The Russian Defence Ministry announced on Friday that its forces now have full control of the Ilyich Steel Company in the besieged Mariupol.

Russia said Wednesday that 1,026 soldiers from the 36th Ukrainian Marine Brigade, including 162 officers, had surrendered near the steel plant.

“The number and extent of missile strikes against positions in Kyiv will increase in response to all terrorist attacks and sabotage carried out on Russian territory by the nationalist regime in Kyiv, ” the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement. Ground-to-air missiles at the Vizar plant.

The ministry also claimed that Russian forces had killed about 30 “Polish mercenaries” in a strike in northeastern Ukraine.

“As a result of the strike, a detachment of mercenaries of a private Polish military company (…) was killed in the village of Izyum, in the Kharkiv region. “Up to 30 Polish mercenaries have been killed,” the Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said in a statement.