Deadline for dawn Russia Gave a decision Ukrainian soldier As Vladimir Putin’s increasingly sloppy troops approached the strategic port city, surrendering and placing their weapons in Mariupol passed without incident on Sunday morning.
The Russian Ministry of Defense is still upset by the loss of Major General Vladimir Florov of the 8th Army in the battle on Saturday, and is similarly determined to “eliminate Ukrainian and foreign troops trying to retain the abused city. I threatened.
Russia has made significant profits in the city after spending weeks cleaning the city from the map. Western intelligence officials said it would provide an important overpass between the Crimean Peninsula and the eastern separatist region it desperately wants to take, and could soon fall to Russia.
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President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed that his fighters controlled only a small part of the city. “The situation in Mariupol is very difficult,” he said overnight on Sunday, according to CNN. “Our soldiers are blocked, injured are blocked. There is a humanitarian crisis … nevertheless, they are protecting themselves.”
Russia said in a statement on Sunday that there were “up to 400 foreign mercenaries who joined the Ukrainian army” flocking inside the steelworks, including many Europeans and Canadians who came to support the Ukrainian army. I warned. “If there is more resistance, they will all be eliminated,” the statement said.
Further north, dozens of rescue workers and civilians were killed and injured in a violent bombing of Kharkov, Ukraine’s second largest city, according to CNN, citing Kharkov Regional Military Director Oleg Sinegbov. “They are currently being treated in the hospital,” Sineguboy wrote on Telegram. “31 people, including four children, were injured in Russian bombardment.”
He also wrote that he was using airstrikes after Russian troops were pushed back to land. “Our army holds a strong position and is moving in several directions, so the enemy cannot approach Kharkov,” he said. “Therefore, Russians resort to shameful bombardment in residential areas.”
Supported by the increase in Mariupol’s and lossless, Russian troops resumed their efforts in Kyiv early Sunday and attacked Brovary east. On Saturday, an attack on a strategic target further west of the almost untouched Lviv also showed that the war was at a turning point. Quoting the Institute for the Study of War, Washington post Russian troops reported on Sunday that they are likely to “set conditions for larger and more coordinated attacks.” Simply put, the worst may not have come yet.
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