Russians in #Mariupol clear up the rubble without minding the bodies. The killed are dumped with the debris. The world will never know the real extent of the tragedy of #Mariupol. Thousands of families will spend years looking for relatives, never receiving a clear answer
Washington Post editorial, in response to the NYT editorial and other voices in the West: "For now the best way for #Ukraine’s friends to help is to accelerate shipments of vital weaponry — and stop negotiating with themselves". https://t.co/kNTPaNsIIo
“Leonid Slutsky, one of Moscow's negotiators in talks with Ukraine and chairman of the Duma's international affairs committee, called the evacuated Azov fighters "animals in human form" and said they should receive the death penalty.”
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Crimea is Ukraine! 🇺🇦
At night in Evpatoria the Crimean partisans painted the building of the Russian occupation administration in the colors of the state flag of Ukraine, - State border guard service of Ukraine reported
Putin does not consent to extraction of wounded soldiers from #Azovstal despite multiple international organizations and third countries engaged by Ukraine. - Hanna Maliar, Deputy Minister of Defence.
A delegation of Senate Republicans just left Ukraine after visiting Kyiv and meeting with President Zelenskyy. We saw firsthand the courage, unity, and resolve of the Ukrainian people. My full statement:
⚡⚡⚡Hundreds of wounded Ukrainian soldiers are at the #Azovstal plant in #Mariupol. #Ukraine calls on the @UN and the Red Cross @ICRC to conduct an "extraction" procedure to save these people.
Sign the petition. It could save their lives➡️https://t.co/UTu99NCt6H
Wounded #Azovstal defenders are in critical condition: they lack medicines, including antibiotics & painkillers, or proper nutrition needed for the recovery. Hundreds of injured are at the plant now. UN and ICRC, please help to save them
More horrible stories from the #Mariupol survivors #russianWarCrimes
Kateryna recalls her house was on the front line. It was shot at from every direction, burned multiple times, and remnants of other buildings, destroyed by air bombs, were scattered nearby /1
Their fathers defend Ukraine at #Azovstal. Boys and girls urge the international community to do everything possible and impossible to bring their dads home and safe. They have to be rescued
#Azov posted a video about the heroes of #Mariupol and called on Ukrainians to sign a petition to save the defenders.
Link to petition👇🏼
https://t.co/fHeAq60x8R
📽️ source: https://t.co/clH15umX9O
#SaveMariupolDonbasAndAzov
Her name's Katya, she's 20. One of the last defenders of #Mariupol at "Azovstal". Singing a 🇺���� patriotic song, written in 1929. The first lines are:
"We were born in a great hour
From the fires of war and the flames of gunshots
We were nurtured by the pain of losing Ukraine..."
"They could become heroes of a movie. But they are the heroes of our reality. They are also PEOPLE. People who want to survive. And who keep fighting for their values: freedom and honour. It is the duty of the world to save the defenders of #Mariupol." — founder of Azov Regiment.
Azovstal steel plant defenders “are ready to surrender to a third party and stay in that country until the war is over”, assures Serhiy Kvit, president of one of Ukraine's oldest universities.