Marioupol “did not fall”Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said this Sunday, April 17 in an interview with the American channel ABC. “Our forces are still there, our soldiers will fight until the end and for the moment they are still in Mariupol”, did he declare.
According to CNN, the Russian Defense Ministry confirmed on Sunday that an ultimatum given to Ukrainian soldiers still resisting in some devastated parts of the port city had been ignored.
According to a press release from the Russian authorities quoted by the American news channel, he had been offered to the soldiers surrounded in the Azovstal industrial complex “to voluntarily lay down their arms and surrender to save their lives”. According to the same statement, Ukrainian soldiers who had previously surrendered reported “that up to 400 foreign mercenaries who joined the Ukrainian forces were trapped in the factory”including Europeans and Canadians. “If they continue to resist, they will all be eliminated”, threatened the Russian army.
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