Ukraine Water and electricity cut off in completely blocked Mariupol – Russia could justify destruction of the city on the far right of a voluntary group

About On Tuesday night, 200,000 civilians were in the siege of Mariupol, Ukraine, by the Azov Sea for the seventh time.

Human Rights Organization Human Rights Watch and Doctors Without Borders said on Monday that the electricity is across the city. Pumps at water and sewage utilities have stopped and townspeople have collected rainwater, melted snow and smashed central heating pipes to get fresh water.

Russia closed the siege of Mariupol last Wednesday. Ukraine and Russia agreed in their first talks in Belarus to evacuate civilians left behind in Mariupol last week, but the first attempts failed over the weekend as siege forces continued to fire.

Ukraine at noon on Tuesday, the headquarters said it had sent a bus convoy from Zaporizhia to bring food and water to Mariupol residents. On the return trip, the buses were to be loaded with evacuated civilians. However, according to the General Staff, the firing of Russian troops cut off the buses before they reached the Mariupol area.

City administration pages reported on Tuesday afternoon about a new evacuation attempt. The crowd tried to get out of the blockade along the road southwest to the town of Melekyne. However, the civilian escape was interrupted by the firing of Russians after the last roadblock in Ukraine.

Hardly any information has been received about the city’s situation since Sunday, as Russian firing destroyed the last operating base station and telecommunications connections to the city were cut off.

The so-called “Donetsk People’s Republic”, on the other hand, announced on Tuesday that it had evacuated 23 civilians from the Russian-held area of ​​Mariupol to the coastal village of Bezimenne towards the Russian border, the news agency said. Ria Novosti.

An employee of the so-called People’s Emergency Ministry of Donetsk picked up the child on a bus in an area occupied by Russian troops near the city of Mariupol. Picture: Alexander Ermochenko / Reuters

Traditionally the multinational Mariupol had 430,000 inhabitants before the war. The main language was Russian, spoken as the first language by almost 90 percent of the population.

Despite being Russian-speaking, 84% of Mariupol residents considered themselves truly or somewhat Ukrainian and only 45% actually or somewhat Russian when researchers at the University of Oslo asked survey July – September 2020.

There was virtually no unemployment before the wars, and 60 percent of the workforce was employed by industry. The city is home to the giant metal factories of Ilyich and Azovstal, which belong to the richest man in Ukraine. Rinat Ahmetovin business empire.

At the beginning of the war in eastern Ukraine in 2014, Mariupol was under the control of separatist forces in eastern Ukraine backed by Russia for a while, but Ukrainian forces soon took back the city.

Mariupol is the hometown of the Azov Volunteer Battalion, which successfully fought in the war in eastern Ukraine, and its troops are still fighting the siege.

As early as 2014, the Azov Battalion was transferred to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine. The then battalion’s leadership formed a far-right party called the Natsionalnyi corpus, and efforts were made to separate the combat forces from the “political wing.” However, the background of the defenders may be a red garment for the Russian siege forces to justify the destruction of the city to the home public.