Amnesty International, a non-governmental human rights group, has concluded after an extensive investigation that the March 16 theater bombing of Mariupol in southern Ukraine, for which the Russian military is responsible, was a crime. The organization has been gathering information about the episode for three months and is presenting its findings in a report released […]
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Ukraine: Turkish merchant ship sails from occupied Mariupol
A Turkish merchant ship sailed from the Ukrainian port of Mariupol today following talks between Turkish and Russian delegations in Moscow over cereals blocked in Ukraine due to a Russian military strike, the Turkish Defense Ministry said. “Only a few hours after the end of the long meeting, the Turkish truck (Azov Concord), which had […]
Ukraine: The Prosecutor General’s Office announced the death of another 24 children in Mariupol
The Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office said today that it had learned of the deaths of another 24 children in Mariupol, the port in the southeastern part of the country that had been under siege for weeks before it was captured by Russian forces in mid-May. In all, the attorney general’s office said at least 287 […]
Ukraine: The mayor of Mariupol warns of the risk of cholera
Thousands of people are at risk of dying from cholera and other diseases in Mariupol, as the bodies from the battles have not been collected and with the arrival of summer the temperature rises, warned the mayor of the city. Vadim Boichenko said the wells had been contaminated by the bodies of those killed in […]
The Mariupol Diary: The horror of war through the eyes of an 8-year-old boy
It is one of the bloodiest chapters to date since the start of the war in Ukraine, depicting an eight-year-old boy in words and pictures: Igor Kravtsov kept a diary in Mariupol while Ukrainian forces defended the besieged city. Spending weeks in a basement with his family, Igor filled the pages of a small blue […]
Ukraine: Danger of cholera outbreak in occupied Mariupol
There is a risk of cholera in Mariupol, as the health services of the port city in southern Ukraine are probably on the verge of collapse, the British Ministry of Defense announced today. There is also likely to be a critical shortage of medicines in Hersonissos, the British Ministry of Defense said in a Twitter […]
Ukraine: Life in Mariupol after its Occupation by the Russians – Bazaars and Russian Television
Citizens have begun to take to the streets of Mariupol, a city in southern Ukraine that has been pounded by Russian forces for weeks and is now under their full control. On Monday, residents were charging electronics to power generators and exchanging clothes and food at makeshift flea markets as a giant Russian-installed giant bus […]
Pro-Russian separatist: The first merchant ship departed from the port of Mariupol after the occupation of the city by Russia
LAST UPDATE: 09.54 A ship has sailed from the Ukrainian port of Mariupol for the first time since Russia occupied the city, heading east towards Russia, the Russian-backed separatist leader of the breakaway Ukrainian region of Donetsk said today, according to Interf. A spokesman for the port authority said last week that the ship was […]
Ukraine denounces attempt to “de-Ukrainianize” Mariupol by Russians
Russian authorities in control of Mariupol have decided to cancel their summer school holidays in order to prepare the city’s students for the Russian school curriculum, a Ukrainian official said today. According to Petro Andryuchenko, an adviser to the Ukrainian mayor of the city, whose last defenders surrendered in the previous days, “the occupiers announced […]
Russian Ministry of Defense: ‘Humanitarian corridor opens’ for foreign ships in the port of Mariupol
Russia has completed the demining of the port of Mariupol and is ready to release foreign ships, said the head of Russia’s National Defense Management Center, Mikhail Mizinchev, in a statement on the website of the Russian Ministry of Defense. “As a result of a series of actions taken, the Russian Navy has eliminated the […]