Russia seizes eastern port city of Mariupol Moscow also claimed that more than 1,000 Ukrainian troops had surrendered. Russia’s Defense Ministry says 1,026 soldiers and women in the Marine Brigade have voluntarily given up their weapons and surrendered. But Ukraine has denied this.
151 Ukrainian soldiers were wounded in the clashes. Alimov reported that Russian soldiers had given them first aid and transferred them to the nearby Mariupol City Hospital for further treatment. But a Ukrainian defense spokesman told Reuters that no information had been received about the surrender.
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The Russian army has been besieging Mariupol in the Donbass region for more than a month. Although the city was completely destroyed by airstrikes, it has not yet been annexed by Russia. This is strategic, as the fall of Mariupol will pave the way for Russia’s rebel-held eastern region and Crimea, which Russia annexed in 2014.
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