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.
It’s hard to think otherwise when Zelensky was told Ukraine would never be a part of NATO, but publicly was encouraged to join.
“We promised Russia...”
Who the hell are “we”? The crowd at Yasenevo lair? Are you getting enough paid for working Sunday?
Joe Biden - the first mail order President.
True that. If I were a betting man, I’d bet Zelensky’s not happy with the deal he and Biden made.
Just a hunch.
The Uke’s are winning, Russia is running back home.....
Oh wait, never mind.
The Uke’s took up defensive positions inside Mariupol and grabbed Citizens for use as human shields.
Some Citizens got away, and hopefully, the Uke Nazi’s all died.
Mebe we see the mercenary’s on trial, and discover who paid them, and where they came from
I am reading the Russian bombers flew at high altitude and dropped bunker busting munitions
I believe it.
I certainly wouldn’t want to fly low over target with all the countermeasures given to the Ukraine.
Is Donald Trump a “GloboHomoNazi Shill” for opposing the Russian invasion of Ukraine?
“While speaking with a Russian Cruise Missile up their Rear.”
This is a conservative site. I’m not sure if you should be revealing quite so much about how you spend your Friday nights.
My prayers to the people there. All this for what. As a return favor for Russia helping to steal a election. Russia gets a pipeline and ukraine. China gets to be china again and tariffs taken off there goods that Trump put on. China and russia and ukraine own biden. They have all made biden family rich. And it’s all on a laptop that the media won’t report. Like the proof of the election fraud. Not shown so it didn’t happen. Jan 6 was a setup. Now they will steal the midterms and it maybe over. The media is getting money to help the hide.
No, however YOU are.
President Trump would make a good deal for both America and Russia that would prevent the necessity of Russian protection of Crimea, Luhansk and Donetsk from Uke Nazis.
However Biden, Clinton, Prog Marxist Democrats and GloboHomoNazi supporters like you, Stole the 2020 Presidential Election from President Trump, making that Deal impossible and causing this crisis.
The Fault is entirely yours.
The Russian attack on Ukraine is appalling. It’s an outrage and an atrocity that should never have been allowed to occur. … We are praying for the proud people of Ukraine.
—Donald Trump
Yes, you shouldn't be servicing Soros in the open here.
You're still a GloboHomoNazi Shill.
Ok, Pendejo.
LOL. Everybody who opposes Russian mass murder in Ukraine is a”globohomo”. That has to include Rand Paul since has been quite supportive of Ukraine lately. Putinism is truly a mental illness.
Interesting that you, a self proclaimed Trump Supporter, use a common Prog Marxist Left, Mexico Superior, insult to President Trump, to insult me. (shown here:)
Shows the real you.
No, it's everybody that supports Zelensky GloboHomoNazi mass murder of Ukrainians AND Russians, like you do.
Now is Biden happy? He poked that war bear constantly until all hell broke loose. Now this.
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