Russian forces have pushed deeper into Ukraine’s besieged and battered port city of Mariupol where heavy fighting shut down a major steel plant and local authorities pleaded for more help.
The fall of Mariupol, the scene of some of the war’s worst suffering, would mark a crucial battlefield advance for the Russians, who are largely bogged down outside key cities more than three weeks into the biggest land invasion in Europe since World War II.
“Children, elderly people are dying. The city is destroyed and it is wiped off the face of the earth,” Mariupol police officer Michail Vershnin said on Saturday from a rubble-strewn street in a video addressed to Western leaders.
Al Jazeera’s Katia Lopez-Hodoyan reports.
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Putin is a mass murderer and he is done for… he will be judged harshly and you know where he’s going when he dies… and Russia is doomed under his failed leadership.
You people do have some imaginations
Chouktan. Courageous reporting. Very sad to see civilians deaths
As Africans we be living through this for centuries no one cry for us
@Neg G The General you are totally right. Blonds with blue eyes touch West media. Even more if the6 oppose Putin
I just spoke to my friend on telegram he is there he said there is electricity and running water !😤😤 . Wow sad 😭 to see journalism take this route.These coprate journalist are a propaganda tool .🤬🤬
Just a couple of weeks ago you stated that the ukrainians are giving all civilians guns!
Stop the lies you dirty jihadists supremacist pigs!
If you are so concerned for civilians. Quit hiding behind them.
1:35 People are just chilling outside… no one in a bunker… is it over?
Ukraine if you want to turn into Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Lybia, etc, then listen to the U.S. Thats what they are planning for you.
Russia is doing minimum damage and destruction but the forces of Zionist Volodymyr Zelenskiy have went to the extreme and beyond limits
Ukrainian leaders should just stop being stubborn and just negotiate for peace with Putin
Ukrainians do not want to be ruled by a dictator. Ukranians want a democracy. You should move to Russia with your beliefs. Putin would enjoy your company.
kill all the nazis!
GO RUSSIA 🇷🇺!!!
Go back to the shadow mordor orc
Down with Putin!
Zelensky is a monsttrous devil. He plotted Against Russia and persuaded western world to engage in Third World war by opening No Fly Zone.
Did anyone catch the person in the bombed school sarcastically saying :
“Yeah… they freed us from education”
I heard that
I listened to that statement about the loss of Education, it was a sad statement. But who am I just a sad American sitting on myself chair I’m crying over the poor people of Ukraine
Russia & Ukraine
Same people
Same language
Same religion
Same tribes
Same color
Saudi & Yemen
Same people
Same language
Same religion
Same tribes
Same color
Different is Saudi is friend of west and Russia is not.
*They did the right thing, now I’m curious to see what the UNSC, US, EU do to stop them – because in case of Palestine, thye sat back and watched*
How many times a day does russia have to deny its targeting civilians?
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Russia has had to immobilize , demolize, eradicate N AZ I stronghold in Mariupol. Most of destruction from that faction. Fortunately Russia has neutralized faction, has secured Mariupol and the Sea of Azov. Russia had civilian humanitarian corridor so civilians could leave but n a Z I A Z o v was picking them off as they left.
The Great Budda says, Don’t fight a war you can not win.
Ukrainian extremists will be haunting Russia for years to come. Bombings, shootings, destruction and mayhem on Russian soil.
The USA and its NATO thugs never won any war on the ground but only on the media. Just look at how Russains have been beating the *ss so badly on the ground.
Russia will fall
Along with the USA
Quick question. Who are these checkpoints made for?
I may be mistaken but the armbands on the soldiers in that clip seem to identify them as Russian soldiers.
It seems they are allowing Ukrainian citizens to leave Mariopul but not without checking the men’s bodies for Azov or other Nationalistic/Fascistic tattoos.
