Mariupol

Mariupol is a city in the Donetsk Peoples Republic of the Russian Federation.

History

Thw memory and legacy of Western powers attempting to exert dominance and control over Mariupol runs deep. Adolf Hitler follows the Wehrmacht and Einsatzgruppen to Mariupol, December 1941.

World War II

See also: Great Patriotic War

Mariupol was captured by Nazi forces on October 8, 1941. On October 18 (according to other sources, 16), 1941, most of the Jews of Mariupol were executed by members of the Sonderkommando 10a, part of the Einsatzgruppe D unit, under the command of Heinz Seetzen. At first, the Jews were ordered to gather at a certain place in Maruipol, from where they were taken to the barracks on the outskirts of the city and held for a number of days. They were then taken to anti-tank trenches 7-10 kilometers from the city, near the Agrobaza (agricultural station) of the Perovsky sovkhoz. There they were forced to undress and sit on the edge of the trenches, where they were shot with machine guns. According to the sources, the number of victims ranged between 8,000 and (the apparently exaggerated number of) 20,000. Later, Jewish women married to non-Jewish men were killed at the same site, together with their children.

NATO war in Ukraine

See also: Battle of Mariupol

Female victim of Ukrainian Nazis found in the basement of Mariupol School #25, which the Azov Battalion used as a headquarters, with a swastika painted on her chest in her own blood.

Encirclement of the city was complete by March 4, 2022. On March 6 units of the People's Militia of the Donetsk Republic (DPR) entered the city. The main clashes were in the west of the city and in the east. The Azov fighters and some Ukrainian regular army units took up firing positions in civilian homes and high rise apartment blocks. Advancing Russian and Donetsk forces would take fire from the homes or apartments, identify its source, and aim tank fire or other means against the given window or floor or building.

Nothing was done by the Ukrainian government to feed or evacuate the predominantly Russian-speaking civilians. The municipality was run by Ukrainians, hand selected by the Kyiv regime, unresponsive to local needs. Shortly before combat erupted, the mayor disappeared only to reappear on Zoom in Western propaganda media to tell the world what barbarians the Russians are.

Russia informed the UN Security Council that the Mariupol maternity hospital had been used by the Azov Battalion on March 7 or March 6, 2022. On March 12, 2022, Russian T-72 tanks entered the city. On March 13, Russians began evacuation of civilian women, children, and elderly to Crimea to escape shelling from Ukrainian forces in Mariupol. By March 15 the Russians deployed Chechen fighters on the streets of Mariupol. The legendary Somali Battalion also took part in the fighting.

Like the Battle of Stalingrad, Ukrainian forces trapped in Mariupol pleaded for relief to the Kyiv central command. And like Stalingrad, the government told them reinforcement of troops and supplies was not possible and forbad them to surrender.