While the war rages over the shattered corpse of Mariupol, the defenders will not give up. Meanwhile, Zelenskyy is trying to get the planes he couldn’t get from Biden from other places.

FNC: “Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Monday that ‘Mariupol is destroyed, tens of thousands people [are] dead but Russians are still continuing the military operation.’ Zelenskyy made the remark while addressing South Korean lawmakers.

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Mariupol officials have estimated that roughly 5,000 civilians had been killed, but warned last week that given the size of the destruction caused to the city the death toll could be in the tens of thousands. The Mariupol City Council last week also accused Russian forces of relying on a mobile crematorium to cover up their alleged war crimes there.”

“Ukraine needs various military technologies from airplanes to tanks,” he reportedly said, according to Reuters. “South Korea can help us.”

On Monday, the Brits said “Russian forces prior use of phosphorous munitions in the Donetsk Oblast raises the possibility of their future employment in Mariupol as fighting for the city intensifies.” No quarter will be asked or given in this fight.

⚡️ Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks with Scott Pelley about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and recently uncovered alleged war crimes in the Kyiv suburb of Bucha. https://t.co/x5yCPxYGxJ

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In a related story, in a 60 Minutes interview President Zelenskyy set out his country’s current position on the outcome of the war. “I will definitely not recognize that, and they would really like to take the southern parts of our country,” Zelenskyy asserted. “I clearly understand that questions like this will be raised in negotiations if there ever are any. But we were not ready to give up our territory from the beginning. Had we been willing to give up our territory, there would have been no war.

“They will come back,” he said. “The return of refugees is blood, the body of Ukraine. Without them, there’s nothing. The bombardments would end we would recover our territory. There would be no Russian soldiers in our country.

“Yes, I understand they will not withdraw from Crimea and will be arguing and negotiating for one territory or another in the south of our country, the Donbass,” he said of Russia. “I know exactly what has to happen, after which we can say this is victory. But if you don’t mind, I’m not going to talk about it just yet.”