Amid a relentless assault by Russian forces on Mariupol and Kyiv outskirts, killing hundreds, images of the port city and the Ukraine capital before and after Moscow’s military onslaught have emerged.
Journalists of Ukrainian media outlet The Kyiv Independent took to Twitter to share some heartrending images of the battered cities.
Sharing two such photographs on Twitter, journalist Olga Rudenko said the first picture showed a Ukrainian woman posing with her son in Kyiv before the invasion, while the second one had captured their graves in Iprin where they lived and were killed on March 5 as per the makeshift crossed. The Russian war against Ukraine was currently in its third week.
Rudenko further wrote that the description said the graves were in the yard of a private residence, which was likely given the fact that a normal funeral was impossible amid the fighting. She also said 57 unidentified bodies were buried in a mass grave during the day in the neighboring town of Bucha.
Another journalist from war-torn Ukraine shared a picture of Mariupol, a southern city of 2,90,000, before the war started taking its toll on the city.
{{/usCountry}}Another journalist from war-torn Ukraine shared a picture of Mariupol, a southern city of 2,90,000, before the war started taking its toll on the city.
{{/usCountry}}The photographs tweeted by Anastasiia Lapatina showed Mariupol in October 2021 – a green boulevard. Images of debris, fire and bodies from the port city have flooded the news cycle ever since Russia began its military campaign.
On Saturday, Russian forces shelled Mariupol’s downtown as residents hid in an iconic mosque and elsewhere to avoid the explosions. Fighting also raged in the outskirts of the capital, Kyiv, as Russia kept up its bombardment of other cities throughout the country.
At least 1,582 civilians in Ukraine's southeastern city of Mariupol have been killed as a result of Russian shelling and a 12-day blockade, the city council said in an online statement on Friday.