Here is more info on Mariupol which reputedly is still not fallen although again reputedly may be surrounded and under siege by now, with the land bridge to crimea from the east reputedly established:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4ISMUYmgG8
(at 33:57)
I’m really astounded that it hasn’t fallen. This shows that the locals don’t want to fall to Putin. AND also that the Russian army doesn’t want to kill their brothers.
the Russians would have no problem levelling Grozny or Tehran or Ankara. But to fight and kill fellow EASTERN Slavs?? Who are Orthodox to boot?
Putin is asking his soldiers to kill their brothers and they are baulking at this.