Some villages captured, some lost, some who even knows what state they are in, but things seem to be heating up in Mariupol and more footage is coming out(from Chechens in particular). They are making progress there but who knows how much longer it will take. Some of the footage is interesting because it shows separate units of the Russian army in close cooperation, you see Chechens, Russian naval Infantry and Russian soldiers operating right along side each other. Of course there is a bias here, the regular Russians don't film much but the Chechens do, if they film everything and that includes the odd time they meet up with Russians and so much of the footage we have of Russian soldiers in action is filmed by Chechens, then it will look like they work close to Russians much more than they do.

This Chechen footage also makes it look like Syria...

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It's a concern, but then they are Slavs, they were never known for being nice. There is the nature of the war as well, the Russians are Slavs as well but what they are sending in is mostly professional(or at least conscripts) plus DPR and LPR who are something weird that contain an unknown percentage of actual Russian soldiers anyway and the reason they say they are there is that they are going there for the Ukrainian people to get rid of tyrant Nazis so they really can't afford to go around doing anything too nasty. However, while the regular Ukrainian army may actually be professional(and more so than the Russians as they are actually professional not conscripts) a large part of the Ukrainian forces and perhaps even the majority of them now are made up of paramilitaries and militia including groups like Azov Battalion and Right Sector. These guys clearly are not going to play by the same rule book as the regular Ukrainian army. So it may be that these actions are being taken by these extremists groups not the regulars. Not that this excuses it at all.