Okay, so they really are just asking NATO to intervene. It's not that Russia rescinded their offer to accept surrender or anything, they're literally saying "please send foreign troops to rescue our husbands who refuse to surrender."

I get that it's part of the information war, but how is it that western media is being allowed to feign total ignorance of how a war works? It's driving me insane. I found the piece and read it and I'm still confused.