KYIV. UkraineGate , 25 , May , 2022 | Society.
22,000 people died in Mariupol, adviser to the mayor Petro Andryushchenko said in a comment to CNN .
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“Mariupol is now a ghost town,” an adviser to the mayor of the destroyed Ukrainian port city said on Tuesday.
Petro Andryushchenko said that, according to Mariupol City Hall officials, “at least 22,000 city residents have died in the three months of the war.”
According to Andryushchenko, the figure of 22,000 is based on numerous contacts that he and other city hall officials continue to maintain with officials inside. But he believes the real figure could be much higher.
Andryushchenko said that the process of reburial of the dead was complicated by Russian officials insisting that the bodies be taken to the morgue and that the person demanding his removal agree to a video recording in which the applicant said the victim had been killed by the Ukrainian military.
The mayor’s adviser also noted that, according to information obtained from a network of sources, today’s Mariupol is a city abandoned in the Middle Ages. “It’s completely dark in the city. The only lights are from Russian troops and Russian patrols. The smell of death and the smell of fire are everywhere,” he said.
Andryushchenko noted that his contacts paint a picture of a city affected by a humanitarian catastrophe, with very little contact with the outside world. Mobile communication is just beginning to recover. He said residents could not move freely because any pass through the city required special passes and the filtration system prevented them from fleeing at all.
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Mariupol has been at the center of a fierce, months-long battle between Ukrainian government troops, Russian soldiers and pro-Russian militants.
Source: Ukrgate
