200 bodies found in the basement of Mariupol Building: Report 25May 2022

200 bodies found in the basement of Mariupol Building

Russian forces have taken control of three cities in the Donetsk region, including Svitlodarsk, regional governor Pavlo Kyrilenko told a local affiliate of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.

Mariupol was continuously escalated during a siege that ended last week when about 2,500 Ukrainian fighters left a steel plant where they had made their stand. Russian forces had already occupied the rest of the city, where an estimated 100,000 people live out of a population of 450,000, many of them trapped during the siege with little food, water, heat or electricity.

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At least 200 bodies were found in the basement of an apartment building in Mariupol, officials said on Tuesday, as Russian forces launched an all-out attack to encircle Ukrainian troops in twin cities bordered by a river in eastern Ukraine. She was – a battle that could determine the success or failure of the main campaign of Moscow in the East.

It’s been three months since President Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine. On Tuesday, authorities also reopened the underground subway in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, where thousands of civilians had taken refuge for months under constant bombardment.

The AP news agency quoted Petro Andryshchenko, an adviser to the mayor, as saying that the bodies were decomposing and that the neighbourhood had a foul smell. He did not mention when they were discovered, but the sheer number of victims makes it one of the deadliest known attacks of the war.

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European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen called for talks with Moscow to unlock wheat exports stuck in Ukraine due to the Russian blockade in the Black Sea.

Russian forces have taken control of three cities in the Donetsk region, including Svitlodarsk, regional governor Pavlo Kirilenko told a local affiliate of Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty.

Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second largest city, recovering from weeks of relentless bombing, residents this week formed long lines to get rations of flour, pasta, sugar and other staples. Moscow’s forces withdrew from around Kharkiv back toward the Russian border earlier this month.

Russia’s parliament passed a bill giving prosecutors the power to close the Foreign Media Bureau in Moscow if a Western country has been “unfriendly” to Russian media after some Russian state news outlets were closed.

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200 bodies found in the basement of Mariupol Building

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