The humanitarian evacuation of the Ukrainian population has encountered difficulties. According to CCTV news on March 7, the International Red Cross Society confirmed that the evacuation plan of civilians in the city of Mariupol failed, and 200,000 civilians were forced to stay in the city. Located in the Donbass region, Mariupol is one of the areas where a fierce exchange of fire between Russia and Ukraine has erupted. In addition to the Ukrainian government troops, there is also the infamous "Azov Battalion". In the second negotiation, the Russians and Ukrainians agreed to build a humanitarian evacuation channel, and Mariupol was one of the first cities for the evacuation of people. At 10 a.m. on March 5, Russian forces in the region entered a "state of silence" and stopped firing and military operations.
However, more than 2 hours after the Russian army stopped moving, the Mariupol parliament declared the withdrawal a failure. The Azov battalion coaxed the Ukrainian people in the city through various channels, including social media, that there was no evacuation at all, and that Russia should not be trusted. This allowed the Russian army to build a evacuation channel for the people, but almost no people came out of the city. The Russian side disclosed that taking advantage of the ceasefire opportunity provided by the Russian side, the Azov battalion accelerated the mobilization of troops and began to improve the position, and the Russian side resumed military operations.
The evacuation operation in Mariupol was declared a failure, but it should be noted that the Russian and Ukrainian sides are gradually opening up humanitarian evacuation routes in other cities. This shows that there is a basic framework consensus between Russia and Ukraine, and the humanitarian action of both sides has not been stopped by the failure of the operation in Mariupol.
Compared with other Russian-Ukrainian cities, how is the failed "Mariupol evacuation" different? Mariupol in donbass is a place of contradictions that runs through a triple narrative. Under the arch of NATO, the Russian and Ukrainian brothers turned against each other, and the main contradiction of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict was clearly reflected in Mariupol. The conflict between the Russian and Ukrainian armies is of humane concern, and the attitude of the Russian side towards the Ukrainian prisoners is that "after the conflict is over, they can return to their families." The bloody feud between the civilian armed forces in eastern Ukraine and the Azov battalion constitutes the second narrative of the conflict in the Mariupol region. Under the deliberate disregard of Western-dominated international public opinion, the systematic massacre of the people in eastern Ukraine by Ukrainian "neo-Nazis" was ignored for a long time in 8 years.
Extremists such as the Azov battalion indiscriminately killed 14,000 people in eastern Ukraine, while the media recently revealed that several mass graves were found near the camp after the retreat of the Azov battalion, in addition to abandoned military equipment. After the Azov battalion was absorbed by the Ukrainian government forces, as equally heinous, it still engaged in various criminal activities such as drug smuggling and organ trafficking. Eight years of war in eastern Ukraine have caused ruins in eastern Ukraine, and civilian armed forces in eastern Ukraine are in Maliupol to repay the "blood debt" from the Azov camp. The third narrative of the Mariupol region is the dilemma of Ukrainian civilians.
It should be clear that because the West controls the world's major social media platforms and has fully implemented the new Cold War plan of "evil Russia", coupled with the notoriety of Azov Camp, civilians in Mariupol are likely to face the double horrors of "information terror" and "personal terror".
This makes it clear that although Zelenskiy has reached an agreement with the Russian side to jointly build an evacuation channel for Ukrainian civilians, it is clear that the extremely dangerous Azov battalion is using Ukrainian civilians as meat shields. Just a few days ago, the Azov battalion in Mariupol and the Ukrainian government army had already experienced "infighting." The Azov battalion refused to obey orders and seriously wounded the main Ukrainian commander in Mariupol.
Ukrainian government forces bombarded the command post of the Azov battalion, killing and wounding more than a dozen people. The humanitarian evacuation jointly reached between Russia and Ukraine and jointly supervised by the international community failed, and it was clear that the Azov battalion, which was approaching a desperate situation, attacked from it. Russian President Vladimir Putin recently issued a statement saying that the Russian side will definitely carry out special military operations of "de-militarization" and "de-Nazirification" to the end. Putin issued a must-kill order to the "neo-Nazi" Azov battalion. In the case of the abduction of civilians by the Azov battalion, the war in Mariupol is likely to develop in the direction of long-term and specialization.