Berlin It’s a phenomenon: on Thursday, almost nothing happened militarily in Mariupol, which has been besieged for weeks. And yet, Vladimir Putin announces the taking of the city by his troops, which devastated it as much as the Wehrmacht once did in Stalingrad.
Some 2,500 Ukrainian fighters remain entrenched in the catacombs of the Azovstal plant, which sprawls over ten square kilometers – bravely holding out on Thursday, as they did every day before, but isolated 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 sent from the West.
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