Hundreds more Ukrainians surrender at Mariupol steel plant, Russia claims

Fate of soldiers leaving Azovstal site unclear and numbers not confirmed by Ukraine

Ukraine-Russia war – latest updates

Russia says another 694 Ukrainian troops have surrendered at Mariupol’s besieged Azovstal steel plant in the past day, bringing the total number close to 1,000.

The Russian defence ministry said 29 of the soldiers were wounded. It did not say where the soldiers would be sent, though on Tuesday evening Reuters reported that seven buses carrying Ukrainian soldiers left the plant for a former prison colony in the town of Olenivka in a Russian-controlled area of Donetsk region.

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