Mariupol is a hero city of Ukraine, located in the Donetsk region on the shores of the Sea of Azov. This city has suffered the greatest losses and is under full occupation.

The battles for the city have been going on since February 25, 2022 and until now. The blockade of Mariupol officially lasts from March 1, 2022. Due to the blockade from March 3, 2022, the city has no electricity, water, gas, heating or mobile communications. It is almost impossible to deliver humanitarian goods to the city, so people are forced to survive the occupation without food and water, constantly under enemy fire.(Material from Wikipedia)

It is estimated that 40% of high-rise buildings with 84,000 inhabitants were destroyed in Mariupol. According to Ukrinform, the Mariupol City Council announced this.

«The houses of 84,000 Mariupol residents were completely destroyed. This is 40% of high-rise buildings or about 2 million square meters»

– the message reads.

From the stories of those who managed to escape the horror, it is known that people die of starvation, are shot, buried just near houses, or simply left on the streets of the city. According to preliminary estimates, 22,000 people died. This was stated in an interview with CNN by the head of the Donetsk regional military administration Pavlo Kyrylenko

«The situation with Mariupol makes it difficult to comment on the number of casualties, the city is under siege and blockade, he said. – We now assume that from 20 to 22 thousand dead in Mariupol».

The head of the regional state administration added that the occupiers were installing mobile crematoria and removing people's bodies from under the rubble and simply from the streets to the territory not controlled by Ukraine, where they were already being destroyed, hiding evidence of massacres. (Sourse)

People are also forcibly deported to enemy territory. Mariupol City Council services have already registered 33.5 thousand Mariupol residents illegally deported by the Russian occupiers.

“We have already recorded 33.5 thousand residents of Mariupol who were forcibly deported to the so-called DNR or to the Russian Federation. We verified these people with the city community registry.
Today we are rescuing Mariupol residents who were illegally taken to enemy territory. Several European embassies have already joined the process. We bring people back to Ukraine through different countries"

– the mayor of Mariupol reported.
(Sourse)

Today the battles for Mariupol continue. More than 100,000 people are under occupation. Every day they continue to hold on to life with all their might and believe in the imminent victory.