Entire residential blocks have been destroyed to the ground, as evidenced by the before and after photos in the video.
Recent satellite images show the enormous devastation the Mariupol residential neighborhoods have suffered as a result of the Russian bombing. Entire residential neighborhoods have been swept into smoky ruins.
Maxar Technologies’ satellite imagery also shows food queues made up of hundreds if not thousands of people.
At least 5,000 people have died in the bombing of Mariupol, local authorities say. The real figure may be much more when all the dead are found in the rubble.
Authorities have warned of a huge humanitarian catastrophe in Mariupol.
A city besieged by Russian troops still has about 160,000 civilians stuck. People have almost no food, no drinking water, no electricity or no heating. The establishment of humanitarian corridors to evacuate civilians has failed almost daily due to firing.
Mayor of the city Vadym Bochenko has said that an estimated 90 percent of the city’s buildings have been damaged and about 40 percent completely destroyed.
Russia has bombed clinics and hospitals in the city, among other places. It was also reported on Wednesday that Russia has struck the building of the Red Cross in Mariupol.