Vadym Boychenko says Russians have brought mobile cremation equipment to a shopping center in his besieged and devastated city
Mayor Boychenko — who said a week ago that most of Mariupol was without power, heat, water and other necessities — accused Russia of blocking humanitarian convoys for weeks, preventing supplies from flowing in and evacuees to move out, in order to conceal the catastrophe unfolding in his city, the AP reports.
The invading troops, he said, were storing bodies in facilities and refrigerators at a shopping center before they are incinerated with mobile cremation equipment."Mobile crematoriums have arrived in the form of trucks," Boychenko told the AP. "You open it, and there is a pipe inside and these bodies are burned." continues after their forces launched a large-scale invasion on Feb. 24 — the first major land conflict in Europe in decades.
Details of the fighting change by the day and the actual number of dead and wounded is difficult to determine, especially in places like Mariupol which are largely cut off from the outside world.. Millions more have been displaced inside Ukraine.
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