Criterions not the best here, this parent says. there s no way to study, not much food, and my kids teeth are starting to spoil, she says. but the alternative, surrender to russia, may be worse. above ground, mariupol has borne the brunt of russia s brutal invasion. the latest images show the extent of the devastation. one ukrainian commander has called this hell on earth. but troops defending the city concentrated at the vast azov-style steel works are refusing to surrender. ukrainian officials say they will fight until the end. the situation in mariupol is both dire militarily and heartbreaking. the city doesn t exist anymore. it seems the way russian army behaves in mariupol, they decided to raze the city to the
They can follow that van anywhere. from a military point of view, it might have been better to follow the van and see where that led. urban combat is the most difficult type of combat any army will ever face. with that said, there are very clear criterions set up. the idea is minimum use of force necessary to counter an adversarial threat. that van should never have been engaged by anybody. that never offered a threat. again, let me be very clear here. the presence of a weapon on the battlefield does not constitute a threat. it constitutes a weapon, and you ve got to determine if the weapon is tied to someone who s threatening you. everybody s fighting over it, whether or not they had weapons. well, they had weapons. no they didn t. this was murder. no it s not, it s war. in a sense everybody s right, but everybody s wrong at the same time. what you re looking at is a