Even though a small number of people fled the besieged city on Monday after a series of failed evacuation attempts, Ukrainian officials estimate that up to 2,500 civilians have died in Mariupol. The remaining hundreds of thousands of people were left without electricity, water and heat.
The Mariupol Regional Intensive Care Hospital and a number of residential complexes are among the damaged buildings visible in a series of satellite images released by Maxar Technologies on Monday.
There is a hole in the southern wall of the hospital, debris is scattered around, and residential buildings have significant damage.
Satellite imagery of the Primorsky district, about a mile south of the hospital, shows smoldering houses that appear to have been hit by Russian strikes.
Limited information has come from the city since Russian troops surrounded it on March 1, but the extent of the damage is now becoming clearer.
Drone footage released on Monday shows a devastated apartment complex and thick clouds of smoke billowing over the western part of the city.
The video was posted to Telegram by the Azov Battalion, an ultra-nationalist militia that has since been integrated into the Ukrainian armed forces. CNN geolocated and confirmed the authenticity of the video.
In recent days, numerous official attempts to establish safe corridors and evacuate civilians from Mariupol have been unsuccessful. A large relief convoy that was supposed to arrive on Sunday had still not arrived in the city as of Monday, officials said.
“Most people are in basements and shelters in inhuman conditions. Without food, without water, without electricity, without heating,” Petr Andryushchenko, an adviser to the mayor, said on Ukrainian television on Monday.
He added that people are melting snow and dismantling heating systems to get drinking water.
More than 160 private cars managed to leave Mariupol on Monday, according to the City Council, but about 350,000 people are still trapped, Andryushchenko said.
Speaking of civilian casualties, Andryushchenko said the figures obtained from the police and compiled by medical institutions are likely to be inaccurate. He said that as of Sunday, 1,800 people were confirmed to have been killed.
Speaking on Monday, Oleksiy Arestovich, an adviser to President Volodymyr Zelensky’s Office, said more than 2,500 people had died in the shelling of Mariupol.
CNN cannot independently verify these casualty figures.
Also on Monday, Zelenskiy accused Russia of committing war crimes in attacks on the city and other parts of the country.
“Responsibility for war crimes of the Russian military is inevitable. Responsibility for a deliberate humanitarian catastrophe in Ukrainian cities is inevitable,” he said. “The whole world sees what is happening in Mariupol.”
Tim Lister of CNN, Ivana Kottasova and Yulia Kesaeva contributed to this report.