
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.