Family members of the fighters, who came from a variety of military and law enforcement units, have pleaded for them to be given rights as prisoners of war and eventually returned to Ukraine. Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said Saturday that Ukraine “will fight for the return” of every one of them.
A prominent member of Russia’s parliament, Leonid Slutsky, said Moscow was studying the possibility of exchanging the Azovstal fighters for Viktor Medvedchuk, a wealthy Ukrainian with close ties to Putin who faces criminal charges in Ukraine, the Russian news agency Interfax reported. Slutsky later walked back those remarks, saying he agreed with Pushilin that their fate should be decided by a tribunal.
The impact on the broader war remained unclear. Many Russian troops already had been redeployed from Mariupol to elsewhere in the conflict. Sloviansk, in the Donetsk region, is critical to Russia’s objective of capturing all of eastern Ukraine and saw fierce fighting last month after Moscow’s troops backed off from Kyiv. Russian shelling on Saturday killed seven civilians and injured 10 more elsewhere in the region, the governor said.
Portugal and Poland, where Costa stopped for talks before traveling on to Kyiv, support bringing Ukraine into the European Union quickly, even if some other EU members balk at granting it speedy access.for Ukraine, with half for military assistance. Portugal pledged up to 250 million euros, as well as continued shipments of military equipment.
With Russia controlling the city, Ukrainian authorities are likely to face delays in documenting evidence of alleged Russian atrocities in Mariupol, including the bombings of a maternity hospital and. Satellite images in April showed what appeared to be mass graves just outside Mariupol, where local officials accused Russia of concealing the slaughter by burying up to 9,000 civilians.
They must NOT remain in Russian hands, and their lives must NOT depend on Russian honor!!! If this ultimately means internment for the duration of the war in a neutral country, not my first choice, then so be it.
Reminds people of the flagrant Guantanamo prison. Will Russia go that far?
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No. It's not like this. Listen report of Venediktov: 2500 it's ONLY count of military personnel of Ukraine Armed Forces. Azov not in this count. Even officily Azov registered in Ukraine as 'police special forces'. So it's 2500 + azov
Russians, Ukrainians. I call them white people. Hmmm.
It's pretty straightforward: most will never be seen again, and in the interim, they'll be tortured.
La France, l'un des pays qui a modernisé l'armée russe qui a tué les enfants qui ont versé le sang en Ukraine, va-t-elle s'excuser ?
If they didn't involve in the killing of civilians or Russian P.O.W's in the past they might be sent home when the war is over. However those with tattooed nazi symbols up to their butts may end up joining their fuhrer 🤓
And who bothers about those Ukronazi terrorists? They have killed thousands of civilians there and used them as hostages. by the way there is a lot of images of them now depicting how heavily they are tattooed with nazi simbolics.
That's rich, invade an independent sovereign country, bomb positions continually for months, then take it's defenders prisoner & accuse THEM of crimes Insanity in UkraineRussianWar
The trial of war criminals is a common practice. The shooter in Buffalo with an emblem like Azov also needs to be released?
The Nazis and what they have done in the past need to be addressed in court. What can be hoped for is that the trial is fair.
The Red Army has a long history of making it's captives disappear.
Hopefully they execute the ones from Azov who affirm being white nationalists.
Reminder that Ukraine has thousands of Russian POWs and unfortunately unclaimed Russian bodies as well... so Ukraine has a lot of leverage
A good game to blame Russia ! As if USA and Nato had no role in starting this war ! But then who cares as long as someone else is dying. US and it’s stooges want to weaken Russia but not aware that the actual enemy is already inside: wait for 15 years
Other than protecting the corrupt Biden administration, how is any of this the business of the United States?
how dare the russians presume to hold nazis to account?
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