The Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Irina Verestschuk He said on Tuesday that at least 100,000 civilians wanted to leave Mariupol in southern Ukraine but could not because of the lack of safe corridors leading out of the besieged city.
She said bombings by Russian forces also prevented rescue teams from gaining access to the bombed-out theater, where city officials say hundreds of people are believed to have taken refuge in its basement when it was hit by an airstrike last year. week.
Russia has denied that it bombed the theater or attacked civilians.
“My people turned into an army, they saw the destruction and the bloodshed shed by the enemy,” Volodymyr Zelensky said earlier, in an online session of the Italian Parliament.
“I said a week ago that 79 children had been killed. It is now 117, and it is not the final account. Tens of thousands of families were destroyed, as were millions of homes. “My people bury their dead in parks, in mass graves,” Zelensky added.
He also stressed that Mariupol, which was completely destroyed, had a population of 500,000, like the Italian city of Genoa. “We need peace, but we only see and hear sirens, bombs and rockets,” Zelensky said.
“The Russians are raping, killing, torturing. “Like the Nazis in World War II,” he said. The Ukrainian president insisted that “this war was organized only by Vladimir Putin” and called for increased sanctions against Moscow.
“Stop just one man, so that millions of Ukrainians can survive,” Zelensky concluded. He did not fail to characterize “very important” what he said to him this morning Pope Francis in their telephone conversation.
A children’s hospital in the Luhansk region of eastern Ukraine has been bombed by Russian forces, according to the Ukrainian State Emergency Service.
New videos that demonstrate the extent of the disaster in Mariupol saw the light of day today.
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