{"id":252189,"date":"2022-04-13T15:31:09","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T15:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=252189"},"modified":"2022-04-15T06:27:30","modified_gmt":"2022-04-15T06:27:30","slug":"mass-surrender-of-ukrainian-forces-in-mariupol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=252189","title":{"rendered":"More Than 1,000 Ukrainian Marines Surrender in Mariupol"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Tom Batchelor \u2013 The Independent April 13, 2022<\/strong><\/h1>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WUivQnrVZgI\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n&#8212;<\/div>\n<p>More than 1,000 Ukrainian marines have been forced to lay down their arms in the besieged city of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/mariupol\">Mariupol<\/a> after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/europe\/ukraine-russia-genocide-war-crimes-bucha-mariupol-b2056854.html\">heavy fighting<\/a> and severed supply lines left them <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/europe\/british-fighter-mariupol-ukraine-surrender-b2056477.html\">short of ammunition<\/a> and food, the Kremlin has claimed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/russia\">Russia<\/a>\u2019s defence ministry claimed that 1,026 Ukrainian soldiers from the 36th Marine Brigade who were situated near an iron and steel works had surrendered.<\/p>\n<p>Oleksandr Motuzyanyk, the Ukrainian defence ministry spokesperson, said he had no information about the claim.<\/p>\n<p>There was also no immediate comment from the Ukrainian president&#8217;s office, or the Ukrainian general staff, which provides routine updates on the fighting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the town of Mariupol, near the Ilyich Iron and Steel Works, as a result of successful offensives by Russian armed forces and Donetsk People\u2019s Republic militia units, 1,026 Ukrainian soldiers of the 36th Marine Brigade voluntarily laid down arms and surrendered,\u201d Russia\u2019s defence ministry said in a statement on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian defence ministry said 151 wounded Ukrainian soldiers were treated for injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Russian television showed pictures of what it said were marines surrendering up at the Ilyich plant.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/ramzan-kadyrov\">Ramzan Kadyrov<\/a>, the Kremlin-backed leader of Chechnya, whose forces are said to be playing a major role in the battle for Mariupol, also earlier claimed more than 1,000 Ukrainian marines had surrendered.<\/p>\n<p>He urged remaining forces in the Azovstal steel mill, a separate facility to the Ilyich plant, to surrender.<\/p>\n<p>It was not clear to which plant \u2013 Azovstal or Ilyich \u2013 Mr Kadyrov was referring when he talked about the purported surrender of 1,000 marines.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWithin Azovstal at the moment there are about 200 wounded who cannot receive any medical assistance,\u201d he said in a social media post.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor them and all the rest it would be better to end this pointless resistance and go home to their families.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Moscow said a group of up to 100 Ukrainian soldiers using tanks and armoured vehicles had been blocked during an attempt to fight their way out of the besieged IIyich plant and leave the city.<\/p>\n<p>The same day, a post on the Ukrainian marine brigade&#8217;s Facebook page had said the unit was preparing for a final battle in Mariupol that would end in either death or capture.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today will probably be the ultimate battle, as there is no ammo left,&#8221; said the post. &#8220;Beyond that: hand to hand fighting. Beyond that, for some death, for others capture.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It was not clear at the time whether that post was genuine or faked, although Russia\u2019s latest claims of a mass surrender suggest Ukrainian forces are losing the battle for Mariupol, a strategic port city in the Donbas.<\/p>\n<p>If captured, Mariupol would represent the Russians\u2019 biggest strategic victory since the war began seven weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/europe\/ukraine-marines-surrender-mariupol-russia-b2057132.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia appears to be on the threshold of major victory as more than a thousand Ukrainian marines are reported to have surrendered in the strategic city of Mariupol<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":252191,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[91,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-russia","category-ukraine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=252189"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":252194,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252189\/revisions\/252194"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/252191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=252189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=252189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=252189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}