{"id":1393343,"date":"2022-03-22T08:02:24","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T12:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1393343"},"modified":"2022-03-22T08:02:30","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T12:02:30","slug":"putin-has-a-problem-mariupol-wont-surrender-to-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/putin-has-a-problem-mariupol-wont-surrender-to-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin Has a Problem: Mariupol Won\u2019t Surrender to Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fputin-has-a-problem-mariupol-wont-surrender-to-russia%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1393343&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p><b>Ukrainians Reject Russian Surrender Demand for Mariupol \u2013 <\/b><span>With the humanitarian situation in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol getting desperate, there is no letup in either the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/2022\/01\/javelins-and-stingers-the-missiles-ukraine-could-use-in-a-war-against-russia\/\">determination<\/a> of Ukraine or the Russian plan on blasting the civilian populace into submission.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Ukraine rejected the<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2022\/03\/20\/world\/ukraine-russia-war\"><span> Russian demand <\/span><\/a><span>that the embattled city of Mariupol surrender by 5 a.m. on Monday while they attempted to ensure <a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/2022\/03\/putins-ukraine-nightmare-what-if-russia-cant-take-kyiv\/\">Russia<\/a> allows a humanitarian corridor for civilians to leave. Russia demanded that only if the city surrenders that anyone wishing to leave would be allowed to travel along a humanitarian corridor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cLay down your arms,\u201d Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev, director of the Russian National Center for Defence Management, said, accusing the \u201cNazis\u201d inside of Mariupol for the terrible conditions inside the city and accused Ukrainians of shooting civilians trying to leave.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cAll who lay down their arms are guaranteed safe passage out of Mariupol,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/europe\/ukraine-refuses-surrender-mariupol-russia-warns-humanitarian-catastrophe-2022-03-21\/\"><span>Iryna Vereschuk<\/span><\/a><span>, deputy prime minister of Ukraine, confirmed to the Ukrainska Pravda newspaper that Ukraine rejected the Russian demand for surrender.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThere can be no question of any surrender, laying down of arms\u201d in the city, Vereshchuk stated. \u201cWe have already informed the Russian side about this.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Russia is attempting to take the city of Mariupol, home to a population of 440,000 people prior to the war\u2019s beginning to link their forces to their troops to the east in the separatist-held areas of Donetsk and Luhansk, and Crimea. But thus far, they\u2019ve been stonewalled, unable to take the city due to spirited defense by Ukrainian forces, despite being surrounded.\u00a0<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>In response, the Russians have resorted to indiscriminate bombing of civilians and civilian infrastructure. The people of Mariupol have had little food, medicine, or water, no electricity, and no heat since the war began.\u00a0<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>A Ukrainian parliament minister has accused the Russians of trying to starve Mariupol into surrendering.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-60816885\"><span>Dmytro Gurin <\/span><\/a><span>told the BBC that, \u201cRussians don\u2019t open humanitarian corridors, they don\u2019t let humanitarian convoys enter the city and we clearly see now that the goal of the Russians is to start to create hunger (in the city) to enforce their position in the diplomatic process and if the city does not surrender, and the city will not surrender, they won\u2019t let people out. They won\u2019t let humanitarian convoys into the city.\u201d<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><b>Russians Bomb Art School in Mariupol<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>The Russians, continuing in their assault on civilians, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2022\/03\/20\/world\/ukraine-russia-war#the-art-school-hit-in-mariupol-was-sheltering-400-people-zelensky-says\"><span>bombed an art school<\/span><\/a><span> where civilians were taking shelter from the airstrikes and shelling.\u00a0<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>President Volodymyr Zelensky, in his nightly video address to the people, said that up to 400 people mostly women, children, and seniors may be trapped inside of the destroyed school. Last week, Russian troops bombed a theater where about 1,000 people were taking shelter, despite the fact that the word, \u201cchildren\u201d was written on the roof on each end of the theater. Only about 130 have been rescued thus far.\u00a0<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThere were no military positions,\u201d he said. \u201cThey are under the debris. We do not know how many are alive at the moment.\u201d<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/03\/20\/europe\/russia-invasion-ukraine-03-20-intl\/index.html\"><span>Petro Andrushenko<\/span><\/a><span>, an adviser to the mayor of the city said that first responders are struggling to find out how many people survived the attack.\u00a0<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cSo far, there is no exact operational data on how many people were hiding in the shelter or the number of casualties,\u201d he said in a social media post on his Telegram channel. \u201cI expect we will have it later today. But the situation is difficult and there is nowhere to get the data from.\u201d<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThe city continues to be shelled both from the sky and the sea,\u201d Andrushenko added. \u201cIt seems the occupiers are so eager to wipe out Mariupol that they are ready to cover themselves with fire.\u201d<\/span><br \/><i><span>Steve Balestrieri is a 1945 National Security Columnist. He has served as a US Army Special Forces NCO and Warrant Officer before injuries forced his early separation. In addition to writing for <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/\"><i><span>19fortyfive.com<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>, he has covered the NFL for <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patsfans.com\/\"><i><span>PatsFans.com<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span> for more than 10 years and his work was regularly featured in the Millbury-Sutton Chronicle and Grafton News newspapers in Massachusetts.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainians Reject Russian Surrender Demand for Mariupol \u2013 With the humanitarian situation in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol getting desperate, there is no letup in either the determination of Ukraine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":489,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1393343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/489"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1393343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1393343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1393343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1393343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}