2023-07-09 11:14:30
Peskov, spokesman for the Russian presidential office, said the news agencyRIA NovostiIt said Turkey violated an agreement with Russia by returning to Ukraine five former commanders of the Azov Regiment, a military unit affiliated with the Ukrainian Interior Ministry.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who had been in Turkey, announced on the 8th that five “heroes” would return home.TweetWas.
The five men, who spent several months in charge of defending the Azovstal ironworks in Mariupol in southeastern Ukraine, were killed in September last year.hundreds of prisoners of warwere exchanged between Russia and Ukraine. Turkey and Saudi Arabia were involved in prisoner exchange negotiations.
Zelensky said at the time that the five were exchanged on the condition that they would remain under Turkish President Erdogan’s personal protection until the end of the war with Russia.
Peskov said the return of the former Azov regiment commander to Ukraine “is nothing more than a direct violation of the terms of the current agreement.” “Both Ukraine and Turkey violated the terms,” he said.
Original title:Kremlin Says Turkey’s Return of Azov Defenders Violates Accord (excerpt)
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