The siege of Maripoul reconsidered.

[Tomconroy]

There is a video from Maripoul out today that stunned military analysts. Maripoul has been under siege for a month and it's surrender was thought to be imminent. Yesterday came word that Maripoul is being supplied. Today a video surfaced of two Ukraine tanks battling in what is clearly the suburbs. Below is an image from the video. It appears that Maripoul is nowhere near being overwhelmed. The video must be from a Ukraine drone.

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Here's the video:

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[PortTack]

1. Ali Velshi reported yesterday about a particular group of fierce fighters defending Mariupol

Let’s hope this is true. Those left alive would face deportation, subjugation and torture inside russia

[Nevilledog]

4. They wouldn't make it out alive.

[Kittycatkat]

2. Thank you for this article. I've been sick thinking putin may take Mariupol.

[Raine]

3. A relief to hear positive news on Mariupol. 👍 nt

[FakeNoose]

5. Is the Russian Army occupying Mariupol?

They don't have enough troops to occupy for very long, do they? I thought they were pulling back from most areas, other than Dombass and Crimea.

[WarGamer]

7. Mariupol is right there in Donetsk oblast.

Here's an area map.

The Russian "Plan B" objective is probably to take and hold the Luhansk and Donetsk regions along with Blavk Sea land from Mariupol to Crimea.

They will occupy it, reinforce it and defend it if the UA tries to take it back.

[WarGamer]

6. Really cool video...

Reliable sources reporting that the city center of Mariupol has fallen and the remaining fighting is in a Western suburb and the battle is expected to be over within a couple days.

It will be the first Russian victory of the war in 6 weeks...

[Tomconroy]

8. What reliable sources?

[WarGamer]

9. here... give it a day or two to be reported by Reuters and BBC.

https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-april-7

Russian proxy forces claimed to have captured central Mariupol on April 7, but Ukrainian forces retain positions in the southwest of the city. ISW cannot independently confirm this proxy claim, but we have not observed confirmed reports of fighting in central Mariupol since April 2.[1] Russian forces will likely complete the capture of Mariupol in the coming days.

BTW, the ISW is used by both the BBC and Reuters for military analysis.

[Tomconroy]

10. It may or may not be true. The last line has been repeated for weeks now.

[WarGamer]

11. we'll see... soon.

[Tomconroy]

12. Your source is the Kagans by the way.

There are rules about those sort of sources.
Odd that you sound happy about it.

[WarGamer]

13. Kagans? The only thing I know about this source is

1) It's used by the BBC and Reuters daily.

2) Another DU poster posts their daily summary.

[Tomconroy]

14. I met the father once. Fortunately my wife did all of the talking.