Kyiv – The last Ukrainian forces holed up in Mariupol’s smashed Azovstal steelworks surrendered on Friday, Russia’s Defense Ministry said, ending the most destructive siege of the war as Moscow fought to cement control over the Donbas region. Hours before Russia’s announcement on Friday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the last defenders at the steelworks
NEW DELHI: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday claimed victory in the strategic port of Mariupol, even as he ordered his troops not to storm the last pocket of Ukrainian resistance in the war’s iconic battleground. “Mariupol has been liberated,” defence minister Sergei Shoigu told President Vladimir Putin during a televised meeting. Russian troops have
LVIV/KYIV – Ukrainian soldiers resisted a Russian ultimatum to lay down arms on Sunday in the pulverized port of Mariupol, which Moscow said its forces had almost completely seized in what would be its biggest prize of the nearly two-month war. Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said troops in Mariupol were still fighting despite a
IMAGE GALLERY (CLICK TO ENLARGE). Source link. Paris– Some call them war heroes, others neo-Nazis: Ukraines Azov Regiment is at the heart of the propaganda war between Kyiv and Moscow, as Russia declares to seek the “denazification” of Ukraine.The Azov Special Operations Detachment, previously known as the “Azov Battalion” but now called the “Azov Regiment,”
