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Ukrainian fighter's wife hopes prisoner swap pans out with Russia

As Ukrainian fighters left the Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol this week and ended their dramatic last stand against Russia's siege, Mariia Zimareva tried in vain to spot her husband amid the flood of news pictures being published.

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Ukrainian medic smuggles harrowing bodycam footage from Mariupol in TAMPON

Yuliia Paievska, 53, recorded footage of her team’s desperate efforts to save both Ukrainian and Russian soldiers in her humanitarian fight - with one Russian solider asking her in apparent confusion why she was offering him treatment

Daily Mirror

Soldiers from feared Ukrainian regiment share horror conditions inside Russian camp

Ukrainian captured soldiers have revealed their treatment at the hands of the Russians after around 1,000 fighters surrendered at the Azovstal plant this week leaving them in detention camps

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Russian bombardment has turned Ukraine’s Donbas into ‘hell,’ Zelenskyy says

KYIV, Ukraine — With its grip tightened along the southern coast, Russia redoubled its assault on Ukraine’s Donbas region Friday, turning parts of the country’s eastern industrial heartland into “hell,” President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.

Los Angeles Times

Last Ukrainian troops in Mariupol ‘told to stop defence of besieged city’

The Ministry of Defence claimed up to 1,700 troops from the steel plant have surrendered to Russian forces

Evening Standard

Russia aims to capitalize on controlling the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol

More than a thousand soldiers were evacuated from the Azovstal steel plant, and Russia is consolidating control of Mariupol. It is making plans to annex the southwestern parts of the country.

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Russia says almost 2,000 Ukrainian fighters from Azovstal have surrendered so far

Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said that almost 2,000 Ukrainian soldiers holed up in Mariupol's Azovstal steelworks have surrendered so far, TASS news agency reported on Friday.

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Live updates | 12 killed in Russian attacks in Severodonetsk

Russian forces have attacked the cities of Lysychansk and Severodonetsk in Ukraine’s eastern region of Luhansk, the region’s governor says

The Independent UK

Putin ‘risks heavy losses in rush to redeploy Mariupol troops’

Vladimir Putin looks set to rush his troops from the besieged city of Mariupol into the battle for the Donbas risking more heavy losses, British defence chiefs said on Friday.

Evening Standard

Troops who defended Mariupol steel mill registered as POWs

Amid fear of Russian reprisals, hundreds of Ukrainian fighters who surrendered after enduring the merciless assault on Mariupol’s steel factory have been registered as prisoners of war

The Independent UK

Moscow says hundreds of Ukrainian troops in custody; US Senate approves $40 billion in new aid

KYIV, Ukraine — Russia said Thursday that more than 1,700 Ukrainian fighters had surrendered at a steel plant in the conquered city of Mariupol, even as Ukraine claimed battlefield gains elsewhere, continued its first war crimes trial against a Russian soldier and prepared to launch a second.

Los Angeles Times

What might happen to Ukraine’s Azovstal prisoners of war?

Attention now is turning to how the Mariupol POWs might be treated and what rights they have as prisoners of Russia.

Al Jazeera

Hundreds more fighters surrender in Mariupol, Russia says

Measures being taken to evacuate Azovstal ‘heroes’, official claims

The Independent UK

No, this Azov fighter's wife is not a neo-Nazi sympathiser

Following several interviews pleading for help from the West, photos of the wife of an Azov regiment fighter in Ukraine's Mariupol are linking her to neo-Nazi ideology, but a reverse image search gives different results. We tell you more in this edition of Truth or Fake with Vedika Bahl.

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EXPLAINER: What might happen to 100s of Ukrainian POWs?

The Red Cross says it has registered “hundreds” of Ukrainians POWs who have left the giant Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol after holding out in a weeks-long standoff with besieging Russian forces

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VIDEO: War In Ukraine: Russia Claims Nearly 1,000 Ukrainian Soldiers Surrendered At Azovstal Plant

The Russian MoD has claimed that nearly 1,000 Ukrainian fighters have surrendered at the Azovstal plant in the war-torn city of Mariupol so far this week.

Los Angeles Times

Moscow says hundreds of Ukrainian troops in custody as war crimes trials continue

The Guardian - UK

Russia says 771 more Ukrainian troops ‘surrender’ at Mariupol steelworks

Injured soldiers being treated in hospital while 900 held in a former prison colony, according to Moscow

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Al Jazeera

How the capture of Azov fighters affects the Russia-Ukraine war

The war’s post-apocalyptic poster boys are seen in a totally different light in the Kremlin and on Russian TV.

The Independent UK

Captive medic's bodycam shows firsthand horror of Mariupol

A celebrated Ukrainian medic recorded her time in Mariupol on a data card no bigger than a thumbnail

Reuters

Evacuation of Ukrainian troops from Mariupol continues - Ukrainian general

A Ukrainian general said on Thursday the evacuation of Ukrainian troops from the city of Mariupol was continuing but provided no details.

Evening Standard

Russia says 900 of Ukraine’s Mariupol defenders sent to prison colony

More than 900 of Ukraine’s fighters who had been holding out inside Mariupol’s Azovstal steel plant have been taken to a prison colony, according to Moscow.

The Independent UK

Captive medic’s bodycam shows firsthand horror of Mariupol

A celebrated Ukrainian medic recorded her time in Mariupol on a data card no bigger than a thumbnail

Al Jazeera

Ukraine’s Mykolaiv on edge amid fears of a new Russian assault

Russia’s military progress in Mariupol has sparked concerns it could widen its offensive into southern Ukraine.

Reuters

ICRC begins registering hundreds of prisoners of war from Azovstal

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has begun registering hundreds of prisoners of war (POWs) from the besieged Azovstal steel works in the Ukrainian port of Mariupol, it said on Thursday.

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