Pushilin said that more than 5,000 Ukrainian prisoners are being held in the DPR

According to him, 2,439 people surrendered from Azovstal. 

“And before that, there are still about 3 thousand [military personnel], but these are mixed units of the armed formations of Ukraine,” TASS quoted him as saying.

Earlier, the Ambassador of the Lugansk People's Republic in Russia, Rodion Miroshnik, said that there are currently about 8,000 Ukrainian prisoners of war in Donbass.