Ukrainian fighters in Mariupol laid down their weapons at the Azovstal steel plant, concluding months of bloody battle for the strategic southern port https://t.co/sQme0jy8Q3
— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) May 17, 2022
Russians say about 10 buses with Ukrainian soldiers left Azovstal plant in Mariupol pic.twitter.com/sqLgHQPwYf
— ZOKA (@200_zoka) May 16, 2022
Ukraine said 53 severely wounded fighters and 200+ soldiers were allowed to leave the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol.
Buses accompanied by Russian military vehicles were seen pulling away from the plant after nightfall on Monday https://t.co/kKsLUnYitp pic.twitter.com/wP8G0otmG5
— Bloomberg Quicktake (@Quicktake) May 17, 2022
Are ya winning, son?
RT:
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine confirmed via its social media networks on Tuesday evening that its servicemen holed up at the Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol have been ordered to surrender.
“The garrison ‘Mariupol’ has completed the assigned combat mission. The highest military command issued an order to the commanders of the units located at Azovstal to save the lives of the personnel,” the Ukrainian military statement explained. According to Kiev, while holding positions at Azovstal, its soldiers prevented Russian troops from operating in other theaters.
The two countries have been embroiled in a full-blown conflict since February, when Moscow attacked the neighboring state, following an eight-year standoff over the fate of the Donbass.
Kiev insisted that the Azov neo-Nazis and members of its regular forces had “prevented the implementation of the [alleged Russian] plan for the quick capture of [nearby] Zaporozhye, and did not allow access to the administrative border of the Donetsk and Zaporozhye regions.”
The president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, said that work on their return will require “delicacy and time.”
“Thanks to the actions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, intelligence, as well as the negotiating group, the International Committee of the Red Cross and the UN, we have hope that we will be able to save the lives of our guys. I want to emphasize that Ukraine needs Ukrainian heroes alive. This is our principle. I think that every adequate person will understand these words. To bring our military back home, the work continues, and this work requires delicacy and time,” he stated.
A large portion of them are members of the neo-Nazi Azov Regiment.
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The first stage of surrender was completed on Monday – 264 soldiers left Azovstal. There are now 53 wounded servicemen in a hospital in Novoazovsk and 211 soldiers in Yelenovka, both of which are part of the Donetsk People’s Republic.
Russian sources have estimated that about 2,200 people have been trapped in the basements of the huge Azovstal complex. The site is 11 square kilometers long and its subterranean sections are designed to withstand a nuclear attack.
Apparently, there is going to be a prisoner swap, though that has not been confirmed yet at time of writing.
Those "nazis", the Azov guys that have been defending the Azovstal plant in Mariupol?
Well, 40 of them of Jewish.https://t.co/pUUN7PxxBw— Expat in Kyiv (@expatua) May 16, 2022
I saw all of these Ukraine shills claiming that Azov was going to bust out of Azovstal and kill everyone and take back Mariupol.
Azov is emblematic of the rest of the Ukrainian military – a neo-Nazi group run by Jews – and this is going to be a major blow to morale.
Meanwhile, Russia is continuing nonstop advances on the Donbass front.
Soon, Russia is going to fully occupy all of the territory they originally claimed and then some, but you will of course still have these American media outlets claiming nonsensically that the Ukraine is winning, and all they need is ten trillion more in US taxpayer money to finish the encirclement of Moscow.