War in Ukraine, live: Sloviansk, in the Donetsk region, again in the crosshairs of the Russians, according to the Ukrainian general staff – Le Monde

Several officers of the Azov battalion transferred to Lefortovo prison in Moscow “Currently, several people among the commanders of Azov, who were captured during the assault on Mariupol, have been taken to Lefortovo,” said a source among the Russian police forces to the news agency, without specifying who exactly he was talking about. Located in the Moscow district, Lefortovo prison is known to be the place where the NKVD, the ancestor of the KGB, practiced interrogations by torture in the 1930s, during the time of the USSR. Earlier in the day, this Russian source also claimed that the deputy commander of the regiment, Svyatoslav Palamar, and the commander of the 36th Marine Rifle Brigade, Serhiv Volynsky, had been transferred to the territory of the Russian Federation for investigation. At the end of May, the leader of the “people’s republic of Donetsk”, Denis Pushilin, said that the soldiers would be brought before the courts of this self-proclaimed pro-Russian separatist state, where they were detained. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Roudenko then confirmed that the prisoners would be tried. According to TASS, more than a thousand Ukrainian soldiers, who went to Azovstal, have since been transferred to Russian territory for investigations. The Russian Defense Ministry had claimed that more than 2,400 Ukrainian troops – including Azov fighters – surrendered by the end of May. Ukrainian soldiers in the basements of the Azovstal steelworks during weeks of battle against Russian forces in Mariupol, May 2022. DMYTRO KOZATSKY / AP