For context: it seems Mariopul has become the headquarters for many of the most hardened Nationalist groups that have largely spearheaded the Ukrainian side of the war in Donbass these past 8 years. When Putin talks about “denazification” I believe he is referring to the crippling of these groups.
@Zelig Steiner true
@Zelig Steiner that’s surprising…and journalists, reporting against them were allowed to do so…the Russian soldiers, then, must be quite merciful
@Mafinz that is certainly one side of the story…
its heart breaking, scattered bodies of humans evn animals dont die like this.. shame on russia
Shame on U.S. N.A.T.O. Globalist War Criminals, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Yemen, now Ukraine. Shame on You.
Uraaaaaaaa😍👍👍👍👍
Can’t fight missiles with guns. Zelenski should stop this. He’s loosing badly
Russian soldiers are foolish ,so they are driving into ghost cities to liberate who ?
To kill the Nazis hiding in those cities
shame on Putin and the Russian people who support him?…this should never have happened…
Zelensky encouraged the neonazis to fight to their death (that should not surprise anyone who understands Zelensky’s family history, his sense of humor and of justice). Meanwhile, the comedian turned politician is set for life with $1.6 billion hidden away (Panama papers proved it), and a hero’s welcome awaiting him when he leaves Ukraine.
Stop War
Urraaaa
If you’re gonna chose cities as the place you’re gonna defend against an invasion and turn it into a battlefield, shouldn’t you evacuate the civilians first.
Or why not make a stand somewhere outside the city?
I have a premonition the worst is yet to come: may there be blessings to us all.
You don’t have to be a mentalist to see Putin is a Madman and he cares about nothing but himself. It would be merciful to the world if some brave soul removed him from the face of the Earth. I’m not God and it’s not my place to punish but he is truly evil!
@Linda Williams what leaders in the west, or anywhere else for that matter, can you quote to me who is NOT evil doer?
@Linda Williams IF putin was so evil, then he would have done it the way usa does it… by raining bombs all day long day and night from the sea and from distance…. showering the civilians with waves of bombs.
But Putin does not do what usa does.
Everyone can clearly see that putin is trying to avoid civilian casualties.
He is not showering ukraine with bombs, razing whole cities to the ground like usa usually do.
Usa wpuld have showered the country with bombs for months, before sending any boots on the ground.
Russia dod not do that. They sent in troops from day 1.
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It is obvious for anyone watching that russia is sweeping up ukraine street by street.
That tells you a lot about genuine motives.
It is MUCH cheaper to just bomb any enemy to smitherins, compared to the dangerous task of having your military actually sweeping street by street taking out enemy military by hand.
I cannot wait to see mushroom clouds over New York and Washington.
US has been pushing their luck with the Russians and the Chinese.
One of these days, US will run out of luck !
Nazis are destroyed that’s a good thing
GOOD JOB RUSSIA. KEEP GOING.
God Bless Russia
this is the result of the NATO politics
Sad for these people, while the real instigators are hiding behind the border of NATO. Brandon are you still in bed at noon?
It’s not “Ukraine war”, it’s Russian war against Ukraine. Find the decency to call it what it is.
😢😢😢 terrible
Imagine we bombing russian cities like this. How would russians celebrating this war with Putin feel then?
Russian federation forward
American GO HOME 🏠
With Russian reporting banned and labelled as fake news and propaganda, and having only watched Western/Ukrainian news and social media narrative of the war, I thought 1 Ukrainian is worth 7 Russians, that is 40 million Ukrainians vs. 200,000 Russian conscripts. Why are we seeing more and more Russian gains?
So sad God help Ukraine and dear Lord please take care of Putin
The lord will not do it. It is the responsibility of humans to take power away from the worst of us.
May the Evil doers of Russia and their uninformed supporters feel the wrath of God in the future for not trying to follow his commandments and rules.
Stop BS, this war could have been easily avoided had the clown not been elected as PM
Ukrainian should yield to Russian Military only for the sake of the Innocent civilians..
