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Ministry of Defense official Russia, Major General Igor Konashenkov said that Mariupol was completely cleansed of the militants of the Azov Regiment, which was banned in the Russian Federation and recognized as a terrorist, blocked on the territory of the metallurgical plant “Azovstal”. Konashenko stressed that they had to voluntarily lay down their arms and surrender.
A representative of the Ministry of Defense said that during the liberation of Mariupol, 1,464 Ukrainian soldiers had already surrendered and that the number was increasing every day. According to the agency, the total number of Ukrainian soldiers who took refuge in Azovstal exceeds 2.5 thousand people, and the losses of the Ukrainian group in Mariupol today reached more than 4 thousand.