Vladimir Putin’s (69) henchmen also mercilessly kill civilians. At least 10,000 people are dead, said Vadym Boychenko (44), mayor of the southern Ukrainian city. It could be up to 20,000.
According to the mayor, the Russians are now using mobile crematoria to “dispose of” the bodies. The city is apparently about to fall!
The remaining Ukrainian troops in the city said Monday they were preparing for the “final battle,” with Russia’s fighters from the Donetsk region reporting the capture of the port of Mariupol. “Today will probably be the last battle as ammunition is running low,” said the 36th Naval Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The Russian army “surrounded” the Ukrainian soldiers, and all the infantrymen had already been killed.
The leader of the self-proclaimed “Donetsk People’s Republic” Denis Pushilin, 40, said the port of Mariupol was already under the control of militants. The “deployment” in eastern Ukraine will now be “intensified,” he announced.
For the remaining people in Mariupol, the situation is coming to a head in these hours. Around 120,000 civilians are still in the city. Your situation: terrible. The supply of food and drinking water is severely restricted.
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Fear of use of chemical weapons
Russian soldiers are also attempting to seize the Mariupol Steelworks. They are even considering the use of chemical weapons, a spokesman for Russia’s troops indicated on state television. The use of chemical weapons is strictly forbidden and outlawed internationally.
For more than a month, the city has been besieged and shelled by the Russians. Nevertheless, the Russians met bitter resistance to the last. Around 440,000 people lived in Mariupol before the war. Mariupol has repeatedly been the scene of particularly terrible atrocities committed by Russian troops.
The bombing of a theater used as a shelter by hundreds of civilians seeking protection caused a stir. The Russian word for “children” was written on the forecourt of the theater. Putin’s troops bombed it anyway, killing around 300 civilians. After withdrawing its troops from the Kyiv region, Russia announced that it would increase its military focus on the Donbass.
According to experts, Moscow’s goal is to establish a direct land connection between the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea, annexed in 2014, and the areas in the Luhansk and Donetsk regions controlled by Putin. Mariupol, located on the Sea of Azov, is considered strategically crucial.
