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Re: Ukraines' City of HELL-Children Buried in Mass Grave/ EVIL Russian Commander Kill
Inside Ukraines' City of HELL Where Lost Children Buried in Mass Grave
Airstrikes and shells relentlessly pound Mariupol about one a minute. This southern seaport of has become a symbol of Vladimir Putin’s drive to crush Ukraine but also of a fierce resistance
Feared EVIL Russian Paratroop Commander Who Masterminded Massacre is Killed in Battle
The death of Col Sergei Sukharev, of the 331st Guards Parachute Assault Regiment from Kostroma, has been confirmed by state TV in Moscow
Daily Mirror 18 MAR 2022
People gather near a destroyed block of flats in Mariupol
The bodies of the children all lie here, dumped into a narrow trench hastily dug into the frozen earth of Mariupol to the constant drumbeat of shelling.
There is 18-month-old Kirill killed by shrapnel to the head, 16-year-old Iliya blown up playing football at a school field, and a girl no older than six in unicorn pyjamas who was among the first of the children to die.
They are stacked together with dozens of others in this mass grave on the outskirts of the city.
A man covered in blue tarp, weighed down by stones at the *crumbling kerb. A woman wrapped in a red and gold bedsheet, her legs bound at the ankles with white fabric.
Workers dispose of the bodies as fast as they can, because the less time they spend in the open, the better their chances of survival. “The only thing [I want] is for this to be finished,” said Volodymyr Bykovskyi, pulling body bags from a truck. “Damn them all, those people who started this.”
More bodies will come, from the streets, from the hospital basement.
The youngest still has an umbilical cord attached.
Airstrikes and shells relentlessly pound Mariupol about one a minute. This southern seaport of 430,000 has become a symbol of Russian President Vladimir Putin ’s drive to crush Ukraine but also of a fierce resistance.
The city is now encircled by Russian soldiers, who are slowly squeezing the life out of it, one blast at a time.
Several appeals for humanitarian corridors to evacuate civilians went unheeded, until Ukrainian officials said on Wednesday that about 30,000 people had fled in convoys of cars.
Air strikes and shells have hit the maternity hospital, the fire department, homes, a church, a field outside a school, and now a theatre sheltering women and children.
Evacuees leave the besieged port city of Mariupol
For the estimated hundreds of thousands who remain, there is quite simply nowhere to go. The surrounding roads are mined and the port blocked.
Food is running out, and the Russians have stopped humanitarian attempts to bring it in. Electricity is mostly gone and water is sparse, with residents melting snow to drink. Some parents have even left their newborns at the hospital, perhaps hoping to give them a chance at life in the one place with decent electricity and water.
People burn scraps of furniture in makeshift grills to warm their hands in the freezing cold and cook what little food there still is. The grills themselves are built with the one thing in plentiful supply: bricks and shards of metal scattered in the streets from destroyed buildings.
Death is everywhere. Local officials have tallied more than 2,500 deaths in the siege, but many bodies cannot be counted because of the endless shelling. They have told families to leave their dead outside in the streets because it is too dangerous to hold funerals. Doctors say they are treating 10 civilians for every injured Ukrainian soldier.
“They have a clear order to hold Mariupol hostage, to mock it, to constantly bomb and shell it,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said last week.
Just weeks ago, Mariupol’s future seemed much brighter.
If geography drives a city’s destiny, Mariupol was on the path to success, with its thriving iron and steel plants, a deep-water port and high global demand for both. Even the dark weeks of 2014, when the city nearly fell to Russia-backed separatists in vicious street battles, were fading into memory.
Feared EVIL Russian Paratroop Commander Who Masterminded Massacre is Killed in Battle....
The death of Col Sergei Sukharev, of the 331st Guards Parachute Assault Regiment from Kostroma, was confirmed by state TV in Moscow
One of Russia’s top paratroop commanders has been killed in Ukraine in the latest blow to Vladimir Putin ’s debilitating war effort.
The death of Col Sergei Sukharev, of the 331st Guards Parachute Assault Regiment from Kostroma, was confirmed by state TV in Moscow.
Earlier his "liquidation" had been claimed by Ukraine’s Centre for Strategic Communication and Information Security.
“Commander of the Kostroma Airborne Regiment, Colonel Sergei Sukharev…got lost in the ‘[military] exercises’, but returned home the right way,” said the Ukrainian statement.
His deputy Major Sergei Krylov was killed alongside him, said the report.
They were among a number slain from the “glorious” Kostroma regiment, seen as among Russia’s most elite fighting forces.
Colonel Sergei Sukharev of the 331st Guards Parachute Assault Regiment, Kostroma
Russia acknowledged that senior sergeant Sergei Lebedev, sergeant Alexander Limonov and corporal Yuri Degtyaryov were also killed.
Sukharev was seen on Russian TV in January when he led his troops back from Kazakhstan where they had been sent following a wave of protests.
Russian described their mission as “peacekeeping” and Sukharev said his forces protected a vital power plant in Almaty.
Killed, too, in the latest Ukrainian fighting was military intelligence officer Sergey Vishnyakov, of the GRU’s 22nd Separate Special Forces Brigade.
He is believed to have been killed fighting near Mariupol in a Grad attack by Ukraine’s Azov battalion.
Lieutenant Colonel Yuri Agarkov, from Volgograd, commander of a motorised rifle regiment, died during a special operation.
Major Ruslan Petrukhin, deputy battalion commander of the 38th Motorised Rifle Brigade, was also reported killed in action in Ukraine.
Russia has failed to announce its estimated death toll in Ukraine for more than two weeks.
There are claims it runs to around 7,000 with suspicions the true figure is being kept secret to prevent a sapping of support in Russia.
Vitaly Gerasimov, another dead general, who was killed in fighting near Kharkiv
Mass graves dug in besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol as locals bury their dead
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