In May 2022, over 2,000 Ukrainian soldiers were ordered to surrender from the Azovstal steel plant, Ukraine’s last stronghold during the siege of Mariupol. Euronews spoke to the Ukrainian ...

Some individuals who expressed a desire to join the defense effort were also airlifted to Azovstal. “But when 10 volunteers come and say, ‘We want to fly to defend Azovstal,’ then we have to make ...

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 ...

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 ...

It’s been one year since the siege of the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol, a bleak indication of what was to come in Ukraine. This episode of Witness, Azovstal: The Defining Battle, is a rare account ...

It’s been one year since the siege of the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol. Now veterans of a defining battle in the war in Ukraine tell Euronews their story - before returning to the frontline.

What precisely is this cellar that Russia wants to drive Ukraine into? ... four square mile factory complex of Azovstal in Mariupol, as the Russians obliterated the city above them.

The defenders of Azovstal returning from Russian captivity include the commander of the Azov Regiment, Denys “Redis” Prokopenko, the head of the patrol police of Mariupol, Mykhaylo Vershynin, ...

Ukraine announced the release of 215 imprisoned soldiers and 10 foreigners from Russia on Thursday.. The soldiers were released in exchange for 55 Russian prisoners, as well as Victor Medvedchuck ...

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 ...