A contingent of Ukrainian fighters who doggedly defended a steel mill in Mariupol for weeks have 'fulfilled its combat mission,' Ukrainian officials said, and efforts were underway to evacuate the last of the defenders.
As Ukraine continues to fight off Russian forces, the first war crimes trial of a Russian soldier began in Kyiv.A contingent of Ukrainian fighters who doggedly defended a steel mill in Mariupol for weeks have"fulfilled its combat mission," Ukrainian officials said, and efforts were underway to evacuate the last of the defenders.
Ukraine Minister for the Reintegration Irina Vereshchuk said a prisoner exchange will take place for the more than 50 wounded soldiers when their condition stabilizes. More than 200 other fighters were evacuated through a humanitarian corridor, she said. ►After over 200 years as a nonaligned nation, Sweden will join neighboring Finland in applying for membership in NATO, a potentially historic shift motivated by Russia's invasion of Ukraine.Hundreds of Ukraine fighters who held on for weeks at the Azovstal steel plant were able to keep Russia from shifting up to 20,000 personnel to other locations in Ukraine, the Ukraine military said in a statement.
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