20-04-2022, 01:25 PM
The Ukrainian commander in Mariupol is pleading for help for his men and hundreds of civilians. The enemy is tenfold superior.
In a dramatic appeal, the Ukrainian commander of the remaining marines in the heavily contested port city of Mariupol has 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 minute-long video message posted to Facebook early Wednesday morning. "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."
https://www.welt.de/politik/ausland/arti...staat.html
In a dramatic appeal, the Ukrainian commander of the remaining marines in the heavily contested port city of Mariupol has 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 minute-long video message posted to Facebook early Wednesday morning. "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."
https://www.welt.de/politik/ausland/arti...staat.html