Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has called off a planned assault on the Azovstal factory in Mariupol. He has chosen instead to keep the facility under a permanent siege.
President Vladimir Putin ordered the Russian military to cancel plans to storm the Azovstal plant in the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol and said he wanted it to continue to be hermetically blockaded instead https://t.co/At2TCIbWZr pic.twitter.com/dEO5i8c3Cl
— Reuters (@Reuters) April 21, 2022
⚡️#Putin called the storming of #Azovstal's industrial zone in #Mariupol unreasonable and ordered its cancellation. pic.twitter.com/ieGFVIqqEr
— NEXTA (@nexta_tv) April 21, 2022
It is a reasonable enough decision I guess. It isn’t like the Azov satanists are going to be able to remain their forever. They have limited supplies. Plus storming the facility is foolish and would be an unnecessary risk to Russian military personnel.
I probably would have just bombed the shit out of the factory, but I get that Putin doesn’t want to unnecessarily harm the civilians who have been forced there by Azov forces. This is just going to prolong the standoff, but it is one that the Azov satanists can’t win.