Russian President Vladimir Putin has on Thursday scrapped plans to storm the Azovstal steel plant in the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol. Instead, he told his Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu that the plant — a sprawling complex which is among the last significant holdouts for Ukrainian forces in Mariupol — should be sealed and those inside should once again be offered the chance to surrender in exchange for their lives and a “dignified treatment.” #CNN #News
It feels like we have been hearing that Mariupol is about to fall in the next few hours for the last few weeks.. Russia claims victory by admitting it couldn’t take the Steel plant, only in Russia would that be a victory lol.😁
@Joseph kush watch Patrick Lancaster bro ☠️
@Black looks like what was happening for weeks, just Ukrainian soldiers trying to escape or pull out but couldn’t
You have to admit those Ukrainians in Mariupol are some of the bravest humans and going on over 50 days with no food/water resupply, no ammo resupply, watching their city get taken block by block while they do their best to buy time for the rest of their country. They’re like todays Spartans. Stay Strong Ukraine from the US. 💪🇺🇸♥️🇺🇦☮️💙💛
@The Russian Troll Network Really you support Russia ? You don’t say ! Your Troll name says otherwise.
@The Russian Troll Network Are u running operations from under your bed ? Is that why your forces are performing so ineptly ??
@İbrahim Moncada Where the hell else are they supposed to go into the not so tender arms of the Russians who are killing civilians indiscriminately?
I think I’d take my chances in a facility that was apparently built to survive a nuclear war rather than wait for what’s left of my apartment to come crashing down on my head
@Ukraine Inside okay so you don’t think that the information they choose to release to the public could also be doctored?
He says he wont do it then Im now 100% sure he will
So let me get this straight, he claimed victory without getting the Ukrainian defenders to surrender and has called off the attack on the last enemy positions in the city. That’s not what the term “Victory” means.
@Unknown Soldier The Azov Won’t Let The Civillians Leave
@Ukraine Inside 💯💯💯
@Vladimir Zelenskiy
Russia spoke and we listened
We destroyed their economy and armed Ukraine
We made Putin fail in Kyiv
I guess he is trying to coin a new term like Phyrric Victory but worse. Putinesque Victory. When you lose, and you don’t want to lose again so you claim victory and run away.
*”If we win another such battle against the Romans, we will be completely lost.”*
_-King Pyrrhus._
Just like he scrapped any plans for Russia’s immediate future
Scrapped it like they scrapped cnn+
@Profile One as seen on truth social? Nunes is a real technical giant.
“A hungry Fox saw some fine bunches of Grapes hanging from a vine that was trained along a high trellis, and did his best to reach them by jumping as high as he could into the air. But it was all in vain, for they were just out of reach: so he gave up trying, and walked away with an air of dignity and unconcern, remarking, “I thought those Grapes were ripe, but I see now they are quite sour.” – La Fontaine
@Maryam you’re stuttering
The correlation is incorrect, Putin is not “giving up” he has the plant surrounded and is going to “wait” them out so he will not have as many casualties as opposed to trying to clear the area. The best move.
“I am surrounded; situation excellent; they can’t get away this time; therefore we attack”. Stay right there, Comrad Putin; don’t move; my cousins Hungry Howie, Josie Javie, & Donnie Drone would like a word. Smile…
@John Galt009 it is, I remember as a kid my dad bought me the encyclopedia britanica for kids….that was the first article in it. It showed Aesop sitting with kids telling them stories and the drawing next to it was the fox walking away from the grapes. Childhood memories.
@Jesus Raul Reyes Loya Ha! Wondering aloud if that book also contained a similar lesson-story of: “A Man, his son, & a donkey” going into town ….
Storming a fortress like that is at least 30% of the attacking armies as fatality. This is why it remains besieged. This is not a humanitarian choice. They chose to “starve em out”.
@Scurra Lol😂🤣😂 it took u an hour to figure out what to say 😂🤣🤣
No confidence in “dignified treatment.” The Ukranian army outside Mariupol needs to poke in close enough to get cargo and recon drones into the steel plant. Recon drones could watch where fire trying to shoot down the cargo drones is coming from. You can’t create a siege without making yourself a sitting duck target sometimes.
