Hundreds more Ukrainian fighters have emerged from the Mariupol stronghold where they made their last stand and surrendered, Russia said Thursday. The Red Cross is working to register them as prisoners of war.
The Russian military said that a total of 1,730 Ukrainian troops at the Azovstal steelworks have surrendered since Monday. At least some were taken by the Russians to a former penal colony in territory controlled by Moscow-backed separatists, and a separatist official said that those who needed medical assistance were hospitalized.
Still, it would be a clear win in a war that has seen Moscow suffer a series of setbacks in the face of stiffer than expected Ukrainian resistance. Kyiv's troops, bolstered by Western weapons, thwarted Russia's initial goal of taking the capital and have since bogged them down in the Donbas, the eastern region that President Vladimir Putin now has his sights on.
With his troops making only slow progress on the battlefield, Putin has also lost ground on the diplomatic front. Sweden and Finland recently abandoned generations of being militarily non-aligned to ask to join NATO, fearing that Russia might not stop with Ukraine. Separatist authorities in the Donetsk region of the Donbas, meanwhile, said two civilians were killed and five wounded in Ukrainian shelling over the last 24 hours.
The city — its prewar population of about 430,000 now reduced by about three-quarters — has largely been reduced to rubble by relentless bombardment, and Ukraine says over 20,000 civilians have been killed there.
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