War correspondent Andrei Rudenko declaredthat the first civilians left the territory of the Mariupol plant “Azovstal” – the Savin family, father, son and daughter. According to the military correspondent, this is a family of local residents.
Rudenko said that the fighters of the Azov regiment (recognized as extremist and banned in the Russian Federation) “intimidated that they would not reach.” The military commissar wrote that “Azov” did not want to let these people go and that “the management of the plant got in touch with the militants, but they could not agree on getting people out.”
The head of the family found a radio receiver in the workshop and caught a Russian radio, the programs of which began to be broadcast in Mariupol – from the news he learned about the announcement of a humanitarian corridor.
“I tuned him to the Vesti FM wave,” Rudenko said. “They decided to go out. There are still 71 people left in the dungeon of the shop.”