Russian Army medics treated some of these soldiers on the bus, applying bandages to their legs and arms.
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Russia estimated this Tuesday at 265 Ukrainian soldiers evacuated the day before from the Azovstal steel mill, including 51 seriously wounded who, after “laying down their arms and surrendering”, are now “prisoners” of waraccording to the Defense Ministry.
“Yesterday the militants of the Azov nationalist unit and the Ukrainian military blocked at the Azovstal plant in Mariupol surrendered,” said the military spokesman, Major General Igor Konashénkov, in his morning war part.
Defense maintained that, during the last 24 hours, “265 soldiers, including 51 seriously wounded, laid down their arms and surrendered.”
“All those who needed medical care were sent for treatment to the hospital in Novoazovsk,” a Russian-controlled town in the self-proclaimed breakaway republic of Donetsk, the spokesman added.
Ukraine reported last night that 211 Ukrainian soldiers had been evacuated, including 53 seriously wounded.
The two hundred soldiers removed from the metallurgical plant after more than two months of siege and almost three months of military intervention by Russia in Ukraine, were taken to Olénivka, near the city of Donetsk and controlled by Russia, and the rest to Novoazovsk .
This Tuesday the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for the Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine, Iryna Vereshchuk, noted in her Telegram account that “52 of our seriously wounded military” were evacuated.
“After their condition stabilizes, we will exchange them for Russian prisoners of war,” he said.
He indicated that kyiv is working “in the next stages of the humanitarian operation” to save the undetermined number of soldiers still in the factory.
Russia published a video of the evacuation, or surrender as Defense calls it, in which it is seen how the Ukrainian soldiers are searched one by one throughout the body in the territory of the steel mill to see if they are armed, including those who are on a stretcher
They also searched their backpacks and other belongings before putting them on buses, some of which have built-in stretchers for the seriously injured.
According to the Russian images, Russian Army medics treated some of these soldiers on the bus, applying bandages to their legs and arms.
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