Analysis: For nearly three weeks, Russian forces have besieged and shelled the Ukrainian city of Mariupol, a strategic port on the Sea of Azov, with devastating results.
Advertisement“It’s like a horror movie. There’s nothing,”, a city roughly 140 miles to the northwest. “Everything is bombed, all the roads are bombed.”“What I saw, I hope no one will ever see,” Manolis Androulakis, Greece’s consul general in the city, said as he returned home to Athens on Sunday. Androulakis was the last European Union diplomat in Mariupol until he fled Tuesday.
In Chechnya and Syria, Russia resorted to unleashing indiscriminate destruction after facing a military stalemate. It would be a hollow victory if a victory at all. In Ukraine, any hopes Putin may have held that the invasion would be swift have been dashed by fierce local resistance and his military’s poor preparedness.Putin himself grew up under the shadow of a siege.
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