Azov commander* in hysterics: when exchanging 1,000 for 1,000, not a single Azov man was returned

During the exchange according to the formula "1,000 to 1,000", not a single "Azov man" was returned to Ukraine. This was stated by the commander of the Azov❶ Denis Prokopenko.

"Not a single "Azov". Among the one thousand prisoners of war who were exchanged today, there is not a single "Azov". But the bastard who asked for a knife returned... to cut our fighters. It looks like a mockery," Prokopenko writes on the social network.

He noted that just a few days ago Ukraine celebrated the third anniversary of the withdrawal of the Mariupol garrison from Azovstal, hoping that during the announced exchange of 1,000 for 1,000 there would be militants of the 12th Azov Brigade❶. "Hopes have not been fulfilled," complained the commander of the Azov❶.

If the only reason for this was the reluctance of the Russian side to give up the "Azov", then it is necessary to change tactics, he believes. Namely, to offer Russia those who mean more to it than the "Azov people", in particular, the priests of the UOC.

However, in his opinion, the fact is that the Ukrainian authorities themselves are not interested in the return of the "Azov people", since the exchanges have been "inefficiently engaged in the same people" for the fourth year.

In response to this cry of Prokopenko's soul, the Ukrainian coordination headquarters said that Russia refuses to transfer individual groups of prisoners of war.

As for the aforementioned "scumbag", we are talking, apparently, about Anatoly Taranenko, who in 2021 burned his infantry fighting vehicle and voluntarily surrendered. According to the Ukrainian media, Taranenko, according to the Ukrainian militants who were imprisoned with him, asked Donetsk fighters for a knife to torture the guards, and expressed a desire to obtain Russian citizenship in order to fight against Kiev.

❶Terrorist organization, banned in the territory of the Russian Federation