Russia has said nearly 700 more Ukrainian fighters from the beseiged town of Mariupol, Ukraine have surrendered.
The statement from Russia comes after two months of fighting the Ukranian soldiers known as the 'Azov Regiment' from the Azovstal steelworks plant where they have been hiding for months.
It also comes after the Ukranian government announced last week it had ordered its garrison in Mariupol to stand down and surrender to Russia.
A pro-Russian separatist leader said commanders on Wednesday May 18, still said some soldiers were still holed up in tunnels beneath the giant Azovstal steelworks.
Ukrainian officials have also not made any public statement about the fate of fighters who had made their last stand in the steelworks plant, one of the largest plants in Europe.
Russia's ministry of defence said 694 more fighters had surrendered overnight, bringing the total number of people who had laid down arms to 959. The leader of pro-Russian separatists in control of the area, Denis Pushilin, was quoted by a local news agency DNA as saying the main commanders were still inside the plant. Russian state media released photos of the Ukranian fighters being carried away with buses guarded by pro-Russian separatist fighters.
More than 50 wounded fighters have been brought for treatment to a hospital in Russian controlled territories while others have been taken to a newly re-opened prison, in towns held by pro-Russian separatists. Reuters journalists have filmed buses bringing some captured fighters to both locations.
The Kremlin says Putin has personally guaranteed the humane treatment of fighters who surrendered.
Ukrainian officials had confirmed the surrender of more than 250 fighters on Tuesday. But they did not say how many more were inside or what might become of them.
"The state is making utmost efforts to carry out the rescue of our servicemen. Let's wait. Currently, the most important thing is to save the lives of our heroes," Ukranian military spokesman Oleksandr Motuzaynik told a news conference. "Any information to the public could endanger that process."
"Unfortunately, the subject is very sensitive and there is a very fragile set of talks going on today, therefore I cannot say anything more," said Mariupol Mayor Vadym Boichenko. He said President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, the Red Cross and the United Nations were involved in talks, but gave no further details.
The final surrender of Mariupol would bring a close to a near three month siege of the once prosperous city of more than 400,000 people, where Ukraine says tens of thousands of civilians have died under Russian bombardment. Russia decided to attack Mariupol so as to get a crucial land corridor linking annexed Crimea to the Donbas region of Luhansk and Donetsk.
Ukrainian officials have spoken of hopes to arrange a prisoner swap for Mariupol defenders they describe as national heroes. Moscow says no such deal was made for the fighters, whom Russian president, Vladimir Putin has refered to as 'nazis'

when will this war end?

YinkaOlusesi16:
when will this war end?

When Russia annex the portion of Ukraine they desires.

Ukraine is winning.

Russia and Putin will soon surrender to sleepy J and the comedian.

Rubbish...

OP your information has no source?
Not even a link. Chai

Source please

A winning side that's surrendering…

gaby:
Ukraine is winning.

Russia and Putin will soon surrender to sleepy J and the comedian.

Rubbish...

How old are you?

kingjis:



How old are you?

The ones who brought you to this world were my playmates. Ask them about me.

gaby:


The ones who brought you to this world were my playmates. Ask them about me.

Your mother that gave birth to you was my girl friend and am your father

Mumu

We need verifiable source please.

Greattestman:
We need verifiable source please.

verifiable source?
Are you not living on planet earth...

Ukraine army arguably the best land army in Europe, both in size, weapons and training, They can defeat even the UK or Germany in conventional war, and yet with less than 10% of Russia military they're been dessiminated like a west Africa military despite overwhelming foreign supports

tillaman:
Source please

if you read it, you will see where he mentioned Reuters. That's one source. He's just without link.

mike8804:
Ukraine army arguably the best land army in Europe, both in size, weapons and training, They can defeat even the UK or Germany in conventional war, and yet with less than 10% of Russia military they're been dessiminated like a west Africa military.

I laugh. How they made this war about media frenzy in the beginning was shocking. Their celebrities who took guns to defend their country, where are they right now?

They think say war na Instagram.

Zelensky should be toppled. He's stupid to have listened to NATO and dared Russia to have his country destroyed instead of declaring neutrality.

They thought their sanctions always work. They ended up sanctioning themselves this time around. Even Boris Johnson that openly said they'd put sanctions on Russia so Russians can be triggered to remove Putin narrowly escaped vote of no confidence twice and he's falling down the popularity order and was forced to step down.

Joe Biden is feeling it at home too and inflation has engulfed the whole of Europe.

Germany is back to using coal while their stupid chancellor is now joining France in calling for peace. If Angela Merkel was here, there's no way she'd sit and allow this war to unfold.
The current German leader even put a lid on nordstream just to please America.

We're happy the world is 'multi-polar' right now. America cannot continue to dictate to all of us.

Ukraine lost this war and it may never recover again.

kingjis:



How old are you?

you missed the sarcasm.