In the towns and villages surrounding this provincial city of 50,000, a Sky News team saw schools that had been obliterated by precision strikes, health clinics reduced to rubble by shelling and ordinary houses destroyed
"He is erasing the population, maybe to try and make people leave the place. Destroying Ukraine, definitely. Even my father, who lived through the war, said the Germans didn't do this. They burnt the village when they were leaving, this time, they burn it before they enter."Russia has long had its eyes on eastern Ukraine, backing separatist-run enclaves in the regions of Donetsk and Luhansk since 2014.
"Look around you," he said, glancing at the remains of a burnt-out school."This is what they call liberation. Look around, it's the same in every village. We'll drive around and you'll see more."Much of it has been destroyed after two weeks of intense fighting and Izyum's mayor, Valerii Marchenko, estimates some 20,000 are still trapped inside the city.
"There are a lot people under the rubble of big buildings… the situation is really critical, there is no electricity, no water, no heat, no signal, it is genocide in our city, just genocide. The Russians won't let us .""There are no connections but there are places they've discovered on hills where they can find a weak phone signal and they call us.
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