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Mayor of Mariupoli: ‘Residents are dying from lack of medicine’

In the Donetsk region under the control of Russian troops, residents of Mariupol are dying from lack of medicine, Ukrainian news agency Ukrinform reports, citing a statement from the Mariupol city council and mayor Vadim Boychenko.

“The residents of the occupied Mariupoli are dying from the lack of medicines. In the city there are shortages of medicines for cancer patients, diabetics, tuberculosis and pancreatic diseases” the announcement states.

According to Boychenko, these people are in the danger zone and cannot wait for the invaders to bring medicine, their lives are in danger. For more than two months, the Russians and their collaborators, the self-proclaimed authorities of Mariupol, have blocked the residents’ normal access to drinking water, the supply of goods and medicines.

“Yesterday a healthy athlete, two meters tall and weighing 120 kilograms, had both legs amputated. After the stress he experienced due to the hostilities, he suffered an insulin crisis. Due to the lack of necessary drugs in the city and medical care, he became a crippled. And this is not a rare occurrence. Instead of providing him with proper medication, his limbs were amputated. ‘Swift decisions’, which cripple and kill the residents of Mariupli,” Boychenko wrote.

He appealed to the international community to assess the humanitarian disaster in the city and the genocide of the residents, stressing that everything must be done to provide assistance to the residents of Mariupol.

The city of Mariupol as it is known has been almost destroyed, experiencing one of the biggest humanitarian disasters.

In Mariupoli there are problems with electricity, water and natural gas supply. Since the start of the Russian invasion of the city, approximately 22,000 residents have been killed. More than 50,000 have been displaced in Russia and the occupied territories of the Donetsk region.

At the moment, more than 100,000 inhabitants live in the city, in conditions of ecological disaster while their lives are threatened by the outbreak of infectious diseases.

Source: RES-MPE

Source: Capital

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