More than 1,000 Ukrainian soldiers in Mariupol lay down arms

More than 1,000 Ukrainian soldiers have surrendered in the southeastern Ukrainian port city of Mariupol, which has been embattled for weeks, according to the Russian government. 1026 soldiers from the 36th Marine Brigade "voluntarily laid down their weapons and surrendered," the Defense Ministry in Moscow said Wednesday. The ministry did not specify a date. The information could not be independently verified at first.

Among the soldiers were 47 women and 126 officers, the ministry added. Some 150 were injured and taken to the Mariupol hospital, it said. The soldiers had surrendered near a steel plant, it said.

A report broadcast Wednesday night by the Russian television station Rossiya 24 had already mentioned more than 1,000 Ukrainian soldiers who had surrendered. Men in camouflage uniforms were shown transporting wounded people on stretchers, as well as others who were apparently being interrogated in a cave.

ET Germany

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