Ukrainian War Developments
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IMPETUS OF MOP-UP IN MARIUPOL INCREASED DRAMATICALLY
DPR units are advancing rapidly deep into the city, cutting through the enemy. The defences of the AFU and nationalist units are disorganised and overall leadership is lost. AFU units are forced to retreat, reducing their line of defence. There are reports of heavy losses on the part of the AFU. There is a lot of abandoned military equipment, weapons and ammunition. The advancing DPR units are also suffering losses.
Russian Black Sea Fleet ships are supporting the operation to take Mariupol with fire.
Local residents help the DPR forces by pointing out locations and firing positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
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Against this backdrop, panic videos from members of nationalist units in Mariupol started pouring into the media space calling on everyone to shout that Mariupol is Ukraine and that the DPR and Russian Federation must urgently stop an attack on Mariupol.
The members of the nationalist battalions are well aware that they have little chance of surviving if they encounter DNR servicemen from Mariupol and its suburbs or being captured by locals. Their actions in the city have put them in an almost hopeless position.
The video below shows the deputy commander of the Azov nationalist regiment calling on Ukrainian citizens to save them.
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In all likelihood, the fighting for Mariupol will last no more than two days. After that, a large-scale operation is expected to encircle the Ukrainian eastern front in Donbass. An additional contingent of the Russian Defence Ministry is being sent from Russia for this purpose. There are reports of a massive movement of military equipment in central Russia.
The headline is of this article is misleading and so is much of the rest of it. It gives the impression that the Ukrainians are starting to compromise, and that Russians are satisfied.
Knowing the amount of animosity on both sides I doubted that but I thought I'd check from an official Russian source. TASS is pretty much the only one for me that isn't blocked or DDOSed right now.
The Russians actually seem to be complaining about the lack of progress, but they're not giving up on them.
"The talks are hard and slow-going. Of course, we would like them to proceed much faster. It is Russia’s sincere wish. We want to achieve peace as soon as possible," Medinsky said.
It's the way of the western world now. Politicians will lie that and pretend they're doing a good job and the media will spin any story to backs that up. It all works great until the last minute when like when Taliban turned up outside Kabul and the whole narrative collapsed.
Damn son look at all that free ammo
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Looks like Mariupol may be falling sooner than expected. Azov seem to be saying their final words.
From their official twitter:
Given how things went in Grozny or Fallujah, I thought they could have held out for at least a week.
From their official twitter:
Given how things went in Grozny or Fallujah, I thought they could have held out for at least a week.
Damn commies and their Juche necromancy!
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I heard she was sunk by Ukrainian MLRS XD
I heard she was sunk by Ukrainian MLRS XD
Yeah it is. At this point if the Russians want much more they need to either throw more troops into Ukraine, or they need to rapidly capture Mariupol, which could free up to 10,000 troops for operations on the eastern front designed to trap the Ukrainians in the Donbas.
I largely agree with his assessment of the Ukrainian Military. I am not so surprised overall. After all, the Ukrainians have effective anti-armour weaponry and drones, and much of the fighting is urban and semi-urban. If Russia had undertaken a much more cautious advance initially with its ground forces and done much more probing in the first week of the war, it would not have suffered such heavy casualties as it did. Now, one is seeing that Russia is attempting to replicate in significant part, especially with regards to its approach around Ukrainian cities, its tactics and methods that it used in Chechnya and Grozny in multiple cities across Ukraine.
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