The destruction in Ukrainian city of Mariupolunder Russian siege for 16 days, is “colossal” and it is estimated that 80% of the houses have been destroyed, while 30,000 people They have been able to leave the city the last two days with their own transport, the city council reported Thursday.
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“According to preliminary estimates, about 80% of the city’s housing stock has been destroyed, of which almost 30% cannot be restored. The situation in Mariupol is “critical,” the city council wrote on its Telegram channel.
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He recalled that the city has been under blockade for 16 days and that more than 350,000 residents of Mariupol continue to hide in warehouses and basements “before the continuous bombardment by the Russian occupation forces” who launch, on average, “50 to 100 aerial bombs per day”.
In the last two days, the inhabitants of Mariupol began to evacuate the city by private transport, in the direction of Berdyansk and Zaporizhia, after the opening of a corridor.
“In total, some 6,500 cars left the besieged Mariupol… In total, some 30,000 people left in their own transport,” he said. On the other hand, the City Council indicates that there is still no information about possible victims of yesterday’s Russian bombing against a theater in the city, where more than a thousand women and children were refugees and which was reduced to rubble, but where the anti-aircraft shelter of the building resisted the attack.
The city barely has water, medicine or basic food and lacks gas and electricity due to the bombing.
More than 900,000 Ukrainians are without electricity and 250,000 without gas
At least 928,000 Ukrainians are without electricity due to the war unleashed after the Russian invasionaccording to the UN spokesman, Stéphane Dujarric, at his daily press conference on Thursday.
The figure was communicated by the same Ukrainian Ministry of Energy to the humanitarian agencies that continue to work in the country, Dujarric said. In addition, 259,000 people have lost their connection to natural gas.
The situation is especially critical in the cities of Chernihiv, Donetsk, Mykolaiv, Zaporizha and Kabatsa, the spokesman specified.
In addition, he cited a report from the World Health Organization that denounced that 43 medical facilities had been attacked during the war, something that he roundly condemned, recalling that according to international law “medical facilities and their workers and carriers must be respected.” by the conflicting sides.
This Thursday, the president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Peter Maurer, said that “the situation in Mariupol must not become the future of Ukraine”, where he is to assess the most urgent humanitarian needs in urban centers. which have become the battlefields of the war that began with the invasion of Russia.
In the coastal city of Mariupol, in southeastern Ukraine, the suffering of civilians has been particularly intense due to the constant shelling and siege by Russian forces, which do not allow the safe entry of food, drinking water or medicine for the hundreds of thousands of people who are there.
Maurer said the devastation he has seen on his way to kyiv is extensive and reminded the parties to this conflict that “even without a cessation of hostilities things can be done to limit the suffering of civilians.”
EFE
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