Mariupol under siege: Russia says 1,730 steelworks soldiers have surrendered • FRANCE 24 English

In southern Ukraine, 1,730 Ukrainian soldiers surrendered this week at the Azovstal steel plant in the port city of Mariupol, Russia said. Ukraine is hoping to exchange the Azovstal soldiers for Russian prisoners. But pro-Kremlin authorities in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region said some of them could be put on trial.
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[georgehenry]

Wow, France24 I gotta give you credit where it’s due, since I schit on you so often.
You actually wrote the word “surrender” in your headline..
It’s the first time I’ve seen the word used by a media outlet.

[jonathanbilling]

They appear to show surrendered soldiers you mean.

[taskenorti]

After interrogation and trial, their fate will be known. In the Donbass, there is no moratorium on the d-e-a-t-h penalty, by the way.

[jonathansledge]

Guantanamo bay. Don't exchange anything.

[marynolaviney]

We keep praying as are Ukraine and Russian and every soldiers mother's at present. Prayer gets through.

[ce]

Federal and republicans forces definitely are winning, but with the western military aid suffers of innocent ukrainians will last for some prolonged time period

[chrisbremner]

They are going to the gallows or gulag especially nato advisors .

[edytha]

Pow exchange for evacuated soldiers?? +

[DavidGetling]

Russia has an excellent track record of either murdering its own returned POWs or sending them off to Gulags, where they probably die anyway, but just more slowly. Also, Putin's Russia is as bad, if not worse than Stalin's Russia, which murdered 22, 000 Polish officers. So I don't hold out that much hope for Russia honouring the articles of war, in regard to those who surrendered, let alone exchanging them. And let's not forget that, unlike the reluctant soldiers they would be getting back, these Ukrainian soldiers are incredibly brave and tenacious, and would be anxious to return to active duty ASAP.