The port of Mariupol, which has been contested for weeks, now appears to have been taken over by pro-Russian separatists. The ammunition of the Ukrainian troops had already run out.
4:46 pm, April 11, 2022
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Separatists report capture of Mariupol harbor © (c) AP (Planet Labs PBC)
According to reports from Russian news agencies, pro-Russian separatists have seized the port of the southern Ukrainian city of Mariupol, which has been disputed for weeks. “The port of Mariupol is under our control,” The RIA Novosti news agency quoted the Donetsk separatist leader as saying on Monday Denis Pushlin. In the morning, the remaining Ukrainian troops in Mariupol said they were preparing for their “final battle” because ammunition was running low.
Ukrainian soldiers were “pushed back” and “surrounded” by the Russian army, explained the Mariupol brigade earlier. “All the infantrymen were killed and the firefights are now taking hold of the gunners, anti-aircraft gunners, radio operators, drivers and cooks. Even the orchestra.” Half of the remaining soldiers were wounded. “No one wants to communicate with us anymore because we were eliminated”, the soldiers explained further. The achievement will mean “death for some of us and prison for the rest.”
Meanwhile, Ukraine has accused Russia of seizing a ship in the port of Mariupol. 18 sailors and the captain’s wife were arrested, wrote the human rights commissioner of the Ukrainian parliament, Lyudmyla Denizova, Monday on Telegram. Russian troops had already fired on the ship flying the Liberian flag. In addition to the Ukrainian citizens, an Egyptian was among the prisoners. On Sunday, pro-Russian separatists announced that Ukrainian troops had seized two foreign ships and their crews in Mariupol and were bombing the city from there.
The strategically important port city of Mariupol lies between the Russian-annexed Crimean Peninsula and pro-Russian breakaway areas in the Donbass. It has been under siege in Ukraine since the early days of the Russian war of aggression. About 440,000 people lived there before the war.
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