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[18:19] Russia hands prison terms to Ukrainian 'Azov' fighters

A Russian military court has handed down long prison sentences to 12 members of Ukraine's Azov regiment, which led the defence of the city of Mariupol in the early months of the war and is designated as a terrorist organisation by Russia.

rte.ie/news/world/2025/0326/15

#Russian #12 #Ukraine #Azov #Mariupol #theearlymonths #Russia

RTÉ · Russia hands prison terms to Ukrainian 'Azov' fightersBy RTÉ News

Russia convicts members of Ukraine's Azov regiment on terrorism charges
A Russian military court on Wednesday handed down long prison sentences to 12 members of Ukraine's Azov regiment, which led the defence of the city of Mariupol in the early months of the war and is designated as a "terrorist organization" by Russia.
#war #military #politics #law #Mariupol #News
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Alyona arrived to welcome Andrii -her husband, who was recently freed from russian captivity

Yesterday, the #Mariupol defender celebrated his birthday. For 3 years, he spent that day in captivity

Today, after a long separation, Andri is finally home and will be reunited with his beloved

U24 Gov UA / Instagram

Just to make it clear - #Russia doesn’t deny the fact that #Mariupol Drama Theatre was blown up, it just says… ‘Azov’ did it, from inside. Right now people are watching on Russian TV stories how random people “witness” how they were “lured by ‘Azov’ and volunteers into the Theatre”, accompanied by random builders who say “the explosion was from inside”.

Well, of course it was from inside because that’s how FAB-500 aerial bombs worked - they ripped through the thin roof and exploded inside. None of the actual survivors confirmed any wrongdoing or even presence of any military personnel in the Theatre - there were exclusively civilians and volunteers there.

Detailed investigation can be found on AI website:

https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/eur50/5713/2022/en/

Hoy se conmemora el bombardeo del teatro de Mariupol por parte de Rusia hace 3 años.

Debajo del teatro había un refugio antibombas donde 600 niños y sus cuidadores perdieron la vida.

En la playa de estacionamiento del teatro, defensa civil había escrito en grandes letras "niños" (en ruso) para que los rusos no bombardeasen.

Cuando los rusos ocuparon Mariupol en lugar de sacar los cuerpos, rellenaron el refugio antibombas con cemento dejando los cuerpos adentro.

La maestra de primaria Ludmila, cuya historia conté, era de Mariupol.

To say that tolstoy is not responsible for the russian invasion while his portrait proudly hangs on the facade of the Mariupol Drama Theater where about 600 people, mostly children, were killed with an aviabomb...

He's a mascot. Him, and pushkin, and dostoevsky, and tchaikovsky, all provide the words and the sounds to violent russian invasions. They pave the path for fascist speeches, for manipulation with terms, settler colonialism, ethnic cleansings.

💬" Three years ago, knowing there were children inside, russia launched an air strike on a drama theater in #Mariupol

Approximately 600 people, including children, were killed. These were local residents who took refuge there during the siege and shelling of the city.

Today, russians are rebuilding the theater, trying not only to erase the memory of their many victims, but also to continue rewriting history and destroying Ukrainian identity."

- MFA #Ukraine

U24 Gov UA / Instagram

In April 2022 I was helping refugees on Kraków railway station in #Poland and one of the women was from #Mariupol. She was hiding with children in the #DramaTheatre until 15 March, when she found a transport and evacuated to Ukraine-controlled territory. She learned about the 16 March bombing somewhere on the way and she said she felt like she literally won a life prize.