Maybe the holdouts have gotten this far because they are getting this kind of support quietly. But they’ve requested extraction, and I hope some team somewhere is trying to synthesize an attrition of Russian forces in Mariupol along with that extraction. The recent maps do seem to indicate some Ukrainian penetrations toward Mariupol occurring. Just leaking info about possible plans can keep the Russians in there cautious.
@Taylor Morgan Griff Aviation. They carry limited but meaningful weight for a limited but meaningful range. These would be on a one way trip with optimum weight for necessary range. It is not science fiction. When I was in the USAF long ago, we had recon drones that carried hundred pound cameras and film. The challenge is to put cargo drones down in a location the besieged can access at reasonable risk.
@Tim Trewyn after reaching it the most weight one could carry is 150 pounds of cargo. You would have to send alot then risk them getting shot down. Hopefully enough get though for ample amount of supplies. Ammo guns all heavy. The logistics of this would be a nightmare. Then the risk of Ukrainian troops getting close enough to get them to that spot would be a huge cost. Then we’re are they going to land. The biggest ones need an actual runway. A risky pilot and a good hind would be a better choice but it’s a suicide mission ither way
@Tim Trewyn still would not be enough.
@Taylor Morgan You have to use these drones as one way expendables and something is better than nothing for Ukrainian morale in that plant. Landings do not have to be perfect for the cargo to survive. Drop them down one or more of the many smoke stacks, which usually have access doors at the bottom. And a one-way, suicide, night time with ECM, Ukrainian flagged Osprey mission would probably have a better chance and more payload than a Hind. A flight of Hinds could put down some covering fire. But I doubt the US is going to provide Ukraine an Osprey, even one scheduled for retirement. Thus the drones.
@Tim Trewyn they have hinds. Yea I doubt we would give them one of those. Ither way time is not on their side. They have hinds they definitely have the determination to take them behind enemy lines. But I don’t think they can pull the getting close to them
Message from Putin to all tank commanders… “your country needs you, make your own way to Moscow for the May day parade. I don’t want to be standing on the balcony on my own”, bring a friend if you still have any alive.
Kool aid for you for sure 😸
Reminds me a lot of the Grain Elevator firefight that took place during the Battle of Stalingrad.
And remember Hitler claimed that Germany had conquered Stalingrad?
Yes, in Stalingrad, Paulus was also not allowed to surrender
My favorite level in RO2
When Putler speaks, he lies — Slava Ukraine Slava
Can they even rebuild what they have taken, I don’t see Russia doing grand infrastructure projects . I see Russia starving and struggling to produce or import basic goods.
Correspondents not able to repeat properly even the key numbers. Putin said 2000 (!) UKR solders there. like 2-3 NATO battalions.
And not “few hundreds”.
2000 super-motivated and experienced solders… it takes an entire motorized division to kill them all, and Russian casualties in the range of 1000-5000+ killed and wounded.
In other words, maybe about 20% of all RUS forces in the area.
I wonder how history would of spun Abraham Lincoln if we had had many different nations reporting live and in real time of the events of his war.
He assumed it would’ve been a “90 day conflict” and went against all of his advisors sending more troops south anyway knowing it would provoke war.
After 2 years of failure, he resorted to starving entire towns of innocent women and children, bombarding civilian targets, etc.
Then once his “90 day conflict” ran the entire country into ashes, he needing support signed the emancipation proclamation to bolster war donations and so he could use African Americans in the front lines.
He was quoted prior to the signing, that “if I could subdue the south without freeing a single slave, I would do so.”
This seems a bit dishonest Abe.
History is written by the victors.
Regarding the Azovstal steel plant, given the character and previous actions taken and authorized by Putin and his current in charge General. I would expect a blockade and significant communications blackout of that location for at least three weeks as the Russians clean up the bodies after using chemical bombs to eliminate any surviving Ukrainians in that complex. Followed by statements by Russia to the effect that they evacuated and rescued with no loss of life every civilian being held there and the surrender and confinement of the “Nazi” terrorists that were holding them.
Then again, Russian state media is as predictable as FOX news in its spin so, its not hard to predict what they will say.
It feels weird and quite uncomfortable to watch people just comfortably sitting there, reporting on this war while people around them are in peril and being killed.
The actual footage of the “converstion” was so bizarre. Was like a low budget, crap soap opera. Obviously a shameless propaganda move and complete lie (All Russian leaders greatest skills) so view it as nothing more that a side show distraction, biding a little more time for his next plan. But time is something this little monster doesnt have.