Russian President Vladimir Putin has urged the Ukrainian army to overthrow its leadership whom he labelled as a “gang of drug addicts and neo-Nazis who have has lodged itself in Kyiv and taken hostage the entire Ukrainian people.”
Addressing the Ukrainian military in a televised address, a visibly angry Putin urged the military to “take power in your own hands”.
It seems like it will be easier for us to agree with you than this gang of drug addicts and neo-Nazis.
Putin further repeated his claim that the Ukrainian leadership had been engaged in “genocide” in the Donbas region in eastern Ukraine.
We are fighting with nationalist groups that are directly responsible for the genocide of the Donbas and the bloodshed of peaceful civilians in the two republics.
In the address, Putin further accused the Ukrainian “neo-Nazi” leadership of acting like terrorists, by ‘cowering behind civilians’.
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While the claim had few details, video posted on social media earlier appeared to show a column of Russian armoured vehicles, including T-72B3 tanks and BMP-3 armoured vehicles, moving through the coastal town of Prymorsk which is located between Melitopol and Mauripol.
Describing the “amphibious assault” underway from the Sea of Azov a senior US defence official told reporters on Friday that Russians “putting potentially thousands of naval infantry ashore there.”
He added:
The general assumption is they are going to move towards the northeast, towards Mariupol and the Donbas region.
Several social media accounts in the region also show images and accounts of volleys of Russian Grad missiles hitting targets near Mariupol late on Friday afternoon.
If the account of the landing is confirmed as true, the aim would appear to be to allow Russian marines to link up with forces further east in the Donbas region.
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