Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced that Russian forces have destroyed the eastern Donbas region, where they are committing genocide, at a time when Russia announced that more than 1,900 Ukrainian soldiers have surrendered since Monday after they were holed up in a steel complex in Mariupol.
While the Reuters news agency published scenes showing the arrival of Ukrainian soldiers to a prison in Donetsk, the fate of these fighters remains unknown. Ukraine intends to organize an exchange of prisoners of war, refusing to talk about the surrender of its soldiers, but Russia confirmed that it considers at least some of them to be “neo-Nazi” fighters and not soldiers.