If one believes the mainstream media, the final stand for the
Ukrainian city of Mariupol began this week as Russian forces entered the
massive Azovstal steel plant where, according to Volodymyr Zelenskyy,
thousands of Ukrainian soldiers and civilians have been hiding for
weeks.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, however, has a different take on
who exactly is hiding within the subterranean bunkers and tunnels of the
colossal coastal complex.
On a Wednesday evening call with President Donald J. Trump, Putin
said that child traffickers responsible for the abduction of thousands
of Russian children were embedded among the civilians trapped inside
Azovstal. He also claimed that Zelensky was endangering the lives of
thousands of innocents by sheltering traffickers at Azovstal.
“Putin told Trump he saw two possibilities. Either Zelenskyy is
genuinely trying to protect the traffickers, using civilians as human
shields, or he’s hoping Putin bombs the place to oblivion, killing
everyone, including the traffickers so they, if caught, can’t implicate
Zelenskyy in the biggest human trafficking ring the world has ever
known,” our Mar-a-Lago source said.
Putin, he added, namedropped two persons: Yuriy Kosiuk, a Ukrainian
billionaire whose estate on the Khotiv settlement Russian forces had
bombed to smithereens, and Alexan Hadjetian, an affluent Armenian
national who had been marketing children on Ukrainian soil for nearly 20
years. Putin said he had solid evidence both men were camouflaged
somewhere inside Azovstal’s dark, twisting, difficult to navigate tunnel
system.
“Putin said the Ukrainian ‘freedom fighters’ entrenched in Azovstal
don’t know the truth about Kosiuk and Hadjetian, that they’ve been led
to believe they’re key to the resistance and must be protected at all
costs. It’s Putin’s feeling the blood of civilians is on Zelenskyy’s
hands, since it’s he who is using them as human shields to safeguard the
child traffickers and pedophiles,” our source said.
Vladimir Putin, a humanitarian, has allowed hundreds of civilians to
safely egress the area through a controlled evacuation corridor, with
Russian troops—who have photographs of Kosiuk, Hadjetian, and a half
dozen other known traffickers—scrutinizing every departure.
Before laying siege to Azovstal, Putin purportedly gave Zelenskyy a
chilling ultimatum: “Surrender the scum criminals and turn yourself in,
or I’m not responsible for what happens next.”...<<<Read More>>>...