The Mashi Iron and Steel Plant was the longest battle between the two sides since the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, and the Azov battalion and the Ukrainian defenders relied on a solid 6-story underground passage to negotiate with the Russian army until now. Not long ago, the Russian army said that it would completely take down the steel plant in 1 or 2 weeks, and thought that the battle would continue for a period of time, but it did not expect that the Russian army was making rapid progress and had basically ended the battle in the steel plant. It is understood that after negotiations, the Russian and Ukrainian sides decided to exchange Russian prisoners of war with the defenders of the steel plant, and recently 260 Ukrainian troops have withdrawn as desired and left the steel plant under the "escort" of the Russian army.
At this point, the steel plant battle finally entered the "end", and this is a major defeat of Ukraine, although the Russian and Ukrainian sides ended the battle after negotiations, the Ukrainian side also stressed that it is not "surrender", but to hand over the control of the horse market to the Russian side. However, it should be noted that the Russian side has already completely controlled the horse market, but there are still some Ukrainian defenders and remnants of the Azov battalion that need to be cleaned up. Although it is difficult to hide in the underground passage, it is only a matter of time before it is annihilated, and Ukraine's statement is just to regain some face for itself.
But it only saved the lives of these defenders, the Ukrainian called the steel plant defenders "heroes" and threatened to let the heroes live, but the outside world and these defenders will not forget who ordered that the defenders should not be allowed to surrender, and even let the Azov battalion kill the Ukrainian troops who wanted to surrender. Now the Ukrainian side has once again put on a righteous posture, as if it was forced to abandon the horse market in order to rescue these defenders, how hypocritical, the final victory of the Russian army to win the steel plant is completely expected. In addition, the outside world is also very concerned about whether the "big fish" of the steel plant has been caught?
You must know that one of the reasons why the Ukrainian army ordered that the defenders of Mashi should not be allowed to surrender was to protect the "big fish", and now that the defenders have withdrawn, where have these "big fish" gone, have they escaped? Xiaobian believes that if the "big fish" really exists, then the Russian army will never hand it over to the Hands of the Ukrainian Army, and most of it is difficult to escape, because it has been reported that the Russian army has captured alive the former Commander of Canada who tried to escape from the underground pipeline. So as far as the current situation is concerned, the "big fish" has either fallen into the hands of the Russian army or is still hiding in the steel factory.
Regardless of the situation of the "big fish", the withdrawal of the Ukrainian army from the steel plant is of great significance to the Russian side, and now 260 Ukrainian defenders are waiting to be exchanged, and the "hard bone" of the steel plant has finally been gnawed down by the Russian army. And the facts have proved that Russia and Ukraine can indeed achieve good results through negotiations, so the next step should be to focus on negotiations, so that it is good for everyone, otherwise just like Ukraine's fiasco in The Horse Market, it will eventually lose the entire conflict completely.
(Text/Xi Le)