Russia's parliament will consider banning the exchange of Russian prisoners of war for captured members of Ukraine's Azov Regiment, the speaker said on Tuesday, after the last Ukrainian defenders of Mariupol's Azovstal steel works surrendered to Russian forces.
The Azov Regiment, a one-time nationalist militia now integrated into Ukraine's National Guard, became the face of resistance against Russian troops in the city, which saw some of the fiercest fighting in what Moscow terms its "special military operation" in Ukraine.
