by Andrea Nicastro
Mikhail Mizintsev is blamed for the barbaric attack on the city of Mariupol: he was involved in the most violent wars from the Caucasus to Syria. Opposite him was the Ukrainian major Denis Projipenko, one of the founders of the Azov battalion
The fight for Barbara Mariupol. It fights among the unburied dead, buildings reduced to skulls, and civilians dying of hunger, thirst, cold, and fear. There would still be hundreds of thousands in the rubble of the city, searching for food and shelter amid bombs that exploded nonstop. Putin wants this rubble at all costs. Thus, it will be able to reunite historical Donbass and connect Russia to Crimea. Just like in the Chechen capital Grozny.
To wrest the city of Maria from the Ukrainians, he assigned two men: the secondincommand of his forces, General Mikhail Mizintsev, and the boy who pacified Chechnya through mass murder and blackmail on his behalf, President Ramzan Kadyrov.
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The two leaders of the siege have about 15,000 men and all the bombs and cannons they want.
Instead, to defend what remains of the city, there are 3,000 soldiers, maybe fewer. They still have artillery and a few armored vehicles. They know that it is unlikely that they can surrender without going through the arms, that is, being killed in cold blood. Because the threethousanders of Mariupol are the symbol of the Nazi danger that Putin is wagging in front of his public opinion. They are led by a major under 40, Denis Projipenko, commander of the Azov Brigade.
My guys radio that they’ve taken Mariupol City Hall. Our flag flies over the community. Chechen Kadyrov led the conquest last night through a message on Telegram. He didn’t go so far as to say the besieged city had fallen just to get his hands on one of the most iconic buildings. This radio then indicates that he is there, not far away, leading the offensive.
a scam, claims Meduza, the news site that has relocated its headquarters outside of Russia to continue reporting free from Putinian censorship. The photo of the community shows Kadyrov not from Mariupol, but from the satellite district on the left bank of Kalmius, which has been under Russian control for days.
Not the Chechen leader’s first bluff in this war. A few days ago he said he was fighting a few kilometers from Kyiv and was instead quiet in the backyard in Chechnya, next to the tiger cages where his opponents land.
Even without the Kadyrovian stunts, Mariupol cannot last long. According to Ukrainian intelligence, Mizintsev is overseeing the siege.
For 10 years he has been the general responsible for the command center of national defense and on all hot fronts of Putin’s revanchism, from the Caucasus to Syria. Too senior an officer on paper for a given area of conflict, but perhaps the siege’s importance to the success of the Russian special operation justifies the direct involvement of the armed forces’ number two.
Therefore, it would have been Mizintsev from Moscow who would have ordered to hit the civilian infrastructure (electricity, gas, heating, telecommunications) to tighten the conditions of the encirclement, he who gradually increased the power and the number of air strikes, he , who ordered the bombing of civilian accommodation (women’s clinic, theater, art school and countless residential buildings). He must now break the resistance of Major Projipenko’s contingent.
Ukrainian social media is rightfully reviving the story of David versus Goliath, few versus many, for the siege of Mariupol. David, in this case Denys Projipenko, hero of Ukraine and already a legend, and Goliath, the butcher Mizintsev. Three years ago, a new Zelenskyi president had to bend his neck to face the giant Projipenko before decorating him.
His men and the Ukrainian 36th Naval Brigade still manage to slow the attack. Yesterday his Azov Brigade would destroy four Russian armored vehicles and also take prisoners. On Projipenko the suspicion of neoNazism. The Ukrainian government claims Azov has been purged of ultraright elements since joining the National Guard. But of little relevance under the current conditions. Three thousand men are trapped and none seem able to escape their carnage.
March 25, 2022 (Modification March 25, 2022 | 07:14)
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