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Mayor of besieged city: 5,000 dead, 210 of them children
Arutz Sheva ^ | 7/4/22

Posted on 04/07/2022 1:14:18 AM PDT by Eleutheria5

Mariupol's mayor said that according to preliminary estimates, Russian troops have killed approximately 5,000 local residents - 210 of them ...

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TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; Russia; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: azov; boychenko; dualcitizens; israel; mariupol; oligarchs; ukraine
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From Wiki: Boychenko was born in Mariupol in 1977. He is a graduate of both the Priazov State Technical University and the Donetsk National University.[1] He began employment at the Azovstal Iron and Steel Works as a locomotive engineer in 1995, going on to become Deputy Head of Transportation before leaving the company in 2010.[1] He then held management positions at Metinvest and another steelworks company until his election as Mayor in 2015.[1][2]

Mayor of Mariupol In 2013-2015 Boychenko was a member of the Executive Committee of the Mariupol City Council.[1]

Boychenko was elected mayor of Mariupol on 15 December 2015.[3] He was elected Mariupol mayor as a non-partisan self-nominated candidate with 69% of the vote.[1]

Boychenko unsuccessfully took part in the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election for the Opposition Bloc party, No. 5 on the list as a non-partisan.[1] In this election this party won six single-seat constituencies, but its nationwide list won 3.23% of the votes, failing to overcome the 5% election barrier.[4]

Boychenko was reelected mayor re-elected for second term in October 2020.[3] He was a candidate for the Vadym Boychenko Bloc.[1]

2022 Siege of Mariupol During the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Boychenko fled the city and provided regular updates to the outside world concerning the Siege of Mariupol from Dnipro and Zaporizhia.

His body count is one-sided. Azov has to have killed at least some of those 5,000, but he makes no mention. On the other hand, nothing in his Wiki profile suggests any connection to Azov, but his information has to be limited by the fact that he fled and has not taken part in the defense of his city. Take it all with a bucket of salt.

1 posted on 04/07/2022 1:14:18 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
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To: Eleutheria5

The latest U.N civilian death toll in the whole of Ukraine is 1,417. So if you don’t mind I would take this guy’s hezbollahesque hyperbole with a truck load of salt


2 posted on 04/07/2022 1:29:01 AM PDT by Long Jon No Silver
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To: Long Jon No Silver

P.s in the first 4 weeks of GW2 its estimated by the Americans themselves that 5,300 Iraqi civilians were killed by U.S led coalition.
The Russians are pikers compared to that


3 posted on 04/07/2022 1:35:03 AM PDT by Long Jon No Silver
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To: Eleutheria5

You tend to only get a running cricket score of deaths when the globo media decides who the bad guys are. The rules seem to be if 1. Israel is involved and thus endless hamas/hezbollah casualties. 2. Africa. Who cares. 3. Muslims killed but only in European zone or by non muslim asians majorities in Asia or by Russians. 4. EU wannabees killed by outsiders. 5. Anyone else the humanist press confers victimhhood on.
I think there is definately an element of elitist Eurocentric racism in all of the pantomine going on over Ukraine. If these were black pigmies on the receiving end I doubt the rending of garments, sackcloth and ashes


4 posted on 04/07/2022 1:58:29 AM PDT by Long Jon No Silver
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To: Long Jon No Silver

Entirely my thoughts, too. But the Mayor of Mariupol should at least care. The way I now see Mariupol is that it’s somewhat like Belfast, with two warring groups that outsiders can’t tell the difference between. The Azovs kill the Russians. DPR kills the Ukes. They live in separate sides of town, and the Mayor seems to favor the Ukes, but not enough to stay and fight for his city, so he blames from afar all the carnage on the Russians.

Both Putin and VZ have a vested interest in controlling Mariupol, because it’s a vital strategic port at the mouth of the Kalmus River and the Sea of Azov. The locals take sides, depending on their respective ethnicities. The unicorn girl’s mother is screaming into the camera “Show Putin this. Even the doctors are crying!” She must have been Ukrainian. The locals with whom Patrick Lancaster spoke put it all on Ukraine. Probably Russians. I suspect they both are speaking truthfully from the heart.

But hizzoner is no help at all in getting a true picture, just another partisan voice which the media has picked up on, because he’s nominally the absentee mayor. The “global media” are clueless morons, as usual. Everything’s as clear as mud.


5 posted on 04/07/2022 2:52:26 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (January 6, worst assault on democracy since the Reichstag Fire)
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To: Eleutheria5

Oh no, not children too! We better go to nuclear war for the children.


