Posted on 05/14/2022 3:24:42 PM PDT by McGruff
Turkey is working to negotiate an exit for the wounded Ukrainian soldiers sheltering in the bunkers of a steel plant in the port city of Mariupol, but its efforts have been complicated by the fluidity of the fighting on the ground and because neither Russia nor Ukraine has given clearance for the plan, Turkey’s presidential spokesman said Saturday.
In an unusually candid interview by teleconference call from Istanbul, the spokesman, Ibrahim Kalin, said Turkey had been talking to Ukraine and Russia, trying to find an agreement even as both sides kept changing their positions.
“It really depends how the Russians see the war situation on the ground and the negotiations,” he said. “The battle on the ground shapes the negotiations,” he added. “Positions also change from one day to another. It is very fluid.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Turkey has had a ship waiting for five to six weeks in Istanbul to evacuate the Ukrainians by sea from the port of Berdyansk, and to treat the wounded and rehabilitate them in Turkey, Mr. Kalin said. Russia and Ukraine have not yet approved the plan, he said, but the offer remains.
Why don’t the Russians just overrun the place, and end the suspense?
Because its clown show clown reporting dictates Real Life.
Is Dr. Oz practicing his foreign relations chops?
Nazi’s doing what nazis do. Hiding in bunkers until the end.
The Russians could agree to evacuate them and stop losing men. But they’re mostly just Chechens so who cares.
No, seriously, it seems like it would be to their advantage. They could then move those troops to another front where they are needed more.
Of course some of those Ukes could also reenter the fight elsewhere, so maybe Russia sees it as better to just keep chipping away at them until they are wiped out.
It's probably more entertaining to shell the place every morning, then watch the Okrainians pick up their wounded and throw them on the nearest BBQ grate to cook them up for brunch.
I just have to ask what kind of weird clown sh*t that this NYT "reporter" thinks is going on in her little fantasy world where surrounded enemy combatants get "rescued" because the World has got "fee-fees" about the situation.
Commentator at the Alamo:
"Wait one moment! A spokesperson for the French has contacted General Santa Anna, and now we're waiting on a possible escort to the neutral country of Cuba for the beleaguered defenders!"
Wouldn’t mind betting a mass cyanide end, like Jim Jones cult and top nazis in Berlin.
Let them surrender.
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