In Mariupol, almost half of the high-rise buildings have 50-100 bodies under the ruins – adviser to the mayor
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In Mariupol, almost half of the high-rise buildings have 50-100 bodies, most of them under the ruins of the Khrushchevs, reported the adviser to the mayor of Mariupol, Petro Andryushchenko.
«According to information, 50 to 100 bodies are found under every two of the five high-rise buildings. Most of them are in the basements and entrances of the so-called «Khrushchevs», Andryushchenko wrote.
According to him, the bodies are being transported by trucks to the morgue near the Metro or to the former base of the Sincere Godfather supermarket on the Left Bank. If they are not mummified, they are taken to one of the two landfills.
Allegedly, more than 2,500 Azovstal fighters are currently in Russian captivity.
The Russian military blocked Mariupol in early March. During the blockade, more than 20,000 locals died at the hands of the Russian occupiers.
For a long time, the hottest spot in Mariupol was Azovstal, a metallurgical plant. Since the beginning of the blockade, not only Ukrainian servicemen have been on the territory of the plant, but also hundreds of civilians who have been hiding from Russian shelling in the plant’s bomb shelters.
On May 7, Iryna Vereshchuk, Minister for the Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories, said that all civilian women, children, and the elderly had been evacuated from Azovstal. The military of the Armed Forces remained there.
Defenders of Mariupol asked for extraction. Hundreds of wounded soldiers remained on the territory of the plant.
On May 16, wounded soldiers were evacuated. 53 severely wounded defenders were evacuated to a medical facility in temporarily occupied Novoazovsk. Another 211 were taken to the temporarily occupied Olenivka in the Donetsk region.
An exchange is needed to return the Azovstal troops home.
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