256 Ukrainian soldiersamong the 51 wounded, who were in its besieged factory Azovstal Steel in Mariupol, they left it, the Ukrainian General Staff announced earlier today and the pro-Russian separatists who spoke about “tradition”while the Russian Ministry of Defense issued a relevant announcement.
«In the last 24 hours, 265 fighters laid down their arms and surrendered, including 51 seriously wounded. “the Russian ministry said, adding that those in need of medical care were taken to a hospital in Novoazovsk, a city in eastern Ukraine.
In the meantime, Ukraine is working on “next stages»Of the removal of Ukrainian fighters in Azovstal, said for her part the deputy prime minister of the Ukrainian government Irina Verestsuk.
She did not go into details in her post on the social network Telegram, but wrote: “God willing, everything will go well “.
Last week, Ukrainian authorities said that more than 1,000 Ukrainian soldiers, including 600 wounded, according to one of their commanders, they remained in the last pocket of resistance in Mariupol. They were fortified in the basements of the steel industry during the siege of the port of strategic importance in the Sea of Azov almost from the beginning of the Russian invasion of the Ukrainian territory on February 24.
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