Mariupol marks Russia’s first major victory since it launched its invasion in February, but perhaps most crucially paves the way for Russia to create a land bridge from Russia to the Crimean peninsula.
in a Monday address explaining the situation in Mariupol. Zelensky said returning the Azovstal fighters to Ukraine will take “delicacy and time.
”Russia has cited the controversial white supremacist history of the right-wing Azov Batallion, a Ukrainian military unit defending Mariupol, with Putin defending the invasion as an effort to “denazify” Ukraine. But the unit claims to have shed itsMariupol has been the site of a humanitarian crisis since the beginning of the invasion, as efforts to evacuate civilians and provide supplies through safe corridors have repeatedly failed.
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