Russian Military should stop killing innocent civilians.
@Petra Ravn But for this Ukraine not to join NATO, then war may stop..
Stupidly ridiculous how they not claiming to Hit civilians with all the evidence right in front of everyone. Makes me sick to the stomach.
They say that history favours the Victor, I wonder if it will be the same with this one
People, scroll down for more interesting comments with many likes. Seem like YouTube now put pro-Ukraine supporter’s comments on top despite fewer likes. Perhaps to put on perspective that many people still support Ukraine when actually Ukraine is gradually losing sympathy in social media
Says the pro Russian propaganda machine. You suck just like the rest of Putins regime.
@K Monty Says the pro-Ukraine propaganda machine. You are sucks just like the rest of Zelensky the comedian regime
Putin = Hitler. He murder’s innocent people. Down with PUTIN
George W. Bush = Adolf Hıtler*
@Mat Matt says the hitler supporter
This is Russia, that removes “nazis” from Ukraine.
HOW THIS CAN BE!
Time to clean the DONBASS with AZOV NAZIS
People should at least show sympathy with people of Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq after seeing what really happens so up close. The same thing is happening in Yemen, if you want everybody to denounce such war, you need to demand equal justice for all.
amin
Ukraine did not invade nor threaten anybody. This not a civil war but sn 8nternational massacre. 6ou are ignorant of history.
@Macht Schnell Syria invaded who? Iraq who? Yemen who? Afghanistan who? Ignorant of history you say? Azov batallion says otherwise.
@RTX MAX and ,one more AMEN for you !
What can i say ? YOU ARE SAYIN JUST THE TRUTH !
DONT STOP TELLIN THE TRUTH PLZZZ
Good job
Jesus Christ is our only hope and salvation!
Those cowardly Nazis of Ukraine are trying to hide amongst civilian areas, this is why there’s damage there, civilian deaths. Use your head
There are no winners in wars…pray for peace.
Crime like no other.
Oh god give more blessings to Russia ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ to win this war against NATO and their alie
if you watch the video you can see how the Russian are checking on every male on the way out. they want to capture everyone that has held guns or related to weaponry. a massacres in in plan for those Ukrainian patriotists … That is known in Russia history
It’s deeply frustrating knowing that many Russians have little idea what’s going on in Ukraine.
Now we see what alternative facts and different realities leads to….and why dictators want to keep people in the dark
I hope Americans learn from this and abandon their love for Putin and trump.
Leaders like Putin are not strong, smart alpha males ..they are insecure , paranoid murderers.
Like George bush and Tony Blair
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Russians are loosing ! 🙄
Heartbreaking scenes…… war leaves trauma behind
Russia is a dark, godless country. They used same tactics in Syria. They target civilians and food supplies to cause humanitarian crisis and break moral. Russia is terrorist country
Any Ukranian reading this…. THROW YOUR PHONE AWAY THATS HOW THEY ARE FINDING YOU!!! SURVIVE!!!! DISPOSE OF ALL YOUR FOOTSTEPS!!!! Russian drone finds cluster of smart phone signals and kaboom!! Tik tok videos are not worth it.
Biden told you that you will have the future you deserve, do you see it.
Uraaaaaaa
Russia carrying out a genocide in Mariupol.
Past time for the UN to intervene.
This demonstrates how the elected leaders ruin the lives of common citizens for their own political motives. This war has no meaning in itself, first NATO leaders and to lesser extent Russia is responsible
The Palestinians in Jerusalem called out to the world for help when they were surrounded by the Zionists invaders
I believe it fell on deaf ears
The world sits back and watches a country die and offers only a few arms, munitions, and sanctions because everyone is so afraid of Russia and their nuclear arsenal. Yet its reasonably certain that Putin won’t stop at Ukraine and his thirst for expansion will drive him into other bordering countries… NATO countries, which eventually will force us into direct conflict with Russia anyway. Putin knows that Russia is not the only country with a nuclear arsenal when that time comes, and he would certainly be no match militarily for NATO. He is following the same path as Adolph Hitler and Putin has shown equal barbarism and genocide towards the Ukrainian citizens as Hitler showed toward the Jews. I only wish we had the balls to do what we all know should be done.
