The 24th day of the blockade of Mariupol. In terms of timing, it is not yet comparable with the Leningrad one, but it surpasses it in the intensity of shelling and inhumanity.. RuZZkih non-humans turned out to be a cohesive army of the new Fuhrer. Which, nevertheless, cannot break the Spirit and resistance of civilians and the military defending Mariupol.
Does Supreme Commander-in-Chief President Zelensky and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine General Zaluzhny have a strategy towards Mariupol? If there is no military solution, as the authorities announced yesterday, then what is? And most importantly, how soon can it be implemented? After all, even the most correct words “we have everything under control” and calls to the West to “close the sky” cannot save the city. The account of lives for hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians goes for days. And this is not a sick emotion of alarmists, as for some reason they are trying to present the topic of Mariupol surrounded by President Zelensky, but the fact.
Civilians and local authorities.
Putin’s horde prepared thoroughly for the “denazification” of access to the Sea of \u200b\u200bAzov. On the first day of the war, with the help of a network of saboteurs who placed their phosphorus-blue marks, eleven city electrical substations were destroyed.. Strikes were made on key water supply facilities, as well as on the largest retail chains. First, heat left the houses, then mobile signals, food, water, medicines disappeared... 80 percent of Mariupol was destroyed.
Footage of mass graves spread around the world a week ago. Today, there is no longer the strength and ability to even bury those who found their last shelter in the bombed-out apartments of high-rise buildings and on city streets.. Not to mention sick old people who, left without food and water, will never come down from their floors.. If they don't get help in the coming days. Even hospitals, left without medicines and food, leave the bodies of the dead in the basements.. Including children... Like a baby wrapped with trembling hands in a colored diaper, deprived of life at the first breath.
And all this is damn! - not phrases to knock out a tear from those watching the war from the side around the world. All this is real footage of hundreds of videos that Mariupol residents post on their pages on social networks.. This is Hell on earth, which was arranged for Ukraine by " This is what 80 supports today (! ) percent of Russia's population.
“The situation is getting worse every day.. About 5-7 planes round the clock round the clock dropping up to 100 bombs on Mariupol, - says Deputy Mayor Sergey Orlov. - Most of the city remains under Ukrainian control, but fighting is going on all over the streets. The functions of local authorities have been reduced to a minimum - delivering water from several unbroken tanks, removing bodies, delivering medicines to places where a large number of people are hiding, and supporting hospitals, of course.. Every day it's less real. The humanitarian convoy traveled for five days, and the Russians never let it into Mariupol. Drama theater - there are fights. Rescuers as such can no longer be organized. They either died or their cars were shot.. Women and children themselves are clearing the rubble in order to get out..
Some priests of the UOC-MP, who remained human, have been traveling with a white flag to the RuZZky for the last week, trying to agree on a corridor. And came back with nothing. The corridor operating these few days from the side of the right bank is unofficial and uncoordinated. People, at their own peril and risk, form columns of surviving cars and drive under bullets. True, orcs sometimes stop shooting. Either they are sleeping, or for a moment they remember that they are indirectly related to the human race. Today is the first day that the official corridor has been agreed. It is not a fact that only yesterday's conversation between French President Macron and Putin about Mariupol softened the Fuhrer. However, any effort is worth it..
Inside the city and from the left bank - " And evacuation to the Russian side. It was from there that the buses came, about which Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov cynically reported to the world and which the RT channel is actively broadcasting under the leadership of one of the first contenders for the dock in The Hague - Simonyan. People are scared and have not figured out where they will be evacuated. “So my sister ended up in Russia,” says a resident of Mariupol, who also managed to leave for Zaporozhye. - But this is from the left bank. There are suburban towns where I was born. She was told that there would be an evacuation, all the neighbors grabbed their things and got on the buses. They were taken to Taganrog. It’s good that my sister had money, and she was able to get to Moscow, and then fly to Germany via Istanbul. What about her neighbors, I don’t know…”.
