North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) chair of the Military Committee Admiral Rob Bauer, Supreme Allied Cmdr. Europe General Tod Wolters and Supreme Allied Cmdr. Transformation Gen. Philippe Lavigne will be holding a news conference in Brussels, Belgium following a meeting of NATO Military Chiefs of Defence to discuss the war in Ukraine.

Russia's defence ministry said on Thursday that 771 Ukrainian fighters had surrendered from the Azovstal steelworks in the devastated Ukrainian city of Mariupol in the last 24 hours.

Some of the men purported to be surrendered Ukrainian fighters from the Azov regiment could be seen with crutches and eye patches in the footage released by the ministry.

A total of 1,730 fighters have surrendered since Monday, Russian defence ministry spokesperson Igor Konashenkov said, adding that 80 of those were wounded and that those requiring medical attention were being treated in hospital.

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