Defense of Mariupol – The military man spoke about the battle for Mariupol – UNIAN
The military man considers it an incredible feat that the city’s defenders were able to hold out for so long and inflict significantly greater losses on the Russians than they had themselves.
Mariupol was not prepared for serious defense, despite the fact that the city was front-line for all 8 years of the war in Donbass. A combat medic from the Territorial Defense of Mariupol named Vladimir, who spent almost two years in Russian captivity, spoke about this in an interview with OBOZ.UA.
According to him, the city was defended by no more than 7 thousand people, which is significantly less than the number of occupiers. In addition, the city did not have sufficient supplies of shells and artillery itself. The defense units had nothing at all except small arms. Therefore, their units were…
