Mariupol

2022 - 3 - 19

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Thousands of Mariupol residents 'forcibly' taken to Russia, city says (Business Insider)

The Mariupol City Council said residents were taken to camps in Russian territory, where they had their phones and documents checked.

Civilians still in the area are facing worsening conditions, with no access to water, heating, and gas, and limited food supplies. Mariupol, a strategic coastal city, has undergone intense shelling in the last week, leaving thousands of people missing or dead. One doctor who fled Mariupol on Wednesday, Eduard Zarubin, told The Times he knew of three families who were taken by Russian soldiers and sent to Taganrog.

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Mariupol says Russia forcefully deported thousands of people (Reuters)

The city council of Ukraine's Mariupol said Russian forces forcefully deported several thousand people from the besieged city last week, after Russia had ...

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Zelenskiy says Russia wages 'terror', Mariupol says thousands ... (WTVB News)

LVIV/ODESA, Ukraine (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Russia's siege of the port city of Mariupol was "a terror that will be re...

On Saturday, Russia said its hypersonic missiles had destroyed a large underground depot for missiles and aircraft ammunition in the western Ivano-Frankivsk region. It would really be good to strip them of this privilege,” he said in an audio address. Ukraine and the West say Putin launched an aggressive war of choice. is a terror that will be remembered for centuries to come.” In a late night broadcast, Zelenskiy said the siege of Mariupol would “go down in history of responsibility for war crimes”. LVIV/ODESA, Ukraine (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Russia’s siege of the port city of Mariupol was “a terror that will be remembered for centuries to come”, while local authorities said thousands of residents there had been taken by force to Russia.

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Mariupol residents are being forced to go to Russia, city council says ... (CNN)

Residents of the Ukrainian city of Mariupol are being taken to Russia against their will by Russian forces, the Mariupol City Council said Saturday.

Basic services like gas, electricity and water, are all out in the city. "People are cooking food in the streets, risking their lives under the continuous shelling and bombing," the military commander said. Russian forces appear to be trying to take full control of the area to create a land corridor between the two regions, squeezing Mariupol with brutal military force. "Usually, Mariupol is under fire during the whole day and night. "It is hard to imagine that in the 21st century people can be forcibly taken to another country." "Over the past week, several thousand Mariupol residents have been taken to Russian territory," the city said in a statement.

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Russians push deeper into port city of Mariupol as locals plead for ... (CBS News)

Russian forces pushed deeper into Ukraine's besieged and battered port city of Mariupol on Saturday, where heavy fighting shut down a major steel plant and ...

It would mark a rare advance in the face of fierce Ukrainian resistance that has dashed Russia's hopes for a quick victory and galvanized the West. The city is destroyed and it is wiped off the face of the earth," Mariupol police officer Michail Vershnin said from a rubble-strewn street in a video addressed to Western leaders that was authenticated by The Associated Press. "Children, elderly people are dying.

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Battle for control of Mariupol hinders rescue of civilians trapped in ... (The Guardian)

Intense street fighting hampered attempts to free hundreds of survivors trapped inside a bombed theatre on Saturdayas Ukrainian forces held out against a ...

A UK defence assessment described the Kremlin as being “surprised by the scale and ferocity of the Ukrainian resistance”. Most western analysts believe the Russian forces have already suffered significant losses. Latest Ukrainian defence assessments indicated that 35 markets and 635 shops remained open, with the city looking to withstand a possible siege. Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy called for “meaningful and fair” talks with Moscow. The most notable target remains Mariupol’s main municipal theatre, bombed on Wednesday despite doubling as a shelter for women and children. Capturing the port would grant the Russians the entire northern coast of the Sea of Azov, cutting Ukraine off from a conduit to the Black Sea, while allowing the Kremlin to build a land corridor to Crimea, the peninsula it illegally annexed in 2014.

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Zelenskyy says siege of Mariupol involved war crimes (The Denver Post)

Ukraine's president said Russia is trying to starve his country's cities into submission but warned Saturday that continuing the invasion would exact a toll ...

Russia’s number of dead and wounded in Ukraine is nearing the 10% benchmark of diminished combat effectiveness, said Dmitry Gorenburg, a researcher on Russia’s security at the Virginia-based CNA think tank. Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov said Kinzhal missiles destroyed an underground warehouse storing Ukrainian missiles and aviation ammunition in the western region of Ivano-Frankivsk. A satellite image from Maxar Technologies released Saturday confirmed earlier reports that much of the theater was destroyed. Estimates of Russian deaths vary widely, but even conservative figures are in the low thousands. Russian forces have already cut Mariupol off from the Sea of Azov, and its fall would link Crimea, which Russia annexed in 2014, to eastern territories controlled by Moscow-backed separatists. It wasn’t clear how many marines were inside at the time, and rescuers were still searching the rubble for survivors the following day. Ukrainian and Russian forces battled over the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol, Vadym Denysenko, adviser to Ukraine’s interior minister, said. The U.N. says more than 3.3 million people have fled Ukraine as refugees. In the capital, Kyiv, at least 20 babies carried by Ukrainian surrogate mothers are stuck in a makeshift bomb shelter, waiting for parents to travel into the war zone to pick them up. Zelenskyy adviser Oleksiy Arestovych said the nearest forces that could assist Mariupol were already struggling against “the overwhelming force of the enemy” and that “there is currently no military solution to Mariupol.” The city is destroyed and it is wiped off the face of the earth,” Mariupol police officer Michail Vershnin said from a rubble-strewn street in a video addressed to Western leaders that was authenticated by The Associated Press. “To do this to a peaceful city, what the occupiers did, is a terror that will be remembered for centuries to come,” Zelenskyy said in a video address to the nation.

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'Please help us': Weary voices call from Mariupol, where bodies line ... (USA TODAY)

We can't look away from the reality of these horrors. We must heed the pleas of Mariupol's besieged population before it is too late. Erica Glenn.

We must heed the pleas of Mariupol's besieged population before it is too late. Erica Glenn, DMA, is a current Fulbright Scholar who was scheduled to conduct research in Ukraine in spring 2022. We can't look away from the reality of these horrors. Many cars have been shelled, and there is no more gasoline in the city, she said. But the population of Mariupol will not survive that long. The author of this article, Erica Glenn, is a current Fulbright Scholar who was scheduled to conduct research in Ukraine this spring. (The word “children” was written in large Russian letters on both sides of the Drama Theater, and still the building was destroyed.) Although Anya was staying at her home, this woman did not leave Mariupol when Anya did – perhaps because she knew she was the only hope of outside contact for friends and family in the city. Other friends fear for family members who live on the left bank of Mariupol, where water supply is scarce and buildings are vulnerable to attacks from the sea. The people are being systematically starved to death in what feels like a calculated genocide. "We let the women and children sit," he said. (Anya and Vlad are being identified by their first names only to protect their friends and family members who remain in Mariupol.)

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