According to the Italian media "Corriere della Sera", the situation of the Azov battalion is extremely difficult now, the commander of the Azov battalion has been seven days and one night without news, some analysts believe that the commander of the Azov battalion, it is very likely that he has been killed at the hands of chechen troops. The commander of the Azov Battalion is said to be Major Dennis Prokopenko, the supreme commander of the Azov Battalion (Standard Force Brigade Formation), who led the Azov Battalion's defensive campaign at Mariupol.
For a period of time from March to early April, Major Prokopenko commanded the Azov battalion to block the Russian army, and although the casualties of the Azov battalion were very large, he succeeded in taking a large number of civilians and the remnants of the Ukrainian army and retreating to the steel mills in the Mariupol area, which was able to delay time. However, Major Prokopenko was not willing to sit still, and he constantly appeared and posted on social media to demand that Western "allies" and Ukrainian authorities rescue the Azov battalion and open the encirclement, but the discerning people knew that his request was completely unrealistic.
Therefore, after the hopelessness of asking for help, Major Prokopenko began to organize the remnants of the 36th Infantry Brigade of the Ukrainian Navy and the breakthrough group of the Azov Battalion on April 11, launching a counterattack on the city, intending to break through the encirclement, and even planned to pretend to be a Russian army to pass through the pass, but it was easily recognized by the Russian army. The Russian army launched a counter-assault, more than 1,000 people of the 36th infantry brigade of the Ukrainian Marine Corps were captured and annihilated, and hundreds of people in the Azov battalion were killed and captured by the Russian army, and the remaining Ukrainian army had to retreat into the steel plant to continue to fight the trapped beasts.
At the same time, the wife of prokopenko, commander of the Azov battalion, and the families of other commanders of the Azov battalion also fled from Ukraine to Italy to escape the fighting, and in an exclusive interview with the Italian media "Corriere della Sera", revealing the current situation of the Azov battalion, Yulya Fedosiuk, the wife of Azov senior member Arseniy Fedosiuk, told the Italian media. At this stage, the wounded in the underground steel plant are dying continuously, the scene can not bear to look at it, these wounded can not get medical treatment, their bodies are decaying.
Without painkillers, everything is unbearable. And there is also a lack of sufficient water sources, now can only eat expired food, and there is a risk of infection, drinking water is gone, can only be forced to drink non-drinking water in the steel plant machine to quench thirst, draw cooling water from the machine to drink, barely maintain life.
It is worth mentioning, however, that on 24 April, according to Azov prisoners captured by Chechen forces at the steel mills, there was actually a water supply system in the underground bunkers, from which their drinking water was derived. According to the wife of the senior member of the Azov battalion, there was a water crisis in less than a week, and normal water could not be drunk, and only by drinking machine cooling water could barely survive, which showed that the water stored in the steel plant was not as much as expected. Azov Battalion Commander Dennis. Prokopenko's wife: Caterina. Prokopenko said in an interview that Valentine's Day before the start of the war was very touching, when he and his husband, Dennis. Prokopenko was together, in Mariupol, when everything was full of life, but I did not expect the war to break out 10 days later.
In response to her last phone call with her husband, Major Prokopenko, she said he had never felt so depressed, that at one o'clock in the morning the call between her and her husband, Major Prokopenko, was abruptly interrupted, and the next day Prokopenko called again to tell Caterina that at least 50 bombs had fallen and destroyed the "hospital" of the Azov battalion, and that he himself had escaped the disaster and had not been killed in the Russian bombardment. Major Prokopenko said on the phone that he would resist to the end, and that the Azov battalion and ukraine would win. Caterina said camp Azov was trapped in the steel mill, like a tiger beast trapped in a cage.
The wife of Another senior Arsv battalion member at the steel plant, Sergey Petrenko, was interviewed and said she had not heard from her husband for a week. Her husband was shot by Russian troops in the hospital and did not know whether he was currently dead or alive. Through the statements of the families of these senior members of the Azov battalion, we can also see that the current situation of the Azov camp is indeed bad to a certain extent, and the living environment of the underground bunker is far less than some of the previous rumors. According to this situation, there is not much time left for the Azov battalion to continue to persist, people are iron, food is steel, and water is the source of life, and it is impossible to continue fighting without eating or drinking, even if the bullets are not exhausted. Surrounded by the high-pressure situation of the Russian army, it is believed that the dust of the war at the Azov Steel Plant has not been settled for long.