Mariupol, a strategically important port and city for the Russian advance, has been under constant artillery bombardment for several days. Buildings razed or in flames, bodies abandoned on the road… it is a landscape of desolation that predominates.
Deprived of water, electricity, gas, the city is also starting to run out of food. Attempts to establish humanitarian corridors to allow civilians to leave have repeatedly failed, with both sides blaming each other for failure.
According to regional administration estimates on Friday, more than 1,200 people had been killed since the siege began.