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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Mon Apr 11, 2022, 02:47 PM Apr 2022

Mariupol mayor says siege has killed more than 10K civilians

Source: AP

LVIV, Ukraine (AP) — The mayor of the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol said Monday that more than 10,000 civilians have died in the Russian siege of his city, and that the death toll could surpass 20,000, with corpses that were “carpeted through the streets.”

Speaking by phone Monday to The Associated Press, Mayor Vadym Boychenko also said Russian forces brought mobile cremation equipment to the city to dispose of the bodies, and he accused Russian forces of refusing to allow humanitarian convoys into the city in an attempt to conceal the carnage.

Russian forces have taken many bodies to a huge shopping center where there are storage facilities and refrigerators, Boychenko said.

“Mobile crematoriums have arrived in the form of trucks: You open it, and there is a pipe inside and these bodies are burned,” he said.

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-state-of-the-union-address-zelenskyy-biden-kyiv-7cc069b80178629a60f4f2d166348d45

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Mariupol mayor says siege has killed more than 10K civilians (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Apr 2022 OP
I'm trying to imagine this scene in the city I work in. Torchlight Apr 2022 #1
💖🤷‍♂️💖🤷‍♂️ Cha Apr 2022 #2
Is there a certain number of dead Ukrainians needed before NATO sends troops? marie999 Apr 2022 #3

Torchlight

(3,360 posts)
1. I'm trying to imagine this scene in the city I work in.
Mon Apr 11, 2022, 02:58 PM
Apr 2022

But I just can't see it, which is probably a good thing.

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