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  • the Red cross has registered hundreds of Ukrainian prisoners of war who left the besieged steelworks in Mariupol.

  • The Russian authorities say all those surrendering will be treated in line with international standards.

  • But there are fears that fighters could face prosecution by President Putin's courts from Moscow are Russia editor steve Rosenberg reports, tired and wounded.

  • Moscow released these images of Ukrainian fighters leaving the steelworks they've been defending in Mariupol, giving themselves up to the Russians.

  • Ukraine is hoping for a prisoner swap.

  • But in Russia there are calls to put some of the soldiers on trial for war crimes.

  • They are killers, they are criminals, but we give them medical care.

  • But your country invaded Ukraine with More than 100,000 troops.

  • That's aggression, isn't it?

  • No, it's not an aggression.

  • It's not an aggression.

  • Don't bully us.

  • Moscow tries to justify invading Ukraine with a false claim that it's gone in to fight Nazis.

  • A war crimes trial could shore up an unconvincing narrative.

  • The Kremlin wants Russians to believe that in Ukraine their army is battling Nazis and NATO europe and America were all plotting a way to attack and destroy the motherland and there are many here who believe this parallel reality.

  • But not everyone does.

  • Dmitry schoolchildren admits that his country Russia is the aggressor.

  • He is appalled by the bloodshed and wants his whole town to know it.

  • He's transformed the outside of his shop into a message board with the names of Ukrainian towns.

  • Russia's attacked her son, european Kiev peace to Ukraine.

  • It says he's even turned his roof into the Ukrainian flag.

  • I thought this would be a good way of getting information out because for the first few weeks of the war, our people didn't know what was happening.

  • They didn't know that Russia was shelling cities.

  • Some don't want to know, traitor has been graffitied on Dimitri's door and the police have been round.

  • He's been fined for discrediting the army.

  • The front of the shop isn't for expressing opinions.

  • She says he can say what he thinks says Anton I think attacking a neighboring country is a strange thing to do and that's what and in Russia protesting can be a dangerous thing to do.

  • But Dimitri is refusing to stay silent.

  • Steve Rosenberg BBC news Moscow.

the Red cross has registered hundreds of Ukrainian prisoners of war who left the besieged steelworks in Mariupol.

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