UK Defense Ministry: "Targeting of Mariupol aligns with Russia's approach to Chechnya and Syria"

"Russian commanders will be concerned by the time it is taking to subdue Mariupol. Concerted Ukrainian resistance has severely tested Russian forces and diverted men and materiel, slowing Russia's advance elsewhere," UK Defense Ministry wrote on Twitter. 

"The targeting of populated areas within Mariupol aligns with Russia's approach to Chechnya in 1999 and Syria in 2016," the ministry said.

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