Kiev orders Azovstal defenders to stop fighting

(ANSA) - KIEV, MAY 20 - Azovstal's defenders have received the order from Kiev to stop fighting.

This was announced in a video message by the commander of the Azov battalion Denys Prokopenko still in the steel plant after, according to Moscow, about two thousand surrendered.

"The military superior command gave the order to save the lives of the soldiers of our prison and to stop defending the city" of Mariupol, said Prokopenko.

(HANDLE).