Sky News - Live Blog: Reports the following in its 11.07pm post, " Russian defence minister tells Putin Mariupol now 'liberated'.....President Vladimir Putin had ordered the Russian military to cancel plans to storm the Mariupol steel plant where the last remaining Ukrainian troops are holed up. "
Lets Get Real:
The Kremlin wants to starve the Ukrainian Soldiers and those innocent people still in the Steel Plant, thus the WORLD has to wait and wait in till either the Ukrainian Soldiers either fight and die or surrender, and then that leaves those innocent people, will they be given a safe passage and on what terms, they could be forced to go to Russia. The Russians are bombing the place as we speak, they can just wait. The West might not be able to save Mariupol but it can save the Ukraine, the US and the UK have to increase the transfer of weapons and arms to the Kyiv Government and other heavy military kit, at some point down the road, the US and the UK might have to send in troops, its the last thing they want to do, but they cannot allow Putin to WIN, that would be a disaster for Ukraine, they would be landlocked, based on the strategy that the Russians go for Odessa, and can keep the land they take. Also the Russians would be far to close to NATO Countries, Putin has showed he is mad and without honour or reason.