Moscow is desperately looking for soldiers, especially in the outlying provinces. In Ukraine, two Russian generals are particularly guilty.
Because the world would see what the Russian soldiers did in Mariupol: The Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky, expressed concrete suspicion on Turkish television as to why Russia continued to block access to humanitarian aid in the besieged city. Mariupol on the Sea of Azov no longer exists as a city, countless civilians are still trapped, sometimes without access to the goods they urgently need to survive. Zelensky assumes that thousands of civilians have been abused, tortured and murdered.
The city administration announced ten escape corridors for Thursday, accompanied by a dramatic appeal to leave the city as soon as possible. As fighting at the port intensified, pro-Russian separatists claimed to have taken the city center. An (unconfirmed) jubilant message for the Moscow propaganda machine, which once again focuses on Mikhail Mizinzow. The colonel general is said to be responsible for the siege of Mariupol and thus for alleged war crimes – “the butcher of Mariupol”, as the former Ukrainian ambassador in Vienna, Olexander Scherba, recently dubbed him.