new Delhi. Mariupol’s deputy mayor has claimed that people in the besieged Ukrainian city are being forced to melt ice for drinking and chop wood for cooking and keep warm in sub-zero temperatures.
Mariupol, a city of about 400,000, has been the victim of heavy Russian bombardment for several days.
Deputy mayor Sergei Orlov said the city’s residents were dangerously short of food and water, adding that there was ‘no electricity, no water supply, no heating, no sanitation system’. ‘.
Satellite images have revealed the scale of destruction in the city where residential areas have been flattened, a shopping center destroyed and a maternity hospital attacked.
The southern port city has used at least one mass grave to bury the dead, BBC reports.
Due to the fire and supplies, the situation in the northern city of Chernihiv is also getting worse day by day, the report said.
As it faces constant shelling and aerial bombardment, supplies gas, heat and even water have been cut off.
The city, which had a pre-war population of about 300,000, is surrounded by Russian forces and has suffered heavy damage.
—AnyTV News
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