Red Cross registers hundreds of Ukrainian POWs from Mariupol

Red Cross staff drive by in their vehicles to the besieged Mariupol’s Azovstal steel plant (AP Photo)

The Russian military has said that more Ukrainian fighters who were making a last stand in Mariupol have surrendered, bringing the total who have left their stronghold to 1,730, while the Red Cross said it had registered hundreds of them as prisoners of war.

The International Committee of the Red Cross said that the registrations of Ukrainian prisoners of war, which included wounded fighters, began on Tuesday under an agreement between Russia and Ukraine.