Tom Batchelor – The Independent April 13, 2022
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More than 1,000 Ukrainian marines have been forced to lay down their arms in the besieged city of Mariupol after heavy fighting and severed supply lines left them short of ammunition and food, the Kremlin has claimed.
Russia’s defence ministry claimed that 1,026 Ukrainian soldiers from the 36th Marine Brigade who were situated near an iron and steel works had surrendered.
Oleksandr Motuzyanyk, the Ukrainian defence ministry spokesperson, said he had no information about the claim.
There was also no immediate comment from the Ukrainian president’s office, or the Ukrainian general staff, which provides routine updates on the fighting.
“In the town of Mariupol, near the Ilyich Iron and Steel Works, as a result of successful offensives by Russian armed forces and Donetsk People’s Republic militia units, 1,026 Ukrainian soldiers of the 36th Marine Brigade voluntarily laid down arms and surrendered,” Russia’s defence ministry said in a statement on Wednesday.
The Russian defence ministry said 151 wounded Ukrainian soldiers were treated for injuries.
Russian television showed pictures of what it said were marines surrendering up at the Ilyich plant.
Ramzan Kadyrov, the Kremlin-backed leader of Chechnya, whose forces are said to be playing a major role in the battle for Mariupol, also earlier claimed more than 1,000 Ukrainian marines had surrendered.
He urged remaining forces in the Azovstal steel mill, a separate facility to the Ilyich plant, to surrender.
It was not clear to which plant – Azovstal or Ilyich – Mr Kadyrov was referring when he talked about the purported surrender of 1,000 marines.
“Within Azovstal at the moment there are about 200 wounded who cannot receive any medical assistance,” he said in a social media post.
“For them and all the rest it would be better to end this pointless resistance and go home to their families.”
On Monday, Moscow said a group of up to 100 Ukrainian soldiers using tanks and armoured vehicles had been blocked during an attempt to fight their way out of the besieged IIyich plant and leave the city.
The same day, a post on the Ukrainian marine brigade’s Facebook page had said the unit was preparing for a final battle in Mariupol that would end in either death or capture.
“Today will probably be the ultimate battle, as there is no ammo left,” said the post. “Beyond that: hand to hand fighting. Beyond that, for some death, for others capture.”
It was not clear at the time whether that post was genuine or faked, although Russia’s latest claims of a mass surrender suggest Ukrainian forces are losing the battle for Mariupol, a strategic port city in the Donbas.
If captured, Mariupol would represent the Russians’ biggest strategic victory since the war began seven weeks ago.

Not to mention the Marines and Co. still hunkered down inside the Steel works are likely up to their ankles and rising..
So what made The ‘Independent’ stop lying?
Its a War Against Whites. ZOG didn’t like the fact that masses of Ukrainians were forming a fascistic nationalistic monoracial culture/society via the Azov youth camps & other pro-white organizations since 2014.. They realized it would just be a matter of time before they would depose the democratic-liberal government, obtain political power & institute a Nazi State. Thus the Jewish Overlords via their Zionist-Communist agent Putin unleashed a ‘preemptive strike’ on Ukraine to eliminate this burgeoning threat to Jewish hegemony. Thanks to me, you now know the real motives behind this war.
You are witnessing the beginning of a new Holodomor.
These are the surface fighters. The ones deep underground might get flooded out. Macron has expelled Russian diplomats over the fact that a senior French officer in underground at the steel works in Mariupol.
Poor Biden is capping himself over the fact that Russia is going to have so much filth on him and his son.
Biden has also promised heavy US artillery. The Russians will destroy it.
Here in the UK, the establishment are divided over Boris the criminal. Does he go, or does he stay, so he can lead the SAS and mercenarie resistance?
Zero Hedge (which I hate), states that the SAS and US Delta Force have been in UKraine since February… really, more like for years.
Presumably the prisoners will be screened to filter out Western mercenaries and intelligence operatives.
If these people harbour Nazi Ideology and wish for Russians to be killed enmass, then what should be done with them?
Here is my 2 cents worth.
