“Apocalypse”. It is the word with which the local authorities and the International Red Cross are defining the situation that Mariupol has been experiencing since the Russian siege began. It has been a week of incessant bombing in this strategic city. After 15 days of war and with the city without water or electricity, the Ukrainian government announced today that they are going to try to successfully open a new humanitarian corridor. So far, none of the previous six attempts have been successful.
In the south of the country, this port city is barely resisting. Residents have been resisting under fire, without food or medicine. A city of more than 400,000 inhabitants that is key for Putin due to its strategic position. None of the attempts to organize a local ceasefire and safe exit have succeeded.
The Ministry of Defense of Russia said it would open humanitarian corridors from Kiev, Sumy, Kharkiv, Mariupol and Chernihiv. However, according to the Ukrainian president, not a single civilian had been able to leave Mariupol on Thursdaya day after the attack on the hospital that left three dead.
While, Russia blames Ukraine for collapse of humanitarian corridors and denies attacking civilians. Moscow calls its actions in Ukraine a “special operation” to disarm Ukraine and topple leaders it calls neo-Nazis. For its part, Washington has described the attacks on civilians in Mariupol as a war crime.
Mariúpol contributes more than 5% to Ukraine’s GDP, given the large metallurgical industry installed in the city. It is also the last big city before the ‘separatist’ border of Donetsk.
A missile against a mother and child hospital
“It is the final test of the genocide”, highlighted the Ukrainian president a few days ago after the bombing of a mother and child hospital in Mariupol. “What kind of country is this? Russia, which is afraid of hospitals, is afraid of maternity hospitals and destroys them? Bombing the maternity hospital is the final proof, the proof that a genocide of Ukrainians is taking place. Europeans! You can’t say you didn’t see what happened to the Ukrainians in Mariupol,” Zelensky said.
A siege on the city that has already lasted a week and that leave images of horror. Bodies of civilians in the streets and totally devastated streets.
Source: Lasexta
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