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Shocking pictures reveal how Ukrainian city which once housed 10,000 people has been reduced to a dystopian wasteland by Vladimir Putin’s Russian forces
UK MAIL ^ | 5 March 2023 | MIRIAM KUEPPER and JAMIE PHILLIPS

Posted on 03/05/2023 6:25:19 PM PST by dennisw

Shocking pictures reveal how Ukrainian city which once housed 10,000 people has been reduced to a dystopian wasteland by Vladimir Putin's Russian forces

Footage reveals ruins left of Maryinka, in Donetsk, where front line runs through Grey ruins surrounded by debris create illusion of lifeless dystopian landscape

Shocking pictures revealed how a Ukrainian city has been reduced to a dystopian wasteland by Vladimir Putin's Russian forces.

Aerial footage reveals the ruins left of Maryinka, in Donetsk, where the front line runs through the little that is left of the town.

Grey ruins surrounded by mountains of debris create the illusion of a dystopian landscape where all life has been wiped out.

Maryinka has been a battleground long before the war started last year; when Russia first invaded Ukraine in 2014, the town was already under fire by the Russians.

But particularly the intense fighting since the February 24, 2022, invasion has left no building in the town, which once housed 10,000 people, intact.

Many are barely recognizable as buildings at all. Shell-fire has also made matchsticks of the town's trees — many of them ripped apart at the trunk.

Russian tank-fire, filmed on February 19, further added to the destruction, pounding what appeared to be Ukrainian positions amid the ruins.

Maryinka's police chief, Artem Schus, describes his town as 'completely destroyed'.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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1 posted on 03/05/2023 6:25:19 PM PST by dennisw
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To: dennisw

It couldn’t have been the Russians because they have been out of missiles and artillery since April of 2022. Lol.


2 posted on 03/05/2023 6:26:38 PM PST by wildcard_redneck (Biden will mess up the Ukraine worse than Afghanistan.)
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To: dennisw

Evil rat Putin destroying his own Russian town, according to Putin’s logic this is Russian territory. And he held a fraudulent vote there to ratify this.

Fake Tsar Putin -— “If I can’t have it, no one can”


3 posted on 03/05/2023 6:29:01 PM PST by dennisw ("You don't have to like it. You just have to do it")
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To: wildcard_redneck

...and probably not a good idea to shell civilians for sport in Donestk, if you don’t won’t your city leveled.


4 posted on 03/05/2023 6:30:09 PM PST by BobL
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To: wildcard_redneck

They did it with combat shovels.


5 posted on 03/05/2023 6:30:34 PM PST by ArcadeQuarters (You can't remove RINOs by voting for them!)
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To: wildcard_redneck

“It couldn’t have been the Russians because they have been out of missiles and artillery since April of 2022.”

Agree, sounds like UKRAINE must have leveled the city, at least by Western media ‘logic’.


6 posted on 03/05/2023 6:31:30 PM PST by BobL
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To: dennisw
when Russia first invaded Ukraine in 2014

????

7 posted on 03/05/2023 6:32:14 PM PST by AndyJackson (.)
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To: dennisw

One man to blame. Rhymes with 'key'.

8 posted on 03/05/2023 6:36:07 PM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: dennisw
Putin's forces have been relentlessly attacking the small mining town as part of efforts that would give them a first major victory in more than half a year.

I am just curious. Is Putin just indiscriminately shelling this town to destroy it, or are there perhaps some forces on the other side that are fighting the Russians, like some NATO backed Ukrainians, for instance?

Are the former residents Ukrainians or Russians?

Just curious because this article reads like the typical Orwellian style of writing composed by the toffs in MI6 who are trying to do Orwell one better.

9 posted on 03/05/2023 6:38:12 PM PST by AndyJackson (.)
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The propaganda writes itself in the UK.


10 posted on 03/05/2023 6:38:36 PM PST by ARW
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“...and probably not a good idea to shell civilians for sport in Donestk, if you don’t won’t your city leveled.”

This is your logic after Putin demolishes, a Russian city like he did to Grozney. I see a pattern here. Where your zero hero is just stomping all over the world. Add Georgia to the list.


11 posted on 03/05/2023 6:40:30 PM PST by dennisw ("You don't have to like it. You just have to do it")
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There wasn’t much to destroy after years of Ukraine shelling it.


12 posted on 03/05/2023 6:40:49 PM PST by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐To the Left, The Truth is Right Wing Violence⭐⭐)
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To: ARW
The propaganda writes itself in the UK.

To write this level of drivel you have to be in with the right crowd at Oxbridge. You can work your way up, but it is best if you are born into it.

13 posted on 03/05/2023 6:41:38 PM PST by AndyJackson (.)
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“I am just curious. Is Putin just indiscriminately shelling this town to destroy it, or are there perhaps some forces on the other side that are fighting the Russians, like some NATO backed Ukrainians, for instance?”

Putin destroyed this city because he could. UKrainian bombardment did not detroy it.


14 posted on 03/05/2023 6:42:37 PM PST by dennisw ("You don't have to like it. You just have to do it")
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“like he did to Grozney.”

Yep, go attacking theaters in Russia and killing hundreds, bad things happen to them. Russia’s government is not filled with the bunch of APOLOGISTS that the US government (that you seem love) is filled with.


15 posted on 03/05/2023 6:46:14 PM PST by BobL
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To: dennisw

Stomping all over the world. Just like Uncle Sam. Except less worse. Therefore, Putin instigating less worldwide violence than the USA.


16 posted on 03/05/2023 6:46:16 PM PST by Rural_Michigan
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To: ArcadeQuarters

—> They did it with combat shovels.

🏆

Thread Winner!!!


17 posted on 03/05/2023 6:51:00 PM PST by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything. )
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To: BobL

“like he did to Grozney.”

Yep, go attacking theaters in Russia and killing hundreds, bad things happen to them. Russia’s government is not filled with the bunch of APOLOGISTS that the US government (that you seem love) is filled with.
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Your timeline is ignorant and way off. Grozney was leveled by Putin in 2000 by artillery. The Beslan theater hostage taking was 2004


18 posted on 03/05/2023 6:53:06 PM PST by dennisw ("You don't have to like it. You just have to do it")
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To: BobL
...and probably not a good idea to shell civilians for sport in Donestk, if you don’t won’t your city leveled.

Something that only happened in the mind of Russian propagandists.

19 posted on 03/05/2023 6:54:12 PM PST by Petrosius
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To: AndyJackson

Are you really unfamiliar with the Russian invasion of Crimea and Donbas in 2014?


20 posted on 03/05/2023 6:56:18 PM PST by Petrosius
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