In the meantime, Russia has claimed that the besieged Azovstal metal plant within the southern Ukrainian port metropolis of Mariupol has been “absolutely liberated.”
Main Common Igor Konashenkov, a spokesman for the Russian Ministry of Protection, stated in a press release that the ultimate group of 531 insurgents surrendered, referring to Ukrainian fighters who had been resisting the Russian assault on the plant for a number of weeks.
Lieutenant Colonel Denis Prokopenko, the Ukrainian commander of the Azov Regiment, had earlier issued an order to give up defending Mariupol, including that the highest army management had issued an order to safeguard the troopers’ lives and well being and cease defending the town.
