By Matthew Roscoe • Updated: 02 Mar 2022 • 17:29
WATCH: Hundreds of casualties reported after fighting in Mariupol, Ukraine. Credit: Twitter
HUNDREDS of casualties have been reported in Mariupol, Ukraine after intense fighting has continued in the area on Wednesday, March 2.
Shocking videos on social media platform Twitter show fighting, explosions and dead bodies in the streets of the Ukrainian port city.
https://twitter.com/skoghedning/status/1499040831654834176
Mariupol’s mayor, Vadym Boichenko, said the city had suffered mass casualties and a water outage lasting over 12 hours.
During a live broadcast on Ukrainian TV on Wednesday, March 2, Boichenko said: “The enemy occupying forces of the Russian Federation have done everything to block the exit of civilians from the city of half a million people.”
One Ukrainian soldier in Mariupol told The Telegraph: “If anything happens, don’t let us be forgotten. We are surrounded in Mariupol and no way out.”
The deputy mayor, Sergiy Orlov, told BBC News that one of Mariupol’s districts had been “nearly totally destroyed” by relentless bombing.
“We cannot count the number of victims there, but we believe at least hundreds of people are dead. We cannot go in to retrieve the bodies,” he said.
“The Russian army is working through all their weapons here—artillery, multiple rocket launch systems, aeroplanes, tactical rockets. They are trying to destroy the city.”
Shooting battle on the outskirts of Mariupol. pic.twitter.com/VgLzTJUfZv — Spriter (@Spriter99880) March 2, 2022
Shooting battle on the outskirts of Mariupol. pic.twitter.com/VgLzTJUfZv
— Spriter (@Spriter99880) March 2, 2022
Fighting has intensified in multiple Ukrainian cities, with Kyiv, Odessa and Kharkiv suffering sustained attacks on March 2.
However, despite the danger in Mariupol, videos have circulated showing hundreds of residents protesting through the streets.
#Russia 🇷🇺 ⚔️ 🇺🇦 #Ukraine The people of Mariupol came out in a mass protest#UkraineRussia #UkraineRussiaConflict #UkraineRussiaWar pic.twitter.com/1uJXpGLNph — shahinur (@shahinu_r) March 2, 2022
#Russia 🇷🇺 ⚔️ 🇺🇦 #Ukraine
The people of Mariupol came out in a mass protest#UkraineRussia #UkraineRussiaConflict #UkraineRussiaWar pic.twitter.com/1uJXpGLNph
— shahinur (@shahinu_r) March 2, 2022
Mariupol. Now. Russian Invaders are shooting#russia #RussianInvaders #RussiaInvadesUkraine pic.twitter.com/m4oWBRNSm2 — Eugene Naloiko (@naloiko) March 2, 2022
Mariupol. Now. Russian Invaders are shooting#russia #RussianInvaders #RussiaInvadesUkraine pic.twitter.com/m4oWBRNSm2
— Eugene Naloiko (@naloiko) March 2, 2022
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