The Russian Federation holds captive a Mariupol defender who is nine months pregnant

This was announced by the wife of the captive Azov resident, head of the Women of Steel organization Natalya Zaritskaya during a briefing.

They need to be released as soon as possible. Especially there is a woman in the ninth month of pregnancy, and she will give birth at the end of September. How vile you have to be to keep her captive and put pressure on the Ukrainian side and the world on her exchange,” said Natalya Zaritskaya.

Earlier, Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that more than 2,500 defenders of Mariupol from the Azovstal plant were in Russian captivity. According to the publication Ukrainska Pravda, 2,449 defenders left the territory of Azovstal; they were held in the occupied Yelenovka.