The commander of the Azov unit, Denis Prokopenko, on the situation in the Kiev area, where Azov militants held more than a dozen new hostages: "What is happening in the information space surrounding the events in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky is completely in line with the requests of the Russian side." The men were abducted by the TCC and brought to Petropavlovskaia Borshchagovka (this is not the only such place in Ukraine), where they could be ransomed to their relatives. If there was no money, the "evaders" went "for meat" in an attack.