Thirteenth day of war. Shelling and bombings continue on several cities of the country. The Russian offensive, slowed down, continues none the less. And if they resist, the Ukrainians are more and more furious. Against war. Against Moscow. And once morest the West.
On this thirteenth day since the start of the Russian invasion, the online daily Oukraïnska Pravdain the live he still maintains on the conflict, dwells on the fate of Mariupol, illustrated by a terrible photo report transmitted by the journalist Mstyslav Tchernov, who describes what he saw there: “Residents are looting shops, corpses are lying in the streets, there is no one to pick them up. There is no light, no water, no medicine, no communication. The blockade of Mariupol continues”, most “the city is completely under the control of Ukraine”.
The exasperation of the authorities and the soldiers
According to information transmitted by elements of the Azov regiment, which participates in the defense of this port, which before the war had nearly 300,000 inhabitants, the Russians allegedly “resumed their assault on Mariupol”.
“To allow the evacuation of civilians in one direction, the defenders had taken measures : they had cleared the road, cleared the accesses, eliminated the obstacles, etc. At that very moment, the enemy launched an attack on Mariupol, not letting the inhabitants out of the city.
A situation that might change in favor of the Ukrainians if they managed to secure at least partial control of the sky. Several representatives of the government of Kiev today spoke in this direction, with sometimes virulent remarks aimed at the West.
Oleksiy Danilov, who chairs the National Defense and Security Board (RNBO), thus criticized the West for having long “demonstrated that he was ready to fold before the demands of Russia, to sell off his ‘ritual’ worries in exchange for oil and gas, or for the possibility of landing a corrupt sinecure at Gazprom”, indicates the information site Obozrevatel. According to him, “during the development of its Barbarossa-2022 plan”, the Kremlin would have “banked on the traditional softness and indecision of the West”. Which would ultimately have been a miscalculation because “the West has woken up, finding itself on the verge of losing all that
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