Destruction in Mariupol as Russia Encircles Besieged City

The remaining defenders of Mariupol are encircled by Russian forces but have not surrendered the strategically important eastern port, holding out at the giant Azovstal steelworks on the outskirts of the city, Ukrainian officials said.

Russian bombs and missiles hit locations across Ukraine early today, including the western city of Lviv, whose mayor said at least seven people were killed.

Spain said it would follow France and Italy and soon reopen its embassy in the capital, Kyiv, as a show of support.

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Eastern Ukraine, including Mariupol, was part of Russia before the 1917 Revolution. Russians built everything in Mariupol. Bolsheviks took that territory from Russia and declared it to be part of Ukraine because Ukraine was 100 percent agrarian at that time, and Marxist theory of communism stated that revolutions were done by proletariat, not farmers. Territory of Russia east of Ukraine was industrialized and had Russian proletariat. Bolsheviks-communists transferred it to Ukraine, together with all the Russians who lived there -in order to say that Ukraine had proletariat. Translation: communists gave Russian territories with ethnic Russian population to Ukraine to justify communist ideology.


Between 1943 and 1945, led by Stepan Bandera, Western Ukrainian nationalists, who officially collaborated with German Nazis, massacred Poles throughout Wołyń, a region of Nazi-occupied Poland. that territory is now part of Western Ukraine. Throughout the period, Ukrainian nationalists murdered around 100, 000 Polish civilians. They wanted not only to purge Polish civilians, but also to erase all traces of Polish presence in the area.

Today's Ukrainian regime named a street in Kiev after Bandera. The Bandera Street is adjacent to a place called Babiy Yar, where Ukrainian Nazis were executing Jews in WW2. The Times of Israel wrote about the Ukrainian regime in 2016: "Kiev’s local council decided that one of the bustling city’s main northern arteries will now honor Ukrainian nationalist Stepan Bandera. Bandera was a leader of Ukraine’s nationalist movement in the 1930s and 1940s, which included an insurgent army that fought alongside Nazi soldiers during part of the Second World War. His group also was involved in the ethnic cleansing that killed tens of thousands of Poles in 1942-44. The Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists portrayed Russians, Poles, Hungarians and Jews — most of the minorities in western Ukraine — as aliens and encouraged locals to “destroy” Poles and Jews."


The first things Western Ukrainian neo-Nazis did when they came to power in Kiev in 2014 to "fight for freedom" - they were burning and vandalizing Russian Christian churches and physically attacking Russian priests there, wearing swastika, proclaiming Hitler as their hero, and declaring that Ukraine is for Ethnic Ukrainians only. Here is a video on Youtube from BBC: “Neo-Nazi threat in new Ukraine: NEWSNIGHT.” Timestamp 2:05 of the video, a Ukrainian nationalist says how he is fond of Hitler’s ideas of “pure” nation and he wants the same for Ukraine: Ukraine for ethnic Ukrainians only.

Western Ukrainian Azov neo-Nazis view ethnic Russians of so-called Eastern Ukraine as prey to hunt and kill. Exactly in the same way in which their grandfathers Western Ukrainian nationalists, who served in German Nazi army, murdered Polish civilians in WW2 (Wołyń Massacre ). Now, they have a unique situation in which they can kill as many ethnic Russians people as they want and then they accuse Russian military of doing that. Watch the American journalist Patrick Lancaster interviewing civilians in Mariupol, confirming that Ukrainian Azov Nazis kill civilians there.

[avgjayevryday]

Who takes the MSM news seriously anymore?

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Watch the independent American journalist Patrick Lancaster reporting truth from Mariupol. Take the red pill.

[Tori_T_Artist]

They don't even need it anymore. The whole frickin city is leveled.

[dontegardner]

Lets not forget to thank victoria nuland the cia and nato for the carnage

[arturopalos]

when Putin warned the West years ago they all laughed, now nobody is laughing 😂😂🤣🤣🤣👍👍

[kimklim]

I was under impression that UA already won this war…!!!???
What happened…?

[noone]

But you told me Ukraine was winning 😞 how did this happen? You, the media, weren’t lying were you? 🤔

[dontbestupid]

"Surrender or be destroyed!, " Top Russian General. Looks like Elensky took the latter option sitting in his comfy 5 star palace. And I call him Elensky because the letter Z has been banned in Ukraine lmao.

Man I'd hate to "win, " like Ukraine.

[raajashtaputre]

There is always a dog wandering in these videos and it breaks my heart... these pour souls do not know what's happening around.

[judybrady]

we need to pray pray pray for mariupol

[fyoutube]

Hahaha The sad music nice touch. Blame Zelinskyy and Azov!!

[morrisdyer]

Yes Lot's of distruction. However, did you take or share any pictures of Kosovo, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Lybia, Yemen, Grenada Venezuela, Africa
All of these places had or have mass bombardment, rubble everywhere. Kids and family have to walk in sewage water. Why, because we bumped them.

[tcalcut]

It's not that bad. Putin is such a nice man ... !!!

[eduardoflores]

GO GO RUSSIA GO RUSSIA 🇷🇺👏👍💪GOOD 👍👏BRAVO 👏BRAVO 👏BRAVO 👏BRAVO 👏 RUSSIA WILL DONE RUSSIA 🇷🇺

[andyokus]

Pay Attention Amerika and... PREPARE!!!

[elrieselelriel]

And Moses said unto the people, Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the LORD, which he will shew to you to day: for the Egyptians whom ye have seen to day, ye shall see them again no more for ever. (Exodus 14:13)
- Only Jesus is our eternal life. Repent. Jesus is coming soon.

[AlphaOmeg-yh]

Why is this “war” America’s problem? Oh, because Zelenskyy is jewISh when Israel says jump, AMERICA says “how high?”.

[robertjoaseus]

Long live Russia. God bless Russia 🇷🇺 eternally.

[DiegoAngeloPablo]

the price you paid when you eagerly want to join NATO