Posted on 05/17/2022 9:19:20 PM PDT by AmericaFirst101
Hundreds of Ukrainian fighters trapped for more than two months in the vast Azovstal steel works have surrendered to their Russian besiegers after their commanders finally called time on the defense of Mariupol.
A total of 264 soldiers, 53 of them badly wounded, were taken in a convoy of buses to two towns held by Russian-backed rebels in the Donetsk area, Ukrainian officials said Tuesday. It is unclear how many more are left in the steelworks, where as many as 1,000 fighters had been holed up in a network of underground tunnels and caverns in a medieval siege.
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Russia is likely to drive a hard bargain in any prisoner swap, especially for soldiers from the Azov Regiment, which was set up as a paramilitary militia unit with far-right links during the original 2014 Donbas war. President Vladimir Putin has consistently portrayed his “special operation” in Ukraine as an attempt to “denazify” the country, and Azov has been the target of his TV propagandists.
Within hours of the Azovstal surrender, the Russian Duma was reportedly debating a law that would prevent Azov Regiment prisoners being swapped for Russians. Vyacheslav Volodin, the parliamentary speaker, said “Nazi criminals” should not be exchanged. Lawmaker Leonid Slutzky went even further, demanding a moratorium on the death penalty be lifted to punish the Ukrainian prisoners.
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That’s just dumb.
You would kill a fellow soldier
Love it! And so true! 🤣
If he didn’t ask me to kill him, no I would not kill him.
I was speaking for myself, that I would rather have my life taken than be subject to barbarianism of the Russians. Yes, I would ask that be killed under those conditions.
“He literally sounds like a spokesman, speaking authoritatively on what policy will be.”
I guess it did come across that way, but that’s what Russia has been saying the whole time - Mercenaries-dead, Ukrainian soldiers-treated as POWs, Azovs-dealt with (no one knows exactly how), and high-value prisoners-speculation on my part, but people like that are typically traded for something of value.
“Russia was just back up for the separatists in this battle”
And people don’t realize that either - it’s actually a CIVIL WAR, at least in that part of Ukraine, and has been for 8 years, no different than Syria.
Then, early this year, the best of the Ukraine military, armed to the teeth by the West, was massing for their ‘Final Solution’ to the ‘Russian Problem’ in Eastern Ukraine...and so big brother (Russia) decided they had to roll.
This is so sick and evil it's almost beyond belief, but it's happening, today, across America.
And if you oppose this evil madness, you are called a bigot. This is way past Klownworld, this is pure evil running our country.
No wonder Russia wants nothing to do with it.
So when the Russians said, for 15 years, that Ukraine in NATO was a Rubicon that would mean war, they actually meant it.
But I thought Russia was going to retreat any day now. That’s what the media told me. Is the media lying about this?
“The Polish are going to ethnically cleanse the crap known as Ukrainian nationalism and nobody is going to mind that there was the country in place of all of that.”
Our Polish buddy here pointed out to me that the historical Polish areas of Western Ukraine had been ‘cleansed’ by the Ukrainians over the past 100 years (didn’t quite put it that way, but there are virtually no Poles left there), so I agree, from the Polish perspective, it’s time for payback.
But the thing is, Ukraine needs to get their butts whipped by Russia first, in order to be too weak to fight the upcoming ‘adjustment’ to their borders, so it makes sense that Poland wanted a long and bloody war in Ukraine. A quick agreement would have left Poland without any means to take its slice of Ukraine.
“No, I think you were watching the CNN special about the GOPee.”
Absolutely!
Well said!
The Polish are mulling “peacekeeping operation” in Galicia NATO resisting so far. The Polish railroads have the “map of Poland” on their trains already including Galicia.
“I know a family of Russian Ukrainians from Donbass “
“And yet that’s the pretext Putinistas bought for the Russian Special Military Occupation, the razing of Mariupol, the civilian mass slaughter in Bucha, tge destabilisation of Chernobyl...”
Your personal attacks on FReepers and your echoing of the obvious False Flag at Bucha pretty much negates your claim of knowing anyone in that part of the world, and your overall credibility here.
Just looking at NATO’S heavy military buildup in Ukraine these past 7 years or so and all the shipments of military equipment etc. They were pumped for a war they were preparing to have - without question.
“The Polish railroads have the “map of Poland” on their trains already including Galicia.”
Didn’t know that part, but making sense now. Got to suck to be a Neocon, as the world’s borders are being re-arranged and they have no response other than suicidal sanctions.
Yeah, but they're the good nazis like Soros or Antifa. Good nazis.
Mind my words. Once Poland is going to waltz in killing everyone left and right the media narrative is going to be very different. They’d find out that the Ukrainians are Nazi and deserve everything coming to them.
“Mind my words. Once Poland is going to waltz in killing everyone left and right the media narrative is going to be very different. They’d find out that the Ukrainians are Nazi and deserve everything coming to them.”
Agree - Nothing else can explain Poland’s behavior. They could have ended this war in the first week, simply by not letting themselves be a transit point for weapons.
Also, the Globalists and Neocons HATE POLAND as much as they hate Russia, as until this war, they lumped Poland in with Hungary (who they’ve never stopped hating), as neither country will agree to letting their little kids get Groomed, nor did they buy into their Western Repopulation Plan.
Sad to see Poles thinking that they’ll be left alone to run their country, once the Ukraine crap is over...they are TOTALLY WRONG.
The Polish are still above Ukes in the victim matrix.
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