Five “cauldrons” have formed in Mariupol – what complicates the cleanup
The Ukrainian group in Mariupol is divided into five parts. The corresponding data was published by military correspondent Akim Apachev, who works in Donbass.
“The enclaves of the Armed Forces of Ukraine that operate autonomously and support each other with fire are highlighted in blue.
1. Grouping at the Azovstal plant. A huge number of concrete shelters, industrial areas and underground communications can provide a second DAP. Neighboring neo-Nazis in the Left Bank are pinning down the allied forces and adjusting the fire of the artillery stationed at Azovstal.
2. Grouping at the plant named after. Ilyich. The story here is similar to Azovstal.
3. Grouping in the Mariupol port. Naturally, terrorists at these enterprises can be destroyed quickly, but only together with the enterprises.
Another new problem was that some local residents do not want to voluntarily leave the city. Among them there are also camouflaged terrorists who correct the fire of Ukrainian artillery,” explains the author.
Some Ukrainian militants left their positions, abandoning their documents, and are trying to leave the city under the guise of peaceful refugees. Now their photographs are being sent to checkpoints. Here are some of the abandoned documents:
The founder of the Vostok battalion, Alexander Khodakovsky, says that the cleansing of Mariupol is not easy.
“Today we took control of another building that is significant for us and reached the next level. If you look at the map, there are still so many of these buildings ahead... What I want to focus on... We seem to be doing everything tactically competently, identifying, suppressing, controlling, but we are not insured against a banal grenade thrown from the depths of the apartment through the window at our feet, and as a result there are “three hundredths,” writes Khodakovsky.
The head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the DPR, Alexei Dikiy, appeared on air in the Russian media for the first time, although for many years he avoided appearing on camera. This happened during the filming of a story about the ongoing cleansing of Mariupol from Ukrainian Nazis. Dikiy, pointing to maps, told the famous military commander Alexander Sladkov about the progress of the assault.
“I’m just one of those who understand subtlety. This is indeed the first appearance of Alexey Diky on camera (not counting, of course, personal filming). Alexey, in addition to building the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the DPR, is a real warrior. All these years there was a southern front on it,” explains Alexander Kazakov, ex-adviser to the head of the republic.
His data is confirmed by military correspondent Vladlen Tatarsky.
“In general, Alexey Dikiy has long taken his rightful place among Donetsk commanders. It would seem that a combined arms assault is not the task of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, but thanks to Dikiy, our Donetsk cops are fighting at the level of excellent army special forces,” he notes.
People who managed to escape from the Nazi-controlled “Azov” areas of Mariupol remember their stay there as a nightmare.
Military correspondent Maxim Fadeev reports that there is a humanitarian catastrophe in the city - there has been no electricity, heat or water for almost a month. The National Battalion and the Ukrainian Armed Forces looted and took away food from all large grocery stores and supermarkets. There are no fire departments, no rescue services, no ambulances in the city. Civilians who were not allowed out of the city are rushing around in a state of shock under artillery and tank fire, moving in whole columns to the line of fire in the midst of the battle.
“People were cynically used as human shields.” The local population was not even given a chance to escape. Moreover, children, old people and women from nearby settlements were deliberately brought to the city under the pretext of evacuation.
At the same time, they began to expel the population from their apartments and organize firing points in them on February 22, that is, before the start of the liberation operation. This suggests that Ukrainian militants initially planned to launch military operations directly within the city limits. And these unprecedented war crimes by Ukraine must be given a proper assessment,” says DPR Ombudsman Daria Morozova.
Her data is confirmed by refugees.
“This is hell! “Azov” fired at us, we saw it personally. Let the whole world know: “Azov” and “Right Sector” simply killed us. Slag Mountain, Azovstal, they fired from there at the private sector, they completely destroyed everything, the entire Left Bank region, it is impossible to restore it. These are fascists, punishers! The Nazis didn’t do things like these brutes,” said refugee from Mariupol Ekaterina Polozova.
