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Individuals in Mariupol risking lives every time they depart shelter, says Ukrainian military commander

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By Khrystyna Bondarenko, Ivan Watson, AnneClaire Stapleton and Tom Sales space, CNN

Individuals within the Ukrainian metropolis of Mariupol danger their lives every time they emerge from underground bunkers, an area army official mentioned, claiming the strategic port is going through essentially the most intense combating anyplace within the nation.

With Russia’s assault in its fourth week, Main Denis Prokopenko, from the Nationwide Guard Azov Regiment, instructed CNN that air and land assaults on town had been now nearly relentless.

“Often, Mariupol is beneath hearth throughout the entire day and evening. Generally there’s half-hour of silence, however then town is once more beneath assault [from] tanks, artillery, a number of rockets, and [aircraft] like bombers and helicopters,” he mentioned.

Mariupol has been beneath siege for a number of weeks and has seen among the worst assaults within the warfare since Russia started its invasion of Ukraine in February. These have included lethal strikes on a maternity ward and the bombing of a theater, the losses from that are nonetheless unknown because the rescue operation continues.

Town lies on a stretch of coast connecting the jap area of Donbas with the Crimea peninsula, each of which have been beneath Russian management since 2014. Russian forces seem like making an attempt to take full management of the world to create a land hall between the 2 areas, squeezing Mariupol with brutal army drive.

Russia has denied focusing on civilians in Mariupol, blaming casualties on Ukrainian forces.

Prokopenko mentioned folks within the metropolis had been now reluctant to go away their underground shelters even to pay money for necessities, that means they had been making an attempt to drink much less water and eat much less meals, solely rising to arrange scorching meals.

“Individuals are cooking meals within the streets, risking their lives beneath the continual shelling and bombing,” the army commander mentioned. “The temperature is minus 5 diploma Celsius on the street.”

Fundamental providers like gasoline, electrical energy and water, are all out within the metropolis. Our bodies are being left on the street as a result of there’s both nobody left to gather them, or it is just too harmful to attempt.

Prokopenko mentioned nobody knew the precise variety of folks killed. “Some individuals are buried beneath ruined buildings, buried alive,” he mentioned.

Details about an enormous assault three days in the past on a theater in Mariupol getting used as a shelter has been sluggish to emerge.

Prokopenko mentioned he believed the constructing, which additionally acted as town’s most important humanitarian meeting station, was offering a short lived house to about 800 folks when it was hit.

He confirmed earlier stories that sustained Russian artillery hearth made makes an attempt to get survivors out of the constructing very troublesome.

Figures launched by a number of Ukrainian leaders, together with President Volodymyr Zelensky, say 130 folks have been rescued, amongst them one individual with critical accidents.

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