The second port of Ukraine, the city is of great strategic importance for Moscow in order to control the Sea of Azov. Composed of a majority Russian-speaking population, Mariupol looked east for a long time, before Putin’s policy radically changed the situation.
It is the city that all eyes are on as the Russian military siege continues and Ukrainian forces have refused to lay down their arms. Since the start of the war, Mariupol, a port city located in southern Ukraine, has been one of Vladimir Putin’s favorite targets.
Here the shelling was of unique intensity, suggesting that the Russian military is making Mariupol a major military objective. An “obsession” which is explained above all by geographical and strategic reasons, that the Corriere della Sera explains as follows:
Mariupol is an important city, it is the second port of Ukraine after Odessa, and above all, the last obstacle to the union by land of the occupied territories of Donbass with Crimea, annexed by Russia in 2014.
Thus, by putting down the resistance of Mariupol, Moscow would create a continuity
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