China News Service, May 17. According to the Russian Satellite News Agency and Agence France-Presse, the Russian Ministry of Defense said on the 17th local time that in the past day, a total of 265 Azov battalions were besieged at the Azov steel plant in Mariupol. personnel and Ukrainian soldiers surrendered.
On April 21, local time, thick smoke rose from the Azov Steel Plant in Mariupol, Ukraine.
According to reports, the Russian Ministry of Defense stated that the besieged Ukrainian armed personnel began to walk out and lay down their weapons from the 16th, and 51 of them were wounded.
All those requiring medical attention were taken to a hospital in Nova Azovsk, Donetsk.
In the early morning of the same day, the Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine said that a total of 53 seriously wounded people were transported to Novo-Azosk.
The Russian Ministry of Defense previously stated that after negotiations with representatives of Ukrainian military personnel who were blocked at the Azov steel plant, the two sides had reached an agreement on the transfer of the wounded.