Ukraine: 200 bodies found in basement in Mariupol's ruins

25/5/2022 4:33

        Workers digging through the rubble of an apartment building in Mariupol found 200 bodies in the basement.
        
        Ukrainian authorities reported tuesday , as more horrors come to light in the ruined city that has seen some of the worst suffering of the 3-month-old war.
        
        According to reports The bodies were decomposing and the stench hung over the neighborhood but did not say when they were discovered, but the sheer number of victims makes it one of the deadliest known attacks of the war.
        
        Heavy fighting, meanwhile, continued in the Donbas, the eastern industrial region that Moscow’s forces are intent on seizing.
        
        Russian troops intensified their efforts to encircle and capture Sievierodonetsk and neighboring cities.
        
        Mariupol was relentlessly pounded during a nearly three-month siege that ended last week after some 2,500 Ukrainian fighters abandoned a steel plant where they had made their stand.
        
        Russian forces already held the rest of the city, where an estimated 100,000 people remain out a prewar population of 450,000, many of them trapped during the encirclement with little food, water, heat or electricity.
        
        At least 21,000 people were killed in the siege, according to Ukrainian authorities, who have accused Russia of trying to cover up the horrors by bringing in mobile cremation equipment and by burying the dead in mass graves.