The mayor of Mariupol, Ukraine, said this morning that the city in the southern part of the country bordering the Sea of Azov was under constant bombardment, adding that civilians had been killed and infrastructure damaged as Russia continued its invasion for a sixth day. in the country.
"Residential areas are being bombed for five days. "They are hitting us with artillery, they are bombing us with GRAD missiles, they are hitting us with their air forces," Vadim Boishenko said on Ukrainian television.
"Political infrastructure has been damaged - schools, houses. There are many injured. "Women and children have been killed."
Meanwhile, Pavlo Kirilenko, governor of Donetsk province, pointed out on Facebook that there is a power outage in Mariupol today after a bombing.
"Mariupol and Volnovacha are ours! The two cities are under pressure from the enemy, but they resist. "In Mariupol (…) the city is without electricity", he added.
These two cities are on the path of Russian forces invading Ukraine through Crimea, which was annexed by Moscow in 2014.
Source: RES-EAP