrainian servicemen and militants of nationalist formations who voluntarily laid down their arms.

▫️For this purpose, a ceasefire has been introduced, any hostilities have been stopped, units of the Russian Armed Forces and formations of the Donetsk People's Republic have been withdrawn to a safe distance along the entire perimeter of Azovstal.

▫️In the immediate vicinity of the metallurgical plant, three humanitarian convoys are deployed in three directions:
🔹the first one is from the western direction on Shevchenko street;
🔹the second is from the eastern direction on Pobeda avenue;
🔹the third is from the north direction on Taganrogskaya street.

▫️Each humanitarian convoy consists of 30 buses and cars for transporting people, 10 ambulances with medical and nursing teams. In addition, meeting points and temporary accommodation have been deployed in all three directions, food and primary medical care facilities have been organized.

▫️On all routes of movement of humanitarian convoys, the Russian Armed Forces, together with the formations of the Donetsk People's Republic, strictly observe the ceasefire.

▫️Once again, we call on the official authorities of Kiev to show prudence, to give appropriate instructions to the militants about ending senseless resistance and leaving the hotbed of resistance. But realizing that the commanders of Ukrainian units may not receive such orders and commands from the Kiev authorities, we urge them to make such a decision on their own and lay down their arms.

❗️I would like to emphasize that the leadership of the Russian Federation guarantees the preservation of life, complete safety and the provision of qualified medical care to all those who have laid down their weapons. Russia has repeatedly, including through the surrender of Ukrainian marines who have laid down their arms and surrendered in practice, confirmed its humane attitude towards prisoners of war and its full compliance with the norms of international humanitarian law. And this time the Russian side guarantees compliance with the Geneva Conventions on the treatment of prisoners of war.

▫️This statement was brought to the Ukrainian side through the Deputy Prime Minister of the Government of Ukraine Vereshchuk Irina.

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🇷🇺🇺🇦Statement of the Joint Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response in Ukraine (April 19, 2022)

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🇷🇺🇺🇦Statement of the Joint Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response in Ukraine (April 20, 2022)

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🇷🇺🇺🇦Statement of the Joint Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response in Ukraine (April 21, 2022)

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❗️According to reliable information, on the eve of the Easter holiday, the Kiev regime is preparing provocations to discredit the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate. Thus, the bishops of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church received recommendations from the office of President V. Zelensky: "on the night of April 23-24, not to hold traditional Easter celebrations, replacing them with an online broadcast of divine services in churches."

▫️At the same time, these notifications were deliberately not sent to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (hereinafter referred to as the UOC–MP) in order to organize a mass gathering of believers in the churches of the UOC-MP. The provocative actions are carried out against the background of the campaign carried out by the Kiev regime in the Ukrainian media to accuse Russia of allegedly organizing "rocket attacks on religious sites," including the Svyatogorsk Lavra.

▫️A situation is being deliberately created in which any incident specially provoked by the SSU in the churches of the UOC-MP crowded today will be used to the maximum to aggravate Kiev's divisive policy and activate a new wave of Russophobia in Ukraine and abroad.

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❗️In the area of the Odessa port "Yuzhny", the special services of Ukraine are planning a provocation with the use of toxic chemicals to accuse Russian troops of allegedly striking civilian infrastructure facilities.

▫️The most likely scenario of the staging may be an imitation of a missile strike by the Russian Armed Forces on the western naval base of the Ukrainian Navy, as a result of which the port's cooling plant, located 500 meters from the military facility, will be blown up. To implement this scenario, a tank with ammonia (10 tons) was delivered from Odessa to the territory of the enterprise on April 18, 2022, and personal protective equipment was issued to law enforcement and special services in the Odessa region.

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🇷🇺🇺🇦Statement of the Joint Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response

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❗️As a result of an operation initiated by Russian President Vladimir Putin to save civilians detained by Ukrainian nationalists at Azovstal plant in Mariupol, on April 30, 25 people from nearby houses and another 21 people from the plant's territory walked out.

▫️All 46 people voluntarily decided to remain in the Donetsk People's Republic.

▫️On May 1, another 80 civilians held by Ukrainian nationalists were rescued from the plant and provided with accommodation, food and medical care.

▫️11 of them voluntarily decided to stay in the Donetsk People's Republic.

▫️69 civilians decided to leave for Kiev-controlled territory and were handed over to representatives of the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross and are currently travelling in a convoy towards Zaporozhye city.

▫️The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation are ensuring the safety of the humanitarian convoy with civilians evacuated from Azovstal plant to Kiev-controlled territory.

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⚠️ Nationalist battalion fighters and AFU units, using civilians as human shields, continue to use civilian infrastructure to equip strongholds and deploy heavy weaponry.

🔹Azov Neo-Nazis battalion:

▫️in Mirnograd, Donetsk People's Republic, kindergarten No 19 in the Vostochnyi Microdistrict and a boarding school on L. Chaikina Street have been equipped with strongholds and barracks, and armoured vehicles and artillery have been placed in close proximity to residential areas;

▫️in Borovaya, Kharkov Region, barracks have been equipped in the school building and the Beryozka kindergarten, and heavy military equipment, artillery and MLRS have been placed on the territories. At the same time, civilians with children are forcibly detained in basements.

🔹Fighters of Aidar battalion:

▫️on the territory of the Church of the Praise of the Mother of God in Pavlograd, Dnepropetrovsk Region, firing positions, artillery and MLRS have been placed in close proximity to densely populated residential areas;

▫️in Zaporozhye, they equipped firing positions and ammunition depots on the lower floors of hospitals on Sobornyi Prospect and Pobedy Street. At the same time, hospital staff and patients are held back as human shield.

🔹Armed formations of the Donbass battalion have equipped a stronghold in residential building No 10 on General Lozanovich Street in Slavyansk in Donetsk People's Republic and deployed heavy weapons and an ammunition depot. However, no civilians were evacuated from the building.

🔹In Sumy, AFU units have mined a road bridge on Kharkovskaya Street over the railway tracks of the Southern Railway branch, which they plan to blow up, blaming it on allegedly "advancing units of Russian troops".

❗️Such actions of the Kiev regime once again demonstrate an inhuman attitude to the fate of Ukrainian citizens and indicate a gross violation of the norms of international humanitarian law, but despite our repeated statements, they still remain without the attention of the international community and international organizations.

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⚠️ According to information received from captured Ukrainian servicemen, militants of nationalist battalions are preparing another provocation with the use of toxic substances in Sumy.

▫️The neo-Nazis plan to shell Russian border territory from a residential area in the city and provoke Russian units to retaliate, after which they will blow up chemical tanks.

📹Foreign journalists are in Sumy to take photographs and video.

▫️This cynical action will soon be used by the Kiev authorities to accuse the Russian Armed Forces of allegedly using chemical weapons and indiscriminate strikes on civilians.

▫️Moreover, while previously in preparation for such provocations the civilian population was withdrawn from the area of planned contamination, now, in order to maximise the resonance, no warning was given to the population.

❗️We warn the "civilized West" as well as the United Nations, the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons in advance that the above and other similar provocations about alleged "Russian atrocities" are soon to be widely spread by the Ukrainian authorities through the Western media and in various Internet resources.

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