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Fears rise for 2,500 Ukrainian POWs from steel plant that Russia labelled neo-Nazis

A Moscow-backed separatist leader says nearly 2,500 Ukrainian fighters taken prisoner from the besieged Mariupol steel plant will face tribunals.

ABC News

Russia’s war on Ukraine can only be resolved through ‘diplomacy’, says Zelensky

An end to the conflict can only be reached ‘at the negotiating table’, the Ukrainian president says

The Independent UK

Zelenskiy signals readiness for new talks if Mariupol troops are not harmed

Ukrainian leader tells TV station ‘there are things that can only be reached at the negotiating table’

The Guardian - UK

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Only diplomacy can end Ukraine war, says Volodymyr Zelenskiy

Country’s president emphasises need for talks to resume with Russia after previous negotiations stalled

The Guardian - UK

EXPLAINER: Who were Mariupol's last defenders?

The Ukrainian forces who made a determined last stand in a Mariupol steel mill against Russian troops were a mixture of seasoned soldiers, border guards, a controversial national guard regiment and volunteers who took up arms in the weeks before Russia’s invasion

The Independent UK

Russia Says Mariupol Battle at End as Ukrainian Defenders Surrender

Russia has declared victory in its months-long operation to capture the strategic port of Mariupol after Ukraine ordered the last of its troops holed up in the city's Azovstal steelworks to lay down their arms. Moscow's flattening of Mariupol has drawn multiple accusations of war crimes, including over a deadly…

Asharq Al-Awsat

As Russia intensifies push for Donbas, Ukraine rules out ceasefire

Ukraine ruled out a ceasefire or concessions to Moscow on Saturday as Russia intensified an offensive in the eastern Donbas region and stopped providing gas to Finland.

Reuters

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Poignant last post of iconic Azovstal Ukrainian solder as Mariupol steelworks falls

A soldier from the elite Azov Regiment had documented resistance to Russians at the steel plant which he described as 'the place of my death and my life'

Daily Mirror

The fall of Mariupol, far-right ideology goes mainstream, France's new government

Nearly three months after the invasion of Ukraine, Russia is finally sealing its first major victory as Ukrainian fighters surrender from Mariupol's last pocket of resistance. Long after the Azov seaport was overtaken, the Ukrainians had kept control of the Azovstal steel mill compound, pinning down an estimated twelve Russian…

France 24

Russia says almost 2,000 Ukrainian fighters from Azovstal have surrendered so far

Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said that almost 2,000 Ukrainian soldiers holed up in Mariupol's Azovstal steelworks have surrendered so far, TASS news agency reported on Friday.

Reuters

EXPLAINER: What might happen to 100s of Ukrainian POWs?

The Red Cross says it has registered “hundreds” of Ukrainians POWs who have left the giant Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol after holding out in a weeks-long standoff with besieging Russian forces

The Independent UK

VIDEO: War In Ukraine: Russia Claims Nearly 1,000 Ukrainian Soldiers Surrendered At Azovstal Plant

The Russian MoD has claimed that nearly 1,000 Ukrainian fighters have surrendered at the Azovstal plant in the war-torn city of Mariupol so far this week.

Zenger

Russia says 771 more Ukrainian troops ‘surrender’ at Mariupol steelworks

Injured soldiers being treated in hospital while 900 held in a former prison colony, according to Moscow

The Guardian - UK

How the capture of Azov fighters affects the Russia-Ukraine war

The war’s post-apocalyptic poster boys are seen in a totally different light in the Kremlin and on Russian TV.

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Evening Standard

Russia says 900 of Ukraine’s Mariupol defenders sent to prison colony

More than 900 of Ukraine’s fighters who had been holding out inside Mariupol’s Azovstal steel plant have been taken to a prison colony, according to Moscow.

Reuters

Over half of Ukrainian fighters have left Azovstal, pro-Russian separatist says

More than half the Ukrainian fighters in the bunkers below the Azovstal steel plant have surrendered, the leader of the Russian-backed rebel Donetsk region said on Thursday, and the International Committee of the Red Cross is registering them.

Reuters

ICRC begins registering hundreds of prisoners of war from Azovstal

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has begun registering hundreds of prisoners of war (POWs) from the besieged Azovstal steel works in the Ukrainian port of Mariupol, it said on Thursday.

Al Jazeera

Timeline: Week 12 of Russia’s war in Ukraine

Al Jazeera recaps key events in week 12 of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

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Ukrainian fighters in Mariupol's Azovstal steelworks have surrendered to Russian troops. Here's what happens next

Nearly 1,000 Ukrainian fighters who had held out inside Mariupol's pulverised steel plant have surrendered after a battle that turned the city into a worldwide symbol of defiance and suffering.

Los Angeles Times

Russian soldier pleads guilty to war crime as conflict in Ukraine enters new phase

LVIV, Ukraine — As the first Russian soldier to be tried for war crimes pleaded guilty to killing a Ukrainian civilian, fears grew Wednesday over the fate of hundreds of Ukrainian soldiers who surrendered at the Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol a day earlier.

Los Angeles Times

Russian soldier pleads guilty to war crime; Mariupol fighters’ fate uncertain

Evening Standard

Fears for nearly 1,000 troops who have left Azovstal steelworks

Ukraine calls for prisoner swap but Russia has threatened to put some on trial for war crimes

Asharq Al-Awsat

Moscow Says More Mariupol Fighters Surrender; Kyiv Silent on Their Fate

Russia said on Wednesday nearly 700 more Ukrainian fighters had surrendered in Mariupol but Kyiv was silent about their fate, while a pro-Russian separatist leader said commanders were still holed up in tunnels beneath the Azovstal steelworks. More than a day after Kyiv announced it had ordered its garrison in…

Reuters

Ukrainian fighters surrendered at Azovstal sent to hospital in Novoazovsk -Russian ministry

Ukrainian fighters who surrendered at the Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol were taken to a hospital at Novoazovsk in the breakaway Donetsk republic, the Russian defence ministry said on a video on Wednesday.

France 24

'Don't trust Putin,' says Ukraine's ex-president Poroshenko after Azovstal evacuation

In an interview with FRANCE 24, former Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko expressed concern over the fate of the Ukrainian soldiers evacuated from the besieged Azovstal steel plant in the eastern city of Mariupol, saying that Russian President Vladimir Putin should "never" be trusted. Ukrainian authorities say the fighters have been…

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