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Shocking footage has been released showing a tank firing missiles into tower blocks in Mariupol along with damage caused to bombed-out buildings after the city was besieged yesterday from Russian forces.
The footage shows the residential buildings withstand explosions from strikes as they are repeatedly fired upon.
Russian shelling of this Ukrainian port city of 430,000 has been relentless, and the mayor’s office says more than 1,500 have died since the siege began.
Putin’s forces hammered the city’s downtown yesterday as residents hid – many of them in freezing conditions with little food or water.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced humanitarian aid will reach the city this afternoon.
Debris of destroyed Mariupol buildings litters the street as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine continues with heavy shelling
Footage captured some bombed-out homes reduced to a shell, while the facades of several other buildings show clear damage from shelling.
A second video shows the damage done to city, which is located on the Sea of Azov, as a driver explores its deserted streets.
The clip shows how some bombed-out complexes have been reduced to a shell , while the facades of several other buildings show clear damage from shelling.
Satellite images from yesterday also show the scale of the devastation in Mariupol, with multiple fires in the industrial Primorskyi district
The videos emerged today as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced that humanitarian aid is expected to arrive in Mariupol this afternoon, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had said.
The president said delays has been caused due to the ‘complexity’ of the route, which had led to supplies being held overnight in nearby Berdyansk – a city also on the Sea of Azov, located 47 miles west of Mariupol.
Satellite images from yesterday also show the scale of the devastation in Mariupol, with multiple fires in the industrial Primorskyi district
Repeated attempts to bring food to Mariupol and evacuate civilians have been canceled due to ongoing Russian fire. The unceasing shelling has even interrupted efforts to bury the dead in mass graves.
Yesterday, a Ukrainian official said Russian soldiers blocked a humanitarian convoy headed for Mariupol and stole from another.
Doctors Without Borders said some residents are dying for lack of medication, with the city without drinking water or medicine for over a week now.
An Associated Press journalist witnessed tanks firing on a 9-story apartment block in Mariupol and was with a group of medical workers who came under sniper fire on Friday.
Conditions at a local hospital there were deteriorating, electricity was reserved for operating tables and the hallways were lined with people with nowhere else to go.
Anastasiya Erashova wept and trembled as she held a sleeping child. Shelling had just killed her other child as well as her brother’s child. ‘No one was able to save them,’ she said.
A Ukrainian serviceman walks near the position he was guarding in Mariupol yesterday
Parks and outdoor facilities in Mariupol were reduced to scorched earth yesterday as Russian invaders ‘hammered’ the city
The aid group says people are resorting to boiling water from the ground or extracted from heating pipes.
Ukraine’s military said Russian forces captured Mariupol’s eastern outskirts.
Taking Mariupol and other ports on the Azov Sea would be strategic for Russian President Vladimir Putin, as it could allow Russia to establish a land corridor to Crimea, which it seized from Ukraine in 2014.
Source: DailyMail
