Posted on 05/09/2022 3:29:56 AM PDT by GonzoII
Despite weeks of ceaseless attacks from the air, the ground and recently inside, Ukrainian forces say they still control most of the sprawling Azovstal steel plant.And they plan to fight until there are no defenders left.
But with food, water and ammunition supplies dwindling, holding out is getting more difficult every day, Bohdan Krotevych, a major in the National Guard of Ukraine and chief of staff of the Azov Regiment, told The War Zone in an exclusive interview from inside the steel plant conducted over social media messaging apps.
“We are still struggling,” Krotevych, chief of staff to the commander of the Azov Regiment, told The War Zone Sunday afternoon eastern time.
Defending Azovstal, the last bastion of Ukrainian forces in Mariupol, is becoming increasingly difficult because Russia keeps sending its troops into the industrial hellscape.
Though the vast plant was designed to withstand a nearby nuclear bomb strike, and the constant bombardment has created a lot of rubble that helps defenders, which is making a difference, Krotevych said.
“The enemy bears losses and continues to [send] fresh reserves here. These are battles in metallurgical shops, on short distances from 15 to 200 meters.” ….snip “A staff member at Azovstal betrayed Ukraine and told Russians about underground tunnels that lead to the plant,” he wrote Wednesday. “That's why they launched their attack yesterday and currently the Russians are trying to force their way onto Azovstal territory.”....
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Is the steel plant area footprint that is Ukraine controlled large enough for air drops of supplies?
Transport aircraft would be swatted from the sky before they got within 50 miles of the place.
I’ll take bets on a surrender.
You can’t expect him to not trust the media. They lied about the Russia Russia Russia dossier, but they’re not lying about Ukraine, honest. Come on man!
The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
Saw a military analyst explain there are many levels and miles of tunnels under the plant. He said the defenders can hold that for months and the Russian casualties to take it can be in the “thousands”. He was an expert in urban warfare.
Obviously the underground complex is much more than the photo of the wide open building we see.
Even actual Nazis. Okay, great, at least you are honest.
Ukraines got a few of them, so does Russia.
Let them go at it.
BUMP!
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This bunch of nazis is trapped like Paulus. Air didn’t work for them either. Running low on ammo and food. They have no chance.
That poster would do Goebbels proud. But it is a mark of impotence. They are doomed.
The enemy of America is the globalist cartel. russia and ukraine are just irrelevant pustules on the butt of Earth.
She what? Japs came out of caves in the pacific tor several years after WWII. So sit underground... and starve.
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