Russia in the last few hours began to receive 265 Ukrainian soldiers, considered prisoners of war, which means in fact that it has achieved total control of Mariupol, strategic to act as a bridge between the peninsula of crimea and the pro-Russian region of donbas.
“In the last 24 hours, 265 fighters laid down their weapons and surrendered, including 51 who were seriously wounded,” the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement.
The Russian authorities specified that those who needed medical assistance were transferred to a hospital in Novoazovsk.
The President of Ukraine, Volodomir Zelenskycelebrated in his usual nightly video the alive exit of the military from the industrial plant, although without recognizing the status of prisoners of war, a policy previously adopted by his officials when they announced the “evacuation” of their troops from Azovstal.
“Thanks to the actions of the Ukrainian military, the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the intelligence services, the negotiating team, the International Committee of the Red Cross Y United Nations, for saving the lives of our boys. Among them are the seriously injured, to whom medical aid is being provided,” the president stressed.
Zelensky stressed that “Ukraine needs living Ukrainian heroes.”
For its part, the Department of Military Intelligence of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry said on Telegram that the exchange of these soldiers “will be carried out to repatriate these Ukrainian heroes as soon as possible”, thus confirming that they were under the power of Russia.
Ukraine had announced yesterday the “evacuation” of its military and confirmed that all of them had been transferred to areas controlled by Russia, but had avoided the word “surrender”although then the deputy defense minister, Ganna Malyar, said that the military would be subjected to an “exchange procedure”.
Ukrainian authorities said last week that more than a thousand Ukrainian soldiers, 600 of them wounded, were inside the industrial complex, so the surrender is expected to continue in the next few hours.
On a military level, while fighting intensifies in the east, Russia surprised with missile attacks against a railway line in the Ukrainian region of Lviv (west), in the Yavoriv district, about 20 kilometers from the Polish border, which caused no casualties but did cause heavy damage to the railway infrastructure, local authorities reported.
For his part, the mayor of Lviv (also known as Lviv), Andrii Sadovi, specified in his Telegram account that the windows of the houses adjacent to the impact site had exploded by the blast wave, according to local media.
Lviv has also been a transit point for the tens of thousands of Ukrainian citizens who have wanted to leave the country and seek refuge in other European Union nations, starting with neighboring Poland.
Source: Ambito
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