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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I know you were joking, that is the reason for the smiley face.
Well, if Ukraine has died for you as a state, they should just deport your whiny butt to Russia.
You’re saying that to a lady whose family has been held hostage by government forces for two months?
Your a sick puppy.
Let me guess...If Poland is going to annex the West of the country and cleanse the Azov types and mild nationalists along with them you’ll be okay with that.
Their SOP for “defending” a city is to block evacuations by placing busses and construction vehicles and then pick people trying to escape on foot with mortars and sniper fire.
At the same time they are putting artillery by schools and hospitals and organizing firing positions on the top floors of the apartment building while holding people inside the lower floors.
Read later.
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