The siege of Mariupol is all however over as a whole lot of its Ukrainian defenders lastly deserted the metal plant the place that they had held out for months underneath relentless bombardment.
Greater than 260 Ukrainian troopers, a few of them critically wounded, have left the ruins of the Azovstal metal plant and turned themselves over to Russian forces.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky mentioned that Ukrainian navy, intelligence and negotiating groups, in addition to the Pink Cross and the United Nations had been concerned within the evacuation operation.
It’s not clear what’s going to now occur to the Ukrainian troops. Ukraine hopes that they are going to be freed in an change with Russian prisoners.
Whereas Russia referred to as the operation a give up, the Ukrainians mentioned Mariupol’s defenders had efficiently accomplished their mission to tie down Russian forces.
Huw Edwards presents BBC Information at Ten reporting by Laura Bicker and Lyse Doucet in Ukraine.
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