Corpses in Mariupol are already piling up in gutters. After a nine-day siege on the Black Sea port city, Mayor Vadym Boychenko already adds 1,207 civilians killed by Russian troops.
this very Wednesday, a maternity hospital was bombed. The data on the fatalities is still unknown, but the images of the rescue of the injured show the disaster: pregnant women, newborn children and babies in incubators had to be evacuated in a hurry after the explosion. Inside, chaos and destruction everywhere.
President Volodymyr Zelensky has condemned the attack, which he has described as “an atrocity”: “How much longer will the world be complicit in ignoring terror? Close the sky right now! Stop the killings! They have power but they seem to be losing humanity,” the Ukrainian president wondered on Twitter, where he shared a video on the that you can even see the crater of a missile on the crumbling facade.
The humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders has denounced the attack as “violation of the laws of war”: “In a city where the health system is on the brink of collapse, depriving people of health care is a violation of the laws of war,” the organization said in a statement.
Between bombings, Mariupol, a strategic city for Moscow to unite Donbas with the annexed Crimea, he’s drowning. Hunger, thirst, cold and fear add to the visible destruction and death in the streets from Kremlin missiles after nine days with power and gas cuts.
Since the siege by Putin’s troops, the population of Mariupol lacks heating, water, electricity and you are beginning to deplete your food and medicine supplies. Nine days in which temperatures barely exceed 0º and citizens are cut off from the outside world.
The emergency manager of Doctors Without Borders, Kate White, has remarked that “homes and hospitals have been damaged during the fighting in recent days with mortar fire, shooting and aerial bombardment in Mariúpol”: “Access to health care has become increasingly difficultespecially for pregnant women and the elderly who have limited movement,” White said.
Thus, he emphasized that “attacks on health structures undermine what little capacity remains to treat urgent cases“, explaining that in the city the health system is “on the verge of collapse” and depriving the population of health care is “a violation of the laws of war”: “It is imperative that the civilian population and civilian infrastructure, including health facilities, do not suffer attacks, and that the right of people to receive medical assistance and their safety is guaranteed”, he has sentenced.
Attempts to evacuate the population have also failed. International Red Cross denounced that the first humanitarian corridor that was installed in the zone “was mined”and the second attempt occurred yesterday between the Russian bombardments in the area.
“We continue working, the most problematic points are Mariupol, Kharkov and the Kiev region“, has asserted the head of the parliamentary faction of the Ukrainian ruling party Servant of the People, David Arajamia, without specifying in which cities civilians could be evacuated and which routes they used.
In this sense, President Zelensky has assured that nearly 35,000 people have been rescued through humanitarian corridors in Ukraine and stressed that the authorities are preparing six new routes to facilitate the safe exit of the population. Thus, he explained that this Wednesday they had managed to “organize the work of three humanitarian corridors. From the city of Sumy, from the cities and towns of the Kiev region and from Energodar”.
“We are preparing six runners. We pray that people can get out of Mariupol, Izium, Volnovakha, etc. Taken to safe cities of our free Ukraine”, he has asserted in reference to a new attempt this Thursday to evacuate the city most plagued by barbarism.
Source: Lasexta
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