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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
It shouldn't be though, Mariupol is about 50 kms from the Russian border, 2 months after the war begun Russia has finally captured a small city a 30 minute drive from their border is hardly the fall of Berlin, in fact it is a damning indictment of just how bad Russian troops are, it is equivalent to the US taking 2 months to capture Surrey
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Mariupol is also 50% ethnically Russian and sandwhiched between two areas already under Russian control (the Crimea and the North Donbas). This was about as easy as it could get for Russia, and it was far from easy.
From what I've read the only reason for all this destruction was so that Russians could more easily move between the Crimea to the Donbas, and if they level Mariupol, it just makes it easier to build a path.