the red cross has registered hundreds of
ukrainian prisoners of war who left the
besieged steel works in mariopol
the russian authorities say all those
surrendering will be treated in line
with international standards but there
are fears the fighters could face
prosecution by president putin's courts
from moscow our russia editor steve
rosenberg reports
tired and wounded moscow released these
images of ukrainian fighters leaving the
steel works they'd been defending in
mariupo
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 a hundred thousand 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 away to attack and destroy the
motherland
and there are many here who believe this
parallel reality
but not everyone does
dmitry school
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
gerson
european
cave
peace to ukraine it says
he's even turned his roof into the
ukrainian flag
yep 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
graffitted on dimitri's door
and the police have been round he's been
fined for discrediting the army
the front of a 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 in russia protesting can be a
dangerous thing to do
but dmitry is refusing to stay silent
steve rosenberg bbc news
moscow