The World Will Never Forget The Brave Defenders Of Mariupol

[DanieRains]

True heroes.

[PortTack]

1. Sickened to hear they will be treated as terrorists..f..king russians

Slava Ukraine

[TomSlick]

2. The Russians have guaranteed that Ukrainian soldiers will not surrender,

no matter how hopeless the situation. Surrender will only result in torture and death. If you are going to die in any event, it's better to take a few of the Russian bastards with you.

Slava Ukraini!

[uponit7771]

3. +1,

[Igel]

4. The Azov Battalion already knew that.

It's not a good thing.

They knew what happened to Ukrainians captured in 2015. Some of the news leaked into the West, but nobody much cared.

The Azovtsy assumed they'd be killed. It won't go well for Zelenskyy if they are. They were probably about beaten down. Hard to face death, watching comrades get wounded and die around you while you suffer, for week after week. I'd at least have required that before the Azovtsy were taken out that OSCE or UN or Red Cross (non-Slavic) be present to monitor and document the # of evacuees and their state.

Ukraine's said repeatedly that those evacuated, not just POWs, haven't been allowed access by RC or Ukr consular folk. But Russia agreed to both, meaningless utterances from a meaningless government.

[WarGamer]

5. They should have just withdrawn earlier...

Fought another day.

Now there are 2000 fewer UKR soldiers fighting the Russians