Captured Mariupol defenders' families appeal to UN Secretary General over Russia's violation of Geneva Convention

The head of the Azov regiment's patronage service, Olena Tolkachova, said this on Espreso TV.

"A letter was written and signed to the UN Secretary General to supervise compliance with the Geneva Convention, which is cynically violated by our enemy. We have more than 10 points that are violated. In this letter, we asked to speed up the process of extracting prisoners and find a third country, which could accept them," she said.

According to Tolkachova, they also appealed so that warm things could be handed over.

"There is information that they do not have normal warm clothes and the conditions are not very proper. Overcrowded cells and medical aid is provided nominally. We have collected 5 thousand signatures under the letter. We have very high hopes for the UN," she concluded. 

The extraction procedure is the process of withdrawing the personnel of any army to an area controlled by friendly forces. In the case of the soldiers of the Mariupol garrison, Ukraine offers to take the prisoners of war to a third country without the possibility of returning to the country until the end of the war.