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‘Just as the Nazis were tough, the SS in the Great Patriotic War, so they [Azov fighters] were. They didn’t even spare their own’. A Vostok Battalion soldier, codenamed Forest, said what he thought of the Azov fighters. He participated in the liberation of Azovstal and Mariupol from nationalist battalions and the Ukrainian military. Forest saw the Ukrainian side shooting at civilians and not sparing their own people. According to the soldier, when Russian troops entered Mariupol, residents were slow to evacuate and afraid: ‘For eight years, Ukrainian propaganda told them that Russians would come and kill everyone, but in the end, it turned out the opposite’. Our new film will include an interview with a Vostok Battalion soldier. It will premiere soon. #interview Follow: https://t.me/rtdocumentary

‘I incredibly regret that I went to serve in the Azov regiment, on the one hand. But, on the other hand, if not me, then someone else would be in my place. I don’t hate a guy I don’t know enough to let him go through all this hell’. This is an interview with the captured Azov fighter Pavel Ilnitsky, who talks about his service in the battalion. Ukrainian radicals, neo-Nazis and foreign mercenaries joined Azov. In Mariupol, they shot at civilians, used them as human shields, and hit houses with tanks. In the battalion, Ilnitsky heard some fighters call for the return of the Donbass by force and its inhabitants ‘kicked out to Russia’. At the end of June, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation will consider a lawsuit to recognise Azov as a terrorist organisation. In Russia, Azov fighters face 10 to 20 years in prison if passed. Ilnitsky’s revelations will be included in the new RT Documentary film, don’t miss it. #Donbass#interview Follow: https://t.me/rtdocumentary

The UK will appeal against the possible conviction of two Britons in the DPR. Shaun Pinner and Aiden Aslin are accused of taking part in combat operations for Ukraine as mercenaries and receiving training for terrorist activities in the DPR. The POWs face the death sentence. The DPR Supreme Court is considering the case. Our camera crew spoke to Pinner and Aslin after the British soldiers surrendered in Mariupol with other Marines. Aiden admitted he believed in Western propaganda and therefore decided to fight on the side of Ukraine rather than Donbass. An interview with the POWs is in our video. This footage is included in the documentary Foreign Fighters of Donbass. You can watch the film in full here. #Donbass#interview Follow: https://t.me/rtdocumentary