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Ukrainian soldiers who surrendered to Russian forces at the Azovstal steel plant in the city of Mariupol may face the death penalty, a pro-Moscow separatist official said Monday. “The court will make a decision about them,” Yuri Sirovatko, the justice minister of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic in eastern Ukraine, was quoted as saying by the RIA Novosti news agency. “For such crimes we have the highest form of punishment in the DNR — […]
by Joshua Melvin, with David Stout in Kyiv Agence France Presse All vulnerable civilians have been evacuated from Mariupol, Ukraine said Saturday, presaging a showdown between Kyiv’s last remaining soldiers there and the besieging Russian forces ahead of celebrations marking the Soviet World War II victory. The Azovstal steelworks, the final Ukrainian holdout in the devastated port city, has taken on a symbolic value in the war. Kyiv fears a renewed intensity to Moscow’s […]
