During Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit to the Russian-annexed Ukrainian port of Mariupol on Sunday night, there was a communication breakdown in the Kremlin.
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In a video of the visit, which can be found on the Presidential Administration website, there is a scene that was declared as “conversation with residents of Mariupol”.
A woman can be heard screaming in the background: “This is all lies! It’s all staged!” The Kremlin quickly deleted the sequence, but it had already spread through online channels.
The Ukrainian port of Mariupol was badly damaged during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. During an evening stroll, Putin apparently stopped at newly constructed apartment buildings well after midnight to give the impression that the city’s reconstruction was progressing rapidly.
They lie that they freed the city. You destroyed it.
Vadim Boychenko, the legitimate Ukrainian mayor of Mariupol
Putin’s governor of the Donetsk region, Dennis Puschilin, claimed on Monday that more than 200,000 people live in Mariupol again.
The city’s rightful Ukrainian mayor, Vadym Boychenko, rejected it on Monday. The city is still in ruins, only “five to seven houses” were shown in a suburb. “They lie that they liberated the city. They destroyed them,” explained Boychenko.
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Only ten percent of the nearly 500,000 inhabitants remained. It is they who defended belonging to Russia even before the war. The numbers cannot be independently verified.
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Russian troops bombed Mariupol for over two months in the spring of 2022 with heavy artillery and rockets. In May, the last Ukrainian defenders of the Azovstal Steel Plant surrendered.
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Mayor Bojchenko said at the time that more than half of residential buildings and virtually all electricity and water supplies had been destroyed. Putin ordered his hometown of St. Petersburg to sponsor the reconstruction of Mariupol.
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