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Russians allegedly exhuming bodies in Mariupol

cde.news desk 15 April 2022, 14:20 · 1 min read

epaselect epa09887016 A picture taken during a visit to Mariupol organized by the Russian military shows local people cary water near devesteted and burned apartment building in downtown Mariupol, Ukraine, 12 April 2022. For more than a month, hostilities have continued in the city. There is no water, electricity, gas or communications. Shops, pharmacies and hospitals are closed. 250 thousand inhabitants left the city, about 300 thousand still remain. During the hostilities, up to 70 percent of the housing stock of Mariupol was destroyed and five thousand residents of the city was killed said the new mayor of the city Konstantin Ivashchenko. On 24 February Russian troops had entered Ukrainian territory in what the Russian president declared a 'special military operation', resulting in fighting and destruction in the country, a huge flow of refugees, and multiple sanctions against Russia. EPA-EFE/SERGEI ILNITSKY

City officials in Mariupol say Russian occupiers have begun exhuming bodies buried in the yards of residential blocks.

Mariupol City Council said on Telegram that the occupiers are not allowing residents to bury people allegedly killed by the occupiers.

Each yard now has a supervisor to enforce this rule.

There are 13 mobile crematoria in Mariupol, according to Ukraine, and the city authorities suspect the Russians are trying to cover up war crimes.

Meanwhile, The governor of Ukraine’s Luhansk region in the east of the country has urged residents in the area to evacuate.

Writing in his Telegram channel, Serhiy Gaidai appealed for people to evacuate and “choose life” after he said one person was killed and five were wounded during Russian shelling in the town of Kreminna.

He added that 32,000 residents have been evacuated on trains and buses, and urged others to do the same.

“Don’t hesitate and leave while that possibility remains,” he said.

A picture taken during a visit to Mariupol organized by the Russian military shows local people cary water near devesteted and burned apartment building in downtown Mariupol, Ukraine. EPA-EFE/SERGEI ILNITSKY

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