Trapped under the rubble of the School of Fine Arts in besieged Mariupol are many civilians after the Russian bombing.
“Yesterday (Saturday), the Russian occupation forces bombed the G12 School of Fine Arts on the left bank of Mariupol, where 400 Mariupol residents – women, children and the elderly – had taken refuge,” said the Moscow authorities besieged by the Moscow forces. Ukrainian city.
“We know the building destroyed and that peaceful people remain under the rubble. The report of the victims is being compiled “.
Mariupol, a city in southeastern Ukraine with a population of 450,000 before the war, has been the target of weeks of heavy bombardment by Russian forces and pro-Russian separatist allies.
Today, Donetsk region governor Pavlo Kirilenko also blamed Moscow for forcibly deporting more than 1,000 Mariupol residents living in the eastern part of the city to Russia, without specifying when this happened.
Pavlo Kirilenko complained that Russian forces had set up “control centers” where they “identify the phones” of Mariupol residents before confiscating their identities. “Then they are sent to Russia,” he complained on Facebook. “Their fate on the other side of the border is unknown.”
Pavlo Kirilenko’s allegations have not yet been verified by an independent source.
On Thursday, Ukraine blamed Moscow for the bombing of the Mariupol theater, where hundreds of residents had been sheltered by Russian forces who ignored a “Diéti” (Children) warning written on the ground in giant letters in front of and behind the building. No casualty reports are available so far.
According to Kyiv, more of 2,100 people have been killed in Mariupol since the start of the Russian offensive on 24 February.
The survivors have taken refuge in basements and are facing a number of shortages. Residents who escaped from Mariupol talk about corpses lying in the streets for days, about hunger, thirst and the bitter cold.
To provoke such a thing in a peaceful city is a terrorist act that will remain in the memory for the next century, said today the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, denouncing a war crime.
Mariupol is of strategic importance to the Kremlin as its occupation will allow territorial continuity between the Moscow-bound Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea and Donbass, while excluding Ukraine from access to the Sea of ​​Azov.
For fierce attacks on Ukrainian civilians, with huge losses, blames London on Moscow. The British Ministry of Defense announced that Russian forces are bombing Ukrainian cities indiscriminately, as their advance has remained virtually stagnant in the eastern regions.
Despite international reactions, Russia announced on Sunday – for the second day in a row – that it had used multi-sounding missiles to hit targets in Ukraine, this time to destroy a fuel depot of the Ukrainian armed forces in the southern part of the country.
Russian forces bombed school of Fine Arts in the besieged Mariupol, where about 400 residents had found refuge, the city council announced today Sunday. At least five people were killed today in Kharkov when it was hit by Russian artillery apartment building near an industrial area, according to local police.
It is almost a month (25th day) since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and Moscow is making only limited progress, the US Institute for War Studies (ISW) has said, citing a prolonged stalemate. According to the ISW, the conditions are set for the war in most of Ukraine to turn into a deadlock that could last for weeks or even months.
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