“Thousands of people deported from Mariupol to Russia”. This was reported by the mayor of the city of Donbass, Vadym Boichenko, who was under siege for days, after which the residents were taken to “remote Russian cities, as the Nazis did during World War II”. “The occupiers illegally took people from the Livoberezhny district and from an airraid shelter in a sports club building, where more than a thousand people, mostly women and children, were hiding from the bombing.”
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Street fighting in Mariupol prevents rescuers from helping the survivors of the theater of operations, which were bombed by the Russians on Wednesday and which still lie under the rubble in the basements. “There are tanks, artillery shells and shots from every gun rat in the area,” the mayor said. “Our forces are doing what they can in the city, but unfortunately the enemy’s forces are larger than ours,” he added. The mayor then said he could not put a figure on how many people had been evacuated from the area in the past 24 hours. Yesterday, Ukrainian authorities said that 130 people had been rescued and that about a thousand remain to be rescued.
“The situation in Mariupol is catastrophic“also confirms the adviser to the Minister of Interior Vadym Denisenko, speaking to Rada TV. “The fighting is still going on, but the steel plant, one of the largest in Europe, was destroyed “.