Two nights before the Ukrainian army carried out an unsuccessful breakout operation in Mariupol, a breakthrough detachment of more than fifty people was caught by the ambush detachment that had long been prepared for the Russian special operations, and directly opened fire to eliminate several people, and the rest of the personnel were all resurrected; this breakthrough was not large in scale, but it was of great significance, because this was the brigade headquarters of the 36th Naval Infantry Brigade of the Ukrainian Army, and the brigade commander of the 36th Brigade was shot and killed on the spot during the breakthrough; it was announced that the unit that had only the brigade headquarters and the number was completely destroyed. The Azov battalion was completely alone.
As the Azov battalion became a complete lone army, Mariupol in addition to the other parts of the Azov steel plant were controlled by the Russian army, the siege of Mariupol also entered the final stage, of course, this final stage is indeed not easy to fight, the Azov battalion in the steel plant is basically its backbone of strength, the attitude is not low, coupled with the complex fortress building under the factory, it is still very difficult to bite hard, it is also considering these reasons, the Russian army also released its sincerity to suspend fire for a short time, and at the same time issued an ultimatum to the Azov battalion. They were asked to lay down their arms and surrender to avoid a devastating blow, but the Azov battalion apparently rejected the Russians' proposal and chose to resist to the end, and as soon as the ultimatum time passed, the Russians immediately began to prepare for the large-scale firepower before the attack.
For the Azov Steel Plant, which has a solid multi-layer underground facility as a bunker underground, the defenders are stubborn elements, the strong attack is indeed not a good choice, although the various heavy weapons of the defenders have basically been destroyed by the Russian army, and there are few anti-tank weapons left, but through various tunnels and other buildings to find out the sneak attack, it can still cause a lot of casualties, and it is very difficult to clean up, we must find a way to destroy all kinds of underground bunkers as much as possible. Even if it cannot be destroyed, it is necessary to bury various passages and drive people to the ground, so that the next step of cleaning work is easy.
In the early days of the siege of Mariupol, the Russian army was limited to the Ukrainian army and still mixed in the city, occupying a large number of residential areas for defense, and these residential areas were basically mixed with civilians, so there was no way to use heavy long-range fire to directly bomb and demolish buildings for killing, only relying on the direct fire support of tanks and infantry fighting vehicles and machine guns, with infantry one house after another, building by building, on the one hand, the efficiency is really a bit low, sometimes a day may not be able to clear a street, On the other side, there were often inevitable casualties, and even the Ortonic soldiers who died to cover the transfer of civilians were several; now only the Azov Steel Factory, the last fortress of the Azov Battalion, was left alone on the seashore, and there were no civilians in the iron works to bind the hands and feet of the Coalition Forces, and the Coalition Forces could finally use artillery fire and air force to open up directly on an unlimited scale after holding the fire for a month and a half.
According to the video taken by some people in Macheng, as well as the images taken by the ships passing by on the Azov Sea, the sound of various ammunition hits and explosions coming from the Azov Iron and Steel Factory has basically not stopped since the Russian army announced the expiration of the ultimatum time yesterday, probably finally let the Orton coalition army that was tired of fighting in the street fight to enjoy the superior firepower, anyway, there is no shortage of ammunition, in the absence of civilians, the barrel artillery and rocket artillery will explode first, and the opposite Azov battalion is basically not heavily equipped. There is no anti-artillery capability, and it is not too late to blow up the Ukrainian army on the ground until it is too late to probe and then say the next step.
Not only the artillery of the Orton Coalition army finally got a rare opportunity to play, began the first large-scale performance in more than a month, the Russian Air and Space Force fixed-wing fleets that had not been used in this direction before also began to take active action, not only the fighters came, but even the strategic bomber troops that had never shown their faces before and only lost missiles at a long distance also came to join in the fun, since yesterday Mariupol has photographed more than once the Russian Tu-22M3 hanging heavy iron bombs from the city, After dropping a bomb over the Azov Steel Works and causing a series of explosions, the ship returned to the field.
From the perspective of the explosion effect, the heavy aerial ammunition charged by the Russian army is not low, especially considering that the Tu-22M3 bomber, which is very valuable to the Russian army, is likely to be something that the fighters can't hang up, and the Russian Network has also been preparing the Tu-22M3 these two days, and the photos of the 3-ton FAB-3000 heavy aerial bombs are released in large quantities, and the Russian army should use fab-3000, which is a heavy aerial bomb with a charge of more than one ton. Went to carry out targeted blasting of the solid facilities in the Aeszov steel plant.
Of course, the air and space army's bombing addiction is only one aspect, and the intensive bombing of this kind of bomber with heavy aerial bombs is indeed a more useful means of weakening and striking; whether it is artillery or ordinary fighter aircraft hanging bombs, the effect on the non-open area of the steel factory, which is full of solid industrial buildings, is not good, not only is it impossible to blow through all kinds of thick concrete walls, but it is also difficult for the shock wave to fully exert itself to cause casualties. At this time, heavy aerial bombs are very effective, ordinary fighters mounted 500 kg of aerial bombs may not be strong enough, but the Tu-22M3 is a bomber that can hang multiple FAB-3000 bombers, and the kinetic energy brought by the huge weight can still easily open holes in various buildings. Then more than a ton of charge detonated directly inside, miraculously destroying any building above the surface.
In front of it is a ton of FAB-1000, and behind it is the protagonist FAB-3000, which can be seen more than one circle
Under this kind of intensive bombardment, the militants hidden in various strong factory buildings are probably difficult to survive, and those Azov battalions hiding underground will also have a sharp drop in capacity because of the destruction of many ventilation structures, and under this targeted blow, the resistance mentality of the Azov battalion is also difficult to maintain, especially when Zelenskiy has already made it clear to abandon them; so I hope that the Russian army will concentrate heavy firepower on targeted destruction, and hope that there will be more.