“This morning Putin and Shoigu publicly announced that Mariupol has been taken and that they will not attack Azovstal because they do not want to cause any losses to the Russian army. This means that they are not able to take Azovstal, they understood that having recorded heavy losses there. our defenders continue to resist “. Thus Oleksiy Arestovych, adviser to the office of Ukrainian President Zelensky, in today’s briefing in which he took stock of the current situation. “This renunciation of the assault – he adds – could also mean that a part of the army has been deployed in the north direction to strengthen its forces trying to carry out the priority political task, that is to leave the administrative borders of the Luhansk and Donetsk regions. immediately that they will not succeed in this intent. “” The preliminary announcement of the victory before Easter and May 9 shows that the Russians have realized the lack of prospects for their last phase of the operation in this phase of the war “. “A war of position awaits us”, he explained, continuing: “The Russian side will announce the ceasefire, the humanitarian corridors and proceed with increasing its forces for another phase. The question is whether they have these forces. . These forces will be represented by the current enlisted people, who will need two or three months to be minimally prepared. “” The front line is now about 1,000 km long from Kherson to Kharkiv. Russians have 100,000 men in the army stationed along the line and they know they are unable to maintain this territory through warfare. This is why they are preparing for the so-called referendum to create the Kherson People’s Republic and to be able to increase the number of their soldiers with the people of the occupied territories. This is an international crime, the violation of the Geneva Convention, “he later stressed.