Authorities in the besieged city of Mariupol announced today that some 15,000 civilians had been abducted and illegally displaced in Russia following the capture of parts of the city by Russian military forces.
Local authorities said Sunday that thousands of Mariupol residents had been abducted and forcibly removed from Ukraine without giving an exact number. Russian news agencies reported that buses carrying hundreds of people whom Moscow called refugees from Mariupol had crossed the border into Russia in recent days.
“Residents of the Left Bank have begun to be deported en masse to Russia. “In total, about 15,000 residents of Mariupol fell victim to illegal displacement”, announced today the municipal council of the besieged city.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told the Italian parliament on Tuesday that “nothing was left” in Mariupol after weeks of Russian bombing.
Residents trapped in the city remain in the basements without food, water and heating.
A Reuters team that arrived in the Russian-controlled part of the city on Sunday described a dilapidated city with burned-out apartment buildings and corpses covered with blankets lying in the streets.
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