Posted on 04/17/2022 7:43:02 AM PDT by blam
Pavlo Kyrylenko, Ukraine’s governor over Mariupol, has said Friday that the city of Mariupol has been “wiped off the face of the earth” after weeks of relentless shelling and missile strikes from Russian forces.
“The enemy may seize the land Mariupol used to stand on, but the city of Mariupol has been wiped off the face of the earth by the Russian Federation, by those who will never be able to restore it,” he said. “To restore Mariupol, that is something only Ukraine can do.”
Image: Associated Press
As to the fate of the city, he described that at this point it is “no more” and that in reality the Russians have nothing left to seize. Meanwhile, Reuters is reporting that “Russia gave holdout Ukrainian soldiers an ultimatum to lay down arms on Sunday in the pulverised southeastern port of Mariupol, which Moscow said its forces almost completely controlled in what would be its biggest capture of the nearly two-month war.”
All of this comes just after Ukrainian defense ministry spokesman Oleksandr Motuzyanyk said that for the first time Russia used long-range bombers to attack Ukrainian positions in the port city.
“On April 14, two Russian strategic heavy bombers Tu-95/-160 have launched cruise missiles hitting the territory of Ukraine from Krasnodar Krai of Russian Federation airspace,” he said. “Also for the first time from the start of the armed aggression bombs were dropped by a long-range bombers Tu-22M3. This airstrike took place, hitting Mariupol.”
Earlier last week Mariupol mayor’s estimated that over 10,000 civilians had died over the course of the war which had seen the city on the Sea of Azov attacked and besieged from nearly the start of the invasion.
#MARIUPOL
Footage shows airstrikes from Tu-22M3 long range strategic bomber targeting the Azovstal factory in which the last remains of Azov are holding themselves up. pic.twitter.com/GC7zTs8cTC
— UkraineMaps (@MapsUkraine) April 15, 2022
He had described that dead bodies “carpeted the streets” – though it was impossible for outside observers to verify the high death estimate given.
The AP had reported, “The mayor of the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol said Monday that more than 10,000 civilians have died in the Russian siege of his city, and that the death toll could surpass 20,000…”
On Sunday Bloomberg reports that Russia could be contemplating a naval landing of forces to overwhelming the final holdout Ukrainian troops in and around the city:
Ukraine warned of a possible Russian naval landing operation at Mariupol in addition to new air strikes. Russia called on remaining forces in the besieged city to surrender. Many are thought to be within the massive Azovstal steelworks; Moscow said “foreign mercenaries” are among them, citing intercepted conversations.
#RUSSIA
Footage from earlier today shows Tu-22M3 long range strategic bomber refueling in-air above Vyazma, Russia. pic.twitter.com/Hdm4AZV93Y
— UkraineMaps (@MapsUkraine) April 15, 2022
Recently United Nations officials warned that the true civilian death toll in the country may never be known, that it’s likely significantly higher than current official estimates.
Let’s not forget Biden forced the firing of prosecutors looking into the Biden’s illegal blackmailing of Ukraine oil companies.
You mean Germany. The same country that gets 70% of there energy from Russia. If you don’t agree with me fine but NO reason to call someone a liberal because we don’t agree with 1 issue. To me that’s rude. Just because cnn said something means crap to me. And what do you have that says Germany was in on it. Because there may or may not have been a raid on a server in Germany. Because Sidney Powell said it. Where is she now. Apparently Italy has a straight up IT guy that says he was sent votes to “cure” and did so and sent them to Germany or back to the machines in the USA. All this proof was likely true but never was investigated. And to late to now. They did this in your face and mine. And judges wouldn’t hear it. And media won’t report it. And the final nail was social media. This was a set up planned for years. But no.. not a liberal.
Amazing the amount of energy FReepers spend on Ukraine/Russia.
Con image “If Mariupol has been wiped out of existence maybe Ukraine will finally stop shelling them after 8 years.”
Mariupol is not part of Donbas where there was the civil war.
Mariupol was part and is part of Ukraine. It had a majority Russian speaking population but rejected joining Russia in 2014
....and whining too.
“everyone else sticks their noses into it to try to encourage a bigger war.”
I know... I feel so Gaslighted when the big Ukraine war fans get triggered by the presentation of an opposing view. It is an exercise in allowing silence to speak loudest.
You don’t see what you don’t want to see.
Nobody has been shelling Mariupol except the Russians. It is a mostly Russian speaking part of Ukraine and the invading Russians have killed thousands of civilians and wrecked the city is what they claim is an effort to protect the people there.
Isn't that what they guys at the Alamo did?
Don't gag on that Russian propaganda.
IF I told you George Soros was against killing cats and dogs would you go and start killing cats and dogs? Because George Soros is against killing cats and dogs.
So you believe deep state documents, but reject the video of Gorbachev himself saying that those assurances were just a myth and not important to him.
Not surprising, I suspect some of the posters are working out of cubicle farms in Moscow or St. Petersburg.
But hey, you're here reading and posting, so there's that too.
“So you believe deep state documents”
You’re an ignorantly moron if you think that episode did not happen. Being so young and stupid, what else in history do you think didn’t happen? Vietnam war, WWI, WWII? What else?
Indeed, tons of whining LOL.
No, I'd start video recording you Soros Believers Committing Terrorist Acts against your local Humane Society Animal Shelter Facilities, like the Far Leftist EnviroNazi Cultists did to PG&E Transmission Infrastructure.
Then I'd deliver the evidence to the Police.
Don’t see any commonality with the Alamo.
Let’s see what happens
Let me guess. You believed the 50 or so intelligence analysts who were entirely sure that Hunter Biden's laptop was just Russian disinformation. And you believed and are still sure that Russia was supporting Trump in 2016. Everything that the crew out of Langley says is always 100% true.
You project your own error on anyone who disagrees with you.
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