Pyrpolizer wrote:The filthy propaganda of our pathetic RIK:
All their news bulletins start like this:
Hundreds of civilians including children are still trapped under Azovstal plant in Marioupol. In TOTAL there are more than 100,000 people trapped/enclaved in the city.
I mean look at this. Let's ignore their distortion of the truth regarding Azovstal. they clearly try to give the impression to the unsuspected listener, that there are 100,000 civilians in Marioupol detained against their will. Whereas the reality is that those people are all Russian speakers, greet the Russian soldiers with flowers, beg them not to leave them ever again, are free to move and go anywhere they like without risking their lives as before, thank God that their 8 year long lasting torture from the Azov criminals has finally ended etc.
I am not sure what part of Marioupol or it's outskirts is inhabitable, however Russian media showed videos of areas where life returned to normal and some people going to cinema.
There are thought to be about 100,000 people trapped in the city of Mariupol. Most agencies are reporting 200 or so civilians still holed up in Azovstal steel works. 100 got out in a ceasefire recently and there are attempts going on to arrange another but right now it seems the shelling has recommenced.
Mariupol's been under virtually daily bombardment from artillery, rockets and bombs for weeks. Several of them ago it was reported something like 80 - 90% of the buildings in the city had either been totally destroyed or severely damaged. Apparently not the cinemas though.
After getting an earlier mauling the Russians clearly decided to stand-off and flatten the place. Just like Aleppo and Grozny. In essence though Mariupol's gone. If that's their idea of "liberation".........................
I believe the pre-invasion thinking in the Kremlin - and one of their great disappointments since - was probably along the lines of your
"the reality is that those people are all Russian speakers, greet the Russian soldiers with flowers, beg them not to leave them ever again, are free to move and go anywhere they like without risking their lives as before, thank God that their 8 year long lasting torture from the Azov criminals has finally ended" but that's not what's actually happened - is it? The "torture"
- is probably looked back on as the good ole days now, when those people had a city.