1648035545 About 100000 people are still trapped in Mariupol in infrahuman

About 100,000 people are still trapped in Mariupol in “infrahuman” conditions, according to Zelenskyy

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Wednesday, March 23, 2022 12:29 p.m

Posted: 03/23/2022 12:00

the Russian invasion of Ukraine continues, it’s 28 days that the country suffers from the bombings and attacks of the war. At this point follow the Siege and humanitarian crisis in the city of Mariupol in which, according to Volodomir Zelenskyy More than 100,000 people live in captivity and under “subhuman” conditions.

The President of Ukraine issued a statement denouncing this blocking from Mariupol. In the video, he explained that the city is completely surrounded by the Russian army, which is blocking food, water and medicines. He also assures that Putin’s army will continue the attack while the city “under constant fire“.

Associated Press photographer Evgeniy Maloletka helps a medic transport a woman wounded in a bomb blast in Mariupol.

Satellite image of the Ukrainian city of Mariupol showing multiple plumes of smoke

He also denounced it Destruction of humanitarian corridors for the residents of Mariupol, but that almost all of their attempts “were frustrated by the Russian occupiers through bombing raids or deliberate terror”.

A woman holds a child in a makeshift air raid shelter in Mariupol.

A father and son with a toy gun in Mariupol

Medical workers treat a man injured by gunfire at a hospital in Mariupol, Ukraine on Friday, March 4, 2022.

Mass grave outside of Mariupol, Ukraine

bomb victims

Yesterday, in the better afternoon, Viktoria and Oleksiytwo young Ukrainians from Mariupol who live in Spain shared in the program the information obtained from their relatives who remain in the besieged city. In the case of Oleksiy, he recently found out his father died in a bomb attack. “He was on his way to the basement to take refuge. It took him a few seconds to save himself,” he said.

The young man goes on to explain that the bomb who ended his life fell near his home in the center of town leaving a 20 meter high crater, and he remembers that between 50 and 100 per day like these, “without counting what the artillery is doing and the shots in the city”.

He also explains that his father’s partner was seriously injured in the same attack: “She lay in temperatures of 10 degrees below freezing for two hours until volunteers arrived to rescue her. She is very badly injured.” You can see the full testimony in the video below.

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