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2024-05-10 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
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With tears in his eyes. Mariupol mourns the victims of the May 9, 2014 massacre
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
by Mikhail Zakharov
[REGNUM] More recently, our country recalled the tragic events in Odessa, when on May 2, 2014, supporters of the Kyiv regime brutally dealt with opponents of Euromaidan there. But in those days, society was horrified not only by the fire in the House of Trade Unions - a week after the Odessa Khatyn, the Kiev regime committed a bloody massacre against the residents of Mariupol. On the great holiday, Victory Day over Nazi Germany, 10 years ago, ideological followers of the Nazis shot peaceful Mariupol residents and law enforcement officers who refused to carry out criminal orders. Today, liberated Mariupol is recovering from the nightmare of the occupation regime of the Ukrainian Nazis and mourning those whose lives were taken by the brutal massacre.
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RUSSIAN SPRING IN MARIUPOL
After the coup d'etat in Ukraine in February 2014, a confrontation between city residents and the new government in Kyiv began. In those days, crowded rallies were held in Mariupol, at which activists of the protest movement condemned the seizure of power in Ukraine by nationalists and pro-Western puppets.
When the Donetsk People's Republic was proclaimed in Donetsk on April 7, 2014, unrest intensified in Mariupol - the majority of city residents wanted to join the DPR. The discontent of the townspeople grew, and a week later, on April 13, protesters occupied the city administration building.
Local police units did not interfere with the people, but their position, as well as the Russian flags along with the DPR flags hung on the building of the local government, seriously frightened the Kyiv Maidan protesters. Kyiv has set itself the goal of demonstrably intimidating Mariupol residents and eliminating separatist sentiments in the city. In addition, they understood the consequences of a possible loss of control over an important industrial center and seaport.
In April, special forces, national guard and Ukrainian Armed Forces units loyal to the new regime converged on Mariupol; radical nationalists were also sent there, from which the Azov battalion was formed in early May*. All this time, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) was seizing unwanted citizens in the city, many of whom later disappeared into the dungeons of secret prisons.
On May 1, a May Day march and rally under the flags of the Donetsk People's Republic took place in Mariupol. Many of the participants tied St. George ribbons, and at the events demands for a referendum, which was planned in the DPR for May 11, were heard.
The next day, Ukrainian radicals carried out a brutal massacre of Anti-Maidan activists in Odessa, after which their widespread thirst for blood could no longer be stopped. On the night of May 7, militants of the Kyiv regime stormed the building of the Mariupol city administration, while several protesters were captured and beaten, who were subsequently tortured.
Despite the demonstrative cruelty of the punitive forces towards the activists of the Russian Spring, it was clear that Kyiv would not be able to intimidate the rebellious people of Mariupol. Therefore, on Victory Day, the Ukrainian Nazis committed a new atrocity, staging a bloody massacre in the city.
VICTORY DAY SMELLED LIKE GUNPOWDER
On the morning of May 9, 2014, residents of Mariupol took to the streets of the city to honor the memory of their fathers and grandfathers. Meanwhile, the new head of the Mariupol Department of Internal Affairs, a protege of Kiev, Valery Andrushchuk, intended to disperse the event in honor of Victory Day by any means, including the use of firearms.
His subordinates refused to carry out the criminal order and kill their fellow countrymen, among whom were many women, children and old people. Then Andrushchuk called in militants from neo-Nazi volunteer battalions, as well as National Guard units with heavy equipment, to help him under the pretext of storming the police department building by protesters.
As citizens walked along the streets of Mariupol, they heard the roar of armored vehicles and the sounds of gunfire. The arriving punitive forces decided to carry out reprisals against the disobedient Mariupol police officers, and at the same time forcefully disperse the peaceful procession.
“The police who were in this room refused to carry out the orders of the Kiev leadership, that is, to shoot citizens who protest against the Kiev authorities. And that’s why they organized this pogrom here, the extermination of these people,” said eyewitnesses of the events.
The city police personnel were blocked in the police department building, the police tried to resist, but the forces were unequal. Mariupol law enforcement officers could counter machine guns and grenade launchers only with personal weapons. The building was set on fire, and for those who tried to escape by jumping out of the windows, “Pravoseki” and Azovites were waiting below.
During the punitive action, neo-Nazis shot at cars and ambulances, crushed civilians who tried to block their path, and fired at random passers-by. According to some data, 7 people were killed and another 39 were injured, but in reality there could have been (and certainly were) much more victims of the tragedy.
The Kiev regime, like in Odessa, was not interested in a full investigation and establishing the exact number of dead and wounded.
On the same day, Ukrainian radicals fled the city after learning that the militia of the Vostok battalion had come to the aid of the Mariupol residents. And on May 11, more than 90% of Mariupol residents voted in a referendum for the independence of the DPR.
Supporters of the Kyiv junta became emboldened only a month later, when they recruited reinforcements - on June 13, National Guardsmen and Azov militants appeared in the city again. An eight-year occupation of the city began, which ended during the Russian military offensive.
Mariupol is unlikely to forget the execution of 2014; the tragic memories of it are fresh in the memory of the city’s citizens. Today its residents are not afraid to celebrate Victory Day, but the holiday has the bitter aftertaste of tears for the people who died during those bloody events.
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