Vladimir Putin has made it clear that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is just the beginning, and that Moscow has aspirations to conquer other countries as well.

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has said that the nation expects to use new means of warfare as the battle enters its 59th day.

According to the Ministry of Defense, Vladimir Putin’s “tacit acknowledgment” that the war isn’t advancing as he had hoped is a sign of weakness.
It is expected that Russia would continue to use bombing as a way of suppressing Ukrainian dissent until it changes its strategy, say British diplomats.

A “realistic prospect” that the conflict in Ukraine may continue for a long time was raised by Boris Johnson during his recent visit to India.

This evaluation was made by Western intelligence agencies, and Prime Minister Arseny Yatsenyuk accepted it, even though Ukraine’s security situation is improving.

As a new phase of the invasion begins, a Russian commander said on Friday that Moscow intends to conquer all of southern and eastern Ukraine.

Capturing all of Donbas, joining up with the Crimea Peninsula, and dominating terrain as far as Moldovan-occupied Moldova are all part of this strategy.

After weeks of shelling, the port city of Mariupol is mostly reduced to smouldering ruins.

An apparent pro-Moscow Donetsk separatist flag was flown atop a television tower in footage aired on Russian state television.

Another video purported to show the Azovstal steel plant’s main structure on fire, the city’s last known bastion of resistance.

Approximately 2,000 Ukrainian military and 1,000 civilians are still encamped in the complex, which is outnumbered by Russian forces.

A win in the struggle for Mariupol was announced by Putin and he ordered his troops to leave the factory. They were to keep it sealed off so that anybody within would have no option except to submit, as instructed by him instead!

“Fighting, shelling, bombing do not cease,” Petro Andryushchenko, an advisor to Mariupol’s mayor, stated, according to a statement from the Russian military.

A large number of people, maybe as many as 100,000, remain stranded in Mariupol, unable to leave due to the extreme risk of the situation.

According to Ukrainian officials, an estimated 20,000 people have been murdered in the previous two months in the conflict.

People in Mariupol are exhorted to “be patient” and “hang in there” by Ukraine’s deputy prime minister, Iryna Vereshchuk.

New graves are anticipated to be buried in many lengthy ditches in the area.

Authorities in the area published a picture of a mass grave 45 metres by 25 metres in size, expressing concern that it might contain the remains of more than 1,000 individuals.

After the discovery of mass graves, Russian officials have been accused of covering up the massacre of residents in the area.

There were also reports of newly excavated mass graves in Manhush, a town west of Mariupol, earlier this week.

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