One day after Russia confirmed the total eviction of the Azovstal steel plant, one of the redoubts that the Ukrainian combatants had defended for almost three months, this Saturday photos of Volodimir Zelenski’s soldiers were released in the underground tunnels of the factory , when they still dominated the territory.
“Since May 16, 2,439 Nazis from the Azov (battalion) and Ukrainian servicemen blocked at the steel mill have surrendered. Today, May 20, the last group of 531 fighters surrendered”, the spokesman for the Russian Ministry of Defense, Igor Konashenkov, had reported this Friday.
He also told President Vladimir Putin “the end of the operation and the complete liberation of the complex (from Azovstal) and the city of Mariupol”.
The images that were known in the last hours show how the Ukrainian soldiers lived in the tunnels and corridors of the steel plant. In that place they developed some of the bloodiest fighting of the war and where the defenders of the country showed the greatest effort.
The images were released a day after Russia confirmed the complete seizure of the steel plant. AP Photo.
This is how the Ukrainian troops lived for months at the Azovstal plant. AP Photo
According to Russia, 51 Ukrainian fighters were seriously injured in the fighting. AP Photo.
According to official Russian information, of the total number of combatants who laid down their arms and surrendered, 51 were seriously injured.
“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.
Readings and pastimes in one of the bloodiest terrains of the war between Russia and Ukraine. AP Photo.
The photos show how the Ukrainian soldiers lived inside the steel plant. AP Photo.
The images were released a day after Russia confirmed the complete seizure of the steel plant. AP Photo.
The injured were taken to hospital in Novoazovsk, a town controlled by Russia.
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 .
The injured were taken to hospital in Novoazovsk, a town controlled by Russia.
