That’s according to Petro Andriushchenko, the advisor to the city mayor, Ukrinform reports.
"Mariupol. Dy 52 of heroic resistance. As for now: hostilities are becoming fiercer. The occupiers are throwing all forces in, storming the city. The appearance of TU bombers speaks of the intention to launch an assault on the Azovstal stronghold and the sea port after dropping high-yield bombs such as FAB-3000 and others," Andriushchenko wrote.
Read also: Evidence of Russian war crimes in Mariupol being collected - VenislavskyAll of this proves that the Russians are unable to seize control of the city without resorting to higher-level inhumanity and using weapons of mass destruction.
Russia's aggression in Mariupol has reportedly caused one of the biggest humanitarian catastrophes. The invaders have been bombarding unarmed civilains and blocking humanitarian aid from coming in.
The mayor of Mariupol previously said that since the beginning of the Russian invasion, up to 20,000 civilians are believed to have been killed in the city alone. According to the Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine’s Defense Ministry, the Russians have deployed as many as 13 mobile crematoria to incinerate the bodies of slain residents. Also, the invaders have scrambled to identify and kill all potential witnesses to the atrocities already committed in the area.
About 120,000 civilians remain in the besieged Mariupol. Many are believed to have been forcibly removed from the city and transported to Russia and the occupied areas of Donbas.