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Mariupol is trying its best not only to live, but also to defend itself. The " Air defense over Mariupol was destroyed on the same first day of the war. While the elite of the Russian army is fighting against Azov (now it is a battalion of the National Guard). The Russians have electronic warfare, colossal superiority in armored vehicles, aviation, reconnaissance drones that fix the target as soon as it comes out of cover.
“Just yesterday we tried to deliver weapons to the guys by helicopter,” says the ex-governor of the Donetsk region (March-October 2013. ) People's Deputy Sergei Taruta, who left most of his relatives and friends in Mariupol. - One returned, the other was shot down. Communication only at night. One " Days are counted" They are no longer capable of any independent breakthrough.. They can only die heroically for Mariupol"
It is very difficult during the war to ask questions of any authority. Especially in a situation where the Ukrainian president has completely coincided with the times and is brilliantly coping with his foreign policy role.. The world applauds Zelensky, he was respected by Ukraine, but I really want the people of Mariupol to be able to do this too, when they are liberated by the Ukrainian army. I'm not a military man and I'm not an expert. So all I can do professionally is ask questions..
It is clear that we are learning on the march, and this study is extremely painful.. And I really want to believe that from this we only become stronger.. That we have more and more rationality in strategies, mobilization policy and a global vision of the picture of war. That the statements of the authorities about the impossibility of a military operation in Mariupol and the imminent political and diplomatic solution of the issue are an objective, not a far-fetched reality. And especially not an attempt to cover up an already made strategic decision. “Like, don’t call what Mariupol surrendered the fact that Mariupol surrendered. 10 minutes of pseudo-psychotherapy. “Master of Communications,” Alexey Arestovich’s five-minutes comment on the networks.
But debriefing - after the Victory. As well as the search for an answer to the key question of this blockade: why were two bridges on Chongar and the Kherson bridge not blown up, which were fully prepared and mined? Their undermining would not allow the enemy to enter the rear of Mariupol.
Ukraine is not Russia. And the media of the first echelon have long won the right to give signals and hope to be heard. Even at the cost of being included in a certain “Great Book”, the existence of which is so insistently reminded in their speeches by the president’s entourage. Ukrainian journalists and the authorities are one team, but one in which everyone has the right to do their job professionally. And that means telling the truth.. As the people of Mariupol say it today.
“We will weep for our relatives, for the destroyed buildings, but this grief will never be a reason to go to the conditions of the Russians,” writes Diana Berg, a Donetsk resident, for whom Mariupol became the second hometown after 2014, on her Facebook page.. “We will fight to the death, even at such a huge cost as the destruction of entire cities, because we know that going to their terms will only make things worse.”. Although it is difficult to imagine where it could be worse than now in Mariupol. But we know well where it's worse - in Russia. Where there are Russians, there is shit, shame, violence and terror, so x. and them, not Mariupol.
Our military, volunteers, police, volunteers, doctors, even public utilities - they are all angels guarding and protecting the city from the overwhelming Russian forces, and they will fight to the death. We really need help - from heaven and from earth. We need guaranteed corridors for gum convoy and evacuation. We really need a ceasefire so that thousands of civilian survivors can leave the war zone. Not the corridors that Mariupol residents are now tearing through on their own in desperation, but real ones.”.
Yesterday, March 18, the head of the Donbass patrol police, Mikhail Vershinin, who is currently defending Mariupol, addressed the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky.
My name is Mikhail Vershinin. I am a patrol officer. Sir, your state has done a lot to ensure that Ukraine has real police, so that we can be proud of it.
Pan President, make Mariupol survive. We need air defense systems. Not small missiles that do not work with aggressor aircraft, we need normal air defense systems.
We do not know for sure whether we will remain alive when you watch this appeal, but know that such a fate can befall every city of Ukraine. Children, old people are dying under the rubble, they cannot leave later. They are 23 days without water and light.
If you promise to help, keep your promise. Gentlemen who decide the fate of the world, now Ukraine is a state that demonstrates strength and power to everyone. A small country that fights a monster like Russia.
Don't let them destroy us! Everything is in your power. Provide us with air defense systems!