The video, which circulated on social networks on Wednesday, captures a large area with bombed-out apartment buildings in housing estates that are still smoldering – while others have turned into mere burnt torso after previous air strikes, he writes. daily The Washington Post.
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Mariupol, a strategic port city on the Sea of Azov, has been under siege by Russian forces for almost three weeks. According to local authorities, thousands of people have already been killed in the fighting. One week ago, for example, the Russian bombing destroyed the Mariupol theater, where hundreds of civilians were hiding. We described here.
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The Think Tank Institute for the Study of War was released on Wednesday analysis, which states that the Russian advance in the city is slowing down. Moscow therefore turns to air, artillery and missile bombing of the city. According to the Pentagon, the Russian army also began shelling Mariupol from the sea this week.
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Conquering the port would be a strategic victory for Moscow. This would help her free up troops for further operations in Ukraine and create a land corridor linking separatist republics with Crimea.
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A large number of civilians still remain in the city. They live here without water, heat, electricity and also without food.
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The city council of besieged Ukrainian Mariupol on Thursday accused the Russian invading forces of forcibly transporting the port’s inhabitants to Russia. Since Russian troops occupied part of Mariupol, 15,000 people have been illegally transferred to Russia, Reuters reported, citing the city council.
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According to the Interfax-Ukraine agency, there are already 6,000 people from Mariupol in Russia.
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“Right now, the Russian occupiers are forcibly transporting thousands of Mariupol residents to Russia! The inhabitants of the Left Bank District are beginning to export to Russia. In total, about 15,000 Mariupol residents were illegally deported. That is about half of all residents who are still in the Left Bank District, “the city council said on the Telegram network.
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Local authorities said on Sunday that the Russians had taken thousands across the border, but did not provide more specific data. Russian news agencies wrote at the time that buses had transported several hundred people from Mariupol to Russia in recent days, which Moscow calls refugees, Reuters reported.
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“The exported people are first transported to so-called filter camps, from where they are redistributed to various distant cities in Russia,” said the Mariupol City Council, which also blames the Russian invading forces for blocking evacuation convoys.
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“Right now, buses leaving Zaporozhye to Berdyansk are blocked to evacuate the people of Mariupol. It is clear that this is only done to prevent people from returning to the territory controlled by Ukraine, “the council added.
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Both sides blame each other for failing to agree to evacuate civilians from Mariupol, Reuters said.
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The situation in the city is confusing. The fleeing residents claim that fighting between the Ukrainian army and Russian forces is taking place street by street.
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The Reuters team, which arrived in the Russian-controlled part of Mariupol on Sunday, described a wasteland full of charred residential houses and bodies wrapped in blankets lying by the road.
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Four weeks of war in Ukraine
Four weeks of war in Ukraine.
On the night of Wednesday to Thursday (February 23-24), the Russian army invaded Ukraine. List The reports prepared a series of texts, analyzes and interviews for the four-week war.
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WAR DAY AFTER DAY – a chronological overview of how the fighting progressed in the first month.
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ON THE EASTERN FRONT – Expert view of the war as a military operation.
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