No one will be able to persuade the Russian autocrat to give up unnecessary killings, so the supply of weapons to the Armed Forces is the only possible answer.
The Russian Army turned Mariupol into ruins, killing and injuring thousands of civilians. If before the Russian invasion 400,000 people lived in the Ukrainian city, now there are 120,000. Most of those who managed to escape moved to other parts of Ukraine. But many were also forcibly deported to Russia.
On Wednesday, Vladimir Putin praised the horrors and said he was satisfied, the Washington Post wrote in an editorial.
“The work of the armed forces to liberate Mariupol has been successful. Congratulations, “he told his defense minister, Sergei Shoigu.
But the truth is that the Russian army has not yet completed the task. Some defenders of Mariupol established themselves at the Azovstal plant. Moscow says there are about 2,000 soldiers in the basement of the plant. In Kyiv, they say that there are really “several thousand” people there. But about 500 of them are wounded soldiers, and another 1,000 are civilians, many of them children. Recognizing that the Russian military's attempt to storm the plant would be too risky, even if there were fewer Ukrainian soldiers, Putin ordered Azovstal to be surrounded so that “not a fly would fly.”
Soldiers are not allowed to live in the plant, who may die of disease, starvation or thirst if the Russian siege is successful, “the article reads.
The publication reminds that Moscow wants to capture the Ukrainian military and civilians on Azovstal dead or alive. So she demanded that they surrender. Putin also rejected the call of the Ukrainian military to evacuate them to the territory controlled by Kiev under the supervision of a third party.
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The publication insists that the United States, Europe and all worthy governments of the world must demand that Russia act humanely. This means that negotiations are needed to carry out the evacuation requested by Ukrainians. If Russia does not agree to such an operation under the supervision of a third country, a neutral international organization, such as the International Committee of the Red Cross, may do so.
The defenders of Mariupol are running out of food and ammunition. And experience shows that Putin needs to be appealed based on humanitarian concerns or international law. New satellite images have revealed new mass graves 20 kilometers from Mariupol, which may contain up to 3,000 civilian bodies. That's why US President Joe Biden did the right thing when he announced new deliveries of heavy artillery and drones to Ukraine. These weapons should help the Ukrainian Armed Forces to launch a new Russian offensive in Donbas.
“It is probably too late to persuade Putin to abandon unnecessary killings in Mariupol. The supply of American weapons will allow Ukraine to address him in a language he understands, “the article reads.
The Russians forcibly deported several thousand Mariupol residents to Russia. Earlier, the occupation authorities in Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts, under the guise of “evacuating” civilians, carried out a mass action of forced relocation to Russia. These actions, which in international law qualify as deportation, are a crime against humanity. How will the world react to the deportation and genocide of Ukrainians? “.
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