Azov commander announces Azovstal an Mariupol resistance over

A video message from the commander of Ukraine's Azov* regiment Denis Prokopenko announcing the end of Azovstal resistance has appeared on the Internet. In the video, Prokopenko says that Ukraine's top military leadership ordered to end the defense of Mariupol. Civilians and seriously wounded individuals were evacuated from the territory of the Azovstal steel plant, he noted. The latter, the Azov* commander said, would receive the required assistance before they could be exchanged and brought back to the territory of Ukraine.