“We have adequately held the defense by doing the impossible. But all resources tend to run out.” This is the appeal to the Ukrainian people that appeared on the Facebook page of the 36th Separate Marine Brigade named after Rear Admiral Mikhail Bilinsky, who is fighting in Mariupol. “After 47 days of defense of Mariupol, the brigade’s resources have run out,” the marines write. To report the circumstance is ‘Strana.Ua.’ taken from Ria Novosti.
The message adds that “for more than a month, the marines fought without ammunition supply, without food, without water”. The infantry “is dead” and now “gunners, anti-aircraft gunners, signalmen, drivers and cooks are fighting”. “Today there will probably be an extreme battle” and a “further hand-to-hand combat”, a further “death for some and imprisonment for others”.
Then the direct appeal to citizenship: “Dear Ukrainian people, I don’t know what will happen next, but please remember the marines with a kind word and no matter how events develop further, don’t speak ill of the marines.” The volunteer of the first DUK PS assault company Alina Mikhailova confirmed the circumstance by denying the rumors circulated on the net that this publication was “the result of a hacker”.
The Ukrainian army says it is preparing for what is likely to be “the last battle” for Mariupol, in the south-east of the country, which has been besieged by the Russian army for more than 40 days. “Today will probably be the last battle as our ammunition is running out. It will be death for some of us and imprisonment for others,” the 36th Marine Brigade wrote on Facebook.
“We are slowly disappearing”, continues the appeal to the Ukrainians, “we do not know what will happen, but we really ask you to remember us with a kind word”. “For more than a month we have fought without ammunition supplies, without food, without water”, doing “the possible and the impossible”, the military said in their appeal.
From the brigade criticisms also to the commander of the army and to President Volodymyr Zelensky: “During over 40 days of intense fighting, the enemy gradually pushed us back, surrounded us and is now trying to destroy us. There were only unfulfilled promises “, denounce the military in Mariupol.