You’re used to fighting against goat herders
Shame on you, Russia. SHAME!!
Share for what ?
US should be the one who should be ashamed.
They were the ones who caused the 2014 coup !
Shame on the Fascist Red Army. This will condemn them to a century of regression and mistrust.
Ukraine will be like iraq.. libya.. syria… Russia just doing same things USA/NATO done.. nothing new..
We must not forget that the Azov battalion is hiding in Mariupol behind the civilian population… we must eliminate these neo-Nazis
Ukraine will be like iraq.. libya.. syria…
Why should Ukrainians Pay price for NATO sickening desire to encircle Russia?
Because the comedian wanted Ukraine to join NATO !
That’s why.
The same goes with Finland and Sweden.
These two countries must be very careful NOT to get themselves into the same situation as Ukraine.
It is time for the eyes of the world to see justice and humanity. Ukraine, which is supported by the US, NATO and other countries that have sanctioned Russia, or Palestine, which has been left alone against the Zionists of Israel? It shows which one cares about humanity and which one only uses humanity as an excuse to violate humanitarian law. The justice of the world currently belongs only to us, nato and his allies not to all mankind, do you guys still care about all this? I personally invite you to support the Russian-Ukrainian invasion as a form of protest against the injustices of the US, Nato and their allies.
I hope this war ends soon. It’s really painful to see them sufferings. On both the sides innocent people are getting killed, who might have not opted for war but are forced into it.
Locals u mean the Azov battalion!!? MSM,very reason why I no longer follow this news ….. Ukraine is literally bombing its own civilians,and it’s gotten to a point Russians are shooting down the Tuchka U missiles that Ukrainians are using …m
Go Russia liberate Ukraine
Zelenksy must pay for all this
Russia rains freedom on Mariupol. Does anybody say that?
Terroryzm i ludobójstwo
Could this war have been avoided? Who is/are responsible(s)?
FF Nuland, weasel Pyatt, kid Sullivan and Sleepy Joe.
I have been following this sad episode for over seven years…
The Yanks were caught with their hands in the Ukrainian coup of 2014 !
God bless Russia God bless Africa
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And yet the people of Russia still support Putin the War criminal. What a loser this dictator is,killing COMPLETELY INNOCENT CIVILIANS
Of course they will support Putin.
NATO is already encroaching on the Russian borders.
Use your brain !
This will end very badly for the west if their political leaders are not careful !
“The extent of the Obama administration’s meddling in Ukraine’s politics was breathtaking. Russian intelligence intercepted and leaked to the international media a Nuland telephone call in which she and U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Geoffey Pyatt discussed in detail their preferences for specific personnel in a post‐Yanukovych government. The U.S-favored candidates included Arseniy Yatsenyuk, the man who became prime minister once Yanukovych was ousted from power. During the telephone call, Nuland stated enthusiastically that “Yats is the guy” who would do the best job.
Nuland and Pyatt were engaged in such planning at a time when Yanukovych was still Ukraine’s lawful president. It was startling to have diplomatic representatives of a foreign country—and a country that routinely touts the need to respect democratic processes and the sovereignty of other nations—to be scheming about removing an elected government and replacing it with officials meriting U.S. approval.
Washington’s conduct not only constituted meddling, it bordered on micromanagement. At one point, Pyatt mentioned the complex dynamic among the three principal opposition leaders, Yatsenyuk, Oleh Tyahnybok, and Vitali Klitschko. Both Pyatt and Nuland wanted to keep Tyahnybok and Klitschko out of an interim government. In the former case, they worried about his extremist ties; in the latter, they seemed to want him to wait and make a bid for office on a longer‐term basis. Nuland stated that “I don’t think Klitsch should go into the government. I don’t think it’s necessary.” She added that what Yatseniuk needed “is Klitsch and Tyanhybok on the outside.”
