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.
One might think that to be the sole purpose of stand-off weapons.
Well it looks like Putin has gotten rid of the Azov Brigade command and control center.
Predictable and Preventable indeed.
And now add Protracted and Prolonged the agony of the failure. Civilians in Ukraine are armed and encouraged to fight against uniformed combatants. The biden administration and NATO Countries sending weapons and arms to the ‘resistance fighters’ in the urban streets. Then send in photographers who will document the ‘genocide’ trying to turn this into a global conflict.
These people are evil.
Putin wants the port and the railroad and highway junctions. He doesn’t care about the people or the buildings.
“Stolen elections have consequences and we’re looking at a big one”.
Yep, this is a very good example.
If Mariupol has been wiped out of existence maybe Ukraine will finally stop shelling them after 8 years.
Spot on
Best course of action:
* Remove ChoMoeJoe from office
* Hamstring Democrats by supporting GOP candidates in 2022 ensuring GOP takeover of House and Senate
* Prevent mass voter fraud in 2022; with any luck various entities are working on this (includes taking steps toward same-day voting, paper ballots, no overseas vote-counting)
* Decertify bogus 2020 election results
* Start working toward 2024 GOP presidential win
* Hope there’s something left of Eurasia with “America First” GOP in charge
Because there’s nothing we can do about the current worldwide disaster(s) until we fix what led to it. I feel really bad for all the regular citizens in Ukraine and Russia who are suffering through this. They should try to fix their voting problems, too, and run their gangster executives out of town. Or some more permanent solution.
I think we need to nuke something in retaliation. Perhaps Minsk
Zelenskyyy’s strategy is not showing positive results
For those that don’t know (the Puntinestas know full well who he is), Patrick Lancaster is a Russian shill, paid Friend of Vald, who freely walks around the Russian held parts of the city interviewing Russians who claim they are citizens.
All direct Russian propaganda.
Well it looks like Putin has gotten rid of the Azov Brigade command and control center.
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Yes Pootie’s neo-Nazi 46 BN Special Operations troops have done a fine job - next they will begin their next standard Russian tactic - mass rape of all captured civilians and UA troops male and female, young and old.
I do.
Russia spans 5 or 6 time zones.
Moscow is GMT+2.
Thanks. I was referring to Moscow and Ukraine area.
Make that 11.
FR GloboHomoNazi Shills are Blew.
While speaking with a Russian Cruise Missile up their Rear.
Seems you can see both sides of an argument objectively.
One should do it as much as possible, and when it's over, pee on their graves while they can do nothing about it.
Yes, they should have surrendered when they had the chance.
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