A dramatic appeal on Facebook, attributed to the 36th Brigade of Ukrainian Marines: “We held the defenses and did the impossible, but all the infantry are dead, they are surrounded by fire and are trying to destroy us.”
“Mariupol was devastated, there are tens of thousands dead. But despite this, the Russians do not stop their offensive ».
The words of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, delivered today, April 11, during a speech in South Korea’s parliament, are words that reflect the horror of a city of over 400,000 people, now razed to the ground by bombing raids and street fighting. Moscow has been relentlessly trying to capture it for weeks in order to complete a terrestrial corridor running from the Donbass, controlled by the proRussian autonomous republics, to Crimea. And in the last few hours, the proRussian separatists announced that they had seized the city’s port the last outpost along with the Azovstal steel mill.
However, other words were added to Zelensky’s words: this time written on Facebook, on the page of the 36th separate naval brigade fighting in Mariupol.
“Today it will probably be the last battle because the ammunition is running out,” it says there. After a 47day resistance and having done “everything possible and impossible” to maintain control of the city, the Marines declare that they are ready to fight but also that they have been “rejected and surrounded”. troops russian.
“For some of us it will be death. And prison for the others ».
The military claims to have fought without a supply of ammunition, without food, without water: and now the troops of Moscow have pushed them into the territory of the Azovstal Steel Works and the port that has just fallen. “They surrounded us and now they are trying to destroy us.”
“The wounded are a mountain, almost half the brigade. Those who can still get up return to the battle. The infantry has been completely eliminated, the handtohand combat is being conducted by members of the artillery, radio operators, drivers, cooks even the orchestra ».
In the statement, the brigade laments the lack of support from the Ukrainian military leadership: “We received 50 bullets, 20 mines, NLAW antitank missiles only once. Nothing else, just broken promises. They gave up on us ».
The news was picked up by the AFP agency. On Facebook, several users questioned the authenticity.
In an interview with the Russian media at the end of March, Zelenskyi spoke for the first time about a possible capitulation of Mariupol. The President explained that he had told the soldiers who were still fighting in that city that they could leave for safety reasons.
“I talk to them twice a day. I told them, ‘If you understand that you must go and that it is right to go, that you can save yourself, then do it. I understand””.
Kadyrov soldiers from Chechnya openly tell in the video that the city of Mariupol was bombed by the Russian military.
You can hear a scary woman scream? Natasha! Natashenka!? in the background, but after the shot the scream stops.#Russian war crimes pic.twitter.com/DaYyyTenfrOleksandra Matviichuk (@avalaina) April 11, 2022
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