(Finance) – The Russian Defense Ministry claimed that the city of Mariupol it is completely blocked and surrounded by its armed forces. The news was released by TASS, according to which “all the bridges have been destroyed and the roads mined by the nationalists”. The city hall said nearly 1,600 people have been killed in the city since the invasion began. “1,582 peaceful Mariupol residents were killed by Russian occupation forces in a 12-day blockade of the city and bombing merciless of residential neighborhoods. Each occupant – we read through its Telegram channels – will burn in hell. We will never forget and never forgive this crime against humanity, againstUkraineagainst Mariupol “.
Meanwhile, a Russian group, consisting of about ten people, kidnapped the mayor of Melitopol, Ivan Fedorov, “taking him away with a plastic bag on his head,” said a source from the Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs also on Telegram. Fedorov – according to reports from the Ukrainian agency UNIAN – had refused to collaborate with the Russians, keeping the Ukrainian flag on the town hall of the occupied city.
Meanwhile, sources of the Pentagon reported by CNN have made it known that the new military aid of the United States to Ukraine will arrive in Europe in the next 24 hours. “We continue to ensure that the flow of resources to Ukraine is as fast as possible,” said the American newspaper. The sources recall how the United States is also “coordinating” the arrivals of other countries that are providing assistance to the defense of Ukraine. “We are working to give them what we know they most need which right now are air defense ammunition and anti-tank missiles,” the Pentagon sources concluded.