Aid workers describe 'apocalyptic' scenes in Mariupol, a Ukrainian city under siege

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Children in a bomb shelter in Mariupol, Ukraine, on Sunday. (Evgeniy Maloletka/AP)

Mariupol, a Ukrainian port city that was home to more than 400,000 people just two weeks ago, has been almost completely shut off from the outside world by advancing Russian forces.

Russian soldiers have encircled the city, which is strategically located along the Sea of ​​Azov in southeastern Ukraine. The civilians stuck in the city have now been without water, electricity and heat for more than a week. Food supplies are running dangerously low, and residents have reportedly turned to eating snow and drinking from puddles to survive.


“It’s apocalyptic,” Diana Santana, spokesperson for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), told Yahoo News of the humanitarian crisis in Mariupol. According to Santana, internet connectivity is so limited in the region that communication inside the city is nearly impossible.

For its part, says it is trying to evacuate the Ukrainian residents of the city. But that requires cooperation from the Russian troops laying siege to Mariupol.