Matthieu Limongi, edited by Solène Leroux 8:12 p.m., May 17, 2022
What remains of the last pocket of resistance in Mariupol, in the huge Azovstal steelworks?
Moscow announced on Tuesday that 265 Ukrainian soldiers had surrendered and taken themselves prisoner.
Among them, about fifty wounded, kyiv hopes for an exchange against Russian prisoners.
Has the Russian army taken all of Mariupol in Ukraine?
She is getting closer and closer.
Last week, before this surrender, kyiv spoke of 1,000 soldiers, including several hundred wounded, still entrenched in the building.
We know that there are still some today, because they communicate on social networks, in particular members of the Azov battalion.
It remains to be seen now whether these soldiers will continue the fighting.
As for the 265 released on Tuesday, they were transferred to pro-Russian territory.
This first stage marks the end of Ukrainian resistance in Mariupol.
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"Ukraine needs its living heroes"
"They accepted defeat, without naming it. President Zelensky did not give the order to surrender," says Carole Grimaud Potter, professor of geopolitics and specialist in Russia.
"He simply announced that the soldiers had fulfilled their mission and that the most important thing today was to save lives. This is a situation that could not last. The only possible solution was indeed to ask these soldiers to surrender. , even if we don't say the word, but in any case to avoid that they are all killed."
"Ukraine needs its living heroes," President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Monday.
Discussions are ongoing between the two parties regarding the fate of these new prisoners.