• Hundreds of Ukrainian combatants and civilians were trapped in a Mariupol steel mill for weeks.
• While, Russian forces bombed the place.
• It was the last bastion of resistance in Mariupol.

You may recall how hundreds of Ukrainian combatants and civilians were trapped in a Mariupol steel mill for weeks while Russian forces bombed the location. It was the last bastion of resistance in Mariupol, Ukraine’s southern port city, but it eventually succumbed and the residents were evacuated.

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According to the Ministry of Temporarily Occupied Territories, the bodies of another 64 Ukrainian servicemen who perished protecting the facility have now been returned to government-controlled territory.

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“Ukraine has returned the bodies of 64 heroic Azovstal defenders for their dignified burial,” it stated.

“The process of returning the bodies of the dead Ukrainian soldiers continues.”

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It added the bodies were repatriated in an “exchange.”