Ukraine’s president says stalemate with Russia ‘not an option’; about 1,000 people, ‘including foreign mercenaries who surrendered in Mariupol’ are in Russia, media reports say
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More than 1,000 Ukrainian servicemen and foreign mercenaries, who had surrendered in Mariupol, have been transferred to Russia for an investigation there, a law enforcement source told Russian state-owned news agency, Tass.
More Ukrainian prisoners of war will be taken to Russia “later on”, the outlet cited a the Russian law enforcement source as saying.
Over 1,000 people from Azovstal have been transferred to Russia. Law enforcement officers are working with them.
Investigators also plan to send a number of other captives to Russia in the future, following a series of face-to-face confrontations.”
