Russian forces resume offensive on Ukrainian holdout in Mariupol

Washington Times ^ | 4/23/2022 | Joseph Clark

[tlozo]

Russian forces on Saturday resumed attacks on a steel plant sheltering an estimated 1,000 citizens and the last remaining Ukrainian fighters in Mariupol, Ukrainian officials said.

The move marks an apparent departure from Russian President Vladimir Putin’s order earlier in the week not to attack the Ukrainian holdout in the strategic port city, but to instead block off the facility from supplies to force the Ukrainians to surrender.

Oleksiy Arestovich, an advisor to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said in a briefing that Russian forces had targeted the Azovstal steel plant in air strikes and were attempting to storm it.

On Thursday, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu told Mr. Putin that Russian forces had “liberated” Mariupol except for the steel plant.

Ukrainian officials say approximately 2,000 troops remain in the sprawling facility along with the civilians, and Mr. Arestovich said the troops were attempting to counter Russia’s attacks...

[MinorityRepublican]

And it’s always possible that upon the dissolution of the Soviet Union entropy set in and such important information degraded or was discarded.

There was no internet back in 1991 either. So it's not like the Soviets could have uploaded it to a website somewhere.

Or even a floppy disk, in this case.

[Cronos]

Mac_truck on 23rd April 2022 to “Russian forces resume offensive on Ukrainian holdout in Mariupol”
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“No sleep till Odessa”

I guess you have severe sleep deprivation