More of 1,000 Ukrainian and foreign servicemen have been transferred from Mariupol to Russia to carry out investigative actions, as reported by the Russian news agency TASS. “More than 1,000 people from the Azovstal steel plant have been transferred to Russia. The security forces are working closely with them,” a source from the Russian security forces told the aforementioned agency, adding that the investigation intends to send more Ukrainian prisoners of war to Russia in the near future.
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“In the near future, after face-to-face talks with a number of prisoners of war, the investigation also plans to send them to Russia,” the same source said, adding that around a hundred people could already be in Moscow. “Among them foreign mercenaries who surrendered in Mariupol,” he stressed.
The authorities of the self-proclaimed republic of Donetsk announced last week that some of the prisoners of the Azovstal steel plant, including those who surrendered, would be sentenced to death. On May 20, Russia reported the definitive seizure of the Azovstal plant, the last stronghold of the resistance offered by the Ukrainian forces in the besieged city of Mariupol, located on the shores of the Azov Sea, in an attempt to close the exit to the the Ukrainian sea and unite the Donbas region with the Crimean peninsula, both under the umbrella of the Kremlin.