On the 6th local time, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky admitted when meeting with reporters that about 2,500 defenders of the Azov Steel Plant were captured by Russia, and the General Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry was in charge of the rescue.

  On May 20, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced that since May 16, a total of 2,439 Ukrainian fighters had surrendered.

The Ukrainian official and media have been publicizing that the defenders of the Azov Steel Plant have been ordered to evacuate.

(Headquarters reporter Wang Bin)