Azovstal Ukrainian fighters continue to surrender
* How the elite Ukrainian battalion Azov surrenders … for them war is over (vid)
* Azov soldiers surrender & then get treatment from Russian military hospital (vid)
* Russian Iskander missile launchers heading to Finland (vid)
Over 2,500 AFU servicemen in industrial zone, 404 wounded, 55 seriously injured, 200 corpses frozen in refrigerators

[Editor’s Note: Today was good news, as the Ukrainian neo-Nazis can continue their Yellow Brick Road tour and not die in the caverns of the Mariupol steel mill.
Mariupol can continue clearing rubble and repairing basic utilities, so the city can slowly come back to life. For senior citizens with health issues, it might be better to send them to Russia until the war is over, where they will get good care.
The most urgent task will be getting the port functioning properly, although it could become a target by Kiev missiles or one of the NATO countries.
A prisoner exchange of regular military soldiers was mentioned. Those on both sides could find themselves on the front lines again. NATO has shown no interest in a negotiated settlement to keep Ukraine as a neutral buffer country.
With Finland and Sweden wanting to join NATO, NATO will want to push harder for this war it has always wanted, using the well practiced proxy soldiers that include regular troops, along with the neo-Nazis, and Mideast terrorists… Jim W. Dean ]

First published May 17, 2022
On May 17, the Russian Ministry of Defence confirmed that the surrender of the militants of the nationalist Azov regiment and Ukrainian servicemen, who were blocked at the Azovstal plant in Mariupol began.
Over the past day, 265 militants have laid down their arms and surrendered, including 51 seriously wounded. All those in need of medical care were sent for treatment to the hospital in Novoazovsk, Donetsk People’s Republic. The other were transferred to the village of Elenovka in the Donetsk People’s republic.
The surrender of the “garrison of Mariupol” continues. The Ukrainian fighters are disarmed, then they are sent to Novoazovsk or Elenovka.
On May 17, a Russian military reporter in Mariupol claimed that as of May 16, there were over 2.5 thousand AFU servicemen in the industrial zone, 404 of them were wounded. 55 servicemen were seriously injured. 200 corpses of dead fighters were frozen in refrigerators.
There were also three Russian prisoners, including an officer and two soldiers.
In total, 804 members of the Azov nationalist regiment were hiding in Azovstal. The others were servicemen of the 53rd, 54th, 56th separate brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the 36th separate brigade of Marines, 501st and 503 separate battalions of marines and 12 brigade The National Guard, which included “Azov”.
The military reporter added that the decision was made not to comment on the situation in Azovstal. The officials claims will be made by the Russian Ministry of Defence.
In an attempt to justify the fall of the Ukrainian fortress, the Minister of Defense of Ukraine called the surrender of the AFU remnants from Azovstal a “delicate situation.”