Ukrainian officials said workers clearing debris in Mariupol found more than 200 bodies in the basement of an apartment building. Petro Andryushchenko, adviser to the mayor of Mariupol, said the bodies found by the workers were rotting and a strong odor spread throughout the area, but did not say when they were discovered.
A LIVE CEMETERY
Ukrainian President Zelenskiy accused Russian forces of waging a “total war” and trying to cause as much death and destruction as possible.
HE WAS UNDER SIege for 3 MONTHS
Mariupol was brutally devastated during a nearly three-month siege that ended last week when about 2,500 Ukrainian fighters left a steel mill where they were hiding. Russian troops already held the rest of the city, where an estimated 100,000 people were stranded during the siege with little food, water, heating or electricity.