Ukraine reports Russians trying to storm Mariupol plant

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By DAVID KEYTON and YESICA FISCH

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — An advisor to Ukraine’s presidential office says Russian forces are attacking a steel plant that is the last defense stronghold of Ukrainian forces in the strategic port city of Mariupol.

Oleksiy Arestovich, an advisor to the head of Ukraine’s presidential office, said during a briefing on Saturday that the Russian forces have resumed air strikes on Azovstal and were trying to storm it.

“The enemy is trying to completely suppress resistance of the defenders of Mariupol in the area of Azovstal,” Arestovich said.

Arestovich’s statement came two days after Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu reported to President Vladimir Putin that the whole of Mariupol, with the exception of Azovstal, had been “liberated” by the Russians.



A firefighter sits on a swing next to a building destroyed by a Russian bomb in Chernihiv on Friday, April 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)


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[2naSalit]

1. K&R

[w0nderer]

2. they said they wouldn't so of course they will / KnR n/t

[Evolve Dammit]

17. my first thought. Evil.

[w0nderer]

18. maskirovka

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_military_deception

[Evolve Dammit]

22. Experts at it by now. Good info

[Lovie777]

3. What happened to starve them?.....

[Irish_Dem]

4. I guess it was taking too long to starve them.

Damn Putin to hell.

[paleotn]

14. More than a few times....

military commanders who knew better were ordered by civilian politicians to send their people into bloody meat grinders when time and the elements could have done the job for them with limited casualties.

[James48]

5. Remove Russia from the UN Security Council.

It is not the successor to the Soviet Union. A mistake has been made.

The proper member of the Security Council should be recognized as Ukraine.

Then the UN would actually work.

[OnlinePoker]

6. They should do away with permanent members of the security council all together

Have membership on a rotating basis. The only way to change this in the UN Charter, however, is if the security council unanimously agrees to it, so that will never happen.

[SunSeeker]

21. How about kicking Russia out of the UN?

They're not abiding by the UN Charter. That's grounds for expulsion.

[paleotn]

15. The UN's version of the Electoral College.

You know it's stupid, but also damn difficult to do away with.

[malthaussen]

7. Well, Putin said they weren't going to do that.

So, one figured it was absolutely certain they would.

-- Mal

[mysteryowl]

8. Why hasn't the Ukrainian army sent more fighters?

Plus, I figured Putin was lying making his public statement they are done fighting in Mariupol and to just seal them in.

Stop the War!!!!

[halfulglas]

9. Yep, just like massing on Ukraine's borders was ordinary military maneuvers.

Take no notice. Nothing to see here. We all knew waiting for them to come out was all a lie. Bloodthirsty pigs! But waiting for them to come out delays the rest of their operation to consolidate their operation in the Donbas.

[HUAJIAO]

11. And not just the Donbas; as Zelenski says, this is just the beginning.

Putin wants the old USSR back.

The West better wake up. Ukrainians are fighting and dying for all of us.

[multigraincracker]

10. Like Afghanistan, they may

win a battle, but will go broke trying to win the war.

[yaesu]

12. Odessa was just struck by several missiles, they need that city to completely occupying the entire

south border region. I hate to see this monster regime getting away with this, NATO will have to deal with putin sooner or later.

Five people have been killed and eighteen injured in a missile strike in the southern Ukrainian port city of Odesa on Saturday, the president’s chief of staff Andriy Yermak said.

Ukraine’s air command said earlier that two missiles struck a military facility and two residential buildings in Odesa. Air defence destroyed two other missiles that were also targeting the city, according to its online statemen

[yaesu]

13. Two Russian generals killed near Kherson - Ukrainian Ministry of Defence

Two Russian generals have been killed near Kherson, the Ukrainian Ministry of Defence’s intelligence directorate has said. One is in critical condition.

The Ukrainian military on Friday hit a Russian command post near occupied regional capital Kherson, according to the statement.

[orangecrush]

24. Good news. nt

[Warpy]

16. So much for Putin's declaration that such an action was futile

and that they should concentrate on isolating the area, instead. The only ways they have of quickly clearing those tunnels, which are reportedly still full of thousands of civilians, would get Putin declared a war criminal immediately, and he knows it.

[niyad]

19. Heartbroken KNR

[SunSeeker]

20. Of course. Right after Russia said it wouldn't storm the steel plant.

Everything Putin/Russia says is a lie.

[Deminpenn]

23. By now, the whole plant should be booby-trapped

nt