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A City Under Siege

We give you a rare dispatch from Mariupol, Ukraine.

"Mariupol — in southeastern Ukraine, near the Russian border — has been under siege for more than two weeks. It is the city where Russia last week bombed a maternity hospital and yesterday attacked a theater that hundreds of civilians were using as a shelter. It was unclear how many of those sheltering survived, according to a Ukrainian official.

Since the war began, two of the few working journalists in Mariupol have been Mstyslav Chernov and Evgeniy Maloletka of The Associated Press. My colleagues and I were deeply affected by their dispatch, and we’re turning over the lead section of today’s newsletter to an excerpt from it.

The bodies of the children all lie here, dumped into this narrow trench hastily dug into the frozen earth of Mariupol to the constant drumbeat of shelling.

There’s 18-month-old Kirill, whose shrapnel wound to the head proved too much for his little toddler’s body. There’s 16-year-old Iliya, whose legs were blown up in an explosion during a soccer game at a school field. There’s the girl no older than 6 who wore the pajamas with cartoon unicorns and who was among the first of Mariupol’s children to die from a Russian shell.

They are stacked together with dozens of others in this mass grave on the outskirts of the city. A man covered in a bright blue tarp, weighed down by stones at the crumbling curb. A woman wrapped in a red and gold bedsheet, her legs neatly bound at the ankles with a scrap of white fabric. Workers toss the bodies in as fast as they can, because the less time they spend in the open, the better their own chances of survival.

“Damn them all, those people who started this!” raged Volodymyr Bykovskyi, a worker pulling crinkling black body bags from a truck.

More bodies will come, from streets where they are everywhere and from the hospital basement where the corpses of adults and children are laid out, awaiting someone to pick them up. The youngest still has an umbilical stump attached."

Full Article: [nytimes.com]

nogod4me 8 Mar 17
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The eastern cities contain mostly ethnic Russians. Putin is killing the very Russians he claims to be protecting, and wanting to join his Russia. So Putin doesn't care about Russians, and the whole Ukraine joining Nato has always been bullshit (Ukraine has always been way too corrupt to pass muster). The only real reason that's left is the lust for Ukraine's oil and other resources. It's all about money, and always was.

The western press keeps going on about war crimes. That's a load of shit because how can one pursue war crimes against Putin? After the Nazi stooges in Ukraine murdered 4 million people on behalf of Hitler, not one single Ukrainian was held to account. It'd be a miracle if Putin ever saw the inside of a courtroom, and even if he could, he can only die once.

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That last sentence just KILLS me!

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It’s all NATO’s fault. Just ask Krish55.

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War crimes, every one of them.

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Yup..but let's play pattycakes while fretting over jets in Poland that might start WW3..News flash it started 3 weeks ago when Putin invaded Ukraine.
Send the fucking jets to Ukraine..Fuck Putin..

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