Despite the racist statements, Russian-occupied Mariupol remains destroyed.

This is reported by the BBC, which spoke with more than half a dozen people who lived or still live in the occupied city, Censor.NET reports .

“There is a central square – only the buildings have been reconstructed there. And there are also empty places where houses used to stand. They cleared the rubble, but they didn’t even get the bodies of the dead, they just loaded them onto trucks along with the scrap metal and took them out of the city,” says 66-year-old Olga Onyshko, who left Mariupol at the end of last year and now lives in Ternopil.

The city also faces an acute water shortage.

“There is water for a day or two, and then there is no water for three days. We keep buckets and canisters of water at home. The color of the water is so yellow that even after boiling it, it is scary to drink. … Basic medicines are unavailable. Diabetics have a hard time getting insulin on time, and it is insanely expensive,” says one of the residents of Mariupol.

Andriy Kozhushyna, who studied at the University of Mariupol for a year after its occupation and has now left for Dnipro, also spoke about occupation education.

“They teach children false information and propaganda. For example, school textbooks state that Donetsk, Luhansk, Kharkiv, Zaporizhia, Kherson, Odesa, Crimean, and even Dnipropetrovsk regions are already part of Russia,” he noted.

At the same time, there are residents in Mariupol who are secretly resisting Russia. In the middle of the night, they paint walls in the colors of the Ukrainian flag and post leaflets with the inscriptions “Liberate Mariupol” and “Mariupol is Ukraine.”

Resistance groups also occasionally try to sabotage civilian or military operations. At least twice, rail traffic to Mariupol was disrupted when activists set fire to a signal box. It’s risky work. Andriy says he was forced to flee when he realized he had been exposed.

“Every day you delete messages on your phone because they can be checked at checkpoints. You are afraid to call friends in Ukraine so that your phone is not tapped. A neighbor from the house next door was arrested right on the street because someone reported that he was allegedly passing information to the Ukrainian military. You live like in a thriller – constant tension, fear, distrust,” said a resident of occupied Mariupol.

Author:  Bohdan Rusinko Джерело: https://censor.net/ua/n3560667

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