At the time of the siege of Mariupol, Prokopenko was the commander of the second battalion of a separate special forces detachment of the Azov detachment.
Commander of the National Guard Regiment Azov Denis Prokopenko handed over the duties to Major Nikita Nadtochiy. This was announced on Saturday, June 18, by Major Nadtochy in a commentary for Radio Liberty.
“It’s just a message in a Telegram that“ once you’re ready to line up, contact those people, you’ll come and take the command into your own hands until the moment I get back, ”Nadtochy explains.
Nadtochy said he was wounded in the territory Azovstal at the beginning of the Mariupol defense in March. He tried to bring the 200s and 300s to the hospital in the territory Azovstal, but the Russian attack aircraft launched a missile near it. The shrapnel hit the head, both legs, abdomen and left arm.
He was one of the first to be evacuated by Ukrainian helicopters on March 21, along with other seriously injured.
At the time of the siege of Mariupol, Prokopenko was the commander of the second battalion of a separate detachment of special forces. Azov.
Prokopenko is currently in Russian captivity.
Earlier it was reported that the efforts of the Coordination Headquarters for the treatment of prisoners of war managed to return the bodies of 210 dead Mariupol defenders.
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Source: korrespondent
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