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Exactly one month after Russia first invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, an estimated 100,000 Ukrainians remain trapped inside the port city of Mariupol in “inhumane conditions,” according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. There is no more food, no drinking water and no electricity as the constant drum of Russian shelling — upwards of 50 to 100 airstrikes per day by land, air and sea — has reduced much of the city to rubble.⁠
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“There is nothing left there,” Zelensky said of Mariupol Tuesday, while addressing the Italian parliament by video. “Only ruins.”⁠
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If captured, Mariupol, which was once home to more than 430,000 people prewar, would give Russia strategic control of Ukraine’s southern coast.⁠
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Inside the city, located on the coast of the Sea of Azov, Ukrainians’ optimism continues to dwindle.⁠
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“In this city, everyone is constantly waiting for death,” Nadezhda Sukhorukova, a lifelong Mariupol resident, wrote on Facebook, where she chronicled her firsthand account of civilian life at war in the city in a series of posts. Last Saturday, she was able to escape what she described as “hell.”⁠
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“I am alive and now I will live long,” she wrote in another post. “[But] my city is dying a painful death. Twenty days I was dying with him. I have been through hell.”⁠
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✍️: Yahoo News⁠
📸: AP

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