More than 15 after the first images of the massacre in Mariúpol, the city most affected by Putin’s invasion looks very different from what was once one of the tourist and economic enclaves from Ukraine.
The before and after of Mariúpol is evident: demolished buildings, scorched fields, destroyed hospitals and even temples, schools and universities turned into rubble. Maxar Technologies has captured in a video, collected in the main ‘play’ of this news’, the satellite images of the devastation of a city massacred by missiles that, every day, they reduce to ashes the neighborhoods and the houses of its 420,000 residents.
Only 10,000 people have been able to flee Mariupol since the siegewhile the dead now number more than 2,500. A figure that could grow even more in the coming days, since a ceasefire is not expected in the area and the population has more than 10 days without drinking water or medication.
Getting food is almost impossible in a city that It also has no electricity or gas supply. Without being able to cook or protect themselves from temperatures that do not exceed 0ºC, the life expectancy of its inhabitants is being consumed.
In addition, the humanitarian assistance that the Ukrainian government is trying to get to Mariupol remains blocked, while Zelensky insists that attempts to do so will continue until it is achieved: “We will try again. Until we can help our people“, he asserted.
Mariúpol was, from the beginning of the invasion, a clear objective for the Kremlin troops due to its access to the Azov Sea and its strategic position for Putin, between the republics of Donbas and the annexed Crimea. It is the piece that Russia is missing to take over the southeast of Ukraine and the Sea of Azov after managing to prevail in the control of other southern cities such as Berdiansk or Jersón.
Source: Lasexta
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