On March 2, the Russian Defense Ministry announced the complete encirclement of Mariupol, the largest city on the coast of the Sea of Azov. Since then, Ukraine and Russia have been coordinating humanitarian corridors along which residents will be evacuated either towards Kyiv or towards territories controlled by the republics of Donbass and the Russian Federation.
Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Irina Vereshchuk announced on March 15 that the Kiev authorities plan to take out about 200 thousand people from Mariupol. On March 22, Russian Colonel General Mikhail Mizintsev said that over 68 thousand people had already been evacuated from the city without the participation of Kyiv. A catastrophic humanitarian situation is emerging in the city, both sides say.
How the city looks now, in which, as of 2021, 430,000 people lived, see the photo gallery.
Destroyed houses on Shevchenko Boulevard and Kuprin Street in Mariupol, March 2022A fighter of the People’s Militia of the DPR near a wrecked tank of the DPR army on Kuprin Street in Mariupol, March 2022People with suitcases walk towards the exit from Mariupol, March 2022Local residents prepare food outside a bomb shelter in Mariupol, March 2022View of Shevchenko Boulevard and Kuprina Street in Mariupol, March 2022Russian Armed Forces soldier in Mariupol, March 2022A destroyed T-72 tank on Shevchenko Boulevard in Mariupol, March 2022One of the residential buildings in Mariupol, March 2022A destroyed shopping center on the outskirts of MariupolBurned houses on Kuprina Street (foreground) in MariupolDPR servicemen in the courtyard of a residential building on the outskirts of Mariupol, March 2022Destroyed houses and a broken car in MariupolDestroyed houses at the intersection of Shevchenko Boulevard and Kuprina Street in Mariupol, March 2022
Residents take water from an open food warehouse on the outskirts of Mariupol, March 2022
