They haven't been "Grozny-ing" as I said which is pretty merciful as far as Russians go, if you ask me.
Is there a non-Ukrainian source on this? Video footage? Russia has done this whole "cauldron and corridor" thing before and I don't think they ever were credited with fucking up the people who actually complied with it. Why would they even do that?
"Hey get out of the city, cyka!"
*people blow up on the way out*
"Хахахаха! K now everyone else get out!"
Obviously no one is going to try to leave again, what is even the point? Also why is an offensive army mining parts of a city they are besieging and intend to claim?
Doesn't make any sense to me so I don't buy it but am open to evidence in either direction.
Both Chechnya and Syria are different and they have not behaved the same here as they did there. I imagine the fact that Ukrainians are quite similar to the troops has something to do with that.
Absurd expectation to invade the 2nd largest(?) city quickly and doesn't even line up with Russian strategy. The timing probably has reasons but their retarded slav-tier maintenance is the real problem.
Yeah but it's rare for war military operations not to be heck.
Oh god, the response to these chain comments is just going to be a pain the ass, I'll just number them via your points, easier to follow and format, no slight intended on your response pal.
1: Yeah, Mariupol is getting the Grozny treatment at the moment, give this a look over:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...tack-residential-maternity-childrens-hospital - that's before they've take the city, I imagine they're going to be doing more of the same, because lets be honest, it's likely going to work a charm, unlike their VDV deployment.
2; Can't pull a source out of the top of my head, but it's similar tactics to what they applied down in Syria, get the corridor going, shorten the time, block the exit, force the inside forces to try and help the outters get out, whilst at the same time, going gun-ho and attacking whilst everyone's focused on the buses leaving. -
https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/russia-shell-attack-mariupol-ceasefire/ - LBC, tends to be more on the left of things politically, but their source for the claims are coming from the red cross, personally I'd take those guys at their word, but that's just me.
3: Syria perhaps is the most different in comparison, whereas Checenya is the little brother akin to this sort of invasion, only Russia is doing so much worse for some daft reason. You'd think being the second or third world power, they'd be stomping things down by now.
4: If not invade/breach the city, then at least encircling the bugger would be a sure sign of things going to plan, but instead, they've had a couple high rankers getting their brains blasted out on this front. Sure, again this could very well be down to their absolutely retarded idea to invade during mud season of all times, but still, they have a air force, they should be shelling the defenders along the columns roads if nothing else. Instead, they're losing ground and losing high ranked bodies.
5; Again, if nothing else, it's been one hell of a entertaining couple weeks. Reckon they're holding back their good lads, tanks and planes or do you see them continuing to slog it out with these twenty-plus year old relics they're fighting with?