According to news reports they are supposed to be traded for Russian prisoners of war.
Urkaine's Deputy Defense Minister Anna Malyar said in a statement that 53 "seriously injured" servicemen were taken to a medical facility in Russian-controlled Novoazovsk with another 211 evacuated through a humanitarian corridor to Lenivka before being returned to Ukrainian-controlled territory through an "exchange procedure."
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2022/05/17/ukraine-combat-mission-Mariupol-ended/4361652771438/?u3L=1
Rather than do any actual journalism, they just uncritically report what the Ukrainians said. Just like you did.
So for example the article you cite says they will be promptly exchanged for other prisoners. But they only cite Ukrainian gov as their source and do not bother to ask other side what they say.
But we know what they say, you just can’t find it in the western articles because they intentionally avoid saying it.
“The State Duma will prohibit the exchange of Nazi criminals.
The State Duma will consider a bill banning the exchange of Nazi criminals. This was announced by its chairman Vyacheslav Volodin.”
But you don’t even need to know that to realize the prisoner exchange idea is a farce. These aren’t random units, these are Azov, the same ones that have been doing war crimes for years on ethnic Russians. The same Azov that the US congress forbade explicit funding for because of their history of atrocities.
So you have been misinformed. Everyone reading these articles is misinformed. And it’s not an accident..
Frantically posting pro-Uke trash, just makes you look like a NWO tool...which you are.
And quit pretending Trump is with you on fkn over American taxpayers.
He’s not.
So in other words they surrendered. 😏