The port city of Mariupol is completely surrounded by Russian troops. Ukrainian soldiers entrenched there are now calling for help – they are hoping for evacuation to a third country.
In a dramatic appeal, the Ukrainian commander of the remaining marines in the heavily contested port city of Mariupol asked for an evacuation to a third country.
“The enemy outnumbers us 10 to 1,” Serhiy Volyna, commander of Ukraine’s 36th Marine Brigade, said in a one-minute video message posted on Facebook. “We appeal to all world leaders to help us.”
Russia has advantages in the air, artillery, ground forces, equipment and tanks, Wolyna says. The Ukrainian side is defending only one object, the Azovstal Steel Works, where, in addition to the military, there are also civilians. Volyna asks to use the “procedure of extraction” and to take everyone – the military of the Mariupol garrison, more than 500 wounded fighters and hundreds of civilians – to safety on the territory of a third country. “This is our appeal to the world,” said Wolyna. “This could be the last appeal of our lives.”
Wolyna told the CNN TV channel that an evacuation could be carried out by ship or helicopter. An international humanitarian mission is also a possibility. He did not say how many Ukrainian soldiers were on the premises of the steel mill.
The south-eastern Ukrainian port of Mariupol was completely surrounded by Russian troops on March 1, shortly after the start of the Russian war of aggression. The city and the port are largely considered to have been destroyed. Most recently, according to Russian information, around 2,500 Ukrainian fighters and 400 foreign mercenaries were holed up in the steelworks. According to Ukrainian reports, around 1,000 civilians are said to have sought protection there. Russia has repeatedly called on Ukrainian troops to surrender.
Source: Stern
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