Berlin It’s a phenomenon: on Thursday, almost nothing happened militarily in Mariupol, which has been surrounded for weeks. And yet Vladimir Putin announces the taking of the city by his troops, who have devastated it as much as the Wehrmacht once did Stalingrad.
Around 2,500 Ukrainian fighters have continued to hole up in the catacombs of the Azov steel plant, which extends over ten square kilometers – bravely holding out on Thursday as they had on all the days before, but cut off from the outside world and, given the current situation, probably doomed to die. At the moment, it seems hardly conceivable that the Russian army in Mariupol could still be badly hit – for example with heavy artillery or air force delivered from the West.
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