{"id":25659,"date":"2022-05-17T14:12:50","date_gmt":"2022-05-17T04:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/?p=25659"},"modified":"2022-05-17T14:12:51","modified_gmt":"2022-05-17T04:12:51","slug":"at-least-300-azov-fighters-surrender-to-russians-at-azovstal-plant-ending-lengthy-siege","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/at-least-300-azov-fighters-surrender-to-russians-at-azovstal-plant-ending-lengthy-siege\/","title":{"rendered":"At Least 300 Azov Fighters Surrender To Russians At Azovstal Plant, Ending Lengthy Siege"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

ZeroHedge<\/a> | by Tyler DurdenTuesday, May 17, 2022 – 12:05 PM<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The more than month-long standoff at Mariupol’s Azovstal steelworks plant is finally over, after for many weeks the siege of the large complex by Russian forces remained the focus of international headlines, and following a series of high-risk civilian evacuations, some of them under the auspices of UN and Red Cross emergency teams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The remnant hundreds of armed Ukrainian Azov battalion militants which had refused to come out have now surrendered in the Monday night hours. “Reuters<\/a> saw about a dozen buses apparently carrying Ukrainian fighters leaving the plant on Monday<\/strong>. It was not possible to determine how many people were aboard.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Wounded Ukrainian fighter being transported to Donetsk People\u2019s Republic territory, via Russian news sources.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Widespread reports say that some 300 Ukrainian fighters have laid down their weapons and emerged<\/strong> from the cavernous facility. “More than 260 Ukrainian soldiers were evacuated from the besieged Azovstal steel plant in the port city of Mariupol,” Ukraine’s Deputy Defense Minister Ganna Malyar said<\/a>. Another “53 heavily wounded (soldiers) were evacuated from Azovstal to the medical mortgage near Novoazovsk for medical aid,” according to Malyar’s statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Azov issued a statement on Telegram saying they are “implementing the approved decision of the Supreme Military Command” in order to “save lives”<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And the Russian side has since confirmed that “An agreement has been reached on the removal of the wounded,” according to a Russian defense ministry statement. “A humanitarian corridor has been opened through which wounded Ukrainian servicemen are being taken to a medical facility in Novoazovsk<\/strong>.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Russian media is also widely reporting the surrender at Azovstal, with RT airing some of the first footage of the evacuation of the last fighters to leave…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Surrender at #Azovstal<\/a> – #Ukraine<\/a> Deputy Defense Minister Anna Malyar confirms that 53 wounded #Ukrainian<\/a> soldiers were taken from #Mariupol<\/a>'s Azovstal steel plant to the hospital in #Novoazovsk<\/a>, another 211 people were taken to #Yelenovka<\/a> – both cities in the #DPR<\/a>. Total 264. pic.twitter.com\/XzYNCInwAA<\/a><\/p>— tim anderson (@timand2037) May 16, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote>