Pavlo Kyrylenko, Ukraine’s governor over Mariupol, has said Friday that the city of Mariupol has been “wiped off the face of the earth” after weeks of relentless shelling and missile strikes from Russian forces.
“The enemy may seize the land Mariupol used to stand on, but the city of Mariupol has been wiped off the face of the earth by the Russian Federation, by those who will never be able to restore it,” he said. “To restore Mariupol, that is something only Ukraine can do.”
As to the fate of the city, he described that at this point it is “no more” and that in reality the Russians have nothing left to seize. Meanwhile, Reuters is reporting that “Russia gave holdout Ukrainian soldiers an ultimatum to lay down arms on Sunday in the pulverised southeastern port of Mariupol, which Moscow said its forces almost completely controlled in what would be its biggest capture of the nearly two-month war.”
All of this comes just after Ukrainian defense ministry spokesman Oleksandr Motuzyanyk said that for the first time Russia used long-range bombers to attack Ukrainian positions in the port city.
“On April 14, two Russian strategic heavy bombers Tu-95/-160 have launched cruise missiles hitting the territory of Ukraine from Krasnodar Krai of Russian Federation airspace,” he said. “Also for the first time from the start of the armed aggression bombs were dropped by a long-range bombers Tu-22M3. This airstrike took place, hitting Mariupol.”
Earlier last week Mariupol mayor’s estimated that over 10,000 civilians had died over the course of the war which had seen the city on the Sea of Azov attacked and besieged from nearly the start of the invasion.
He had described that dead bodies “carpeted the streets” – though it was impossible for outside observers to verify the high death estimate given.
The AP had reported, “The mayor of the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol said Monday that more than 10,000 civilians have died in the Russian siege of his city, and that the death toll could surpass 20,000…”
On Sunday Bloomberg reports that Russia could be contemplating a naval landing of forces to overwhelming the final holdout Ukrainian troops in and around the city:
Ukraine warned of a possible Russian naval landing operation at Mariupol in addition to new air strikes. Russia called on remaining forces in the besieged city to surrender. Many are thought to be within the massive Azovstal steelworks; Moscow said “foreign mercenaries” are among them, citing intercepted conversations.
Recently United Nations officials warned that the true civilian death toll in the country may never be known, that it’s likely significantly higher than current official estimates.
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Does The Saker concur?
This is so strange, has anything like this ever happened in a war before?
I seem to remember some a*hole named Sherman visited Georgia once.
Cut the crap & drama! Hiroshima & Nagasaki were left in greater ruin. Stick to reporting facts & truth rather than trying to sell emotional fertilizer. Besides, this is between Russia and the Ukraine.
Its called propaganda… the US of A has perfected the art of narrative control to justify all its wars.
Only because their target audience are degenerate morons.
Emotional fertilizer may be the best we can get.
Awwwww, Mariupol has fallen? Crimea river!
On to Odessa!!
Crimea river? I can’t believe I laughed at that.
Ukraine won’t be restoring Mariupol… It is part of Russian Federation now.
Fact checked: probably true.
I wonder what’s in that ‘steel plant’? Or who?
The remnants of the Azov battalion and western officers they’re holding hostage…
If NATO command was directing Ukrainian forces from a sort of command post there, it would make it perhaps worth destroying to avoid international humiliation, mightn’t it?
And, yes, my Canadian friend, it makes me very sad to realize my government (and yours) are quite capable of killing their own soldiers and their allies to cover up their crimes against humanity and maintain their power and control.
My biologist friend has drawn the attention of RFK,Jr and Dr. Malone, which caused me to caution him to watch for black suburbans on his bike rides. One of his last “lectures” featured a TED talks about a guy from a company called Metabiota planning a “new” kind of research in Ukraine connected to targeting specific ethnic groups with mRNA gene therapy. I have a fear he has stumbled upon a smoking gun in his quest for knowledge about Biology.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWWTIv4FRt0
I have a feeling Ukraine is a very dangerous place to be livestreaming interviews with Scott Ritter.
There are some heartrending images and videos of people suffering from missile strikes, whether intentional or collateral damage.
Are we seeing another Waco, but on a grander scale? These soldiers in the steel plant, whether NATO volunteers or regular old Ukrainian neo-natzis leftover from the 2014 coup, are being forced to sacrifice themselves in some sort of grand theatrical gesture designed to inspire the Western World to obliterate Russia any way it possibly can.
After reviewing the rather lackluster attention to upgrading weapons systems showing signs of great wear and obsolescence when I left the service in 1994, I realize all the DoD contract jobs for which I was paid the big union-negotiated bucks which helped us retire early really were complete wastes of my time and the government’s money. Most of the weapons systems I wrote tech data for are headed to the boneyard in Arizona without replacement.
I’m not sure we can obliterate Russia, but am sure they could obliterate us, especially with China’s help.
Why would the military minds of NATO be so hellbent on starting World War III right now? Why did David Koresh’s security team (and every one of these cult leaders do have a security team, of sorts, even if it was Manson’s cray-cray trio of girls) kill some people trying to leave and why burn it from the inside?
Because it makes good theater, doesn’t it?
I subscribe to ClubOrlov now (I’ve already gotten myself blocked forever from Russian social media – VK) and just asked Dmitry Orlov to tell me, if he will, if this is true information or orchestrated information. If he answers me, I’ll tell you what he says. Unless he tells me again I’ve broken the Russian Law by introducing a forbidden topic as I did on VK.
My son came for the day and I asked him to go gather eggs for old times sake and he didn’t think I was funny again.
However, he did go with me to gather eggs and I suspect he liked it but don’t tell him.
Update: Dmitry Orlov just replied that my being banned from VK doesn’t surprise him. Then he asked me to be a reader not a writer. Haha… he has NO idea!
No answer on Mariupol yet, but I think he will answer. I did commit to 350 rubles per month until that becomes more than 10 dollars, then I will unsubscribe and commit to a lot fewer rubles per month which will be the original $2.50. I’m glad I’m not buying any oil these days.
Dmitry replied that he would rather NOT answer such questions directly, especially with a link to such a large audience. Perhaps he will think about it and answer it some other way, but not directly.
He be keeping a low profile and I will respect that.
For once.
Meanwhile, back to my favorite neurobiologist!
https://clips.twitch.tv/TawdryAlertBorkGivePLZ-MhdRVywaNwl6ZxQI
Looks like a bunch of section 8 housing… Maybe it needed to come down anyway?
“KBR (Kellog-Brown-Root) to the rescue, courtesy US tax donkeys. At your service West Ukraine, President for Life, Zelly babe. And Z, We dig your new Fidel Castro cap, matches your green track suit really well.”
” . . . those who will never be able to restore it . . .”
Well, fortunately for them all they need is a truck stop on the way to Sevastapol.
I wonder how the comparison of Fallujah x2 works for them?
Or any other moment in history where a city was razed.
Build to destroy to build again and repeat.
Someone wake me up when Zelensky is hanging from a lamppost (preferably the one that shows up in all the Ukrainian propaganda) along with Nuland, Blinken, Clinton, Biden x2 and all the other traitors in this circus.
Reckon I will be sleeping eternally cause it aint gonna happen.
ZFG, out.
P.S. burn it all down.
I would expand that list greatly…
That is the ultra-short list.
I had to resist adding Tal Afar, Damascus, Sirte, Taiz, Donbas, etc, etc, …
forgotten children of M.O.A.B.
“Recently United Nations officials warned that the true civilian death toll in the country may never be known, that it’s likely significantly higher than current official estimates.”
Whew, the UN huh? Well then, it’s gotta be true.
As if anything the UKR government says is ever true…
Don’t believe one bit of it.
Oh well then. Like a busload of politicians going over a cliff. Good Start.