6 posted on 04/07/2022 2:58:47 AM PDT by KobraKai
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To: Long Jon No Silver

The UN is so full of sh!t it’s coming out their ears. I see them all over the place in Judah and Samaria (West Bank to leftards), and have a special hitch hiking signal for their vehicles, one known to us all. For some reason they never stop for me;-) I can’t believe their death toll for a minute. This much fighting, with dumb bombs dropped from on high to avoid Stingers, tanks and artillery, cruise missiles and the DPR’s usual “delicacy” on display, and civilian casualties has to be in at least five figures, if not six, by now.


7 posted on 04/07/2022 3:04:08 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (January 6, worst assault on democracy since the Reichstag Fire)
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To: Eleutheria5

Well they are the official U.N figures, but I take your point about the U.N. But where else to get reasonably accurate figures.Certainly not from the combatants nor the EU or U.S. Only when the dust settles and research takes place will death toll be really known.


8 posted on 04/07/2022 3:10:51 AM PDT by Long Jon No Silver
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To: Eleutheria5

We’re the children raped first? That’d be the Russian way.


9 posted on 04/07/2022 3:17:26 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Кчерту Путина, Kчерту Россию)
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Russians are fun-loving people with a great sense of humor. But they also drink too much and are too accepting of wife beaters. The DPR, however, is comprised of conscripts from all over Russia, including nomadic Asiatic tribes who do not have any western scruples at all. Raping children? Wouldn’t surprise me.


10 posted on 04/07/2022 3:21:52 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (January 6, worst assault on democracy since the Reichstag Fire)
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To: Long Jon No Silver

In this case, the figures are neither reasonable nor accurate. Can’t be. When the dust settles, we’ll just have to see.


11 posted on 04/07/2022 3:24:25 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (January 6, worst assault on democracy since the Reichstag Fire)
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To: KobraKai

Again with that straw man argument? Brandon might have pushed for nuclear war to get rid of all the deplorables and boost his approval ratings, or then again he might have just had an acute attack of stupid and senility. But the only person in recent memory who has actively and seriously pushed for nuclear war was Vladimir Zhirinovsky, who was the leader of the legal, political branch of the Pamyat terrorists of the 1920s. I think he had a few seats in the Russian Dumas. Now a forgotten nut.


12 posted on 04/07/2022 3:28:54 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (January 6, worst assault on democracy since the Reichstag Fire)
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To: ScottinVA

For an interesting first-hand account of the Russian occupation of Manchuria at the close of WW II, I suggest From Tokyo to Jerusalem, by Dr. Abraham Kotsuji, published in 1964 but now available on Kindle. It was seriously bad.


13 posted on 04/07/2022 3:35:11 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (January 6, worst assault on democracy since the Reichstag Fire)
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To: Eleutheria5

The mayor considers himself Ukrainian. Interesting that he wouldn’t stay and fight for Mariupol, especially since there are estimated to be over 100,000 left in the town who are unable to get out because of the shelling. Of course, the Ukrainian snipers holed up in the Azovstela steel factory who are shooting at civilians aren’t making it any easier to escape.


14 posted on 04/07/2022 3:49:14 AM PDT by Prince of Space ( Let’s go, Brandon! )
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To: Eleutheria5

Don’t forget to include in your analysis the Azov Battalion and other far right nationalist militias who comprise the modern Ukrainian Army. And we’re giving weapons to these Nazis? WTF??!!?


15 posted on 04/07/2022 3:54:23 AM PDT by Prince of Space ( Let’s go, Brandon! )
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To: Eleutheria5

Nope, not a straw man. I don’t believe Russia will waste time engaging in conventional warfare with the USA, which leaves a singular option, nukular combat with the rooskies.


16 posted on 04/07/2022 4:20:04 AM PDT by KobraKai
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To: Long Jon No Silver

Okinawa had a population of 600,000 in 1945, excluding Japanese troops.

During the nearly 3 month battle to liberate Okinawa, 14,000 American soldiers and 77,000 Japanese soldiers were killed.

But a staggering 150,000 Okinawan civilians died in what they called “The Steel Typhoon.”

Just to put things in perspective.


17 posted on 04/07/2022 4:31:13 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Eleutheria5

Did he proudly hold up a real Nazi flag while saying this?


18 posted on 04/07/2022 5:52:50 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: ScottinVA
We’re the children raped first? That’d be the Russian way.

Simmer down Adolph...

19 posted on 04/07/2022 6:44:20 AM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera )
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To: mac_truck

Ah, there’s one.

Have I offended you, Comrade?


20 posted on 04/07/2022 7:34:18 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Кчерту Путина, Kчерту Россию)
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