The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has confirmed on its social media networks that its servicemen holed up at the Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol have been ordered to surrender.

“The garrison ‘Mariupol’ has completed the assigned combat mission. The highest military command issued an order to the commanders of the units located at Azovstal to save the lives of the personnel,” the Ukrainian military statement explained. According to Kyiv, while holding positions at Azovstal.

A large section of them are members of the neo-Nazi Azov Regiment, according to Russia Today. The military uniforms of the group feature Nazi insignia and its members have been photographed with tattoos of symbols such as the swastika. Its first commander, Andrey Biletsky, has said he believes it’s Ukraine’s mission to “lead the white races of the world in a final crusade… against Semite-led Untermenschen [inferior humans].”

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