Kadyrov: "I urge those who are in Mariupol to surrender, or it will be too late in the evening. We will guarantee your safety. Around and inside Mariupol there are 5 thousand of our best Chechen fighters. Act manly for once for the sake of the civilians and the city."
"You have not lived with dignity, you do not fight bravely, you will die like shaitans." Can't translate the last sentence in Chechen.
From what I heard the troops in Mariupol could hold out for approximately another week if they decide against surrender, but that estimation didn't include a full-scale assault I think.
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what did the innocent computer nerds say about 50 people being burned alive in odessa? what did they say about children in donetsk being torn apart by cluster munitions? what did they say about crimea being turned into a desert with a water blockade?
what did the innocent computer nerds say about SBU black site torture prisons all over eastern ukraine? what did they say about ukrainian army units letting people shoot rpgs at random villages in donbass for $$? what did they say about death squads kidnapping people in kharkov?
what did the innocent computer nerds say about azov rolling into mariupol and massacring civilians? what did they say about the easter massacre near slavyansk? what did they say about the assassination of oles buzina and countless others?
AFU still shelling residential areas in Donetsk - Kirovsky district, today
What strikes me the most when I see footage from Donetsk is how the people are... used to this. Everyone knows what to do when they hear artillery, "duck & cover", fire brigades move swiftly on muscle memory. 16-year-olds have lived half their lives like this.
In mid-February I started reading local Donetsk group chats to keep track of what's going on, teenagers discussing the shelling, afraid to go to sleep, talking about which districts are getting hit, how they haven't stayed up this late in forever, trying to joke through it
New episode! Frontline Sitrep, mobilization(?), Ukrainian TikTok PsyOps, newest Russian weapons, lend-lease, Victory Day, the bloody spectacle, French dogs. Go check it out, the episode is free:
Speaking for myself (Kirill), all of my great-grandfathers fought in the war, one was a pilot & was shot down in the first days of the war, one was head of a railway station & joined the partisans, one was an artillery officer, one was a surgeon
Don't know much about the pilot — he was pretty young when he died, leaving behind a family & only one or two photos that I've seen, he was shot down somewhere in Belorussia in late June 1941.
The train man had suffered an injury to his leg & couldn't walk properly; he sabotaged the railway, derailing several trains with German supplies & went into the woods to join the partisans when he was discovered. He survived the war.