Ukraine-Russia War, “Mariupol has not an entire palace left. To drink, people are forced to melt the snow, to take water from puddles or to unload it from the radiators ” Deputy Mayor of the besieged city in the Donetsk region of Ukraine, Sergey Orlov in an interview with Forbes Ukraine, adding that 80-90% of the buildings were destroyed or damaged due to the Russian attacks “.
“The infrastructures almost no longer work – he said – and the remaining residents, about 350-400 thousand, suffer from water shortages and the absence of heating: the city is in desperate need of a humanitarian and evacuation corridor. The last humanitarian convoy to arrive has been stopped for four days because the Russians do not allow it to enter the city.
“The Russian army – concluded the deputy mayor – realizes that there can be no victory in the direct confrontation with the Ukrainian army and therefore is trying, by attacking civilians and infrastructures, to force us to surrender. They are not at war with the Ukrainian army, but with the population ”.