The Russian Defense Ministry announced that “it has cleared the entire urban area of Mariupol from Ukrainian forces” and that only a few fighters remain in the Azovstal metallurgical plant, a theater of repeated clashes.
“The only chance to save his life is to lay down his arms and surrender,” the statement said.
There has been no reaction from Kiev to the Russian Defense Ministry’s announcement, which also states that 1,464 Ukrainian soldiers have been handed over to Mariupol so far.
Ukraine, meanwhile, has said the Russians are holding a Kremlin spokesman in Donbass, who has reportedly said in a statement that Russia plans to use chemical weapons in Mariupol.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has warned that the “extermination” of the last Ukrainian soldiers in the besieged Russian city of Mariupol “would put an end to any peace talks.”
“The extermination of our soldiers, our men in Mariupol will put an end to any (peace) negotiations between Ukraine and Russia,” said Volodymyr Zelensky in an interview published on the news website Ukraïnska Pravda. they will find themselves “at a dead end”.
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