Mariupol is an important industrial center for Ukraine, as is Kharkiv up north. Putin is not going to allow a Ukraine to exist that can rebuild and rearm itself
“Mariupol is an important industrial center for Ukraine, as is Kharkiv up north. Putin is not going to allow a Ukraine to exist that can rebuild and rearm itself”
I said that on DAY ONE, a year ago.
Putin will put Russia in the position to control, or at least have primary influence, over the parts of Ukraine that have value after the coup, and leave the rest, which is a corrupted economic basketcase, to the Euros to finance.