Ukraine's Steel Plant Soldiers Surrender As Russian Soldier Says Sorry
NDTV
Russia-Ukraine War: The Russian defence ministry released a video appearing to show exhausted Ukrainian soldiers trudging out of the steelworks, after a weeks-long siege forced the defenders and civilians to huddle in tunnels.
Russia said Thursday that 1,730 Ukrainian soldiers had surrendered this week at the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol, showing some emerging on crutches after a desperate battle that has become emblematic of the nearly three-month-old war.
The number included 80 who were wounded and taken to a hospital in Russia-controlled territory in eastern Ukraine, the defence ministry in Moscow said.
The ministry released a video appearing to show exhausted Ukrainian soldiers trudging out of the sprawling steelworks, after a weeks-long siege forced the defenders and civilians to huddle in tunnels with dire shortages of food, water and medicine.
Russian troops patted down those surrendering and inspected their bags as they exited, signalling the effective end of what Ukraine's government had called a "heroic" resistance.