More than 1,000 Ukrainians remain in Azovstal, says Russian separatist chief

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MARIUPOL, UKRAINE - More than 1,000 Ukrainian soldiers including senior commanders remain inside the besieged Azovstal steel plant in Ukraine's port city of Mariupol, a pro-Russian separatist leader

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MARIUPOL, UKRAINE - More than 1,000 Ukrainian soldiers including senior commanders remain inside the besieged Azovstal steel plant in Ukraine's port city of Mariupol, a pro-Russian separatist leader said on Wednesday .

"Commanders and high-ranking fighters of Azov have not yet come out," he told journalists, including from AFP, on a press tour organised by the Russian military. Russia last month claimed control of Mariupol after a weeks-long siege, but hundreds of Ukrainian soldiers remained holed up in underground tunnels beneath the huge Azovstal industrial zone.left with little choice but to surrender.

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