An actor always has someone telling them what to do.
The Russians are inside Ukraine. Fighting people who are fanatical about Ukraine.
Imagine that.
Sundance is blowing his credibility to smithereens over this.
Azov? They’re the good guys, right? WOLVERINES!!! ROCKY, ROCKY, ROCKY!!! /s
Sundance click bait fantasy
Complete BS. Anonymous author avoids the facts:
1-"eastern region conflict has been ongoing for years" was started by Putin, not "supported". Also, 50% of the Ukrainian army is composed of ethnic Russians who are enthusiastically fighting to oppose Putin's invasion.
2-"bad guys in this region": is the Russian invasion and bombardment of Mariupol. Even the Greek government has condemned the Russians for bombardment/killing of civilians, and calling them liars.
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis called the Russians liars and condemned them for shelling and killing 10 Greek civilians. He also said Greece would send Ukraine weapons.
“Orthodox bombs killed Orthodox expatriates,” said a spokesman for the Greek Foreign Ministry. “Remember this thing.”
“And what the Russian embassy said is fake news,” he said, adding: “We have evidence.”
Ten ethnic Greeks were killed in the Mariupol area of eastern Ukraine yesterday, specifically in Sartana and Buhas.
Although Moscow claims they were killed by the Ukrainian neo-Nazi Azov Battalion that operates in the area and killed an ethnic Greek as recently as two weeks ago for speaking Russian, Athens denied this allegation by saying it has evidence – that it is yet to present
https://greekcitytimes.com/2022/02/27/greece-defence-equipment-ukraine/
Who will be our allies, the Aztecs or the Comanches?
Plus civilians leaving can look forward to a search by Russian forces with the likelihood of any government employee or anyone with pro-Ukraine messages on their phones will be detained. Plus looting. Plus some of the "corridors" lead to Russia.
Some of the "war crimes" charges against both sides seem like nonsense to me, as you can't defend a city without putting civilians at risk and the Russians have few precision munitions, so area strikes by artillery or missiles are all they can do.
Good posting and carefully limited to Mariupol, but since Azov is fighting the Russians, we do need to look the other way regarding their war crimes against civilians. Yes we do. We really do.
“the absence of any pro-Ukraine army sentiment” -
If you have absolutely no critical thinking capabilities and you’re blinded by some ideological interpretation then it’s no surprise if you only see what you want to see.
Don’t believe the MSM. Don’t believe the Twitterati. Don’t believe the Azov nazis. Don’t believe Zelenskyy. Fine!
Don’t believe the war correspondents shot on camera. Don’t believe the citizens. Don’t believe the live reports from inside and outside hospitals during the shelling... Getting into dodgy territory.
Do believe a handful of puff pieces of video from kind hearted Chechens because literally nothing else is credible, is that where you’re at?
Doesn’t it occur to you that there are mere handfuls of those pro Russian videos by pro Russian camera crews, just as there are equivalent films created by Azov... but even if all put together they count for less than 10% of all smartphone recordings from civilians in Mariupol? The vast majority of which aren’t taking either Russia’s or Azov’s side and are preoccupied with no food, water, safe shelter, medicines or safe corridors out of the battlefield.
Don’t you consider the possibility that while the Russian videos probably are genuine, Russia already made it totally unambiguous that they’re only going to protect compliant, pro Russian civilians?! So when any civilians are approaching Russian forces, they know the only way to avoid getting shot is to ham oneself up as a Putin worshipper who was being held hostage. They’re hardly going to say “I voted for Zelenskyy and your rockets took my entire apartment block out, Zelenskyy’s conscripts kept us safe for two weeks but we’ve had enough so heyyyy, no hard feelings if you can get me any my family the heck outa here.”
By all means take the Azov propaganda with a big pinch of salt, but be as sceptical about the propaganda from Putin’s troops. Both sides are only telling you what they want you to hear.
The best evidence why that’s worth doing is, anyone who fled north or west out of Mariupol with their passport and camera phone, still has both unless they dropped it. By contrast, anyone who left east to the Russian forces had to surrender those items.
Oh noes! Russia not bad. Freepers goin to lose their minds! 😮
The woman taped to a pole being whipped by a soldier (video) is too much.
Dangling her purse, one heel up, dramatically begging like poorly acted porn.
The author needs to check a map. Mariupol is inside Ukraine. The Russians are the invaders. The Russians started this war, one that is now claimIng thousands and thousands of civilian casualties.
It’s all on Russia, period.
This article reflects my experience in Central and Eastern Ukraine. The BS coming from Western News Sources is worse than Pravda was during the Cold War!
Likely both sides in the battle for Mariupol has its bad actors and adding to the problem. Reports like this say UKR forces are not letting civilians out while BBC reports have RUS troops are denigrating, imprisoning, and torturing civilians that they have on their custody. Too much bias reporting to see what really is happening and outliers and maybe lies foster propaganda.
I don’t know if they are glowies, trolls, or fools, but being on the same side as Biden, Lindsey Graham, the MSM, the billionaires, Schwab, and Soros would give me pause. These people suck off Ukraine and have destroyed my country. They want us to eat bugs and weeds.
Putin may be a piece of hot garbage. But these other people certainly are.
At one time there were ethnic Russians actually living in Ukraine. Maybe not many but they were the largest ethnic minority in the country. But if you listen to the reporting today everyone is ethnic Ukrainian.
I doubt there are enough real Nazis in Ukraine to fill a high school gymnasium.
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From the onset of the Russia- Ukraine war the media have tried to create a one sided narrative for the support of Ukraine. I’m for neither side. Let them handle it. If the limp waisted Euro girlie men want to intervene let them. Not one of our troops should become a casualty. I’m actually encouraging our younger folk not to enlist under this current regime!!! Never thought I would ever be doing this!
The Azov Battalion is estimated to be about 700 people prior to the war.
Not that big a deal other than for propaganda purposes by those trying to portray Ukrainians as Nazi’s.
Are the Ukrainians happy to let them fight Russians? Absolutely; “the enemy of my enemy is my friend”.