“Over the past 24 hours, 771 militants of the Azov nationalist unit surrendered at the blocked Azovstal metallurgical plant in Mariupol.
A total of 1,730 militants have surrendered since May 16, including 80 wounded,” said Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Major General Igor Konashenkov.
On the eve it became known that 694 militants surrendered during the day, blocked at the Azovstal plant in Mariupol.
Earlier, the head of the Donetsk People's Republic, Denis Pushilin, noted that "more than half" of the Ukrainian military left the Azovstal plant in Mariupol.