Posted on 05/07/2022 9:03:18 AM PDT by mac_truck
Citing “discrepancies in content,” the German magazine Der Spiegel has removed a video showing the testimony of an evacuee from Mariupol’s ‘Azovstal’ factory, a stronghold of the neo-Nazi Azov militants and other Ukrainian fighters.
The woman in the video had revealed that her family were basically being lied to, held hostage, and used as human shields by the Ukrainian militants.
Der Spiegel published the three-minute video on Monday. It featured Natalia Usmanova, who had worked at Azovstal before the conflict and sheltered there with her husband and children.
In the recording, Usmanova tells reporters that Azov militants “kept us in the bunker” for two months and did not allow her family to leave using the humanitarian corridors established by Russian troops.
“They hid behind the fact that they are supposedly concerned about our safety,” Usmanova said, according to a German translation, adding that her family was repeatedly yelled at to “Go back to the bunker!”
“Ukraine has died for me as a state,” Usmanova said at the end of her testimony.
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“To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticise”
Germany's Oaf Doltz will go to Kiev next week, no doubt - after saying he wouldn't.
They should send her back in with the UN relief convoy for the rest of the civilians. She can identify others who might be held as hostages.
Kinda like the American POW who blinked "torture" to the TV cameras in Morse Code.
All Russia has to do to solve the human shield problem is allow them to evacuate.
The entire Azovstal ordeal is a hostage taking situation and it is clear for everyone capable of logical thinking. It sort of explains what the Ukrainian military is and puts a lie to Russians as “orcs” narrative.
That’s given the “defenders” are going to let them out. Russia evacuated most of the civilians elsewhere in the city as the Ukrainians who held them hostage were beaten.
"Citing “discrepancies"
"American POW who blinked "torture" to the TV cameras in Morse Code
her family was repeatedly yelled at to “Go back to the bunker!”
Close call, can’t let truthful information get out.
Thank goodness they blocked it.
“All Russia has to do to solve the human shield problem is allow them to evacuate.”
The Russians won’t agree to the terms for release, as they won’t give food and medicine to the Azovs down there.
Yes, the Azovs ARE ne0-Nazi bastards. They have been using civilians as human shields and killing them if they try to escape. And, they have been persecuting the Russian ethnic population for eight years.
We unleashed all of this under Obama when we backed the Maidan revolution. We knew damn well it would lead to a civil war the persecution of millions.
It's another example of neocon and globalists sticking their nose in the internal affairs of a nation and causing a civil war and the deaths of thousands.
But, corrupt political class and their donors made a fortune in Ukraine so they are happy with their handiwork.
They do let them evacuate. But what they do not allow is Azov to evacuate also. Evacuation is a red herring. Azov and Kiev keep whining about evacuation corridors. What they actually want is a route out of the trap for supplies to come in and Azov to escape to the west.
The Russians will accept civilians and transport them to safety and Azov has to go the POW route.
I’m hearing Kharkiv region also has industrial sites with civilian hostages...Azov fight like Al Qaeda.
Morse is 26 letters and 10 digits, Kanji is thousands and thousands of symbolsâ¦
IâÂÂd say you can do itâ¦
:)
First war I’ve seen you didn’t get both sides of the conflict. Very little is reported in press about Ukraines atrocities because it wouldn’t fit the narritive this Administration wants to be seen and heard. Basically it’s been a blackout on Ukraines atrocities - which we all saw during Maidan so we know they are equally as brutal and sadistic as Russians.
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