Russian tanks entered the battered Ukrainian port city Mariupol Saturday after relentless bombardment since the start of the invasion on Feb. 24.
Street fighting in the besieged city hampered efforts to evacuate civilians and rescue people still trapped in the basement of a theater used for shelter that officials saidShould Mariupol fall, Russia will have a land corridor from Crimea, stretching for most of the south coast and up the eastern regions of Ukraine.
Injured civilians from Mariupol, receive treatment in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine on March 18, 2022, as evacuations from Mariupol continue amid Russian attacks.an interview with the BBC“People are out of food, and more importantly out of water,” Gurin said. “And several of days ago, tanks started to shoot nine-story buildings, so people cannot get out. Everybody is sitting in their apartments and basements thinking whether they will die in the next hour.
A Ukrainian serviceman takes a photograph of a damaged church after shelling in a residential district in Mariupol, Ukraine on March 10, 2022.The evacuation of civilians from secure corridors continued in Mariupol, Ukraine on March 18, 2022.Ukraine’s deputy prime minister Iryna Vereshchuk said a route out of Mariupol was one of 10 humanitarian corridors opened on Saturday.
Meanwhile, the fate of hundreds of people, mostly women, children and the elderly, who had been hiding in the theatre and a nearby swimming pool building because of heavy shelling, was still unknown.
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