KIEV: More than 20,000 innocent people have been killed in an attack by Russian troops in Ukraine over the past six weeks, according to the mayor of the city of Mariupol.
On Feb. 24, Russian troops launched an offensive against the Eastern European country of Ukraine. In the fighting that has been going on for the past six weeks, the port city of Mariupol has suffered great devastation.
The mayor of the city, Vadim Boychenko, said: “Russian troops have launched a major offensive in the city of Mariupol. Humanitarian organizations are being prevented from entering the city and the world is unaware of the catastrophe that has taken place there.
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More than 20,000 people may have been killed in the attack. Bodies are scattered across the road.
The bodies were also piled up in the air-conditioned hall of a nearby shopping mall. A number of military vehicles were also damaged in the Russian military offensive in Kiev. Thus he said.
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