Since the fourth round of negotiations this week, Russia and Ukraine have officially entered a situation of fighting and talking. Negotiators from both sides no longer brave the flames of war to run around, but directly through online video talks. At the same time, the Russian army began to intensify its offensive against the major Ukrainian cities. Among them, the progress in Wudong is the most obvious.
The situation in Mariupol, which has been unable to be conquered for a long time, is becoming more and more favorable to the Russian army. On the 14th local time, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced that with the support of the Russian army, all the combat facilities occupied by neo-Nazis in the residential areas of Mariupol city have been basically eliminated by the Donetsk Armed Forces. In nearly 20 days, Ukraine's last nail along the Sea of Azov is about to be removed.
The defeat is set. The riot operation of the Ukrainian army came. On March 16, local time, according to the Russian news agency, the military of the "Donetsk Republic" received intelligence that the Ukrainian Armed Forces Command was preparing a "forgery operation", they intended to use the dead Ukrainian army corpses, build a "civilian mass burial pit", and then plant the matter to the Russian army, claiming that this is a "tragic case" created by the Russian army.
According to details revealed by Donetsk, the Ukrainian army dug a large ditch 2 meters deep and 100 meters long at the Mariupol Cemetery from March 6 to 11, where it is planned to bury the remains of Ukrainian security forces and nationalists as evidence of the large number of civilian deaths caused by the Russian army.
It is said that the special operations unit of the Ukrainian army, which specializes in psychological warfare, has made elaborate photo and video recordings of a "civilian mass burial pit" with a death toll of up to 1,300 people.
Under the Russian-Ukrainian cognitive war, there will inevitably be true and false news, but this news, from the details, seems to have a certain degree of authenticity. Moreover, judging from the progress of the Russian army in Mariupol, at the end of the road, the Ukrainian army may not mind throwing dirty water on the Russian army.
While the Donetsk side exposed the Ukrainian army's forgery of "civilian mass graves", on March 16, the Russian Defense Ministry updated the war report and issued a warning, the Russian side said that they had received intelligence, the Ukrainian army is planning to poison civilians with the help of Western countries to blame the Russian army. The Russian side declared that the Ukrainian army would use chemical weapons against civilians.
The matter of biological and chemical weapons has reached the United Nations. The United States has set up many biological laboratories in major cities in Ukraine, and after the start of the Russo-Ukrainian War, the Pentagon and the U.S. State Department were busy destroying evidence at the first time. The Russian side has repeatedly stressed that it has asked the United States to explain what these biological laboratories are used for.
Now Russia mentioned that the Ukrainian army will use chemical weapons to maim civilians in order to blame the Russian army. This matter may not be as solid as the "mass grave" mentioned above, but it cannot be ruled out that it will not happen. It should be known that in the early days of the Mariopol Street Battle, the Ukrainian army did not hesitate to lay nearly 10,000 butterfly mines to prevent civilians from evacuating through humanitarian relief channels. At this stage of the war, is it really difficult to avoid this naked act of taking the lives of civilians?
In recent times, the cognitive war between Russia and Ukraine has been more intense than the battle on the battlefield. Ukraine is showing increasingly visible signs of using the "miserable" situation of civilians to win international sympathy. At present, there have been many relevant fact-checks on the Internet, confirming that some civilians on the side of the road of "old corpses" are played by "actors", and some even put their hands out of the corpse bags to smoke.
This may be good news, at least for now, it is only a "show", and there is no real case of indiscriminate killing of civilians just for the sake of planting stolen goods. But it also signals that things are sliding towards the edge of danger. If the Ukrainian army in Mariupol is pushed to the end of the road, it is very worrying whether it will really fall into hysteria.
In war, civilian casualties are difficult to avoid. However, there should never be a case of brutal killing of civilians for the sake of intrigue and trickery. The Ukrainian army in the Donbass region has a black history of shelling civilians. Russia's warning, to some extent, is motivated by the protection of its own interests to prevent the Ukrainian army from planting booty. Hopefully things don't really get to that point.