Humanitarian situation in Mariupol remains catastrophic. The city has been blocked by Russians for 23 consecutive days. During this period, Mariupol turned from the pearl of revived Ukrainian Donbas into a town of regret and pain. Destroyed buildings, completely ruined schools and hospitals, dead bodies of peaceful citizens who stay in the streets, – that is what the city looks like now.
However, in spite of the disaster and ruins, residents of Mariupol keep living and holding on. “People are our largest force. Peaceful, kind and incredibly strong people. Ukraine will be unbreakable for as long as there are such people on our land!”, Mariupol city hall claimed. “In conditions when the centralized massive evacuation is impossible, we see hundreds and thousands of inspiring examples of mutual assistance. We’re grateful to volunteers and caring people who help us transport citizens of Mariupol from combat zones. We thank our brothers and sisters from Berdyansk, Zaporizhya, Tokmak, Vasylivka, Dnipro, Vinnytsia, Lviv, Kryvyi Rih… Many cities in Ukraine and abroad host the refugees from Mariupol”.
Meanwhile, residents of the blocked city still beg to help them as they suffer from horrors of war. The ghost city, the heroic city needs to slam the Russian Nazis with ten times stronger sanctions to survive. Like the rest of our country, Mariupol badly needs a closed sky, planes and tanks from the allies of Ukraine, as well as diplomatic super-efforts.
There are more and more deaths caused by starvation in Mariupol. More and more people remain here without any food supplies. At that, the Russian side blocks all attempts to organize a large-scale humanitarian operation to save civilians in Mariupol. The occupants do not care about people and their fate – there merely care about the propagandist image with the forced transportation of residents to Russia.
«We’re on the edge”, says Mariupol citizen. “We haven’t had anything to eat for two days now. We’re too weak, and we’re not strong enough even to leave the city on foot. Good thing we’ve got some water”. These horrific words come from locals who stayed in the city more and more often – whenever they have a chance to communicate for at least a minute or two.
Mariupol begs for help! And currently, the main task is to save lives of hundreds of thousands of people who stay in the city – at all costs; to save them from hell and endless circle of tortures. The citizens need to be saved, and the enemy must be once and for all thwarted from the Ukrainian land, so that no other city of our country befalls the horrible fate of Mariupol.
The images belong to Mariupol city hall
