The first civilians from the besieged Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol are expected to arrive in the Ukrainian-controlled city of Zaporizhzhia later Monday.

Russia's siege of the Ukrainian city of Mariupol stuttered towards its end on Thursday, with hundreds of fighters still holed up in the Azovstal steel works and some 1,700 who have already ...

The Azovstal siege lasted weeks and made heroes in Ukraine of the men and women who held out for months from February until the end of May 2022. The Russian military has claimed that over 2,000 ...

As Russian forces close in on the Azovstal steel plant, the Ukrainian civilians and resistance fighters holed up in the last bastion of Mariupol are facing “nonstop” bombardment and running ...

Two years after Azovstal defenders were ordered to surrender to the encircling Russian forces, and as hundreds of them remain in captivity, The Kyiv Independent publishes never-before-seen photos ...

The civilians who arrived in Zaporizhzhia Tuesday were not the ones who were evacuated from the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol days earlier, according to its mayor. The buses allegedly carrying ...

Kozatskyi returned home in a major prisoner exchange on Sept. 21, 2022.But hundreds of Azovstal defenders still remain in captivity.. The Kyiv Independent spoke with Kozatskyi about his world ...

How a Ukrainian soldier escaped from the embattled Azovstal steel complex in Mariupol and sneaked 125 miles to Ukrainian territory. By Marc Santora Reporting from Kyiv, Ukraine After seven days ...

Andrii Yusov, Deputy Head of Ukraine's Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War, has reported that 1,279 Ukrainian service members who defended Azovstal Iron and Steel Works ...

On May 20, 2022, Ukrainian forces, led by the Azov Regiment that had resisted Russian forces for nearly three months, laid down their arms and exited the Azovstal steel plant. There were then ...

A view shows the Azovstal steel plant in the city of Mariupol on May 10, 2022. The site was a key point during the Siege of Mariupol in May 2022.

Ukrainian commanders who were captured by Russia after leading the defense of Mariupol from the Azovstal steel plant last year have vowed to return to the battlefield following their return home ...