The Ukrainian city of Mariupol has no water, heat or electricity and is running out of food, its mayor said early Saturday AEDT, as forces battling a Russian onslaught warned they needed reinforcements to help avoid losing control of the strategic port city.
Mayor Vadym Boychenko appealed for military assistance and for a humanitarian corridor to be created to evacuate some of the city’s 400,000 residents after five days of bombardent by encircling Russian troops.
“We are simply being destroyed,” he said in a televised appeal, describing indiscriminate shelling of residential areas and hospitals.
Ukrainian paramedics move an injured man wounded by Russian shelling in a residential area to a maternity hospital in Mariupol.Credit:AP
“They want to wipe Mariupol and Mariupol residents off the face of the earth,” he said in a shaky video feed that cut in and out.
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