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'Just Put the Body Outside.' The Bloody Siege of Mariupol
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Valerie Hopkins
@VALERIEinNYT
Mariupol is under a relentless Russian barrage. There is no heat or electricity, and people are boiling snow for water and chopping trees to make fires so they can cook. A 6-year-old died of dehydration yesterday. And today a maternity hospital was bombed.
An apartment building hit by shelling in Mariupol, where people are now going without heat, water, electricity or, increasingly, food.
nytimes.com
‘Just Put the Body Outside.’ The Bloody Siege of Mariupol
Under a relentless Russian barrage, there is no heat or electricity, and people are boiling snow for water. A 6-year-old died of starvation, the authorities said.
1:48 PM · Mar 9, 2022
Valerie Hopkins
@VALERIEinNYT
Mariupol is under a relentless Russian barrage. There is no heat or electricity, and people are boiling snow for water and chopping trees to make fires so they can cook. A 6-year-old died of dehydration yesterday. And today a maternity hospital was bombed.
An apartment building hit by shelling in Mariupol, where people are now going without heat, water, electricity or, increasingly, food.
nytimes.com
‘Just Put the Body Outside.’ The Bloody Siege of Mariupol
Under a relentless Russian barrage, there is no heat or electricity, and people are boiling snow for water. A 6-year-old died of starvation, the authorities said.
1:48 PM · Mar 9, 2022
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/09/world/europe/ukraine-mariupol-siege.html
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https://archive.ph/NumGG
LVIV, Ukraine — Marina Levinchuk said she received an alarming text message from the local authorities in the besieged city of Mariupol several days ago, before she decided to flee. “If somebody dies in your family,” she said, recalling the message in her own words, “just put the body outside, cover it, tie up the hands and the legs and leave it outside.”
“That’s what’s going on in Mariupol now,” she said of the city, currently ringed by Russian forces pounding it with bombs, missiles and artillery, and hitting a maternity hospital on Wednesday. “There are just bodies lying in the streets.
“There is no water, no heating, no gas,” she continued in a video call on WhatsApp on Wednesday. “And they are collecting snow, melting the snow, and boiling the snow.”
It has been seven days since Russian forces encircled the city, an important port on Ukraine’s southern coast, and began to lay siege to the roughly half a million people living there. Most communications with the outside world were severed, leaving primarily those with access to satellite phones to alert Ukraine and the rest of the world to the increasingly dire state of affairs.
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Monsters! 
