Why Mariupol’s last defenders will “fight to the last gasp”: Professor Criekemans explains | Abroad

The Russian Defense Ministry claims to have “completely wiped out” Mariupol. Only members of the Azov battalion, who have entrenched themselves on an industrial complex, still hold out but are completely cut off from the outside world. “But they will continue to fight until the last gasp”, says Professor of International Politics David Criekemans (U Antwerp). In this piece he analyzes the imminent fall of the Ukrainian port city.