Ukraine ends last defense in Mariupol, over 250 soldiers surrender
The bloodiest battle of the war in Ukraine ended in Mariupol on Tuesday after the city was devastated after Ukrainian forces ordered fighters hiding in a steel mill to surrender and hundreds of their comrades moved into controlled territory. Went. Buses. Adorned with “Jade”, the Russian war emblem.
More than 250 Ukrainian fighters have surrendered at the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol, allowing President Putin to claim a rare victory in his faltering campaign.
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Reuters saw buses leaving the steelworks where defenders had stayed overnight in a complex of bunkers and tunnels, and five arriving in the Russian-controlled city of Novoazovsk, where Moscow said the wounded would be treated.
Russia said at least 256 Ukrainian fighters had “lay down their arms and surrendered,” leaving 51 seriously wounded. Ukraine said 264 soldiers were gone, including 53 wounded.
Their future, and that of the hundreds of fighters who are believed to remain at the steel plant, was uncertain.
Ukrainian officials said those evacuated overnight and taken to Russian-controlled territory would soon be exchanged for Russian prisoners. But Russian officials said nothing of a swap, and there were calls from Russian authorities to put the captured soldiers on trial as terrorists.
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It was also unclear when and how the remaining troops would leave the plant. However, the Kremlin said that Putin had personally guaranteed that the prisoners would be treated according to international standards. Videos from the Russian Defense Ministry showed fighter planes exiting the plant, some on stretchers, others being searched by Russian soldiers with their hands raised.
“The ‘Mariupol’ garrison has completed its combat mission,” the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces said in a statement. “The Supreme Military Command ordered the commanders of the units stationed in Azovstal to save the lives of the personnel.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said: “Ukraine needs Ukrainian heroes alive. In a statement on Monday, the main Ukrainian unit, the Azov Regiment, which was organized at the steel mill, said that it had helped the country during 82 days of resistance. It has achieved its goal by making it possible to protect the rest.
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Ukraine’s decision to end fighting at the plant gave Moscow full control of the Azov Seaboard and created a monolithic section of eastern and southern Ukraine the size of Greece. Russian forces also appeared to strengthen their hold on parts of the south, which they had seized early in their offensive.
Even as Russia struggles to attack eastern Ukraine, developments in the south underscore how much territory Moscow has occupied and suggest that the Ukrainian military should be able to recapture it. There will be great challenges to be faced in trying.
Along a route stretching more than 500 miles from Lugansk in the east to Kherson on the Black Sea, the Ukrainian military said that Russian forces were building defensive positions, establishing proxy governments and trying to “Russian” the population. was taking steps.
In Zaporizhka, an area west of Mariupol, Ukrainian forces said Russian forces were destroying roads and bridges to prevent a Ukrainian counterattack.
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Moscow soldiers erected concrete barriers and dug trenches around Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, in the city of Enerhodar, which Russia seized in the first month of the war, the nuclear power company told Ukraine.
In the Kherson region, the country’s agricultural region, Ukrainians have been counterattacking for weeks, slowly trying to regain lost ground, but have yet to launch a major offensive.
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Ukraine ends last defense in Mariupol, over 250 soldiers surrender
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