Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Oleksiy Danilov said that most of the Ukrainian military evacuated from Mariupol are in the occupied territory of the Donetsk region. He announced this live on the air of the joint telethon..

" The key here is to do no harm.. And you don't have to say much. We will wait for the agreements that we have to be fulfilled, and all the guys who are in captivity today, who passed through Mariupol, will definitely return alive and healthy,"

Danilov also stressed that the main thing now is not to take extra steps so that the aggressor cannot accuse Ukraine of disrupting certain things.. According to him, this is a very subtle thing..

" I emphasize once again: the number of people is not 100 or 200 people, it is much more. And therefore we cannot say that everyone is there,"

However, he claims that most of the defenders of Mariupol are located on the territory of the Donetsk region..

As President Volodymyr Zelensky reported, more than 2,500 Ukrainian fighters from Azovstal are in Russian captivity, who were taken out of the city on the condition of their further exchange with the Ukrainian side.. It was also previously reported that at least 177 civilians surrendered along with the military during a special operation to evacuate the plant..