More than a thousand soldiers from the Ukrainian Navy’s 36th Brigade, including 162 officers, have surrendered in the besieged port city of Mariupol. This is what the Russian Defense Ministry claims in a statement, which says that “in the city of Mariupol, after the success of the offensives of the Russian Armed Forces and militia units of the Donetsk People’s Republic, 1,026 Ukrainian soldiers of the 36 voluntarily laid down their arms and surrendered, Moscow’s statements follow similar claims by Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov on his Telegram channel, who called it “a right choice” and also spoke of “hundreds injured”.
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According to Kadyrov, “every day Ukrainian forces are being defeated one by one. “The Ukrainian fighters don’t know what to do with the wounded, they don’t know who to turn to and what to do next, because resistance is futile and there are hardly any fighters left. Only small individual groups are active. he said. The Chechen leader added that “at the Azovstal plant there are about 200 wounded who cannot receive medical help”. And “it is better for them and for everyone else to end this useless resistance and go home to their families”.
Meanwhile, residents of the villages around Mariupol are complaining of illnesses from possible chemicals released by the Russians. This was announced by Mariupol Mayor Vadym Boichenko, adding: “The Russians used some chemicals, but it is impossible for us to take samples. The wind spread the substance. And in the suburbs of Sartana and Talakovka, some people got sick and left those areas”.
“Today there are no humanitarian corridors for civilians because the occupiers are violating the ceasefire,” said Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk. “Not only are the occupiers ignoring international humanitarian law, they are also unable to adequately control their military on the ground,” the Minister for the Reintegration of the Occupied Territories wrote on Telegram’s Humanitarian Corridors today. But we are working to reopen them as soon as possible.