In Mariupol, the Russian forces demolish buildings without dismantling the debris under which dead people may be

In Mariupol, the Russian forces demolish buildings without dismantling the debris under which dead people may be, says the Adviser to Mariupol Mayor Petro Andriushchenko.

Adviser says Russian forces made this decision after six dead people were found under the debris of a residential building, which was shelled by the Russian forces themselves for propaganda video for the Russian RT TV channel. A Russian tank fired at civilian buildings on Pashkovsky Street and May First Avenue.

Now the adviser reports about the first demolished houses on Yednosti Avenue. Security is strengthened near the buildings, and so-called state volunteers work at the site.

According to Andriushchenko, it is now impossible to obtain data on the new bodies of the dead, as all the debris is being taken to the Livoberezhny district landfill.

"If corpses remained in the buildings, they were taken together with garbage at the landfill," Andriushchenko said.

One week ago, approximately 70 bodies were found during the removal of debris on the territory of the former Oktyabr plant. Bodies were not identified and were immediately taken to a mass grave in the village of Staryi Krym near Mariupol. Another 200 dead bodies with a high degree of decomposition were found in the basement on Peace Avenue during the removal of apartment building debris. Workers of Russian EMERCOM left the place because local citizens refused to take away and pack bodies. These are conditions for 'official' free reburial: city residents have to bring bodies to the morgue, tell it was just found and that the person was killed by the Ukrainian military.

What is happening in Mariupol?

At least 84,000 citizens lost their homes due to destruction after the Russian blockade. The exact number of killed Mariupol residents is unknown, but according to preliminary data, up to 22,000 people died in Mariupol. Some residents were forcibly deported to the territory of the unrecognized DPR or Russia.

According to the Ombudsperson's Office, thousands of Mariupol residents who remained in the temporarily occupied city are starving. The occupiers dismantled the rubble of destroyed buildings and found hundreds of dead, which are buried in mass graves.

In the first week of May, with the support of the UN, Ukraine was able to evacuate civilians hiding in the territory of the Azovstal plant blocked by the Russian forces. On May 16, an operation was launched to rescue the defenders of Mariupol, located at Azovstal. So far, all Ukrainian service members have been deported to the temporarily occupied territories, and Ukrainian authorities expect to exchange them soon.

Despite thousands of casualties and the city's destruction, Russian propagandists and leaders of self-proclaimed "republics" in Donbas come to the city to create a picture of "returning life in the city."