Vladimir Putin just announced that Azovstal will not be stormed in order to save russian lives. Instead, a total blockade of Azovstal and its underground tunnel system will be imposed. Bombing of the complex will still continue though. Now the nazis will have to choose between surrendering or starving to death. Putin also announced the total liberation of Mariupol (except for Azovstal) and said all soldiers who participated in its liberation would be awarded for heroism. He also said April 21 will be from now on the date of the Second Liberation of Mariupol.

UPDATE: Russian forces have taken control of the ground level part of Azovstal. Only the tunnels remain out of control. Azov is blocked underground.

  • KomradeK
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    412 years ago

    Nazism is when no food (and trapped inside an underground steelworks complex.)

    • @Kind_Stone
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      392 years ago

      Reminds you of Hitler’s final days.

      • Bury The Right
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        262 years ago

        Azov really doing an excellent job in their Nazi reenactment project.

          • @VictimOfReligion
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            152 years ago

            Never thought the “follow your leader” slogan would actually work

            • Catradora-Stalinism☭M
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              152 years ago

              it seems to be the only thing they can do is kill ethnic groups, and then get fucked into a corner and kill themselves.

              • @VictimOfReligion
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                102 years ago

                We should convince fauxists into even more idealism so they start growing into a religion where ritual sacrifice is obligatory so they raid other religion’s paradises and send their souls to some hell. It could work wonders getting rid off them lmao

        • Black AOC
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          62 years ago

          Hope there’s still some Proud Boys over there stuck to croak with 'em. A just reward for fascism and its collaboration, only better served if there was someone to brick 'em up in the walls.

      • Breadbeard
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        152 years ago

        Gruppe Steiner is not coming…

      • @Rafael_Luisi
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        72 years ago

        Noooo you dont get it, steiner will totally revive himself from the grave and come flying along with the ghost of kiev to save them!!!

      • @Coridimus
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        32 years ago

        Never forget when Stalin’s dialectic blew Hitler’s mind all over the bunker wall.

    • @Shrike502
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      322 years ago

      As if all the evidence in the world would help. It’ll just be decried as propaganda and staged.

      • Bury The Right
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        2 years ago

        Yeah and that’s not mentioning that Russian media has essentially been blocked from the internet, it’s not like CNN/NBC/FOX/BBC/DW would aire those videos to average people in the West except maybe in out-of-context snippets.

    • @Mzuark
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      52 years ago

      They’re already trying to claim that chemical weapons are being used, luckily no one taken the bait.

  • @Shrike502
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    312 years ago

    Watch NATO media compare this to Leningrad blockade or other episode of the Great Patriotic War, without even a hint of irony

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      Nah knowing western media they’ll compare it to Dunkerque instead and make big movie stories about two guys who happened to escaped.

      • @Kind_Stone
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        32 years ago

        I can already see a movie about murican carriers storming the Black Sea to save two nazis who managed to run away on a makeshift raft and blow up fucking cruiser on their way.

  • Water Bowl Slime
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    262 years ago

    I wonder how long they’ll last. Ukraine’s Nazis have proven to be pretty tenacious for better or worse (worse).

  • Breadbeard
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    192 years ago

    smart boi, did read “the art of war” and understood it AND knows how to apply it in the field. Hardly have I ever seen such strict methodical and flexible application of Sun Tse

  • @CriticalResist8A
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    172 years ago

    Any word on how many foreign soldiers are in the plant?

    • @Kind_Stone
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      222 years ago

      No estimates of “foreign” soldiers. The estimate number of combatants isolated inside Azovstal is 2000.

    • @Mzuark
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      32 years ago

      Oh they don’t talk about those guys anymore.

    • @chad1234
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      22 years ago

      I forgot where I read it but people guessing 100-400.

  • @gun@lemmy.ml
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    152 years ago

    It’s kind of funny in a morbid way. Everyone just going back to their normal peacetime lives, but there is a massive army beneath your feet that is living in hell.

    • @Mzuark
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      72 years ago

      I think that’s a pretty good description of this war: Normal citizens have the misfortune of being right on top of the true enemy that the Russians are going after. And the Nazis know it and cowardly hide behind them.

  • @Mzuark
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    92 years ago

    Meanwhile the drones on reddit are convinced that Ukraine is winning.

  • @Coridimus
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    42 years ago

    And nothing of value will be lost.

  • JucheBot1988
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    32 years ago

    Not to rejoice over the loss of human life or anything, but there’s something almost poetic about this. Think about it: Gorbachev’s betrayal puts Azovstal, the massive iron and steel plant built by Soviet power, into the hands of private capital. But the blood, sweat, and tears of the workers who raised the facility cries out for vengeance, and the old plant, trampled on and desecrated, manages to deliver one last blow: it dies, and in dying becomes a grave for fascists.

    The spirit of Stalin at work?

    • @SaddamHussein24OP
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      22 years ago

      Its ok, you are allowed to rejoice over nazis dying. I sure hope Stalin is watching us, so we can make him proud!