Ukraine president warns citizens against handing over personal information, as satellite images of mass graves emerge near Mariupol
Mariupol’s mayor, Vadym Boichenko, estimated that more than 20,000 residents had been killed there, while about 100,000 people remained in Russian-occupied areas in the city. Another 100,000 had successfully escaped, mostly in private cars, while 40,000 had been forcibly deported to Russia. Others were being held in Russian “filtration camps” outside the city, he said.that civilians were trapped in bunkers under the wreckage of the steelworks in the city, with some as young as three months old.
“There’s no need to climb into these catacombs and crawl underground through these industrial facilities ... Block off this industrial area so that not even a fly can get through,” he said.Before-and-after images appear to show mass graves dug near Mariupol, Ukraine.
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