The two diplomats also were prepared to escalate the already extensive U.S. involvement in Ukraine’s political turbulence. Pyatt stated bluntly that “we want to try to get somebody with an international personality to come out here and help to midwife this thing [the political transition].” Nuland clearly had Vice President Joe Biden in mind for that role. Noting that the vice president’s national security adviser was in direct contact with her, Nuland related that she told him “probably tomorrow for an atta‐boy and to get the details to stick. So Biden’s willing.”
“America’s Ukraine Hypocrisy” – Ted Galen Caprenter, Cato Institute, August 6, 2017
Everything which US touched became another Iraq, Libya, Syria, Afghanistan and now Ukraine.
Ukraine will probably place artillery outside the school and fire upon Russians. They have a disgusting history of this (using civilians as shields). Look it up, there is plenty of content and video proving such. The US denounced this type of behavior in other wars but now they turn a blind eye to it. There are even videos of civilians asking Ukrainian military to not do this and they say “and what”. In translation, “so what”. You can really tell they care about their people with actions like this.
April 18, 2014 Burisma Holdings announced that Hunter Biden would be joining their board of directors.
April 21, 2014 The US Vice-President, Joe Biden, landed in Kiev on Monday for a two-day visit aimed at showing American support for the new Ukrainian government and to push for implementation of a diplomatic accord reached in Geneva last week between Ukraine, the US, the European Union and Russia to de-escalate tensions.
“If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck”
Sleepy Joe had his hand in the Ukrainian coup.
“Nuland: So on that piece Geoff, when I wrote the note [US vice-president’s national security adviser Jake] Sullivan’s come back to me VFR [direct to me], saying you need [US Vice-President Joe] Biden and I said probably tomorrow for an atta-boy and to get the deets [details] to stick. So Biden’s willing.” – BBC
Now you know why Sleepy Joe is trying to avoid a fight with the Russians….
Putin had no fight with the dotard but he sure did with Sleepy Joe, kid Sullivan, FF Nuland and weasel Pyatt.
I will be watching my back if I was kid Sullivan, FF Nuland or weasel Pyatt.
The real culprits…
“We have invested over $5 billion dollars to assist Ukraine in these and other goals that will ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic Ukraine.” – Nuland, Dec 13, 2013
YT “Victoria Nuland US has invested $5 billion in Ukraine”
Look at the sponsors… ExxonMobile, Chevron !
Free bread from the US is never free. At the end of the day, the Ukrainians will pay for their lives.
“US asst secretary of state Victoria Nuland distributes bread in Kiev” – ABC, 5 Mar 2015, 4:27am
The Yanks did the same in Hong Kong…
but the Chinese knows how to put a stop to these US-sponsored color revolutions unlike the Ukrainians.
uuurrrrraaaa….!!!
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Was all this worth saying Ukraine will nt join nato, u r letting Americans use Ukraine to fight their proxy war
Russia denies targeting civilians… Just as Russia denies that they were planning to attack Ukraine, that green man in Crimea where Russian soldiers, tell that Russia has free press or that political opposition is being removed in different ways like Navalny.
And what are 144 million Russians doing about all this? nothing. It’s just disgusting.
We have the same belligerent neighbor problem here in Southeast Asia, which is the People’s Republic of China. It’s a good thing we had the sea between us but nowadays, it seems that doesn’t stop them either.
Why does some of your video footage have the RT (Russian Television) watermark?
Hopefully once the war ends those azov battalion guys push into Russia n start killing Russian civilians…they undoubtedly deserve it
USE THE DRONES TO FEED THEM NOT FILM THEM!!!! Have mercy on the starving!!