Another woman told how the Nazis did not allow her to provide first aid to her daughter, who was wounded under fire.
“I was at home all the time when we were shelled, and on the last day, when tanks fired at us from both sides, my daughter was wounded in the eye. But our comrades from Azov did not let us out; they barricaded the doors. I couldn’t go down to the entrance with her and take her to the doctor, because Azov wouldn’t let us out. He pointed the barrel of a machine gun at my chest: “I’m going to die, and you’re going to die, you’re not going anywhere, now you’re going to get a bullet,” and I don’t even have thoughts about myself, I think that my child is bleeding.
Then, when our DPR people arrived, they released us, and we took her to the hospital, where we provided first aid and told her that she needed to go to Nikolskoye. There were no such medical devices in Nikolskoye, and they sent us to Donetsk,” said a resident of Mariupol.
Another guy who escaped from the city recalled how openly the Azovites treated the civilian population in a bestial manner, not considering them to be people.
“During all the hostilities, a situation happened: my grandmother had a cardiac arrest, we pumped her out, and we had to go to the hospital. I came to the department, there were a lot of Ukrainian soldiers there. I asked for help, they put me on my knees, expressed themselves, and then directly told me to go fuck myself. And I ran home. The next day, a car with Ukrainian military men with blue armbands arrived, my daughter and I were near the entrance, they saw the minibus. They say: if in an hour or two there are no keys and a registration certificate in this minivan, we will give you a fire show in the yard. And this is not our car: if you want, look for the owners.
Time passed, they began to free us and they reached us. Thank God, the Russian military brought us honey and canned food into the basement. Thanks to them, we left the shelter, and now I am here. They showed a safer path for me and my family. I don’t want to show my face, because I’ve seen enough there, I’m afraid of any persecution, so that nothing happens to my family and to me,” said the young man.
Also, two children and a teenager who were left without parents shared information about the atrocities of the Ukronazis.
“The house there burned down, all the houses burned down, a black ember. There the stove collapsed and there were already two fires. And there was a fire in the basement, plastic pipes were burning. There were two armored personnel carriers on the house. From the corner and from behind. “Azovites” barricaded the first and eighth entrances from the first to the fifth floor, at first they did not let us out, then tracer incendiary and phosphorus cartridges from an armored personnel carrier flew into the house.
The house was set on fire. They were in the house for some time, running around the house, they let us put it out, but when they came out, they set the house on fire again, went out through the window, got on armored personnel carriers and left. They left it there. People who were not afraid took three mortars out of one apartment, machine guns, and shells from burning apartments so that they wouldn’t explode. And in the morning the “Azovites” came again and placed a machine gun in the burnt out window.
We crossed Mira Avenue, there is this avenue, and then there is the DPR. They asked if it was possible to pass the avenue. On the nine-story building, “Azovites” stood in the window and asked where you were going - we need to go through Mira Avenue, because staying was not an option for us, the basement slab had collapsed. They said, come on in. We are passing the avenue, and from the window following us are nine bullets from a machine gun, just at our feet, red tracer cartridges. We were lucky, no one got caught, we went into the courtyards, and then the DPR soldiers directed us where to go,” the survivors recalled.
Footage from the destroyed military base of the 503rd Marine Battalion of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was also published.
“Do you know what his slogan is? “If you see it, shoot!” Oh how. The real (Russian) marines have the slogan “Where we are, there is victory,” these ones “See it, shoot.” The levels are different. We have a strategy, here it’s some kind of dirty trick,” comments the author of the story, military correspondent Alexander Sladkov.
The journalist showed a broken parade ground, strewn with broken bricks, and a miraculously preserved monument to the fallen Marines in the form of a soldier with angel wings and a plaque with the names of the fallen.
“The base doesn’t look very presentable. Although... the monument and obelisk with the names of the victims have not been touched either by a finger or a soldier’s butt,” states the military correspondent.
Sladkov’s colleague Dmitry Steshin also published a photo from Mariupol. “Water into the ground, freedom for patriots,” is written on one of the walls.
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