Russia continues to kill civilians and block humanitarian aid to devastated Mariupol

Russian bombing of civilian buildings does not stop. The Kremlin troops have attacked this morning a residential neighborhood of Kiev leaving at least 2 dead, while Mariúpol, besieged for more than 10 days, already mourns the loss of more than 2,500 residents.

“At 07:40 local time the bodies of two dead people were found in a nine-story apartment block in Obolonski. Three people were hospitalized“, reported the state emergency service, which assured that the toilets had to provide medical assistance to nine other people on the scene and rescued 15 from the rubble.

President Zelensky has reported on the operation of 10 humanitarian corridors since the conflict began, and has assured that this Monday they will remain active: “Some 5,550 people were saved yesterday and already more than 130,000 in the last six days”, he underlined. Along these lines, Ukraine’s deputy prime minister, Irina Vereshchuk, stressed that the authorities “will try once again to finally unblock the movement of a humanitarian convoy with food and medicine between Berdyansk and Mariupol“.

However, there are still millions of civilians who continue to live under the threat of bombs. Russia has tightened its offensive after 19 days in which it has encountered more resistance than expected, and is now attacking areas that were still intact. This Sunday, the Kremlin troops launched more than 30 missile missiles at a military facility just 25 kilometers from the border with Poland. At least 35 people died in the attack and another 134 had to be treated in hospital. Until now, Putin’s army had focused its efforts on the southeast of the country and around Kiev, so the latest attack sows a new horizon in the threat to the West.

Meanwhile, the offensive is intensifying on the Ukrainian coast. At least nine people were killed yesterday in an attack on the city of Mikolaiv, between the besieged city of Kherson and Odessa. Her situation, between the Russian base in Crimea and the pro-Russian Moldovan separatist region of Transnistria, places her in the middle of the combat front.

In Mariupol the dead number in the thousands. Indiscriminate attacks on civil buildings, hospitals, schools or temples have already killed more than 2,500 people, according to calculations by the Zelensky government. Only 10,000 of its more than 450,000 inhabitants have been evacuated due to the harsh siege, and humanitarian aid is blocked.

The iconic city of Odessasymbol for Soviet history, is the resistance. As reported by the Ukrainian Security Service, some 600 Russian sailors would have refused this Sunday to disembark to fight in the region following orders from the Kremlin: “Near Odessa about 600 sailors have rebelled and refused to disembark because they understood what was happening.” Thus, Ukraine insists that “the occupying army is demoralized and repressed.”

Fortified for days, Odessa awaits the arrival of the Russian army between sand barricades and anti-tank iron barriers. Civilians prepare by creating Molotov cocktails and making their own camouflage suits to defend the most important city for Russian morale and the third largest in the countryafter Kiev and Kharkov.

UNHCR It already numbers 2.69 million Ukrainians who have fled their country as a result of the Russian invasion. More than half of this exodus has reached neighboring Poland, which hosts 1.6 million Ukrainian refugees, while 246,000 are in Hungary, 195,000 in Slovakia, 105,000 in Russia, 104,000 in Moldova, 84,000 in Romania and some 900 in Belarus. Another 300,000 Ukrainian refugees would have sought shelter in other European countries that are not on the Ukrainian border

These figures confirm that the exodus of Ukrainian refugees in 19 days of war It is the largest living in Europe since the Second World War.even surpassing the 2.4 million refugees that caused all the wars in the former Yugoslavia during the 1990s.