{"id":1477926,"date":"2022-05-17T11:00:17","date_gmt":"2022-05-17T15:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1477926"},"modified":"2022-05-17T11:00:21","modified_gmt":"2022-05-17T15:00:21","slug":"ukraine-ends-combat-mission-in-mariupol-signaling-russian-victory-for-key-port-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ukraine-ends-combat-mission-in-mariupol-signaling-russian-victory-for-key-port-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine Ends Combat Mission In Mariupol, Signaling Russian Victory For Key Port City"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/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%2Fukraine-ends-combat-mission-in-mariupol-signaling-russian-victory-for-key-port-city%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=1477926&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/05\/GettyImages-1240721050.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Late Monday, the Ukrainian government appeared to surrender the key port city of Mariupol to the Russians.<\/p>\n<p>According to live war updates from The New York Times, capture of the Azovstal steel complex in Mariupol was the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2022\/05\/16\/world\/russia-ukraine-war-news\">deciding factor<\/a> in Russia\u2019s apparent victory over the Ukrainians in their combat mission.<\/p>\n<p>In a brief remark to the Times, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky shared that their current goal was to prevent further casualties.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe hope to save the lives of our boys,\u201d Zelensky said.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Associated Press, around 260 Ukrainian soldiers were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/world\/ukraine-says-more-than-260-fighters-evacuated-from-mariupol-mill\">bussed<\/a> to Russian-controlled territory. Photos <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/europe\/ukrainian-troops-evacuate-mariupol-ceding-control-russia-2022-05-17\/?taid=628301bc2b64700001377397&#038;utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&#038;utm_medium=trueAnthem&#038;utm_source=twitter\">captured<\/a> by Reuters apparently showed Ukrainian troops aboard the buses.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Ukraine?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Ukraine<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Reuters?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Reuters<\/a> published photos of \u201cbuses with Ukrainian servicemen from Azovstal leaving Mariupol\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XmtBJTa2Zl\">pic.twitter.com\/XmtBJTa2Zl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Hanna Liubakova (@HannaLiubakova) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HannaLiubakova\/status\/1526295514400141313?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 16, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Earlier, Reuters reported that buses with the Defenders of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Mariupol?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Mariupol<\/a>, which were on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Azovstal?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Azovstal<\/a>, arrived in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Novoazovsk?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Novoazovsk<\/a>, which is under the control of pro-<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Russian?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Russian<\/a> separatists. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RfaOrvoW7t\">pic.twitter.com\/RfaOrvoW7t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NEXTA (@nexta_tv) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nexta_tv\/status\/1526320454503436289?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 16, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Last month, Mariupol Mayor Vadym Boichenko estimated that the city\u2019s casualties were about 21,000. The port city conflict was one of the longest in the ongoing war.<\/p>\n<p>The quality of the Reuters pictures should be taken with a grain of salt. Earlier on Monday, Reuters published a controversial photo of men in what appeared to be paintball gear to accompany their coverage on Ukraine <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/not-the-best-look-reuters-report-on-ukraine-driving-russian-soldiers-out-includes-glaring-photographic-mistake\">claiming<\/a> success in a different campaign. According to reports, Ukraine drove back Russian occupying forces in the Sumy region and retained control of the Chernihiv border region as well.<\/p>\n<p>Reaction to the apparent Mariupol defeat reflected on the U.S. House\u2019s approval last week to send Ukraine another $40 billion in aid.<\/p>\n<p>Conservative journalist Pedro Gonzalez pointed out that Ukrainian troops assigned to the Mariupol combat mission accused their government of abandoning them, referencing Azov regiment complaints <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/trapped-ukrainian-fighters-in-mariupol-say-kyiv-abandoned-them-11652018896\">documented<\/a> by The Wall Street Journal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cZelensky just surrendered the strategically important port city Mariupol after besieged Ukrainian troops there had complained that they had been ignored and abandoned except for propaganda purposes,\u201d Gonzalez said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Zelensky just surrendered the strategically important port city Mariupol after besieged Ukrainian troops there had complained that they had been ignored and abandoned except for propaganda purposes. This officially confirms that.<\/p>\n<p>Why are we sending him billions of dollars again? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/N1c6PJJFV8\">pic.twitter.com\/N1c6PJJFV8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Pedro L. Gonzalez (@emeriticus) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/emeriticus\/status\/1526396865633198081?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 17, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Although the House approved the $40 billion aid for Ukraine, the package was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/we-cannot-save-ukraine-by-dooming-the-u-s-economy-rand-paul-blocks-immediate-vote-on-billion-dollar-ukraine-package\">blocked<\/a> temporarily in the Senate by Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), however, the aid package is expected to pass sometime this week.<\/p>\n<p>A number of Republican senators vowed to vote against the aid. Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-TN) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/gop-senator-slams-biden-for-waging-war-on-the-economy-not-putting-americans-first\">insisted<\/a> that the U.S. needed to improve its own national security and economy before coming to the aid of others.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve already committed a great deal of money, and I know people are concerned that money is being well spent, and we should certainly take effort to oversee that carefully,\u201d Hagerty told Fox News\u2019 Maria Bartiromo. \u201cAt the same time, we\u2019ve got to take care of things at home first.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the House approving aid, the Ukrainian government tweeted out a \u201cMatrix\u201d meme to express their pleasure with the arrangement.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"und\">\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6\ud83e\udd1d\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/a64YG9qHmZ\">pic.twitter.com\/a64YG9qHmZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ukraine \/ \u0423\u043a\u0440\u0430\u0457\u043d\u0430 (@Ukraine) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ukraine\/status\/1523765028796911616?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 9, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Late Monday, the Ukrainian government appeared to surrender the key port city of Mariupol to the Russians.According to live war updates from The New York Times, capture of the Azovstal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":243,"featured_media":1483399,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1477926","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\/1477926","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\/243"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1477926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1477926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1483399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1477926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1477926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1477926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}