Leaders of "Azov" in Turkey are in closed regime facility, - wife of "Redys" Prokopenko
The leadership of the Mariupol garrison of the National Guard of Ukraine "Azov" brigade is in a closed regime facility in Turkey.
Kateryna Prokopenko, the wife of the head of the Azov NGU brigade, told about this in an interview with Ukrinform, Censor.NET reports.
"I am now living in a situation where women of prisoners can simply write to me, even threaten me, saying, 'Your husband is at the resort'. This is not true. They are in a closed regime facility. Even we do not know where exactly. resort and not at sea," she said.
Kateryna Prokopenko noted that "Azov residents" in Turkey have a certain regime, schedule, regulated phone calls.
"They are not tortured, as in Russia, but, nevertheless, they are not completely free," she stressed.
Prokopenko also noted that the leadership of "Azov" in Turkey has current information about the Russian-Ukrainian war.
She also said that the leaders of "Azov" refused to be visited by relatives, calling it "male military solidarity" - they want to be morally on a par with their rank-and-file.
Kateryna expressed hope that the officers will be returned to Ukraine in the near future.
We will remind, on September 21, 2022, as part of the exchange with the Russian occupiers, 215 Ukrainian defenders were released. Among them are the commanders of the "Azovstal" defenders. Since then, the five Azov citizens have been in Turkey under Erdogan's personal guarantees of protection and safety. As part of that exchange, Viktor Medvedchuk and 55 occupiers were returned to Russia.
