The city of Mariupol has been reduced to ‘ruins’ following weeks of Russian attacks.
‘Before the invasion Mariupol was a very beautiful place. It’s our taxes you know, my money which I worked hard for and which was used to build those houses, those roads, those parks – and now they are all destroyed.’
Ms Moskalenko, speaking from a safe house in Ukraine, said many of her friends have remained in Mariupol to fight.Mariia Moskalenko fled from Ukraine at the beginning of March She added: ‘I know a lot of people who are still fighting on different fronts, as soldiers, territory defenders, as volunteers, journalists and so on.‘And I think we will keep going because we don’t want to lose our home, our community, our connection to what we have.
Gaining total control of Mariupol would allow Russia to link areas in the east held by separatists in Crimea.Ukrainian foreign ministry spokesperson Oleg Nikolenko said some 300,000 people in the city are facing a ‘humanitarian catastrophe’.Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine began on February 24, the
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