Police general and former deputy chief of the National Police of Ukraine Vyacheslav Abroskin appealed to Russian occupiers to allow him to remove children from surrounded Mariupol.
"Today there are many children left in the completely destroyed city who, if not saved now, will die in the next few days, time is running out on the clock. I appeal to the Russian occupiers - give the opportunity to remove children from Mariupol, instead of still alive children I offer myself", - wrote Abroskin in Facebook.
The officer explained that he wants to enter the city to collect the children and organize the withdrawal. It will take him three days to do this. At the last roadblock during the return trip with the children, he is ready to surrender:
"I am a police general who directly from 2014 to 2018 organized the opposition against you in Donetschina. I am on your sanctions lists. I am on your wanted list. You organized an attempt on my life to eliminate me. Dozens of yours were killed, and thousands of your accomplices were detained with my participation. I am the general who is, perhaps, the closest to the famous Azov regiment. This is my personal initiative. My life belongs to me alone, and I offer it in exchange for the lives of children who still remain in Mariupol.
It should be noted that Mariupol has remained under constant heavy shelling since the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion. The invaders are literally wiping the city off the face of the earth and destroying its residents with particular cruelty. There is no water, heating, heat or light in the city, and people are forced to constantly hide in shelters with no way to get food or water.
The Russian military is blocking humanitarian corridors proposed by Ukraine, instead suggesting that exhausted people go to the Russian Federation. On March 21, the occupiers offered to open the corridors so that the military could go out along with civilians and lay down their arms. Ukraine refused to surrender the city.
Failing to achieve what it wanted, the Russian Federation began to forcibly remove people from the city. Ukrainians were taken to filtration camps, where their documents were confiscated. After that, they are taken to work in remote regions of the Russian Federation. Such actions by the occupiers constitute a war crime.
