In Russian-Occupied Mariupol, Everything Ukrainian Must Go
Source: NYT
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"... More than three years after Russian troops captured Mariupol in May 2022, after a brutal three-month siege, the Kremlin is pouring billions of dollars into remaking the city, constructing scores of sparkling new apartment buildings and rebuilding some neighborhoods.
... The 2022 siege devastated Mariupol. Up to 90 percent of residential buildings and 60 percent of private homes were damaged, according to a United Nations report. The estimated death toll, never confirmed, started in the thousands.
Before the war, the city’s population was more than 450,000. About half of its residents fled, with mainly older ones staying.
Capturing Mariupol was crucial for the Kremlin’s war strategy. The second-largest city in southeastern Ukraine, it anchors the land bridge linking Russia to Crimea, the Black Sea peninsula that Russia seized in 2014..."
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