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Authorities in Ukraine said today they had received from Russia the bodies of 64 soldiers killed while protecting the underground tunnels of the Azovstal plant in Mariupol, in the last exchange of troops with Moscow.
Meanwhile images of the mass destruction of the plant have been posted on the network as Ukraine said the troop exchange took place in the Zaporizhia region, without specifying how many troop bodies were returned to Russia.
Earlier this month, Moscow and Kiev exchanged 160 troops each.
Aerial footage showed today the infamous plant that was surrounded by Russian forces after blocking its extensive underground tunnels by Ukrainian soldiers and civilians.
Images of damaged structures and collapsed buildings were published by Russian media, writes the British Daily Mail.
The images show wires of improvised clothes, memorials for the dead and “beds” created with wooden pallets where the trapped people lived in the metallurgical plant in eastern Ukraine.
The images show the dirty rooms in the tunnels of the plant where the Ukrainian soldiers and their collaborators lived, most of whom have died.
At least 2,000 of them are already in Russia being questioned by Putin’s forces.
The massive complex in the seaport city of Azov in the heart of the Donbas region has been one of the epicenters of conflict fighting.
In the siege of Mariupol, it is estimated that 6,000 Ukrainians and 4,000 Russians have been killed since the beginning of the occupation of the country in late February, writes the Daily Mail.
The war there ended on May 20, two months and three weeks later.
The Russian military finally took control of the metallurgical plant where mysteriously thousands of soldiers and civilians lived in underground tunnels.
According to the commander of the Ukrainian guard Azov, hundreds of bodies are still inside the plant.
Commander Maksym Zhorin said yesterday that according to the terms of the latest troop exchange, “about 220 Ukrainians killed at Azovstal had been sent to Kiev, but many still remain inside the Mariupol tunnels.”
Zhorin said a third of the dead were members of the Azov nationalist battalion while others were naval patrols, other military, police and border guards.
“The poor condition of the troops requires time to identify them,” Zhorin added.
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