Let Nico X have them all, Let Nico X care for them.
If that is not possible simply send them to Black Dolphin Type prisons in Russia, send them to Siberia to work in Prison Chain Gangs 12 hour work days 7 days a week.
Alternatively you could put up to 20 people at at time through a shredder- crusher and straight onto a conveyor belt into a Truck then loaded onto a Truck to be taken care of, I say you do this to them alive.
People like this are no good for society, not even good for the military,
Great cannon Fodder.
I’m pretty sure Nico X would be fairly disturbed seeing pictures of his fellow comrades surrender to Russian Focres in big numbers, are they pussies Nico, are they traitors to Ukraine for laying down their arms, or are they wise and don’t believe in their mission which was not to kill Russians but to kill their fellow Ukrainians that didn’t support their cause of total Ukrainian purification of it’s race.
These men would make great fertiliser for the garden, those Sunflowers would grow beautifully.
Do you have sunflowers in your garden Nico?
If not you should get some.
As reminder to your fellow Aryans that have fallen.
@ Nico X …
Dude, calm down! Or better yet, get off that crack pipe, pal.
Azov is not only the brainchild, but very literal, child of that uber-satanist cabalist jew, Kolomoisky (sp?), or whatever-the-fk-his-name is. The same scumbag who singlehandedly chose the degenerate homosexual Zelensky, a low-end vulgar actor, to become the leader of Ukraine three years ago. The same satanist who has been plundering the wealth of Ukraine for the past decade or so, among other cabbalist jew oligarchs.
Azov members get on their hands and feet and kiss the ground that Kolomoisky walks on. No joke: every “proud” Azov thug has a poster of Kolomoisky above his bed, so that when he’s lying on his back, the degenerate can see Kolomoisky above and fantasize.
@Stanley.. Didn’t you yet realised that Nico X is a hasbara troll ??
Just reading his comments it’s obvious …
@Stanley…Problem is, Russia invaded their territory. You’re the one supporting the death of thousands of innocent Aryan Ukrainians by some Soviet regime that still displays on their jets, tanks & trucks the Communist Red Star… so keep reading your ‘Das Kapital’ you Commie-Antifa creep…
@Stanley
Nico X is one twisted individual.
From supporting, quoting and worshipping all things Alistair Crowley to kissing the backside of his beloved Azov “Aryan” brothers in Ukraine and Germany alike, Nico X needs some serious pyscho evaluation at Arkam Asylum.
Somebody above commented on how communist Jewish Putin unleashed war against Nazis in Ukraine. This War leaded by Putin it was against Nationalists in Ukraine. That is a BS. Let see the facts here. Ukraine neo nazi batallions were killing Russiabs which are Also white and they were doing that since for 8 years. Ukraine Neo Nazi grouos take orders from Jewish Wealthy Oligarchs. There were many real nationalists taken away from Neo Nazi batallions and many there are of Jewish origin. Putin it is not killing Ukrainian civilians but it is trying to defend them while Neo Nazis using them as human shields
@ STANLEY
what you sugest i would put them in
Gulag only the hard core fanatics . the
others , pressed into the army not by
their own will i would treat better .they
have to be filtered .
@Mike Dolt…You’re the one defending the deranged Jew Noah Harari, not me..
I see the horde of ZOG/Commie scum are at it again..You see Rixon, they all come out to slander me & spread their ad hominems..because my posts are revealing the reality of this ZOG orchestrated war to eradicate Aryan Ukrainians. They don’t want people knowing the truth about it..
Remember the words of Bulwer-Lytton:
‘The pen is mightier than the sword.’
Nico X: No, very untrue. There’s very little to support your argument.
IF everyone is in on it, why is there so much pointless economic and societal destruction going on, where there’s no gain, unless, the game is broken, and we now have a genuine struggle for freedom.
this nazi asov BS are bolshevics branded as nazi,s the lies are pretty thick at the moment but
they are still lies, most here know the national socialists were on the right side of history the
problem is and always been the jew via his “purse” controls all media government business in
that order, the average person has no way of seeing past the jew BS