Instead of wasting time on 8 pages of letters, just open a [humanitarian] corridor.”
Okay, they will level your city stupid. Stupidity isn’t bravery.
The Ukrainian government could have saved a lot of lives if it had siumply declared Mariupol an open city.
“Instead of wasting time on 8 pages of letters, just open a [humanitarian] corridor.”
Yes, let the women and children and elderly and non-combatants leave unmolested. But Putin would never agree to that.
“Nutski!”
The Russians appear to control all east of the Kal’mius River, including the steel works.
The only part they don’t have is some core area in the west part.
Here comes a nuke... a “tactical” nuke.
IMHO, I think Putin wants to show the West that he is unafraid to use them... before, he invades the Balkans.
The Neo-Nazi’s probably made that decision. Mariupol’s their home base.
I know of someone, an Israeli reservist and Ukrainian Jew, who died alongside the “Nazi” LARP’ers during the back-and-forth fighting in the region in 2015. It’s got to be hellish for the Ukies in Mariupol right now. I hope Zelensky’s people have figured out a way to either spirit these people out or destroy the Russian formations attacking the city. Alamos are heroic and an inspiration, but it’s better to have live veterans to impart their knowledge to the newbies. And their kin would obviously love to see their men come out alive, whatever their condition.
Bye Bye Mariupol !!!!!!
It’s a viable strategy for a losing nation to refuse to surrender a city.
It’s imperative to know the extent of death and destruction the enemy is capable of, and willing to execute.
Mariupol will be sacrificed for this knowledge.
Resolution of all future sieges in this war depend on what happens here. It will be the model for both sides.
And it’s going to be effin’ ugly. WWII kinda ugly.
Russia is going to send another fake hypersonic missle now.
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The city’s already been chopped into quarters and cut off. The last of the Azov Battalion there will simply be wiped out.