The Mariupol defenders have given up their resistance.

On orders from Kyiv, the last fighters at the Azov Steelworks laid down their arms and allowed themselves to be captured by the invaders.

The Azov brigade had held out for weeks in a lost position.

The messages that the trapped people sent out into the world told of the suffering of the civilians and the badly wounded.

Countless times "humanitarian corridors" have been promised and yet not opened;

if so, then only to "filter" people.

Few came out, many disappeared.

Here, too, murder, torture and kidnapping are the Russian occupiers' answer to the Ukrainians' will to resist.

Michael Hanfeld

responsible editor for feuilleton online and "media".

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What happens if the Ukrainians surrender, as recommended in the open letter from Emma, ​​is shown once again.

In the Moscow-controlled media, politicians and moderators indulge in fantasies of violence against the “Nazis”: in show trials, they could be settled for “war crimes” and the death penalty reintroduced, according to the aggressors, who in reality are committing the war crimes that either deny it or blame the victims of their aggression.

New evidence of the massacre

Massacres of civilians are well documented.

The "New York Times" is currently adding a file to the documentation of the terror.

It shows how Russian soldiers drive eight unarmed people across a street in Bucha.

Later the corpses of the men are found.

The Russian parachutists who shot them continued to patrol the streets afterwards.

The broadcaster CNN has published a video showing the murder of two Ukrainians by Russian soldiers.

They simply shoot the men in the back who had previously asked them for cigarettes.

This is what happens during the war in Ukraine when you follow Emma's slogan, "Make peace without heavy weapons," which the paper is intoxicated with approving because the majority of Germans think it supports them.

Alice Schwarzer's "Emma" was once avant-garde in the fight for women's and human rights, today fundamental rights appear divisible there.

The open letter postulates a “manifest risk of this war escalating into a nuclear conflict”.

Nobody can rule out the risk, only one can point out who is responsible for it.

It is evident that every tirade of Putin's propaganda, every manipulation trick aimed at the West, the EU and Germany has an effect.

Be it the threat of nuclear strikes, be it the attribution of who is “the war party”, or be it the “wonder weapons” that the Kremlin presents every week: first the supersonic missiles, then a super tank and finally a laser weapon à la “Star Wars” .

"Nazis everywhere and always on the verge of a nuclear attack," writes Stefan Meister, who heads the International Order and Democracy program at the German Society for Foreign Relations, in Die Zeit: "The Russian leadership knows exactly

It is also manifest that the Chancellor and the Defense Minister are talking about the delivery of heavy weapons and an exchange of rings in NATO, but according to the Ukrainian ambassador, the Ukrainian and the Polish Deputy Foreign Ministers, these do not exist.

The fact that an internal report is now being published that states that the Bundeswehr can deliver more Marder infantry fighting vehicles than Christine Lambrecht has publicly announced fits the picture.

If Ukraine had had heavy weapons, it could have liberated those trapped in Mariupol, says President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

One may doubt that, but "manifest" is what happens when the Ukrainians do not have these weapons.

We can still hear the appeal of the relatives of the trapped people from the Azov steelworks to save them.

Now we hear nothing more from the prisoners.

Kyiv hopes that the Kremlin will consider Putin's oligarch Viktor Medvedchuk important enough to exchange him for the prisoners of Mariupol.

But the temptation for Putin to show the whole world how he treats "Nazis" - people fighting for their freedom - is great.

Or shall we say: "manifest".