'It was a city of half a million. Mariupol is destroyed,' said the Ukrainian president.
On Monday afternoon, Boychenkoin a phone interview that more than 10,000 civilians have been killed during Russia's assault on Mariupol, where he said corpses are"carpeted through the streets.", Boychenko also asserted that"Russian forces brought mobile cremation equipment to the city to dispose of the bodies, and he accused Russian forces of refusing to allow humanitarian convoys into the city in an attempt to conceal the carnage.
In his speech to South Korean lawmakers earlier Monday, Zelenskyy said Russian attacks have demolished"938 educational facilities" and"almost 300 hospitals" throughout Ukraine. "Not one city, not even two or three," the president continued."These are tens of cities that the Russian military simply tried to wipe off the face of the earth."the complete seizure of Mariupol would be significant for Russian forces given the city's positioning as a potential"land bridge" between two separatist regions in eastern Ukraine and Crimea, which Russia annexed in 2014.
According to human rights groups and first-hand testimony from civilians who managed to escape Mariupol duringHuman Rights Watch in a report published last month that escaped residents it interviewed"described periods of sustained and often intensifying attacks with explosive weapons, from the beginning of fighting on February 24 to the moment they fled the city."
"Witnesses described attacks that killed and injured their neighbors as they took shelter in their homes, prepared food, and fetched water, throwing them from buildings and piercing them with fragments," HRW added."The attacks also destroyed and damaged homes, businesses, and critical civilian infrastructure, such as hospitals and schools, collapsing and burning buildings in numerous parts of the city.
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