Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin
Note: 200 is the Russian code for dead, while 300 is for wounded. They are cargo codes.
[ColonelCassad] There is a load of 200. There is a load of 300. And there is a load of 1488, which goes from Azovstal to the colony in Yelenovka (the wounded are taken to Novoazovsk)Today, the capitulation of the enemy at Azovstal continued. According to the Deputy Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN Polyansky, the surrender took place without preconditions.
The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation has already announced that it will conduct interrogations of captured Natsiks.
Earlier, at the suggestion of Wasserman, the Duma announced the need to issue a decree banning the exchange of Nazi war criminals.
Fully agree with these statements. VSUshnikov on ours can and should be changed. Nazis and war criminals - judged on the territory of the DPR.
Three from Russian military blogger Andrey Chervonets, with the first starting at 0001 hrs, May 17th:
Still started to give up
May 17, 0:01 am
The first ten buses with prisoners of war left Azovstal drove towards the DPR
According to preliminary information, about 300 militants left the territory of the plant today. About 50 of them were wounded.
The wounded are now being taken to the Central Regional Hospital of Novoazovsk, where they will be provided with the necessary medical care. The rest, not wounded, were taken away by buses in the direction of Yelenovka. Ukrainian prisoners of war are kept in the colony there.
The next batch of prisoners will begin to surrender at 0400 hrs.
It is possible that some of the prisoners who are related to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, policemen or border guards found themselves by the will of fate at Azovstal will then be exchanged. But not the Nazis from the "Azov" regiment. For the technologists of the Office of the President of Ukraine, the surrender was a surprise.
Zelensky is preparing another chatter-statement on the fact of mass surrender.
Judging by the pause in all ‼️ Zelensky’s LOMs, they are still developing an information strategy and waiting for a go-ahead on what to say.
PS
Kiev officially recognized the surrender of 264 in Mariupol. Zelensky, in his address, allocated only 40 seconds for the surrender of his militants.
Now Ukraine is holding about 500 prisoners of war soldiers and officers of the Russian Federation, DPR and LPR.
At the disposal of the Russian Federation, the DPR and the LPR are about 5,000 Ukrainian prisoners of war. After the surrender of the militants stuck at Azovstal, this figure will grow to seven thousand.
Second posted at 1300 hrs. The link is no videos embedded in Telegram, so the videos ae untranslatable.
Garbage removal from Azovstal
May 17, 1:01 p.m.
Published a video with the "evacuation" (surrender) of 265 militants hiding in the basements of "Azovstal"
According to Russian estimates, the initial enemy grouping in Mariupol was up to 20,000 Ukrainian servicemen, according to Ukrainian estimates, up to 14,500 soldiers and officers. On May 16, 2227 people remained. There are less than 2,000 left hiding in the cellars now. Draw your own conclusions.
The third post:
The last chords of "Azov"
May 17, 21:05
The process has already gone serious, not like yesterday, when a quarter of a thousand people surrendered from the Ukrainian side
New batches of militants from Azovstal continued to surrender all day today
The State Duma will consider on Wednesday a draft resolution banning the exchange of Nazi criminals. Of the two and a half thousand representatives of the ukrovermacht who remained at Azovstal, approximately one in three were from the Nazi Azov regiment.