First Deputy Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN Dmitry Polyansky. File photoUN, May 17. The militants of the nationalist battalion «Azov» (against members of which a criminal case has been opened in the Russian Federation) have surrendered unconditionally, Dmitry Polyansky, First Deputy Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN, wrote on his Twitter, correcting the authors of the New York publication Times. So he commented on the publication on Twitter New York Times, which claims that «Ukraine has completed its» combat mission «in Mariupol», and the fighters are being evacuated, «which indicates the end of the battle at the steel plant.» «I did not know that in There are so many ways to convey a simple message in English: the Nazis of Azov surrendered unconditionally,» Polyansky commented. Earlier on Tuesday, the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Major General Igor Konashenkov, said that 265 militants, including 51 seriously wounded, had laid down their weapons at Azovstal in a day . All those in need of medical assistance were sent to the Novoazovsk hospital in the DPR for treatment.
