– The fight against Mariupol is personally led by General Mikhail Mizintsev, the man who led the Russian operation in Syria. He’s Putin’s favorite.
It claims Pravda Gerashchenko, the adviser to Ukraine’s Interior Minister in a Telegram posts.
The southeastern port city has been described as “hell on earth” and has been under heavy fire for almost four weeks. For three weeks, the city has been besieged by Russians. There is no electricity, water, coverage or supplies for the civilians left in the city.
Considered relocation to “nuclear safe” Australia
Claims the city is taken
On Monday, the human rights organization Human Rights Watch report that more than 3,000 civilians have been killed as a result of the Russian attacks in the port city.
Before the war, around 440,000 people lived in the city, and one of the main reasons why the Russians wanted to take the city is to establish a land connection to the Crimea.
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On Thursday night, Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov claimed that Chechen and Russian forces had now taken control of Mariupol City Hall.
The guys report on the radio that the Ukrainians have left the administration building in Mariupol, and hoisted our flag over it. The surviving bandits took no risk and left their positions, as they usually do, Kadyrov claims on the Russian social media VK.
“If God wills, Mariupol will soon be completely cleared,” Kadyrov wrote.
The city’s mayor, Vadym Boychenko, has also left the city.
Ukraine: – Russian forces withdraw
Slammed against officer
In a post on Twitter, the Ukrainian diplomat and former ambassador to Austria, Olexander Scherba, shares what is to be an audio recording of Mizintsev.
There, the diplomat calls the Russian general “the butcher of Mariupol.”
In the audio clip, Mizintsev describes a Russian officer as “scum”.
