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Robert Dex

Fears for nearly 1,000 troops who have left Azovstal steelworks

A Ukrainian serviceman is searched by a pro-Russian military official after leaving the besieged Azovstal steel plant in Ukraine’s port city of Mariupol

(Picture: Russian Defence Ministry/AFP via)

There are fears for the fate of the nearly 1,000-strong Ukrainian force that held out inside Mariupol’s pulverized steel plant for months before surrendering to the Russians.

Footage of the soldiers - many of them badly wounded - emerging from the ruined Azovstal steelworks shows them being searched and put under guard by Russian forces before being driven away.

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