Residents of the port city of Mariupol in eastern Ukraine, which has been occupied by Russian troops for about a month, are being “forced to hunt pigeons” due to a lack of food, the local mayor denounced this Monday. , Vadym Boychenko.
“’The Hunger Games’ in Mariupol. Residents of the occupied city are forced to hunt pigeons. They set traps with improvised means,” the mayor of Mariupol said in a publication on the social network Telegram.
The mayor added that “pigeon traps” were due to “lack of food” and recalled that “people did the same thing during the famine of 19321933,” alluding to the Holodomor that starved millions of people in Soviet Ukraine .
“The birds that were previously fed by local residents near the theater began to be eaten,” he said.
Currently, the residents of the occupied city “live in a ghetto, without normal drinking water and food”. “You can’t leave town. They organized real hunger games for residents of Mariupol. They are forced to hunt pigeons. These people lived full lives before the war they didn’t know what hunger or lack of clean water was. These terrible things are happening in the 21st century, in the heart of Europe, before the eyes of the whole world. This is genocide against the Ukrainian people by a terrorist state,” he added.
In the same way, Oleksandr Lazarenko, director of the Primary Health Center No. 3 of Ukraine, warned about the danger of eating pigeons. “Pigeons are a breeding ground for many viral, bacterial and fungal diseases,” he said.
The poultry meat is infected with bacteria that can cause “histoplasmosis, encephalitis, psittacosis, salmonella, toxoplasmosis and other dangerous diseases,” diseases that are “particularly dangerous for children and the elderly” and that “without proper medical care, can reach it.” leads to death.”
This Monday marks the 124th day of the war in Ukraine, which has killed 4,662 civilians and injured 5,803, according to the United Nations (UN).
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