LVIV, Ukraine-
On Saturday, the port city of Mariupol in Ukraine was besieged and battered by Russian Forces, where heavy fighting shut down a major steel plant and local authorities pleaded for more Western help.
For the Russians, who are largely bogged down outside major cities more than three weeks into the biggest land invasion in Europe since World War II, the fall of Mariupol the scene of some of the war’s worst suffering, would mark a major battlefield advance for the Russians.
As the humanitarian crisis grows, more than three million refugees have fled over the Ukrainian border and are overwhelming major cities in Poland, but still, communities are opening their doors according to the UN estimates of nearly six point five million displaced inside Ukraine. In response to this, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said early Sunday the siege of the port city of Mariupol would go down in history for what he said were war crimes committed by Russian troops.
In a video address to the nation, Zelenskyy said that “To do this to a peaceful city, what the occupiers did is a terror that will be remembered for centuries to come.” As Russian forces pushed deeper into the besieged and battered city, major steel plants and local authorities pleaded for more Western assistance.
The capital city, Kyiv, has been worst affected. At least 20 babies carried by Iranian surrogate mothers are stuck in a makeshift bomb shelter, waiting for parents to travel into the war zone to pick them up. Because of constant shelling by Russian troops who are trying to encircle the city, some just days old, the babies are being cared for by nurses who cannot leave the shelter, and more importantly, “Children and elderly people are dying.
“Children, elderly people are dying, the city is destroyed, and it is wiped off the face of the Earth,” Mariupol Police Officer Michail Veshnin said from a rubble-strewn street in a video addressed to Western Leaders and authenticated by The Associated Press.
Published By :- Tarsem Singh
Edited By :- Khushi Thakur
