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The siege of Mariupol began on 24 February 2022 and lasted until 20 May, as part of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. It saw fighting between the Russian Armed Forces (alongside the Donetsk People's Republic People's Militia) and the Ukrainian Armed Forces for control over the city of Mariupol in southeastern Ukraine.
Mar 10, 2022 · The scale of the destruction in the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol has been revealed in a series of photos and satellite images. Residential areas have been flattened, a shopping...
Apr 24, 2022 · Photos of Mariupol, before and after. Greta Hamann. 04/24/2022. The southern Ukrainian city of Mariupol was once a thriving port city and vacation spot, with a population of about 440,000....
May 17, 2022 · Reuters. Fires in Mariupol after Russian military operation, 3 March 2022. Just days after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Mariupol, a port city of some 430,000 people, found itself surrounded....
- She Moved Into The Hospital So She Could Keep Working
- Surviving in An Underground Bunker
- 'We Got Out of Hell'
- 'Harrowing But Essential Viewing'
"The city was in chaos — chaos," said Oksana, an anesthetist at Mariupol Regional Intensive Care Hospital. "We'd already accepted we wouldn't survive. I wrote down my mum's number and put it in [my son] Nikita's pocket in case we got separated. So if someone found him, they could contact his relatives." When it became too dangerous to travel throug...
Hanna spent more than two months in a bunker at Azovstal Iron & Steel Works with her infant son and about 1,000 other civilians. "When you're down there, time disappears. You can't tell day from night," she said in Mariupol: The People's Story. At one point, a bomb dropped on the bunker. Hanna was trapped underground until Ukrainian soldiers statio...
Alevtina, Diana, Oksana, Sergey and Hanna all survived the siege of Mariupol. "We got out of hell," said Oksana. "I think only people from Mariupol can understand this hell."
"Filmed by residents, this documentary charts [Mariupol's] swift and tragic destruction since the Russian invasion," wrote Sammy Gecsoyler in the Guardian when the film first aired in the U.K. on BBC One. "Their efforts to survive or escape make for harrowing but essential viewing." In a five-star review in the Financial Times, Dan Einav said the f...
May 17, 2022 · 17 May 2022. By Paul Adams in London and Hugo Bachega in Dnipro,BBC News. Shutterstock. The theatre has often been described as the heart of the city. After almost three months of relentless...
May 21, 2022 · In pictures: How the Mariupol siege unfolded. By Victoria Bisset. May 21, 2022 at 9:53 a.m. EDT. A resident walks near a building heavily damaged by Russian bombardment in the southern port...
