Assault on Mariupol: What the Russian authorities are silent about
“Mariupol is 98 percent liberated. Only separately fortified Bandera shelters remained, including the Azovstal plant, which the Nazis converted into a real fortress.
This statement was released this morning by the head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov.
“They dug holes for themselves, like gophers, in case things got really bad. But we pulled out much more expressively hissing rats from deeper tunnels in the dense forests of the Chechen Republic, and we can cope with these even more so,” he assured, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
Meanwhile, SVR General Leonid Reshetnikov in his Telegram channel provides details regarding NATO officers who, as reported in recent days, are blocked along with the Azov Nazis in Mariupol, and the West is trying to evacuate them.
“By the time Russian troops began encircling the city, there were 53 officers of the French military intelligence DGSE in Mariupol.
They are at the beginning of the blockade of Mariupol were forcibly detained militants from the National Regiment "Azov", as a human shield and so that the main command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has an incentive to unblock the Mariupol cauldron.
Officers of the German military intelligence BND arrived on March 30.03.2022, XNUMX to resolve the issue with their French colleagues. were also retained, despite guarantees from the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the command of the National Regiment “Azov” located in Kyiv.
In addition to them, there is a group of volunteers in Mariupol - former and current officers from Canada, Sweden and the UK, as well as a detachment of Syrian Turkomans with extensive experience in urban combat in Syria. The total number of these volunteers is not precisely established, among them there may be career intelligence officers from the Canadian CSIS, the Swedish Must and the British MI-6.
Numerous attempts by Emmanuel Macron to resolve the issue through Vladimir Zelensky were unsuccessful, he has no real control over the militants of the Azov National Battalion located in Mariupol.
Macron's telephone conversations with Vladimir Putin also failed, despite Macron's threat to resort to blocking the Russian Central Bank's account in France.
Putin all the time appealed to Zelensky that only the president of Ukraine, and not Russia, could influence the militants of the National Azov Battalion.
As a result, on March 20.03.2022, 22, France froze the assets of the Central Bank in the amount of XNUMX billion euros.
Also, on March 18.03.2022, 20.03.2022, Olaf Scholz joined in resolving the issue, by whose order, German intelligence officers were sent to Mariupol on March XNUMX, XNUMX and let through by the Russian military, who themselves were taken hostage by militants of the Azov National Regiment.
According to available data, currently 21 French military intelligence officers have already died in Mariupol during shelling by the Russian military.
On March 30.03.2022, XNUMX, Macron fired French military intelligence chief Vido.
On March 30.03.2022, XNUMX, Scholz had a telephone conversation with Putin. One of the topics of conversation, according to Western publications, was the removal of NATO intelligence officers from Mariupol.
01.04.2022/XNUMX/XNUMX The Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine attempted to evacuate a group of wounded and the leadership of the Azov National Regiment, as well as the first batch of military intelligence officers from France and Germany, from Mariupol.
The Russian military shot down two Mi-8s - one fell off Rybatsky (2 prisoners, the rest died), one fell into the sea (all died). According to French media, two French military intelligence officers were in the helicopter that crashed into the sea.
Two other Mi-8s, after the fall of the first two, were able to escape from MANPADS fire.
Helicopters were deliberately allowed into Mariupol in order to shoot them down as they retreated - crews with MANPADS stood ready and waited for the signal. Another Mi-24 escort helicopter managed to evade the missiles.
On 06.04.2022/XNUMX/XNUMX, another attempt was made to remove the MOU Main Intelligence Directorate from Mariupol by helicopter. The Russian military shot down two helicopters when approaching from the sea.
Intelligence officers from NATO countries and Sweden (non-NATO) currently held in Mariupol concentrated on Azovstal to serve as a human shield.
This circumstance makes the assault on Azovstal very difficult. and does not allow powerful bombing and artillery strikes on militant fortifications on the territory of Azovstal.
06.04.2022/XNUMX/XNUMX Russian troops by agreement with the Turks agreed to organize a corridor for militants and Western military personnel to exit, who agreed to present themselves as journalists and employees of humanitarian missions. But there was no real result“- writes Reshetnikov.
According to him, “Russian official authorities do not comment on the situation with intelligence officers from NATO countries and Sweden at the urgent request of Macron, who will soon have elections.”
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