Now, the poor battlefield situation even some Russian military commentators can not help but speak out, saying that the withdrawal of Russian troops from northern Ukraine is actually a strategic goal of abandoning kiev at the beginning of the war and replacing Ukraine with a new pro-Russian government, as for the content of President Putin's speech at the beginning of the war, including comprehensive "de-militarization" and "de-Nazismization", no one has mentioned it again, and the strategic goal of the Russian army is to protect the so-called "Donetsk Republic" and the "Luhansk Republic", these two "republics" "Whether it will not be counterattacked by the Ukrainian army is difficult to say now."
On other fronts, the progress of the Russian army is also not optimistic, and the plan to encircle the heavy army group of the Eastern Ukrainian Army has never been realized; as for the strategic city of Mariupol, although the "next 24 hours" or "next few days" will be completely controlled (the ears are cocooned), the Pentagon claims that it can not see any signs of the complete occupation of Mariupol by the Russian army in the short term, and the front line between the Russian army and the Ukrainian army has hardly changed.
As for the Bucha massacre, more and more countries believe that the Russian military did it, and an international investigation has been launched. The Russian government's claim that the Butcha massacre was the work of ukrainian troops and "ultra-nationalists" has been punctured by satellite images: a large number of bodies have appeared in Bucha since March 18 at the latest, after the Russian occupation. As the situation in Bucha and other places was reported by the international media, there were more and more indications that not only massacres but also robbery, abuse and sexual assault had occurred in these areas occupied by the Russian army.
It was at this time that the President of the Chechen Republic, Ramzan Kadyrov, declared that 267 Marines from the 503rd Battalion of the 36th Independent Marine Brigade of the Ukrainian Navy had surrendered to the Russians in Mariupol. Kadyrov also released the video and called on more Ukrainian servicemen to turn to the "right side."
But soon, the news was denied by the 503rd Battalion of the Ukrainian Army, and as for the video, many flaws were found: compared with other battlefield videos, these surrendered "Ukrainian troops" were too clean, neatly dressed, and even shaved their beards; and most importantly, people quickly found some familiar faces in the video, and finally concluded that these surrendered "Ukrainian troops" were pretending, and Kadyrov's propaganda war ended in bankruptcy again.
On the second day of the war, Kadyrov announced the participation of Chechen troops in the war, when it was reported that Chechen troops were involved in the battle for the airfield around Kiev, trying to rescue hundreds of Russian airborne troops who were besieged by Ukrainian mechanized troops at the time, but the Russian Il-76 transport aircraft carrying Chechen troops was shot down (the wreckage had just been found on the outskirts of Kiev). Since then, the Chechen troops who "can recruit good wars" have begun to change their style, fighting wars not to be very active, but keen to shoot videos and broadcast live, of course, in a sense, this is also part of Russia's propaganda war.
The performance of Chechen troops has sparked discontent among the Russians and the Kremlin, but it does not seem to have had much effect. Now, the Chechen troops are participating in the war in Mariupol, from time to time to release some machine gun fire or bazooka "lightning five consecutive shots" video, but in these videos, can not see the other side's counterattack fire, can not help but suspect that the Chechen troops are empty guns to listen to the sound, which is also considered to be one of the reasons why the Russian army in Mariupol can not make progress, but the mountain emperor is far away, the Kremlin can not force the Chechen troops to desperately, as for the cooperation with the Russian army, hehe, Mutual distrust between the two sides cannot be bridged in a short period of time.
It is clear that the Russian tactics in Mariupol are now the same as those of capturing cities in Syria, that is, after the siege of Mariupol, the water and electricity are cut off, supplemented by continuous bombardment and shelling, starving the defenders to death, or forcing them to surrender. According to the evacuated civilians, they left Mariupol through at least 17 Russian blockade lines, and the entire city could be said to be surrounded.
While trying to get closer to Mariupol, the outlying Ukrainians desperately supported the defenders at any cost, and every night helicopters ventured through the Russian air defense network, unloading food, ammunition and medicine in Mariupol, and then taking the wounded, and each flight was likely to be the last. Ukrainian President Zelenskiy also contacted the Mariupol defenders every day, and whether the Mariupol defenders could hold out until the day the siege was lifted touched the hearts of the whole of Ukraine and the whole world.