KYIV: President Volodymyr Zelenskyy brought home from Türkiye on Saturday (Jul 8) five former commanders of Ukraine's garrison in Mariupol, a highly symbolic achievement that Russia said violated a prisoner exchange deal engineered last year. Russia immediately denounced the release. Kremlin spokesma
KYIV: President Volodymyr Zelenskyy brought home from Türkiye on Saturday five former commanders of Ukraine's garrison in Mariupol, a highly symbolic achievement that Russia said violated a prisoner exchange deal engineered last year.
The five commanders have been lionised in Ukraine after leading a fierce three-month defence of Mariupol from the Azovstal steel plant last year, the biggest city Russia has captured. Thousands of civilians were killed in Mariupol when Russian forces laid the city to waste in the first months of the war. The Ukrainian defenders held out in tunnels and bunkers under the Azovstal plant, until finally ordered by Kyiv to surrender in May last year.
Peskov told Russia's RIA news agency:"No one informed us about this. According to the agreements, these ringleaders were to remain on the territory of Turkey until the end of the conflict."
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