The five commanders led last year’s defence of the Ukrainian city of Mariupol and the Azovstal steel works. Read more at straitstimes.com.
KYIV - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, returning home from a visit to Turkey, brought with him five commanders of Ukraine’s former garrison in Mariupol, forced to live in Turkey under the terms of a prisoner exchange last year.
The commanders, lionised as heroes in Ukraine, led last year’s defence of the port, the biggest city Russia captured in its invasion. Thousands of civilians were killed inside Mariupol when Russian forces laid waste to the city during a three-month siege.in May last year. Moscow freed some of them in September last year in a prisoner swop brokered by Ankara, under terms that required the commanders to remain in Turkey until the end of the war.met Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan for talks in Istanbul“Ukrainian soldiers Denys Prokopenko, Svyatoslav Palamar, Serhiy Volynsky, Oleh Khomenko, Denys Shleha.
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