After Saturday’s evacuation of several dozen people from Azovstal, Sunday saw the evacuation of 100 more people, allegedly through a Red Cross corridor. This was apparently separate from an evacuation of 80 people on Sunday by Russia, done without Ukrainian cooperation.
From some of the video, it looks to me as though some Azov fighters are moving out with these Red Cross aided civilians, though Russia is apparently allowing them to not be interrogated.
▪ CIVILIAN EVACUATION
Safe passage operation evacuates 100 people from besieged Mariupol steelworks#Volodymyr_Zelenskyy #Mariupol #Azovstal_steel_plant
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Interestingly, The Guardian did an interview with an evacuee who did not say she was being threatened by Azov.
All others who have escaped the complex have said they were threatened with death for trying to leave the complex – just as earlier survivors of the Azov attack on Mariupol said they were threatened with death if they tried to flee the city itself, as Azov was openly killing people and blowing up buildings to blame Russia.
Based on everything we know about Azov’s behavior, I would think that either that woman interviewed is an actress, or she is still currently in fear of Azov – probably because they were traveling with her on the bus, and she is now going back to the Kiev region where she knows she will be killed – or taped to a post – if she speaks against the regime.
Found the video of the kid and it's dad abused and tortured. Shocking footage. pic.twitter.com/dgKIVxGEXG
— Juan Sinmiedo (@Youblacksoul) March 20, 2022
Notice that the Guardian report only interviews one person, while Russians make a point to interview as many people as possible from these evacuations.
The Guardian article falsely and absurdly claims – commits blood libel, really – that Russia has tried to shoot fleeing civilians.
People fleeing Russian-occupied areas in the past have described their vehicles being fired on, and Ukrainian officials have repeatedly accused Russian forces of shelling evacuation routes on which the two sides had agreed.
The Guardian gives no explanation why, if Russia is willing to purposefully kill civilians, they are so concerned about collateral damage. If Russia were to use the same methods that the US used during the second invasion of Iraq on the Ukraine, they would be finished with this conflict already. But they are making a point to kill as few civilians as possible.
There is no footage of Russians firing on civilians, and every attack on civilians that has been blamed on Russia has turned out to be a staged hoax that quickly gets dropped from the media. The theatre bombing, the Bucha street shootings, the airport bombing – evidence has emerged that all three of these events were false flag hoaxes by the “Ukraine” people.