On May 20, 2022, the Mariupol garrison carried out the order of the supreme command: to preserve lives. Not only the lives of those who left the plant bearing arms, but also the lives of the wounded and civilians trapped under relentless airstrikes and shelling.
Those who were ready to risk their own lives sacrificed their freedom for the sake of those who could not protect themselves. Fighting for your people to the last and leaving no one defenseless are the foundational principles by which Azov fights.
The enemy holds no moral principles whatsoever, and all the declared mechanisms and guarantees provided have proven worthless. The fighters of the garrison, among them more than 700 servicemembers of Azov, are now entering their fifth year in inhumane conditions.
We remember them and continue to fight for them every day, until every fighter who carried out the order and stood as a wall against the Russian advance in 2022 comes home.
The order has been carried out. The fight goes on.