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A Ukrainian police officer in Mariupol warned that the besieged port city was “wiped off the face of the earth” and pleaded with the US and French presidents to provide his country with a modern air defense system.
This image provided by the Azov Battalion shows a shelled drama theater in Mariupol, Ukraine, Thursday, March 17, 2022. (Azov Battalion via AP)
In a video post from a littered street, Mariupol police officer Mikhail Vershnin told President Joe Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron that they had promised help “but what we got is not quite right” and urged them to rescue civilians. Population.
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“Children, the elderly are dying. The city has been destroyed, it has been wiped off the face of the earth,” he said in Russian in a video taken on Friday, the authenticity of which has been confirmed by the Associated Press. On it, flames can be seen emanating from several buildings while others have been destroyed. Explosions were also heard.
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Local residents carry water from a food warehouse, in territory controlled by the government of the Donetsk People’s Republic, on the outskirts of Mariupol, Ukraine, Friday, March 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Alexei Alexandrov)
This satellite image provided by Maxar Technologies on Friday, March 18, 2022 shows damaged and burnt-out apartment buildings in Mariupol, Ukraine. (Satellite image © 2022 Maxar Technologies via AP)
“You promised that there would be help, give us this help. Biden, Macron, you are great leaders. Be them to the end,” he said.
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Vershnin said the city faced the fate of the Syrian city of Aleppo, which was destroyed in 2016 in a Russian-backed siege during the Syrian revolution that escalated into civil war. Russia aided the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad with a ruthless strategy of besieging, bombarding and starving opposition-held areas until the population’s ability to resist collapsed.