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Mariupol authorities are sounding the alarm about unhealthy conditions in the ravaged port city, which they say poses a “deadly danger” to its remaining residents. Mariupol City Council said on Thursday that “deadly epidemics could break out in the city due to the lack of centralized water supply and sewerage, the decomposition of thousands of corpses under the rubble, a catastrophic shortage of drinking water and food.”
It said the lives of 100,000 people still left in Mariupol, out of 450,000 before the war, could be in danger – pointing to diseases such as cholera and dysentery, according to a report by the Associated Press.
The Telegram post quoted Mariupol Mayor Vadym Boychenko as saying that “the intruders can not provide the remaining population with food, water and medicine – or are simply not interested in it.”
He said that “the living conditions in the ruined Mariupol are now medieval” and that “an immediate and complete evacuation is needed.”
People hide in a shelter under Russian shelling, in Mariupol, Ukraine. Credit: AP
Videographer Mstyslav Chernov walks among smoke rising from an air defense base in the aftermath of a Russian attack in Mariupol, Ukraine. Credit: AP
People prepare for the night in the makeshift bomb shelter of a sports center, in Mariupol. Credit: AP
A fire is burning in an apartment building after it was hit by shelling in Mariupol, Ukraine. Credit: AP
A woman whose husband was killed in the shelling is crying on the floor in a corridor of a hospital in Mariupol. Credit: AP